Constitutional category: 1750 books

GILMAR MENDES.

Não é preciso ressaltar a importância dos direitos humanos não apenas para a ciência e para a prática jurídica, mas também para o desenvolvimento do homem. Entretanto, principalmente no Brasil, temos observado nos últimos anos uma profunda...

Tema polêmico, com repercussão em vários segmentos da sociedade, a discussão sobre as ações afirmativas – e de modo especial, as chamadas cotas universitárias – parece ainda longe de uma pacificação. Ainda que a questão...

A jurisdição e o tema do acesso à justiça devem ser focalizados com base nas linhas do Estado Democrático de Direito. A jurisdição visando à realização dos fins do Estado, fins que tomam a liberdade e a igualdade em termos que diferem...

This volume collects material from 26 Oct 2018 to 7 Dec 2018. There was a lot of activity ending with the Flynn sentencing memo which appeared to confirm there was no evidence of illegal collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia, the question that was to be examined by the Mueller investigation. Other...

Coup de Etat. This volume collects material from 7 Dec 2018 to 17 December. These eleven days in December 2018 revealed something that has only been speculated about in secret but never been spoken out loud – The Obama administration appears to been part of a "soft"...

Coup d'etat in the United States? Who would have thought that possible, except the wildest conspiracy theorists. But it was that close! This volume collects material from 17 Dec 2018 to 31 December. The year 2018 ended with no report on the interviews of ex-FBI head James Comey...

Trump lied to the American people! Presidential candidate Donald Trump was so dangerous to the interests of the United States that the FBI decided already in July 2016 to start a counter intelligence operation against him and his campaign to make sure they could prevent him from becoming the...

Religious liberty is often called “the first freedom.” For many years, few decisions made by the Supreme Court have been more significant for ordinary Americans than those concerning issues of church and state. By what criteria do the justices make these holdings? This analysis reaches beyond...

When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked impassioned debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden’s disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the...

This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of torture...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia. Bringing together academics and experts from a variety...

This book analyzes the language policies that result from the promulgation of linguistic rights in the constitutions and statutes of the United States and its territories. The United States is a nation in which speakers of minority languages were conquered or incorporated and the languages spoken...

Viewers of The Thick of It will know of special advisers as spin doctors and political careerists. Several well-known ministers have been special advisers, among them David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Jack Straw and Vince Cable. People also know about the public relations disasters involving Jo Moore, Damian...