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• Introduction
• New forms of religious terrorism : physical violence against African diaspora religions
• The gorilla in the room : the right to practice animal sacrifice amidst growing animal rights activism
• "The dark side of Santeria" : Palo Mayombe and the grave-robbing cases
• The best interests of the child? : custody of minors and African diaspora religions
• Headscarves, dreadlocks, and other "disruptions" : African diaspora religions and the right to education
• Neither litigant, nor lawyer, nor law enforcement : religious barriers to the justice system
• Continued prescription : the rights of Western versus African "witches"
• "Fragmentary," "dangerous," and "unethical" belief systems : African diaspora faiths and the "accoutrements" of religion
• Myths of African diaspora religions : rumors and religious freedom
• Conclusion: The future of religious racism

"Examines the global legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced religions of the African diaspora in the twenty-first century, including Santeria/Lucumi, Haitian Vodou, Candomble, Palo Mayombe, Umbanda, Islam, Rastafari, Obeah, and Voodoo"-- Provided by publisher

• The court and its circumstances
• The principle of equality and non-discrimination
• Disappearancespp
• Right to life
• Right to humane treatment
• Right to personal liberty
• Right to due process
• The principles of legality and of the most favorable law
• Right to judicial protection

"The first edition of The American Convention on Human Rights showed the hesitant steps of a court trying to find its way in a region plagued by egregious human rights violations, the absence of democracy and a significant disregard of international human rights norms. The second edition followed this up by introducing an analysis of the advancement in the reasoning of the Court regarding the violations that it had been dealing with since its inception.This third edition contains an updated and in-depth analysis of the norms applied by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to deal with the most frequent human rights violations that still occur in Latin America regarding life, humane treatment, personal liberty, due process, access to justice, the principle of legality and judicial protection. The second edition contained a chapter on disappearances, as the Court at the time had significantly developed its reasoning on the matter; this third edition shows the latest evolution on the subject, which still plagues the region. In addition, a new chapter examines discrimination, an issue that has emerged as a frequent and important concern in the Court's work. This edition also reflects the dynamic development of the Court's work in recent years, which has evolved to a more refined jurisprudence covering more specific aspects of the rights examined and topics not previously addressed" -- Provided by publisher

• List of Tables
• Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Common Law's Diverging Paths
• 3. The Transformation of Privilege
• 4. Truth, Privacy and Authority
• 5. The Individual Conscience and Blasphemous and Obscene Expression
• 6. Private Defamation Suits: Courts in Everyday Life
• 7. Conclusion.
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Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common law's diverging paths in two kindred places committed to freedom of expression but separated by the American Revolution. Comparing Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, Lyndsay Campbell examines the development of libel law, the defences of truth and privilege, and the place of courts as fora for disputes. She contrasts courts' centrality in struggles over expression and the interpretation of individual rights in Massachusetts with concerns about defining protective boundaries for the press and individuals through institutional design in Nova Scotia. Campbell's rich analysis acts as a lens through which to understand the role of law in shaping societal change in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the essential question we still grapple with today: what should law's role be in regulating expression we perceive as harmful?
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"This document addresses the issue of Human Rights violation based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity within the Inter-American Human Rights System. It contains excerpts of general references to the principle of non discrimination, as well as specific references to sexual orientation and gender identity, from different advisory opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, reports on the situation of countries and individual cases from the Inter-American Commission, documents from other Specialised Organisations and extracts of the draft Inter-American Convention Against Racism and all Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance."--Page 2

• INTRODUCTION,
• CHAPTER 1: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK ON THE DISCOURSE ON THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES,
• CHAPTER 2: IDEOLOGY AND SELF-VALIDATION: CRITICAL LEGAL THEORY,
• CHAPTER 3: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ITS PRACTICE AS A SUPRACONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL,
• CHAPTER 4: TWO COMPETING LEGAL STREAMS ON THE LEGITIMACY OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
• CHAPTER 5: STATE-CENTRIC VS. CONSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSES?: CONFLUENCE RATHER THAN OPPOSITION,
• CHAPTER 6: IDEOLOGY AND THE IMAGE OF THE IACTHR AS DEMOCRACY-BUILDER, CONCLUSION.
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This book provides a critical legal perspective on the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. The volume offers a critique of ideology of two legal approaches to the legitimacy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) that portray it as a supranational tribunal whose last say on human rights protection has a transformative effect on the democracies of Latin America. The book shows how the discussion between these Latin American legal strands mirrors global trends in the study of the legitimacy of international courts related to the use of constitutional analogies and concepts such as the notion of judicial dialogue and the idea of democratic transformation. It also provides an in-depth analysis of how, through the use of those categories, legal experts studying the legitimacy of the IACtHR enact self-validation processes by making themselves the principal agents of transformation. These self-validation processes work as ideological apparatuses that reproduce and entrench the mindset that the legal discipline is a driving force of change in itself. Further, the book shows how profiling the Court as an agent of transformation diverts attention from the ways in which it has pursued a particular view of human rights and democracy in the region that creates and reproduces relations of inequality and domination. Rather than discarding the IACtHR, this book aims to de-centre the focus away from formal legal institutions, engaging with the idea that ordinary people can mobilise and define the content of law to transform their lives and territories. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars working in the areas of human rights law, law, public international law, legal theory, constitutional law, political science and legal philosophy.
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• Making law intelligible in comparative context / Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross
• Dialoguing with barbarians : what natives said and what Europeans responded in late seventeenth and eighteenth century Portuguese America / Tamar Herzog
• Defending and defrauding the Indians : John Wompas, legal hybridity, and the sale of Indian land / Jenny Hale Pulsipher
• "Since we came out of this ground" : Iroquois legal arguments at the Treaty of Lancaster / Craig Yirush
• "Ynuvaciones malas e rreprouadas" : seeking justice in early colonial pueblos de Indios / Karen B. Graubart
• "Darling Indians" and "natural lords" : Virginia's tributary regime and Florida's republic of Indians in the seventeenth century / Bradley Dixon
• Covering blood and graves : murder and law on imperial margins / Nancy O. Gallman and Alan Taylor
• "Sovereignty has lost its rights" : liberal experiments and indigenous citizenship in New Granada, 1810-1819 / Marcela Echeverri
• In defense of ignorance : frameworks for legal politics in the Atlantic world / Lauren Benton
• Intelligibility or incommensurability? / Daniel K. Richter.

