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Disablement and Hierarchies of impairment Paul David Harpur | University of Queensland The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Ableism at Work: Disability and Hierarchies of Impairment is a comprehensive comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities.
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
250pp Jun. 2022 9781108739771 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 Dec. 2019 9781108497305 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108667371
Alternative Approaches to Human rights
The Disparate Historical Paths of the european, inter-american and african regional Human rights Systems Christopher Roberts | The Chinese University of Hong Kong This book explores the evolution of the European, Inter-American and African regional Human rights systems. It will be of interest to anyone interested in the nature of any or all of these systems, contemporary Human rights generally, comparative approaches to Human rights, or the evolution of complex international institutions.
ASCL Studies in Comparative law
256pp Nov. 2022 9781316512753 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009071154
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Badges and Incidents
a Transdisciplinary History of the right to education in america Michael J. Kaufman | Loyola University, Chicago Badges and Incidents explains the law and pedagogical practices governing American education. It is a valuable resource for any citizen concerned with ensuring equal educational opportunity for all. By examining sources from the Constitution to the latest neuroscientific research, the book outlines principles for a truly democratic system of education.
Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
243pp May. 2022 9781316649930 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2019 9781316510438 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108226981
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Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human rights
Leonard Francis Taylor | National University of Ireland, Galway Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the Human rights movement returned to that moral vocabulary to ground the further growth of the international order in the twentieth century.
358pp Aug. 2022 9781108731805 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Mar. 2020 9781108486125 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108626446 New iN PaPerback
Children’s Rights and Sustainable Development
Interpreting the UNCRC for Future Generations Claire Fenton-Glynn | University of Cambridge This book is for academics and practitioners working in the fields of children’s rights, international development, and Environmental law. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, with authors coming from the fields of law, economics, early childhood education, and development studies.
Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development
423pp May. 2022 9781316643464 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Apr. 2019 9781107193024 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 131 eISBN 9781108140348
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Chinese Refugee Law and Policy
Lili Song | University of Otago, New Zealand This book systematically and critically examines Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chinese and Asian approaches to refugee protection in academia and the policy sector.
227pp 3 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table Sep. 2022 9781009305860 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2020 9781108483988 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108669474
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Civilizing Disability Society
The convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities Socializing Grassroots Disabled Persons’ Organizations in Nicaragua Stephen J. Meyers | University of Washington This book investigates the ways in which the civil society provisions in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is used to civilize grassroots disability associations in Nicaragua by changing them from local mutual support and service providers into rights advocates organizations that fit a global model.
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
192pp May. 2022 9781108446433 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2019 9781108427616 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108677783
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets
institutions, actors and Sustainable Development Onyeka Osuji | University of Essex Incorporating inter-disciplinary and cross-national perspectives, this book will appeal to researchers and students across multiple fields. It will be a vital resource to companies, corporate boards, business persons, scholars, and policymakers seeking to understand the concepts and principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development in the context of emerging economies.
483pp Jun. 2022 9781108459006 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Dec. 2019 9781108472111 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 131 eISBN 9781108579360
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20 Effective Domestic Remedies and the European Court of Human rights
applications of the european convention on Human rights article 13 Michael Reiertsen An essential companion to any practitioner and academic working with Human rights law, in particular the European Convention on Human rights. Article 13 ECHR is the most important provision on remedies in the European context. Remedies have significant consequences for how any human right is secured and enforced.
352pp Aug. 2022 9781009153546 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781009153539
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From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Paul Gready | University of York The book will appeal to a diverse audience, including advocates and sceptics, academics and practitioners, transitional justice specialists and readers from other sectors (development, peacebuilding and Human rights), and to a genuinely multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars. Its value lies in its contribution to both conceptual and practicebased thinking on transformative justice.
344pp 3 b/w illus. 3 tables May. 2022 9781316613764 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Feb. 2019 9781107160934 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 126 eISBN 9781316676028
Human Dignity in Asia
Dialogue between Law and culture Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu | Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Using interdisciplinary methods, this book explores Asian understandings of human dignity and Human rights in the context of courts, religious traditions, and socio-political change. Furthering the dialogue between Asian and Western social values, this comparative study offers an alternative to a rigidified social imagination.
480pp Sep. 2022 9781108835749 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 140 eISBN 9781108886598
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Human rights in a Time of Populism
challenges and responses Gerald L. Neuman | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts Leading experts explore the threats to Human rights and the international system from the spread of populism, and how to confront them. Their analyses and recommendations will interest Human rights lawyers, political scientists, international relations students, and general readers concerned about recent developments.
295pp Jul. 2022 9781108707206 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 Apr. 2022 9781108485494 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108751551 New iN PaPerback
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Queen Mary University of London The book invokes a multidisciplinary approach to studying Palestinian childhood, drawing on demography, geography, psychology, health, social work, criminology, law, political science, critical race theory, comparative indigenous studies, and international relations to theorize violence against children. It offers ‘unchilding’ as a critical concept to advance studies of childhood in colonial contexts.
176pp May. 2022 9781108454872 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2019 9781108429870 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108555470
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International Human rights
a Survey Cher Weixia Chen This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to international Human rights issues. It takes a holistic international perspective and focuses on understudied topics, such as socio-economic, cultural and environmental rights, and the rights of marginalized groups, including children, persons with disabilities, women, indigenous peoples and LGBTQ+.
606pp Aug. 2022 9781108735384 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 41.99 Aug. 2022 9781108484855 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108652438
Irregular Migrants and the Right to Health
Stefano Angeleri | Queen’s University Belfast This book is for academics, students, legal practitioners, NGOs, as well as Government and policy makers who are interested to explore constraining and enabling factors in international and European Human rights law for the protection and promotion of the health of irregular migrants and subgroups of the same.
344pp Aug. 2022 9781316511916 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009051750
Judicial Covergence and Fragmentation in International Human rights Law
The regional Systems and the United Nations Human rights committee Elena Abrusci | Brunel University This book explores the judicial behaviour of the regional Human rights courts (African, European and Inter-American) and the UN Human rights Committee. It assesses whether their interpretation and adjudication of Human rights is convergent or rather triggers judicial fragmentation, and explains these dynamics through legal and non-legal factors.
256pp Dec. 2022 9781316514818 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009090964
Lawyers in Conflict and Transition
Kieran McEvoy | Queen’s University Belfast This book is valuable for law, sociology, and transitional justice researchers and postgraduate students interested in themes including cause lawyering, the sociology of the professions, the legal profession, gender and the law, the role of law in transition, peace negotiations, truth recovery, amnesties, strategic litigation, and legal ethics.
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
300pp Mar. 2022 9780521853989 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781139016544
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Limits of Supranational Justice
The european court of Human rights and Turkey’s kurdish conflict Dilek Kurban This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human rights against state violence in Turkey. It meticulously documents the reasons behind their successes and failures, providing sobering conclusions on the limitations of supranational courts in dealing with authoritarian regimes.
409pp Aug. 2022 9781108702324 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Nov. 2020 9781108489324 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108776585
Vladislava Stoyanova | Lunds Universitet, Sweden Analysing the problematic interplay between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants’ rights and democratic decay in Europe, this book goes beyond diagnosis by examining the potential for legal resilience. Bringing together scholars from migration and constitutional law, it provides a nuanced account for scholars and advanced students.
450pp Jun. 2022 9781316510711 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781009040396
Monetary Redress for Abuse in State Care
Stephen Winter | University of Auckland States spend billions trying to redress the abuse and neglect of young people in care. Supported by rich interviews and primary data, Stephen Winter offers a persuasive argument for flexible and survivor-focussed policymaking. Using international comparative examples, this is a field-defining text in a rapidly-growing policy domain.
223pp Oct. 2022 9781316514160 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009082662 New iN PaPerback
North American Genocides
indigenous Nations, Settler colonialism, and international Law Laurelyn Whitt | Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada The eliminatory dynamics of settler colonialism in North America included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples. This book offers a legal methodology that establishes this, as well as a critique that enhances our understanding of genocide in significant ways, especially with respect to the cultural dimensions of genocide.
265pp May. 2022 9781108442428 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2019 9781108425506 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108348461
Patents, Human rights, and Access to Medicines
Emmanuel Kolawole Oke In order to preserve their patent policy space and secure access to affordable medicines for their citizens, Oke argues, developing countries should incorporate a model of Human rights into the design, implementation, interpretation, and enforcement of their national patent laws.
400pp Mar. 2022 9781108472104 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108654685
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Peacebuilding Paradigms
The impact of Theoretical Diversity on implementing Sustainable Peace Henry F. Carey | Georgia State University This book looks at how different schools of thought within the subfields of International Relations and Comparative Politics assess the successes and failures of peacebuilding missions. No theory does it alone, so the best approach to explaining peacebuilding is a comprehensive one that uses insights from multiple schools of thought or paradigms.
423pp Jul. 2022 9781108718035 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Dec. 2020 9781108483728 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108652162
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Producing Reproductive Rights
Determining abortion Policy worldwide Udi Sommer | Tel-Aviv University This book gives unique insight into how women’s reproductive rights are determined worldwide and explores the topic theoretically and empirically. Analyzing three spheres, civil society, national government and international bodies, this book is relevant for scholars and students in social sciences, law, gender studies and development studies.
236pp Jun. 2022 9781108717380 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 Aug. 2019 9781108493161 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108694407
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22 Protection from Refuge
From refugee rights to Migration Management Kate Ogg | Australian National University, Canberra This is the first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible ‘refuge’. The book analyses jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Drawing on feminist theory, the book examines the role gender plays in these contentious judgments.
Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
300pp Mar. 2022 9781316519738 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009024259
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Regional Courts, Domestic Politics, and the Struggle for Human rights
Jillienne Haglund | University of Kentucky A timely, accessible examination of regional Human rights court deterrence that combines data analysis with illustrative examples. It will appeal to a broad and diverse group of scholars and students of Human rights, international law, and international relations, as well as Human rights activists and practitioners.
343pp 31 b/w illus. 4 maps 50 tables Jul. 2022 9781108702317 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Jun. 2020 9781108489300 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108776561
Seeking Justice
access to remedy for corporate Human rights abuse Tricia D. Olsen | University of Denver Corporate wrongdoing is ubiquitous today. Yet, we know little about when victims have access to remedy. Seeking Justice explores variation in victims’ access to remedy mechanisms for corporate Human rights abuse in Latin America using the newly created Corporations and Human rights Database.
Globalization and Human rights
200pp Dec. 2022 9781009293242 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009293280
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Social Justice for Children and Young People
international Perspectives Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers | Rutgers University, New Jersey This volume offers a global, comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people. Readers will benefit from chapters that describe key social justice elements that have an impact on young people, discuss critical barriers to social justice for young people, use country case studies, and call for comprehensive reform.
517pp Jun. 2022 9781108447034 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Aug. 2020 9781108427685 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108551830 New iN PaPerback
Development and challenges Charles C. Jalloh | Florida International University This volume analyses the prospects and challenges of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights in context. The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, Human rights, and international law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
1197pp 3 b/w illus. 7 tables May. 2022 9781108436922 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 52.99 May. 2019 9781108422734 Hardback GBP 83.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108525343
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
Sumudu A. Atapattu Exploring the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to Human rights and environmental justice, this book is a resource for scholars, students and practitioners. It examines intersecting forms of oppression that produce environmental injustice, including subordination based on gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity.
Cambridge Law Handbooks
502pp Jul. 2022 9781009281935 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108555791
The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences and Human rights
Marcello Ienca The digital and biotechnological revolution are transforming fundamental aspects of society. The more technology becomes embedded in our lives, the more it has an impact on our morals and laws. This Handbook offers an innovative and comprehensive framework for investigating the implications of new and emerging technologies for Human rights.
Cambridge Law Handbooks
400pp May. 2022 9781108477833 Hardback GBP 160 / USD 210 eISBN 9781108775038
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The Disabled Contract
Severe intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry | McGill University, Montréal The social contract tradition, brought back to life by philosopher John Rawls in the late twentieth century, contains values and assumptions that are dear to our liberal ethos. This book examines how this important philosophical tradition nevertheless tends to exclude people with severe intellectual disabilities from the realm of justice.
Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
334pp Sep. 2022 9781316606681 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Mar. 2021 9781107152854 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316591482
