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What role should racial difference play in the American workplace?
As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question,
and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it:
race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil
Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass
immigration, many employers, Democratic and Republican political
leaders, and advocates have adopted a new strategy to manage race
and work. Race is now relevant not only in negative cases of
discrimination, but in more positive ways as well. In today's
workplace, employers routinely practice "racial realism," where
they view race as real--as a job qualification. Many believe
employee racial differences, and sometimes immigrant status,
correspond to unique abilities or evoke desirable reactions from
clients or citizens. They also see racial diversity as a way to
increase workplace dynamism. The problem is that when employers see
race as useful for organizational effectiveness, they are often in
violation of civil rights law. After Civil Rights examines this
emerging strategy in a wide range of employment situations,
including the low-skilled sector, professional and white-collar
jobs, and entertainment and media. In this important book, Skrentny
urges us to acknowledge the racial realism already occurring, and
lays out a series of reforms that, if enacted, would bring the law
and lived experience more in line, yet still remain respectful of
the need to protect the civil rights of all workers.
More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either
religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when
imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at
least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the
constitutional separation of church and state, particularly when
prisoners who participate get special privileges? In "Prison
Religion," law and religion scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
takes up these and other important questions through a close
examination of a 2005 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of
a faith-based residential rehabilitation program in an Iowa state
prison.
"Americans United for the Separation of Church and State v.
Prison Fellowship Ministries," a trial in which Sullivan served as
an expert witness, centered on the constitutionality of allowing
religious organizations to operate programs in state-run
facilities. Using the trial as a case study, Sullivan argues that
separation of church and state is no longer possible. Religious
authority has shifted from institutions to individuals, making it
difficult to define religion, let alone disentangle it from the
state. "Prison Religion" casts new light on church-state law, the
debate over government-funded faith-based programs, and the
predicament of prisoners who have precious little choice about what
kind of rehabilitation they receive, if they are offered any at
all.
The very existence of an employment relationship places the human
rights of a worker at risk. Employers can, and frequently do,
exercise their managerial and disciplinary powers in a manner that
interferes with the most fundamental rights of the individual
worker. Adequate safeguards against such infringements are
necessary if individuals are to receive full protection of their
rights. This book examines how far the labour laws of England and
Wales offer such guarantees, with a particular focus on dismissal
law. The chapters reflect on the relationship between employment,
labour, and human rights before conducting a detailed and critical
analysis of the scope, shape, and application of domestic
employment law. The framework for evaluation is drawn from the case
law of the European Court of Human Rights, as it develops a
principled and tailored approach to how the rights contained in the
European Convention on Human Right should be enforced in working
relationships. Statutory mechanisms, such as the law of unfair
dismissal, and common law causes of action are examined and found
to be lacking in their capacity to vindicate and enforce the human
rights of workers. This book culminates in the proposal and
elaboration upon an innovative solution, the Bill of Rights for
Workers, that would draw on the successes of human rights and
labour law instruments to render the Convention rights directly
enforceable in the relationship between a worker and their
employer.
As the distinction between domestic and international is
increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and
external borders, migrants-particularly people of color-have become
emblematic of the hybrid threat both to national security and
sovereignty and to safety and order inside the state. From building
walls and fences, overcrowding detention facilities, and beefing up
border policing and border controls, a new narrative has arrived
that has migrants assume the risk for government-sponsored
degradation, misery, and death. Crimmigrant Nations examines the
parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism
in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented look
at this issue on an international level. Beginning with the fears
and concerns of immigration that predate the election of Trump, the
Brexit vote, and the signing and implementation of the Schengen
Agreement, Crimmigrant Nations critically analyzes nationalist
state policies in countries that have criminalized migrants and
categorized them as threats to national security. Highlighting a
pressing and perplexing problem facing the Western world in 2020
and beyond, this collection of essays illustrates not only how
anti-immigrant sentiments and nationalist discourse are on the rise
in various Western liberal democracies, but also how these
sentiments are being translated into punitive and cruel policies
and practices that contribute to a merger of crime control and
migration control with devastating effects for those falling under
its reach. Mapping out how these measures are taken, the rationale
behind these policies, and who is subjected to exclusion as a
result of these measures, Crimmigrant Nations looks beyond the
level of the local or the national to the relational dynamics
between different actors on different levels and among different
institutions.
Applying appropriate legal rules to companies with as much
consistency and as little consternation as possible remains a
challenge for legal systems. One area causing concern is the
availability of damages for non-pecuniary loss to companies, a
disquiet that is rooted in the very nature of such damages and of
companies themselves. In this book, Vanessa Wilcox presents a
detailed examination of the extent to which damages for
non-pecuniary loss can be properly awarded to companies. The book
focusses on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
and English law, with a chapter also dedicated to comparative
treatment. While the law must be adaptable, Wilcox concludes that
considerations of coherency, certainty and ultimately justice
dictate that the resulting rules should conform to certain core
legal principles. This book lays the foundation for further
comparative research into this topic and will be of interest to
both the tort law and broader legal community.
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory Since the
publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An
Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic
increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that
revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public
disasters disproportionately affect minority communities. We have
also seen a sharp backlash against Critical Race Theory, and a
president who deemed racism a thing of the past while he fanned the
flames of racial intolerance and promoted nativist sentiments among
his followers. Now more than ever, the racial disparities in all
aspects of public life are glaringly obvious. Taking note of all
these developments, this fourth edition covers a range of new
topics and events and addresses the rise of a fierce wave of
criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations,
some of which insist that America is now colorblind and has little
use for racial analysis and study. Award-winning authors Richard
Delgado and Jean Stefancic also address the rise in legislative
efforts to curtail K–12 teaching of racial history. Critical Race
Theory, Fourth Edition, is essential for understanding developments
in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and
countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other
societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers
wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new readings
and questions for discussion aimed at outlining practical steps to
achieve this objective.
"..this most thorough commentary must be regarded as the Bible on
the Charter" Peter Oliver, Common Market Law Review This second
edition of the first commentary of the EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights in English, written by experts from several EU Member
States, provides an authoritative but succinct statement of how the
Charter impacts upon EU, domestic and international law. Following
the conventional article-by-article approach, each commentator
offers an expert view of how each article is either already being
interpreted in the courts, or is likely to be interpreted. Each
commentary is referenced to the case law and is augmented with
extensive references to further reading. This is a much-welcomed
new edition of the authoritative guide to the Charter.
The Immigration Act of 1965 was one of the most consequential laws
ever passed in the United States and immigration policy continues
to be one of the most contentious areas of American politics. As a
"nation of immigrants," the United States has a long and complex
history of immigration programs and controls which are deeply
connected to the shape of American society today. This volume makes
sense of the political history and the social impacts of
immigration law, showing how legislation has reflected both
domestic concerns and wider foreign policy. John S. W. Park
examines how immigration law reforms have inspired radically
different responses across all levels of government, from
cooperation to outright disobedience, and how they continue to
fracture broader political debates. He concludes with an overview
of how significant, on-going challenges in our interconnected
world, including "failed states" and climate change, will shape
American migrations for many decades to come.
This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses,
highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices
regarding privacy, data protection and enforcing rights in a
changing world. It is one of the results of the 14th annual
International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP), which took place online in January 2021. The pandemic has
produced deep and ongoing changes in how, when, why, and the media
through which, we interact. Many of these changes correspond to new
approaches in the collection and use of our data - new in terms of
scale, form, and purpose. This raises difficult questions as to
which rights we have, and should have, in relation to such novel
forms of data processing, the degree to which these rights should
be balanced against other poignant social interests, and how these
rights should be enforced in light of the fluidity and uncertainty
of circumstances. The book covers a range of topics, such as:
digital sovereignty; art and algorithmic accountability;
multistakeholderism in the Brazilian General Data Protection law;
expectations of privacy and the European Court of Human Rights; the
function of explanations; DPIAs and smart cities; and of course, EU
data protection law and the pandemic - including chapters on
scientific research and on the EU Digital COVID Certificate
framework. This interdisciplinary book has been written at a time
when the scale and impact of data processing on society - on
individuals as well as on social systems - is becoming ever
starker. It discusses open issues as well as daring and prospective
approaches and is an insightful resource for readers with an
interest in computers, privacy and data protection.
