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Women's Human Rights and Migration

Autore: Sital Kalantry

Numero di pagine: 272

Some of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them. In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry focuses on immigrants of Asian descent living in the United States who are believed to abort female fetuses because they do not want a female child. While sex-selective abortion is a human rights concern in India, should we, for that reason, assume that the practice undermines women's equality in the United States? Although some pro-choice feminists believe that these prohibitions on sex-selective abortion promote women's equality, other feminists fiercely oppose such laws, characterizing them as a Trojan horse in the larger pursuit to overturn the reproductive rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. Nearly half of state legislatures in the United States have proposed laws restricting sex-selective abortion since 2009 and nine have adopted them. Kalantry argues that traditional feminist legal theories and international human rights law fail to provide adequate guidance in examining the human rights implications of the reproductive practices of...

Reconstructing Rights

Autore: Stephan Stohler

Numero di pagine: 285

Shows how judges work in a deliberative fashion with aligned political parties to re-interpret legal and constitutional text.

Rights of Women

Autore: Shraddha Verma

Numero di pagine: 97

"Rights of Women: Helping Women Through Law" is an empowering book that sheds light on the legal rights and protections available to women. Authored by Shraddha Verma, this informative guide aims to educate and empower women by providing valuable insights into various aspects of the law that directly impact their lives. From addressing gender-based discrimination and harassment to navigating issues related to marriage, divorce, child custody, and workplace rights, Verma covers a wide range of topics. The book provides practical advice, case studies, and resources to help women understand their legal rights, seek justice, and make informed decisions. With a compassionate and supportive approach, Verma encourages women to assert their rights and overcome legal challenges. This book serves as a valuable resource for women, legal professionals, activists, and anyone interested in promoting gender equality and justice.

Courting Gender Justice

Autore: Lisa Mcintosh Sundstrom , Valerie Sperling , Melike Sayoglu

Numero di pagine: 352

Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR, located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most effective international human rights court in existence. Russian citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of discrimination faced by women and LGBT people ...

Who's Afraid of Madalyn Murray O'Hair?

Autore: Siarlys Jenkins

Numero di pagine: 270

This book is not about Madalyn Murray O ́Hair. It may help to exorcise her pale wan ghost from our legal system. She really doesn ́t amount to anything at all. She is irrelevant. There is nothing to be afraid of. But so many people don ́t know that. This book IS about who our laws belong to, and what our federal Constitution really means. Understanding the law is not the monopoly of lawyers, judges, elected officials, or people with advanced graduate degrees. All of those have an important role to play, but in a democratic republic, the law belongs to all of us. There is no reason that each and every American citizen cannot understand, and contribute to, the shape of our laws. That is especially true of our constitutional law - the supreme law of the land. One book can ́t cover everything in constitutional law. It can ́t even introduce everything. This book provides some simple introduction to Supreme Court cases, and federal appeals court cases, on the role of religion in public life. That means digging up court rulings from around 1869 right up until 2005. Really, the government and churches do have to interact with each other in all kinds of ways. Why? Because "We are a...

The Trouble with Marriage

Autore: Srimati Basu

Numero di pagine: 280

"The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian feminist theories of marriage, gender violence, and the role of the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolutions, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, have created new subjectivities but have also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively. This volume examines the extent to which feminist visions of divorce, rape, and domestic violence law in India empower women and finds, paradoxically, that these alternative ideas actually reinforce women's economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.

Refugee Relief Act of 1953 (Public Law 203, 83rd Cong., Aug. 7, 1953) with Amendments of Aug. 31, 1954 (Public Law 751 751, 83rd Cong.).

Autore: United States. Congress. House. Committee On The Judiciary

Numero di pagine: 12

Access to Justice

Autore: Deborah L. Rhode

Numero di pagine: 265

"Equal Justice Under Law." This promise appears on courthouse doors across the land. But it by no means describes what goes on inside them. Equal access to justice is one of America's most proudly proclaimed principles. And one of its most frequently violated. Written by America's leading expert on legal ethics, Access to Justice vividly chronicles the wide gap between the lofty aspirations and harsh realities of American justice.

Desperately Seeking Certainty

Autore: Daniel A. Farber , Suzanna Sherry

Numero di pagine: 221

Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea. Dan Farber and Suzanna Sherry find that in the end no single, all-encompassing theory can successfully guide judges or provide definitive or even sensible answers to every constitutional question. Their book brilliantly reveals how problematic foundationalism is and shows how the pragmatic, multifaceted common law methods already used by the Court provide a far better means of reaching sound decisions and controlling judicial discretion than do any of the grand theories.

Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States

Autore: United States. Court Of Claims

Numero di pagine: 970

The Annulment

Autore: A. Ben Henderson

Numero di pagine: 184

Whittaker Parks was planning on a quiet end to his legal career. But within an hour of meeting John David Bain he knew that he had landed the case of a lifetime. The reward of helping John David recover what he had thought was wrongfully taken from him far outweighed the risks of taking on the most prestigious and well connected law firm in East Texas. John David was permanently disabled due to a heart transplant, so when his wife, Lola, won the lottery and then proceeded to try and hide the money from him and have their marriage annulled the battle was on. When the truth was uncovered and the verdict was rendered, even Whittaker Parks was astonished at the outcome. But not as astonished as he would be in the days following the trial. Born on February 2nd, 1971 in Greenville, Mississippi, to a Southern Baptist minister and a homemaker, Ben Henderson as a young boy dreamed of being a professional basketball player and a lawyer. While fulfilling a portion of his dream by playing college basketball at Houston Baptist University he earned degrees in both English and Political Science. During a summer break he clerked for one of the oldest and most prestigious Personal Injury law firms ...

My life in court

Human Rights and Legal Judgments

Autore: Austin Sarat

Numero di pagine: 157

Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.

Brookers Human Rights Law

Protecting Human Rights in the Americas

Autore: Thomas Buergenthal , Robert E. Norris , Dinah Shelton

Numero di pagine: 374

A publication of the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg.

Sexuality and the Law

Autore: Arthur S. Leonard

Numero di pagine: 732

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Preventive Detention Laws in India - Perishing Human Values in the Name of Suspicion

Autore: Silvy Sheetal

Numero di pagine: 225

The intention behind the book being “Elaborative Description and Easy understanding” of the topic- Preventive Detention. The act which loomed up menacingly from the year of its commencement. Attracting every possible fatalistic comment. Preventive Detention laws are thriving between the need for restraining an individual to such suspicious restrainment hampering the Liberty of the individual in India. The topic is deciphered in a manner approachable to people of every parlance, seeking to learn a word about Preventive Detention Laws, prevailing in India. The book is easy with words, chapter divisions covering the important topics, incidental anecdotes, coverage of important topics, and the easy description, making this book a must-read.

Gender Law and Policy

Autore: Katharine T. Bartlett , Deborah L. Rhode , Joanna L. Grossman , Deborah L. Brake

Numero di pagine: 912

Gender Law and Policy provides the theoretical frameworks, legal cases, and policy background necessary for analyzing a broad range of gender issues in the law. It is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in Women’s Studies, Political Science, and other fields focusing on gender law and policy, including Women and the Law and Gender Law and Policy. This text features lucid introductions in each chapter that illuminate the issues significant to each topic, alternative theoretical perspectives that facilitate open-minded problem solving, and incisive commentary by leading scholars and policymakers. Timely coverage of foundational and cutting-edge issues includes constitutional law, employment law, Title IX and education (including sports), family law, sexual harassment, sexual violence, pornography, prostitution, global trafficking, LGBT issues, and women’s sexual and reproductive health. Features of the Third Edition: Organized in five chapters focusing on different theoretical frameworks to enable student to grasp different conceptualizations of equality and justice. New introductory chapter with a broad overview of the theoretical frameworks, as well as the adjacent...

The Changing Tide of Double Jeopardy and American Reform

Autore: Yuce Baykara

Numero di pagine: 13

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, grade: 85%, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: American Law, language: English, abstract: A change has been happening to the nature of an age old legal right. To people in some countries and jurisdictions this has been a fundamental right, up there with a person’s right to trial. It has been a free standing rule for over 2000 years of recorded history. A person has the right to their day in court, but this addresses a person’s right to not have the same charges brought against them over and over again. Known as double jeopardy to most, it is the idea that once you are brought in front of your peers or a court, once set free, no one may attempt to punish you for this act again. So why is the traditional understanding of former/double Jeopardy being put into jeopardy?

The Law Times

Numero di pagine: 1214

Law Briefs on Litigation and the Rights of Exceptional Children, Youth, and Adults

Autore: Ernest E. Singletary , Gary D. Collings , Halbert Floyd Dennis

Numero di pagine: 580

Codification and judge-made law:a problem of co-existence

Autore: Leslie Scarman Baron Scarman

Supreme Court

Numero di pagine: 1000

U.C. Davis Law Review

Autore: University Of California, Davis. School Of Law

Numero di pagine: 172

U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Gender and Sexual Equality

Autore: Christopher A. Anzalone

Numero di pagine: 640

This book includes every Supreme Court case relevant to gender and sexual equality from the Court's beginnings in 1787 to the end of the 1999/2000 term. It is a primary document reference book, organized topically in eight chapter civic and social rights and duties; educational policies and instructions; employment and careers; sexual privacy and procreative rights; morality and sexual ethics; family; gender and sexual orientation; and other issues. Every case is included either as a full (edited) version of the majority or per curiam opinion, extensive excerpts of the opinion, or a detailed description of the case. In one book, a researcher can see how American legal history, in its entirety, played out. Back matter includes a table of cases and an extensive bibliography of books and legal periodicals.

Rights

Autore: David Lyons

Numero di pagine: 280

On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb

Numero di pagine: 162

Life After Law School

Autore: Peter Gaisiance Llb

Numero di pagine: 408

As a boy attends boarding school and interns for petroleum companies in Western Nuer, he has no idea this will be the last work he will perform in Sudan for the next twenty years. After his father provides financial assistance to help him flee a ruthless civil war in his native country, the boy makes many stops along the way before landing in the United Kingdom where he embarks down a obstacle-lined path to a new destiny. While living in exile, the boy matures into a man who struggles with finding a good reason to stay in his adopted country. After he attends university and law school, he trains as barrister where he encounters many difficulties working for the referendum commission and in the English courts, especially the RCJ. Unfortunately, he must also battle prejudices, racial discrimination, and the chronic disease of social injustice while attempting to find his place in a chaotic world where nothing is certain, especially in a court of law. In this international tale, a boy is led on a journey from Sudan to the United Kingdom where he eventually trains as a barrister and learns that attaining equality is easier said than done.

Cases on Selected Topics in the Law of Persons

Autore: Hardpress , Smith Jeremiah 1837-1921

Numero di pagine: 742

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A Study Guide for Jessica Blank's "The Exonerated"

Autore: Gale, Cengage Learning

Numero di pagine: 23

A Study Guide for Jessica Blank's "The Exonerated," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Leading Cases in Constitutional Law Briefly Stated, with Introduction, Excursuses, and Notes

Autore: Hardpress , Thomas Ernest Chester 1850-1892

Numero di pagine: 124

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Prize Essay on the Laws for the Protection of Women

Autore: James Edward Davis

Numero di pagine: 278

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully...

Pledge Protection Act of 2004

Bowker's Law Books and Serials in Print

Numero di pagine: 1048

Multiplicity of Laws Relating to Maintenance for Women Issues and Challenges

Autore: Debnath Debasree

Numero di pagine: 0

'The greatest happiness of the greatest number' is the principle of Jeremy Bentham. 'Nature has put man under the realm of pleasure and pain and we are indebted to them all our ideas; we look up to them all our judgements and all the fortitude of our life.'1 The concept of pleasure and pain is a belief which endures the principle of greatest happiness and contributes to the greatest number of people. All human beings are equally capable of utilizing such pleasure and pain. A society becomes complete where all the people work together and enjoy the pleasure obtained from reciprocal collaboration. The basic unit in our society is the family; it is an institution which binds all the members and is based on feelings that are responsive and contiguous, it is known as a 'natural ethical community.'2 Family institution is based on natural love and affection; the care it conveys to each other is universal and has a divine quality. The development of a family depends upon the marriage between the individuals, it brings social harmony and protection to the women as it provides marital legal rights and obligation to both the spouses. According to Hindu Law, marriage is termed as a sacred...

Sex and the Supreme Court

Autore: Saurabh Kirpal

Numero di pagine: 352

'The Constitution [of India] has within it the ability to produce social catharsis...' At 12.12 p.m. on 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India created history by reading down Section 377 - reversing an archaic law laid down by the British in 1860 and decriminalizing homosexuality for the first time in modern India. Yet, this is not the only ruling that the Supreme Court has made in recent times championing the rights of an individual to her or his identity and dignity. From empowering the transgender community and lending teeth to the prevention of sexual harassment of women at the workplace, to protecting the privacy, rights and dignity of women and minorities on issues such as interfaith marriages, entering the Sabarimala temple, the controversial triple talaq and the striking down of the adultery law - the highest court of the land has firmly placed the individual at the centre of the constitutional firmament, and set a course for progressive societal reform. This remarkable collection of writings by legal luminaries is the only book to offer sharp insights into each of these crucial rulings. Justice M.B. Lokur writes on the issues that affect the transgender community;...

Slender Is the Thread

Autore: Harry M. Caudill

Numero di pagine: 196

Reading the tales spun out of Harry Caudill's Letcher County law office, I can close my eyes and see the man, even hear his rich mountain voice -- measured, distinctly accented, engaging, etched with wit and anger and compassion. He denounced scoundrels of high and low station, praised courage and justice wherever he found it, and celebrated the ridiculous frailty of the human condition.

Contempt of Court and Freedom of Speech

Autore: Bibha Tripathi

Numero di pagine: 316

Freedom of speech and a free and fair justice delivery system are two most important components of democracy, and striking a balance between them is a must for its smooth running. The law of contempt of court in India has assumed immense social and political significance due to growing judicial tendency to gag and often to subjugate the democratic aspirations and dissent. This book presents a critical assessment of the freedom of speech as enshrined in the Indian Constitution and encroachment on it by the proactive approach of judiciary through the instrument of the law of contempt of the court. Tracing the history of the contempt of court, it discusses at length the various aspects of democracy and freedom of speech, the status of contempt of court in various countries, the law of contempt and constitutional guarantees, and judicial accountability. It also tries to explore gender biases in the delivery of justice in the cases related to the contempt of court.

Conflict of Laws

Autore: Peter Hay , Russell J. Weintraub , Patrick J. Borchers

Numero di pagine: 0

The 13th Edition and a Teacher's Manual will be published in ample time for fall 2009 classes. The 13th edition continues the tradition of careful scholarship and attention to educational objectives begun with the first edition in 1936. The conflict of laws has experienced vast changes in the seventy three years since the first edition of this book. The new edition joins its predecessors' attention to the needs of both teacher and student. Foreign law not only is of growing importance in a global economy but also holds important lessons for us as we reconsider our own law. With its extensive comparative materials the book facilitates appraisal of both domestic and foreign approaches.The new edition retains the order of presentation in the 12th edition, which has proven to be an important aid in mastering the materials. Choice-of-law issues take on added meaning after the student understands when and why a court may proceed against a nonresident defendant, appreciates that a co