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The philosophy postulating the protection of human rights is based on values that are fundamental to western civilization. These values found expression in Jerusalem and in Athens. The divine command to love one's neighbour as one loves oneself and to obey God's laws is the basis of the sovereign's duty to respect these "unwritten and immutable divine laws" of which Sophocles speaks. It took many centuries before these rights, "droits naturels et imprescriptible de l'homme," were recognized by the state to the extent that their breach was supposed to entitle the citizens to revolt.

I. Parliament / 5th ed. by Maurice L. Gwyer.--II. The Crown / 4th ed. by A. Berriedale Keith. 2 parts. ; Mode of access: Internet.

v. 1. Parliament.--v. 2. The crown. ; Mode of access: Internet.

THE LONG-AWAITED SECOND VOLUME OF MORTON HORWITZ'S HISTORY OF AMERICAN LEGAL THOUGHT COVERS THE PERIOD 1870 TO 1960. THE FOCUS IS ON ACADEMIC LAW. HORWITZ'S THESIS IS THAT EVERY GENERATION REBELS AGAINST THE EXISTING CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE OF LAW, BUT THEN ESTABLISHES ITS OWN EQUALLY FORMALISTIC STRUCTURE TO REPLACE IT. THE CYCLE CAN BE BROKEN ONLY IF THE ESSENTIALLY POLITICAL CHARACTER OF LAW IS FACED UP TO SQUARELY. UNFORTUNATELY, HORWITZ HAS ATTEMPTED TO REDUCE A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY TO AN ACADEMIC DEBATE OVER FORMALISM, WHICH, IN TURN, HE REDUCES TO THE PERSONAL IDIOSYNCRASIES OF SOME OF THE PARTICIPANTS. HOWEVER, THE BOOK ALSO CONTAINS A VALUABLE, CLOSE-GRAINED INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF LEGAL PROFESSION'S STRUGGLE TO ADAPT LEGAL CATEGORIES TO CHANGED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.

Data from the Affirmative Action Agency Public Reports and the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey were used to review progress in the implementation of the Australian Government's Affirmative Action legislation and to examine the relationship between following mandatory procedures and achieving outcomes that impact positively on women's workforce experiences. The data suggest that while a relationship exists at the bivariate level, it becomes considerably weaker when organizational and workforce characteristics are controlled. The variables that emerged from the analyses as strong predictors of both procedural compliance and the adoption of accommodating practices for women centered around human resource management. Where companies were committed to human resource management, both procedural compliance and accommodating practices tended to be high. These data demonstrate the importance of linking legislation for social change with workplace functions, particularly when resistance to the legislation is high and capacity to enforce is low.

This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in late nineteenth-century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Ruhkmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic unfolding of the litigation, as well as the huge social and political debate set off by it. The narrative skilfully weaves together the details of the case with larger issues of gender and law, colonialism, culture, reform, and modernity ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)

"This book is about home and international law. More specifically, it is about the profound, and frequently devastating, transformations of home that are happening almost everywhere in the world today, and what international law has to do with them. Through three stories of home - the desert home, the lake home, and the city home - this book traces how the everyday operations of international law shape the material, affective and imaginative experience of home. It argues that international law's 'homemaking work' is characterised by acts of domination, practices of resistance and the production of unhomely space. However, the book also considers whether and how the liberatory potential of international law could be unlocked through the metaphor of home. This book draws from fieldwork conducted by the author in Cambodia, Palestine and the United Kingdom. It takes a global socio-legal approach to home and international law, informed by feminist political theory, feminist geography, home studies and contemporary critical approaches to international law. It is the first academic work to examine the relationship between home and international law. This book's global socio-legal approach to international law and home will be of interest to those teaching and studying in international law, socio-legal studies, legal pluralism and legal geography"--