A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World As British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other's legal ideas and conceptions of justice. This ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other's ideas of law and justice as a political, strategic, and moral resource. In so doing, indigenous people and settlers alike changed their own practices of law and dialogue about justice. Europeans and natives appealed to imperfect understandings of their interlocutors' notions of justice and advanced their own conceptions during workaday negotiations, disputes, and assertions of right. Settlers' and indigenous peoples' legal presuppositions shaped and sometimes misdirected their attempts to employ each other's law. Natives and settlers construed and misconstrued each other's legal commitments while learning about them, never quite sure whether they were on solid ground. Chapters explore the problem of "legal intelligibility": How and to what extent did settler law and its associated notions of justice became intelligible-tactically, technically and morally-to natives, and vice versa? To address this question, the volume offers a critical comparison between English and Iberian New World empires. Chapters probe such topics as treaty negotiations, land sales, and the corporate privileges of indigenous peoples. Ultimately, Justice in a New World offers both a deeper understanding of the transformation of notions of justice and law among settlers and indigenous people, and a dual comparative study of what it means for laws and moral codes to be legally intelligible.
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• Contents:
• 1. Introduction to the construction of the customary law of peace
• 2. The evolution of the Inter-American law of peace: treaties and custom
• 3. Constitutional approaches to peace within Latin America
• 4. Towards constitutional positive peace
• 5. The contribution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to positive peace - perspectives from the judges
• 6. The responsive court and promotion of positive peace - upholding equality and non-discrimination - justiciability and compliance challenges
• 7. Towards a sustainable gendered peace: the battle for hearts and minds within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• 8. Conclusion: reflections on the construction of a pro homine customary peace Index.
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This thought-provoking book explores the emerging construction of a customary law of peace in Latin America and the developing jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It traces the evolution of peace as both an end and a means: from a negative form, i.e. the absence of violence, to a positive form that encompasses equality, non-discrimination and social justice, including gendered perspectives on peace. Cecilia M. Bailliet offers an overview of the normative and institutional development of peace in Latin America, before examining the heterogeneous iterations of peace within Latin American constitutions and the pluralistic views of current and former judges in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The book argues that these national variants should be in accordance with the American Convention on Human Rights and related instruments as a minimum framework, and should be interpreted in pursuit of the pro homine principle, in which the most favourable law is applied to benefit individuals regardless of its origin or status. It also presents an overview of the historic protest marches of 2019 and the phenomenon of oppressive peace tactics by the State. This book will be critical reading for scholars and students of peace studies, human rights, Latin American studies, gender studies, constitutional and international public law, and legal history. It will also be of interest for policy makers and peace practitioners both in Latin America and beyond.
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• Table of Cases Table of Legislation List of Abbreviations Title Preamble Part I. State Obligations and Rights Protected
• Chapter I. General Obligations
• Chapter II. Civil and Political Rights
• Chapter III - Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
• Chapter IV - Suspension of Guarantees, Interpretation, and Application
• Chapter V - Personal Responsibilities Part Ii - Means of Protection
• Chapter VI - Competent Organs
• Chapter VII - Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• Chapter VIII - Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Chapter IX - Common Provisions Part III - General and Transitory Provisions
• Chapter X - Signature, Ratification, Reservations, Amendments, Protocols, and Denunciation
• Chapter XI - Transitory Provisions.
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The American Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first comprehensive and systematic article-by-article commentary of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) in English. This book offers an exhaustive and critical analysis of each of the 82 articles of the Convention, covering the substantive elements of the rights and freedoms protected, as well as institutional and procedural aspects. Each chapter contains an introduction and a comparative perspective of the provision commented on; a review of the drafting history of the provision; and a critical commentary on the interpretation of the provision in light of the rich case-law of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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• Summary of the previous NAFTA agreement
• Summary of NAFTA from 2010 to present
• NAFTA economic impact summaries
• 4. Summary of ITC report
• Origin procedures
• Textile and apparel goods
• Customs administration and trade facilitation
• Recognition of the United Mexican states' direct, inalienable, and imprescriptible ownership of hydrocarbons
• Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
• Trade remedies
• Technical barriers to trade
• Sectoral annexes
• Government procurement
• Investments
• Cross-border trade in services
• Temporary entry
• Financial services
• Telecommunications
• Digital trade
• Intellectual property rights
• Competition policy
• State-owned enterprises and designated monopolies
• Labor
• Environment
• Small- and medium-sized enterprises
• Competitiveness
• Anti-corruption
• Good regulatory practices
• Publication and administration
• Administrative and institutional provisions
• Dispute settlement
• Exceptions and general provisions
• Macroeconomic policies and exchange rate matters
• Final provisions

"This book is a summary and commentary on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). On July 1, 2020, after much expectation and delay, the new USMCA (a greatly revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994) came into effect. The USMCA is a long-awaited response to a U.S. initiative to renegotiate NAFTA"-- Publisher's description

• List of Tables
• Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Common Law's Diverging Paths
• 3. The Transformation of Privilege
• 4. Truth, Privacy and Authority
• 5. The Individual Conscience and Blasphemous and Obscene Expression
• 6. Private Defamation Suits: Courts in Everyday Life
• 7. Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common law's diverging paths in two kindred places committed to freedom of expression but separated by the American Revolution. Comparing Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, Lyndsay Campbell examines the development of libel law, the defences of truth and privilege, and the place of courts as fora for disputes. She contrasts courts' centrality in struggles over expression and the interpretation of individual rights in Massachusetts with concerns about defining protective boundaries for the press and individuals through institutional design in Nova Scotia. Campbell's rich analysis acts as a lens through which to understand the role of law in shaping societal change in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the essential question we still grapple with today: what should law's role be in regulating expression we perceive as harmful?
(source: Nielsen Book Data)