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  • Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law

    Edited by Anver M. Emon, Mark Ellis, Benjamin Glahn ...
    The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    Building Open Societies

    by Chuck Sudetic ...
    With an Introduction by George Soros and an Afterword by Aryeh NeierGeorge Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past thirty years, he has provided more than 8 billion to his worldwide network of foundations: the Open Society Foundations, which have applied the concept of the open society, the cornerstone of Soros's thinking on democracy, freedom, and human rights, in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Security Archipelago

    Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

    by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Social text books
    In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • International Human Rights and Islamic Law

    by Mashood A. Baderin ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights and Islamic law are compatible. It asks whether Muslim States can comply with international human rights law whilst adhering to Islamic law. The traditional arguments on this subject are examined and responded to from both international human rights and Islamic legal perspectives. The volume engages ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • We Cannot Remain Silent

    Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, James N. Green ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup leaders’ anticommunist agenda. Few Americans were aware of the human rights abuses perpetrated by Brazil ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Human Right to Dominate

    by Nicola Perugini, Neve Gordon ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Islam and English Law

    Rights, Responsibilities and the Place of Shari'a

    Edited by Robin Griffith-Jones ...
    Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams triggered a storm of protest when he suggested that some accommodation between British law and Islam's shari'a law was 'inevitable'. His foundational lecture introduced a series of public discussions on Islam and English Law at the Royal Courts of Justice and the Temple Church in London. This volume combines developed versions of these discussions ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • The Shari'a and Islamic Criminal Justice in Time of War and Peace

    by M. Cherif Bassiouni ...
    This innovative and important book applies classical Sunni Muslim legal and religious doctrine to contemporary issues surrounding armed conflict. In doing so it shows that the shari'a and Islamic law are not only compatible with contemporary international human rights law and international humanitarian law norms, but are appropriate for use in Muslim societies. By grounding contemporary post ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Access to Asylum

    International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

    by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Constitutional Design for Divided Societies

    Integration or Accommodation?

    Edited by Sujit Choudhry ...
    How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability? This is one of the most difficult questions facing societies in the world today. There are two schools of thought on how to answer this question. Under the heading of ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Business and Human Rights

    History, Law and Policy - Bridging the Accountability Gap

    by Nadia Bernaz ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Islamic Banking

    A Comparative Look at the United Kingdom and Malaysia

    by Abdul Karim Aldohni ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law
    During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK. Islamic finance differs quite substantially from conventional banking, using very different mechanisms, and operating according to a different theory as it is based on Islamic law. Yet at the same time it is always subject to the law of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD