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Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law
'A most welcome book on the most neglected of topics by a
pioneering team of interdisciplinary scholars. The volume
illuminates the rendering asunder of the borders that previously
protected personal information, even when the individual was in
''public'' and helps us see the muddying of the simple distinction
between public and private. The book asks what public and private
mean (and should mean) today as smart phones, embedded sensors and
related devices overwhelm the barriers of space, time, physicality,
and inefficiency that previously protected information. This
collection offers a needed foundation for future conceptualization
and research on privacy in literal and virtual public spaces. It
should be in the library of anyone interested in the social, policy
and ethical implications of information technologies.' - Gary T.
Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'How we should think
about privacy in public spaces in a world of artificial
intelligence and ubiquitous sensors is among the most interesting
and pressing questions in all of privacy studies. This edited
volume brings together some of Europe and America's finest minds to
shed theoretic and practical light on a critical issue of our
time.' - Ryan Calo, University of Washington 'The deepest conundrum
in the privacy world-especially, in light of the internet of other
people's things-is perhaps the notion of privacy in public.
Unraveling this practically Kantian antinomy is the ambitious aim
of this important new collection. Together and apart, this
intriguing assemblage of scientists, social scientists,
philosophers and lawyers interrogate subjects ranging from
conceptual distinctions between ''space'' and ''place'' and the
social practice of ''hiding in plain sight'', to compelling ideas
such as ''privacy pollution'' and the problem of ''out-of-body
DNA''. With this edited volume, the team from TILT has curated a
convincing account of the importance of preserving privacy in
increasingly public spaces.' - Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa,
Canada With ongoing technological innovations such as mobile
cameras, WiFi tracking, drones, and augmented reality, aspects of
citizens' lives are becoming increasingly vulnerable to intrusion.
This book brings together authors from a variety of disciplines
(philosophy, law, political science, economics, and media studies)
to examine privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory
perspectives. The contributors explore the contemporary challenges
to achieving privacy and anonymity in physical public space at a
time when legal protection remains limited in comparison to
`private' space. To address this problem, the book clearly
demonstrates why privacy in public space needs defending. Different
ways of conceptualizing and shaping such protection are explored,
for example through `privacy bubbles', obfuscation and surveillance
transparency, as well as by revising the assumptions underlying
current privacy laws. Scholars and students who teach and study
issues of privacy, autonomy, technology, urban geography and the
law and politics of public spaces will be interested in this book.
Contributors include: M. Brincker, A. Daly, A.M. Froomkin, M.
Galic, J.M. Hildebrand, B.-J. Koops, M. Leta, K. Mause, M.
Nagenborg, B.C Newell, A.E. Scherr, T. Timan, S.B. Zhao
Constitutional courts around the world play an increasingly central
role in day-to-day democratic governance. Yet scholars have only
recently begun to develop the interdisciplinary analysis needed to
understand this shift in the relationship of constitutional law to
politics. This edited volume brings together leading scholars of
constitutional law and politics to provide a comprehensive overview
of judicial review, covering theories of its creation, mechanisms
of its constraint, and its comparative applications, including
theories of interpretation and doctrinal developments. This book
serves as a single point of entry for legal scholars and
practitioners interested in understanding the field of comparative
judicial review in its broader political and social context. This
book's comparative and interdisciplinary accounts of a phenomenon
of worldwide significance and its advanced introduction to the
origins, functions, and contours of judicial review make it both
accessible and indispensable. Comparative Judicial Review should be
considered essential reading for every graduate student, early
career scholar, and constitutional law professor seeking to become
more comparative in their approach. Contributors include: K.J.
Alter, S.G. Calabresi, W.-C. Chang, E.F. Delaney, R. Dixon, L,
Esptein, T. Ginsburg, J. Greene, A. Harel, R. Hirschl, S.
Issacharoff, V. Jackson, T. Jacobi, R.A. Kagan, D. Kapiszewski, J.
Knight, D. Landau, Y.-L. Lee, H. Lerner, S. Mittal, T. Roux, W.
Sadurski, A. Shinar, G. Silverstein, K. Stilt, Y. Tew, M. Versteeg,
S. Waheedi, B.R. Weingast, E. Zackin
This book provides a new and powerful account of the demands of
justice on immigration law and policy. Drawing principally on the
work of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls, it argues that
justice requires states to give priority of admission to the most
disadvantaged migrants, and to grant some form of citizenship or
non-oppressive status to those migrants who become integrated. It
also argues that states must avoid policies of admission and
exclusion that can only be implemented through unjust means. It
therefore refutes the common misconception that justice places no
limits on the discretion of states to control immigration.
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired
advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's
rights terminology into various public and private arenas.
Children's right to participate in decision-making processes
affecting their lives is the acme of the Convention and its central
contribution to the children's rights discourse. At the same time
the participation right presents enormous challenges in its
implementation. Laws, regulations and mechanisms addressing
children's right to participate in decision-making processes
affecting their lives have been established in many jurisdictions
across the globe. Yet these worldwide developments have only rarely
been accompanied with empirical investigations. The effectiveness
of various policies in achieving meaningful participation for
children of different ages, cultures and circumstances have
remained largely unproven empirically. Therefore, with the growing
awareness of the importance of evidence-based policies, it becomes
clear that without empirical investigations on the implementation
of children's right to participation it is difficult to promote
their effective inclusion in decision making. This book provides a
much-needed, first broad portrayal of how child participation is
implemented in practice today. Bringing together 19 chapters
written by prominent authors from the United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and Israel, the
book includes descriptions of innovating programs that engage
children and youth in decision-making processes, as well as
insightful findings regarding what children, their families, and
professionals think about these programs. Beyond their contribution
to the empirical evidence on ways children engage in
decision-making processes, the book's chapters contribute to the
theoretical development of the meaning of "participation",
"citizenship", "inclusiveness", and "relational rights" in regards
to children and youth. There is no matching to the book's scope
both in terms of the diversity of jurisdictions that it covers as
well as the breadth of subjects. The book's chapters include
experiences of child participation in special education, child
protection, juvenile justice, restorative justice, family disputes,
research, and policy making.
The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a
European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical
and antagonistic. The UK government, media and public opinion have
all at times expressed concerns about the growing influence of
European human rights law, particularly in the controversial
contexts of prisoner voting and deportation of suspected terrorists
as well as in the context of British military action abroad.
British politicians and judges have also, however, played important
roles in drafting, implementing and interpreting the European
Convention on Human Rights. Its incorporation into domestic law in
the Human Rights Act 1998 intensified the ongoing debate about the
UK's international and regional human rights commitments.
Furthermore, the increasing importance of the European Union in the
human rights sphere has added another layer to the relationship and
highlights the complex relationship(s) between the UK government,
the Westminster Parliament and judges in the UK, Strasbourg and
Luxembourg. The book analyses the topical and contentious issue of
the relationship between the UK and the European systems for the
protection of human rights (ECHR and EU) from doctrinal, contextual
and comparative perspectives and explores factors that influence
the relationship of the UK and European human rights.
The Lawyers' Guide to Personal Injury Law is an instructional
textbook for attorneys who want to become experts in the field of
negligence law. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the
law in a multitude of areas within the field, including the various
types of construction accidents, motor vehicle accidents, premises
accidents, and more. The Lawyers' Guide to Personal Injury Law also
provides a detailed roadmap - from intake through trial - to
successfully litigating each of these claims and, ultimately,
maximizing monetary compensation for accident victims and their
families.
Title 15 presents regulations governing the Department of Commerce
and other agencies involved with commerce and foreign trade, and
includes rules for: National Security Industrial Base, Export
Administration, National Weather Service, Environmental Data
Service, Oil Pollution Act, Foreign Trade Agreements, and
telecommunications and information. Additions and revisions to this
section of the code are posted annually by January. Publication
follows within six months.
Previously titled Lawful Living, this second edition is revised, expanded, updated and now fully indexed.
It presents a compilation of the provisions tucked away in nearly 300 South African statutes, which lay down the law for compliance – whether in business, at home, or by Government. The provisions have been rewritten in plain language by a senior advocate with 35 years' legal experience. They are neatly arranged into areas of commerce, industry and everyday life and can be found quickly - and understood.
The book does not deal with compliance frameworks internal and specific to corporations, and professional or industry associations and bodies. However, it is an invaluable resource for professionals, businesses, law-enforcement agencies, and all citizens: in other words, those who want to stay compliant - or hold accountable the government, their municipality, their neighbour or their competitor.
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