Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding (Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding)

Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding (Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding)
Jennifer J. Llewellyn (Editor), Daniel Philpott (Editor)

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Human Rights

Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (Voice of Witness)

Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (Voice of Witness)
Corinne Goria (Editor)

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Human Rights

The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators — including phone manufacturers in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment workers in Bangladesh, and farmers around the world — reveal the secret history of the things we buy, including lives and communities devastated by low wages, environmental degradation, and political repression. Sweeping in scope and rich in detail, these stories capture the interconnectivity of all people struggling to support themselves and their families. Narrators include Kalpona, a leading Bangladeshi labor organizer who led her first strike at 15; Han, who, as a teenager, began assembling circuit boards for an international electronics company based in Seoul; Albert, a copper miner in Zambia who, during a wage protest, was shot by representatives of the Chinese-owned mining company that he worked for; and Sanjay, who grew up in the shadow of the Bhopal chemical disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history.

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• Published on: 2014-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.20" h x 5.50" w x 8.40" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 364 pages

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)

A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples (Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples)
Frederick Hertz Attorney (Author), Emily Doskow Attorney (Author)

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Human Rights

Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.

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• Published on: 2014-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Human Rights and the Uses of History

Human Rights and the Uses of History
Samuel Moyn (Author)

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Human Rights

Where did human rights come from? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In a series of reflective and critical essays, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading theorists of human rights, who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporary contexts of their narratives.

Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed The Last Utopia, Moyn's new volume takes issue with his intellectual opponents—including, especially, those seeking justification for humanitarian intervention.

• Rank: #204605 in Books
• Published on: 2014-06-17
• Released on: 2014-06-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court
Brandt Goldstein (Author), Rodger Citron (Author), Molly Beutz Land (Author)
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Human Rights

A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court, using key litigation documents, leads the reader through the high-profile lawsuit chronicled in Storming the Court, a nonfiction title by Brandt Goldstein that tracks the lawsuit filed by human rights lawyers and Yale law students on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at the American Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following in the tradition of books such as The Buffalo Creek Disaster and A Civil Action, Storming the Court is an engaging, easy-to-read account of a complex civil trial in which law students play many of the key roles. Meticulously documented to make moving between the original book and the companion trouble-free, this lively, accessible book will provoke energetic discussion and debate among students. Suitable for use in any civil procedure course, the documentary companion:
Uses the real case to illustrate a wide array of important legal concepts , particularly those taught in first-year civil procedure;
Includes key litigation documents and other original materials from the case along with notes, comments, hypotheticals, and questions that serve as excellent teaching tools;
Features photos of the key characters in the lawsuit and of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, which further enhances the realism for students. What better way to bring litigation to life for your students and help them understand what the concepts and rules look like in practice than to follow a complex trial step-by-step. A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court takes a gripping and extremely readable book and turns it into a powerful teaching tool.

• Rank: #9634 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.76" h x 6.81" w x .71" l, 1.20 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
Jingsheng Wei (Author)
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Human Rights

Wei Jingsheng is a fearless fighter for individual rights in China, and has spent nearly all of the last 17 years in prison. From his solitary confinement cell, he has written defiant letters to Deng Xiaoping and other communist leaders expressing his views on economic reform, foreign investment, Tibet and other urgent social and political concerns. This book also contains letters to family and friends and a selection of political essays and his moving defence statement from his first trial.

• Rank: #589179 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-01
• Released on: 1997-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 283 pages

State of Exception

State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben (Author), Kevin Attell (Translator)
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Human Rights

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.

The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.

In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.

• Rank: #150140 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 104 pages

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
Ellen Alderman (Author), Caroline Kennedy (Author)
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Human Rights

We The People

The Bill of Rights defines and defends the freedoms we enjoy as Americans -- from the right to bear arms to the right to a civil jury. Using the dramatic true stories of people whose lives have been deeply affected by such issues as the death penalty and the right to privacy, attorneys Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy reveal how the majestic priciples of the Bill of Rights have taken shape in the lives of ordinary people, as well as the historic and legal significance of each amendment. In doing so, they shed brilliant new light on this visionary document, which remains as vital and as controversial today as it was when a great nation was newly born.

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• Published on: 1992-03-01
• Released on: 1992-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.03" h x 1.06" w x 5.31" l, .74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals

The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
Michael Avery (Author), Danielle McLaughlin (Author)
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Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to monopolize the selection of federal judges, take over the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White House.

Today the Society claims that 45,000 conservative lawyers and law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court Justices--Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito--are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies.

The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. Its membership includes economic conservatives, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in advancing a broad conservative agenda.

How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought?

What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The authors survey these stances in separate chapters on

regulation of business and private property;
race and gender discrimination and affirmative action;
personal sexual autonomy, including abortion and gay rights; and
American exceptionalism and international law.

• Rank: #92188 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 7.30" w x 10.10" l, 1.60 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Jack Donnelly (Author)
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Human Rights

In a thoroughly revised second edition of Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Jack Donnelly elaborates a theory of human rights, addresses arguments of cultural relativism, and explores the efficacy of bilateral and multilateral international action. Entirely new chapters address prominent post-Cold War issues including humanitarian intervention, democracy and human rights, "Asian values," group rights, and discrimination against sexual minorities.

"Every once in a while a book appears that treats the leading issues of a subject in such a clear and challenging manner that it becomes central to understanding that subject. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice is just such a book. . . . Donnelly's interpretations are clear and argued with zest."-American Political Science Review (reviewing the first edition)

• Rank: #9981 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-31
• Released on: 2002-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.86" h x 5.91" w x .71" l, .92 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages