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Jonathan Clark (Gregory Peck), genannt der "Boston-Mann", geht mit seinem Schiff in San Francisco vor Anker. Clark ist ein Freigeist, der mit Robbenfellen handelt und davon träumt, Alaska dem Zaren abzukaufen. Die Russische Gräfin Marina Selanova (Ann Blyth) sucht händeringend eine Passage nach Alaska, um vor einer Zwangsheirat zu fliehen und Schutz bei ihrem Onkel, dem Generalgouverneur, zu suchen. Kapitän Clark und sein Erzrivale Kapitän Por...

At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law. This complicates the conventional analysis of relationships between local actors, global norms, and cosmopolitanism. The contributions in this open access collection examine the "lived realities of human rights" and critically engage with debates...

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Do human rights inform the nature of politics in the Muslim world today? If so, how? And perhaps more fundamentally, why? Linking these questions in a provocative way, Anthony Tirado Chase persuasively rejects popular arguments that there is an incompatibility between human rights and Islam.

This Handbook: Emphasises the need to consider human rights in all their dimensions to better understand structural reasons behind the persistence of human rights violations Explores the various frameworks in which to consider human rights ¿ conceptual, political and transnational/international Discusses the areas subject to particularly intense debate ¿ gender, religion, transitions and accountability Covers perspectives ranging from Global T...

This is the first book in English that draws together the work of intellectuals at the forefront of research on the Arab region's key human rights issues. Its empirical and theoretical focus is on the historical and contemporary place of human rights in Arab politics and the obstacles to advancing rights in the region.

The popular culture of American law has never played a larger role than it does today in shaping the way we think about lawyers and the legal system. Our very definition of justice is now inseparable from motion picture and television images and popular legal narratives, from Hollywood westerns and O. J. Simpson to Law and Order and John Grisham. In Movies on Trial, law professor and movie aficionado Anthony Chase sorts out some of the complex...

A "strong, fluent, and valuable" (New York Law Journal) look at the evolution of the American legal system.