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Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book Fest
Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration
Within days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. These changes have profoundly shaken the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families, many of whom have been here for decades, and affected...
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"Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of "justice" that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States--along...
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In this incisive and insightful book, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano peels back the legal veneer and shows how politicians, judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats are trampling the U.S. Constitution in the name of law and order and fighting terrorism. Napolitano reveals how they:
• silence the First Amendment
• shoot holes in the Second
• break some laws to enforce others
• entrap citizens
• steal private property
• seize evidence without warrant
• imprison...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal the most famous death-row inmate in the United States was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing police officer Daniel Faulkner. Using the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached him and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal's brothers car, Kenneth Freeman, then killed Faulkner, this study convincingly shows how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office framed Abu-Jamal...
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Este segundo libro de la Maestría en Derecho Público de la USTA consta de cinco capítulos en los que se muestran las nuevas tendencias del derecho público colombiano y francés en el marco del posconflicto, en algunos casos enfocados en el desarrollo de derechos fundamentales, tales como el derecho a la educación, sus avances en torno a la educación para la paz, el derecho a la salud de los niños, el derecho a que no se aplique la figura de...
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International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials....
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Access to justice is a vital element in the democratic process and one of the basic principles of the rule of law. Access to legal aid—the provision of legal advice, assistance and/or representation at either no cost or subject to a financial contribution—is crucial to ensure access to justice.
The guidelines on the efficiency and the effectiveness of legal aid schemes in the areas of civil and administrative law were adopted by the Committee...
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L'accès à la justice est un élément essentiel du processus démocratique et constitue l'un des principes de base de l'État de droit. L'accès à l'assistance judiciaire — fourniture de conseils juridiques, d'assistance et/ou de représentation soit à titre grâcieux, soit moyennant une contribution financière — est essentiel pour garantir l'accès à la justice.
Les Lignes directrices sur l'efficience et l'efficacité des systèmes d'assistance...
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A practical guide to the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)4 to raise awareness and improve the knowledge and capacities of relevant professionals in supporting young refugees and migrants in their transition to adulthood.
Being among the most vulnerable, many young refugees experience violence, exploitation and trauma, as well as continued risk of violation of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. When they reach the age of 18,...
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El uso del derecho penal para regular el sexo, el género y la reproducción tiene una larga historia, pero en las últimas dos décadas, la expansión de las demandas en torno a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos y la movilización social creciente para promoverlos en todo el mundo han venido acompañadas de tensiones y contradicciones alrededor del rol de la ley penal en las vidas íntimas de las personas. ¿Hasta dónde la intervención de la...
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Un guide pratique de la Recommandation CM/Rec(2019)4 pour sensibiliser et améliorer les connaissances et les compétences des professionnels concernés par le soutien aux jeunes réfugiés et migrants dans leur transition vers l'âge adulte.
Figurant parmi les plus vulnérables, de nombreux jeunes réfugiés sont victimes de violence, d'exploitation et de traumatismes, et risquent en permanence de voir leurs droits humains et leurs libertés fondamentales...
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Conversations About Law includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
1. Neurolaw - A Conversation with Nita Farahany, Robert O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and...
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This book is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UC San Diego and co-director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School. This extensive conversation covers topics such international law, when and why international laws work and don't work, the international human rights system...
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Noah Weisbord is associate professor of law at Queen's University in Canada and served on the International Criminal Court's working group that drafted the crime of aggression. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive war
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against...
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"Justice in the question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accord's two-state solution is now dead letter. Justice for Some offers a new approach...
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An exploration of natural law for an era of deep division: Burgess lays out the long struggle to protect human rights for all citizens.
Dr. King's famous words-"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice"-rest on the thinking and policy of philosophers and legislators from ancient Greece to the present day.
Douglas R. Burgess Jr.-a broadly published writer and professor of legal history-tells us that important story, from...
17) On Property
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From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.
That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we've organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd's death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How...
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Elections are a pre-condition for democratic governance since it is through them that the citizens of a country choose freely, and on the basis of the law, the persons that can legitimately govern in their name and in their interest.
The right to free elections, as enshrined in the Article 3 of the Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, is a "fundamental principle in a truly democratic political regime". It comprises a series of safeguards...
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With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the "property to persons" trajectory that other human rights stories had followed. In the first edition of A Question of Commitment, editors R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell provided a template of analysis for understanding this evolution. They identified three overlapping...
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This book ties the prohibitionist experiment to other totalitarian endeavours while tracing the Spirit of Freedom as it moves through the centuries. Arguing from a perspective of first principles, the author explains the psychology that connects morality and law: how the morality of the prophets and that of the founders are one and the same; and why this simple fact has been so difficult to grasp.
As in other times and places, our difficulties arise...
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