International human rights law is sometimes criticized as an
infringement of constitutional democracy. Against this view, Jamie
Mayerfeld argues that international human rights law provides a
necessary extension of checks and balances and therefore completes
the domestic constitutional order. In today's world, constitutional
democracy is best understood as a cooperative project enlisting
both domestic and international guardians to strengthen the
protection of human rights. Reasons to support this view may be
found in the political philosophy of James Madison, the principal
architect of the U.S. Constitution. The Promise of Human Rights
presents sustained theoretical discussions of human rights,
constitutionalism, democracy, and sovereignty, along with an
extended case study of divergent transatlantic approaches to human
rights. Mayerfeld shows that the embrace of international human
rights law has inhibited human rights violations in Europe whereas
its marginalization has facilitated human rights violations in the
United States. A longstanding policy of "American exceptionalism"
was a major contributing factor to the Bush administration's use of
torture after 9/11. Mounting a combination of theoretical and
empirical arguments, Mayerfeld concludes that countries genuinely
committed to constitutional democracy should incorporate
international human rights law into their domestic legal system and
accept international oversight of their human rights practices.
Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision
legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After
Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths
and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural
and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade
that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion
after Roe, Mary Ziegler shows, were far more fluid and diverse than
the partisans dominating the debate today. In the early years after
the decision, advocates on either side of the abortion battle
sought common ground on issues from pregnancy discrimination to
fetal research. Drawing on archives and more than 100 interviews
with key participants, Ziegler's revelations complicate the view
that abortion rights proponents were insensitive to larger
questions of racial and class injustice, and expose as caricature
the idea that abortion opponents were inherently antifeminist. But
over time, "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion" positions hardened
into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" categories in response to
political pressures and compromises. This increasingly contentious
back-and-forth produced the interpretation now taken for
granted-that Roe was primarily a ruling on a woman's right to
choose. Peering beneath the surface of social-movement struggles in
the 1970s, After Roe reveals how actors on the left and the right
have today made Roe a symbol for a spectrum of fervently held
political beliefs.
The development of human rights norms is one of the most
significant achievements in international relations and law since
1945, but the continuing influence of human rights is increasingly
being questioned by authoritarian governments, nationalists, and
pundits. Unfortunately, the proliferation of new rights, linking
rights to other issues such as international crimes or the
activities of business, and attempting to address every social
problem from a human rights perspective risk undermining their
credibility. Rescuing Human Rights calls for understanding 'human
rights' as international human rights law and maintaining the
distinctions between binding legal obligations on governments and
broader issues of ethics, politics, and social change. Resolving
complex social problems requires more than simplistic appeals to
rights, and adopting a 'radically moderate' approach that
recognizes both the potential and the limits of international human
rights law, offers the best hope of preserving the principle that
we all have rights, simply because we are human.
Cultural Rights of Third-Country Nationals in EU Law provides a
complex analysis of the cultural rights of third-country nationals
in European Union Law. Originally published in Polish and
translated into English for the first time, this book examines EU
migration policy and law from the perspective of cultural rights
protection for migrants as a part of the overall system of human
rights protection in the EU. In offering a careful analysis of
these standards and their implementation mechanisms, Cultural
Rights of Third-Country Nationals in EU Law will be of use to all
researchers on EU law, especially in the areas of asylum law,
migration law and the protection of the borders. It will also be
useful to scholars and practitioners in the area of cultural
policy.
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and
stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of
refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless
persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that
generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular
migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues
that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant)
condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked
processes of globalization.
McNevin casts irregular migrants as more than mere victims of
sovereign power, shuttled from one location to the next.
Incorporating examples from the United States, Australia, and
France, she shows how migrants reject their position as "illegal"
outsiders and make claims on the communities in which they live and
work. For these migrants, outsider status operates as both a mode
of subjectification and as a site of active resistance, forcing
observers to rethink the enactment of citizenship. McNevin connects
irregular migrant activism to the complex rescaling of the
neoliberal state. States increasingly prioritize transnational
market relations that disrupt the spatial context for citizenship.
At the same time, states police their borders in ways that
reinvigorate territorial identities. Mapping the broad dynamics of
political belonging in a neoliberal era, McNevin provides
invaluable insight into the social and spatial transformation of
citizenship, sovereignty, and power.
This thought-provoking book provides a systematic,
philosophically-grounded reconceptualisation of press freedom and
press regulation. In a major departure from orthodox norms, the
book argues that press freedom and coercive independent press
regulation are not mutually exclusive; that newspapers could be
made to compensate their victims, through regulation, without
jeopardising their free speech rights; that their perceived public
watchdog status does not exempt them; and, ultimately, that
mandatory press regulation is not unconstitutional. In doing so,
the book questions our most deeply-held, intuitive beliefs about
the press and its role in society. Why do we say the printed press
has a duty to act as a public watchdog when there is no legally
enforceable apparatus by which to ensure it does? Why does
government constantly recommend that the press regulate itself when
history shows this model always fails? Why do victims of press
malfeasance continue to suffer needlessly? By deconstructing the
accepted view of press freedom and mandatory regulation, this book
shows that both are deeply misunderstood. The prevailing notion
that the press must serve the public is an empty relic of Victorian
ideology that is both philosophically incoherent and legally
unjustifiable. The press is obliged to make good, not do good.
In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special
Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United
Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of
work, institutional status, relationship with other politically
driven organs, and processes affecting their development. Special
Procedures have existed since 1967, nearly as long as United
Nations Treaty Bodies, but have received only fragmented analysis,
normally focused on a few thematic mandates, until the creation of
the Human Rights Council in 2006. In seeking to debunk commonly
held views about the role of politics in human rights at
international level, In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights
constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations
Special Procedures as a system covering their history, methods of
work, institutional status, relationship with other politically
driven organs, and processes affecting their development. The
perspective chosen to analyze the human rights mechanisms most
vulnerable to political decisions determining their creation,
renewal and operationalization, casts a new light on the extent to
which these remain the cornerstone of global accountability in
protecting the inherent dignity and worth of individuals as well as
groups. International human rights mechanisms' efficiency is
normally linked to the work of independent experts keen to push the
boundaries of accountability against recalcitrant States determined
to defend their sovereignty. As a corollary, progress in this field
is associated to the creation and maintenance of political free
spaces. Another common presumption is a belief in a differentiated
'North' versus 'South' approach to the promotion and protection of
human rights, that find common ground within the prevalent human
rights discourses repeated by governmental and non-governmental
actors. Through the lenses of the United Nations Special
Procedures, In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights challenges
these and other presumptions informing doctrinal studies, policies
and strategies to advance international human rights. Because of
the Special Procedures' growing salience and impact in the world of
international human rights, this book is likely to become required
reading for any student or practitioner of international human
rights.
The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout
history. They have never been completely independent from each
other. There is no doubt that religion has played an important role
in providing the underlying values of modern laws, in setting the
terms of the relationship between the individual and the state, and
in demanding a space for the variety of intermediate institutions
which stand between individuals and the state. However, the
relationships between law and religion, and the state and religious
institutions differ significantly from one modern state to another.
There is not one liberalism but many. This work brings together
reflections upon the relationship between religion and the law from
the perspectives of different sub-traditions within the broader
liberal project and in light of some contemporary problems in the
accommodation of religious and secular authority.
This book tells the story of a First Nation's single-minded quest
for justice. In 1958, the federal government leased part of the
small Musqueam Reserve in Vancouver to an exclusive golf club at
below market value. When the band members discovered this in 1970,
they initiated legal action. Their tenacity led to the 1984
decision in Guerin v. The Queen, whereby the Supreme Court of
Canada held that the government has a fiduciary duty towards
Indigenous peoples. Jim Reynolds, who served as one of the legal
counsel for the Musqueam, provides an in-depth analysis of this
landmark case and its impact on Canadian law, politics, and
society. By recognizing that the Musqueam had enforceable legal
rights, the Guerin case changed the relationship between
governments and Indigenous peoples from one of wardship to one
based on legal rights. It was a seismic decision.
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