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“prof john tobin”

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  • The Right to Health in International Law

    by Prof John Tobin ...
    The link between health and human rights has been recognised for many years, but the increasing visibility of the right to health in international law has been a distinct feature of the last decade. It has been embraced by actors within civil society, academics, health professionals, lawyers and courts in several jurisdictions as a tool to address health inequalities at the local and global level, ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

    Edited by Dinah Shelton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive and original overview of one of the fundamental topics within international law. It contains substantial new essays by more than forty leading experts in the field, giving students, scholars, and practitioners a complete overview of the issues that inform research, as well as a 'map' of the debates that animate the ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law

    by Prof Jane McAdam ...
    Displacement caused by climate change is an area of growing concern. With current rises in sea levels and changes to the global climate, it is an issue of fundamental importance to the future of many parts of the world. This book critically examines whether States have obligations to protect people displaced by climate change under international refugee law, international human rights law, and the ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work

    by Lisa Rodgers ...
    The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships.Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Successful Societies

    How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

    Edited by Peter A. Hall, Michèle Lamont ...
    Why are some societies more successful than others at promoting individual and collective well-being? This book integrates recent research in social epidemiology with broader perspectives in social science to explore why some societies are more successful than others at securing population health. It explores the social roots of health inequalities, arguing that inequalities in health are based ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa

    Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

    Edited by Carolyn Baylies, Janet Bujra ...
    Series series Social Aspects of AIDS
    While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world. The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Women's Human Rights

    CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

    Edited by Anne Hellum, Henriette Sinding Aasen ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Equality

    The New Legal Framework

    by Sir Bob Hepple ...
    The Equality Act 2010 is a major landmark in the long struggle for equal rights. This book tells the story of how and why it came to be enacted, what it means, what changes it can bring about in British society, and - no less important - what the Act will not do.The Act is the outcome of over 13 years of research, public debate and campaigning, starting with the publication of Equality: A New ... Read more

    $30.09 USD

  • Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis

    Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake

    by Hilary Evans Cameron ...
    At a time when many around the world are fleeing their homes, seeking refugee protection has become a game of chance. Partly to blame is the law that governs how refugee status decision-makers resolve their doubts. This long-neglected branch of refugee law has been growing in the dark, with little guidance from the Refugee Convention and little attention from scholars. By looking closely at the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

    Edited by John H. Knox, Ramin Pejan ...
    The absence of a globally recognized right to a healthy environment has not prevented the development of human rights norms relating to the environment. Indeed, one of the most noteworthy aspects of human rights law over the last twenty years is that UN treaty bodies, regional tribunals, special rapporteurs, and other human rights mechanisms have applied human rights law to environmental issues ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Legitimacy and Legality in International Law

    An Interactional Account

    by Stephen J. Toope, Jutta Brunnée ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations

    Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Health

    by Laura Westra ...
    The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD