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Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty

The Case of City of Boerne v. Flores

1. The Road to RFRA 2. Boerne, Texas and St. Peter Apostolic Catholic Church 3. A Building Permit Denied 4. Separation of Powers and Federalism in the Rehnquist Court 5. The Federal District Court and the Court of Appeal 6. The Supreme Court Decision 7. Political Reaction 8. Back in Boerne

An in-depth exploration of the network of agencies involved in policing child pornography—and what the future of security and care looks like. Facing the Child investigates the technocratic expertise in the policing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Mitali Thakor argues that CSAM has come to be framed as primarily a digital problem, to be resolved digitally, thereby unleashing a new form of corporatized policing helmed by global technology companies. Ambitious in scope, this multi-sited global ethnography draws on four years of original fieldwork and interviews with technology companies in the US, the United Nations in Bangkok, Thai and Dutch NGOs, and law enforcement in the US and the Netherlands. The book argues that in the 2010s, a network of technology companies, NGOs, and law enforcement created the notion of a “virtual child” in need of techno-solutionist saving to justify a vast expansion of surveillance technologies. The book examines how pervasive myths of child abuse online were exploited to serve the aims of seemingly disparate groups, from Christian neo-abolitionists to NGOs conducting virtual sting operations. It is this complex relationship between the care and securitization needed to fix the child victim as an object of data, concern, and rescue that the book explores.

An in-depth exploration of the network of agencies involved in policing child pornography—and what the future of security and care looks like. Facing the Child investigates the technocratic expertise in the policing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Mitali Thakor argues that CSAM has come to be framed as primarily a digital problem, to be resolved digitally, thereby unleashing a new form of corporatized policing helmed by global technology companies. Ambitious in scope, this multi-sited global ethnography draws on four years of original fieldwork and interviews with technology companies in the US, the United Nations in Bangkok, Thai and Dutch NGOs, and law enforcement in the US and the Netherlands. The book argues that in the 2010s, a network of technology companies, NGOs, and law enforcement created the notion of a “virtual child” in need of techno-solutionist saving to justify a vast expansion of surveillance technologies. The book examines how pervasive myths of child abuse online were exploited to serve the aims of seemingly disparate groups, from Christian neo-abolitionists to NGOs conducting virtual sting operations. It is this complex relationship between the care and securitization needed to fix the child victim as an object of data, concern, and rescue that the book explores.

Surveillance, Care, and the Policing of Violent Images Online

Facing the Child

Law for Professionals

Die neue EU-Richtlinie über die Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) ist bereits in Kraft und wird nach den jüngsten Änderungen auf EU-Ebene schrittweise ab 2028 für große Unternehmen und Konzerne EU-weit anwendbar. &nbsp;Sie verpflichtet Unternehmen, Menschenrechts- und Umweltstandards entlang ihrer gesamten Wertschöpfungskette zu prüfen, Risiken zu mindern und Abhilfe zu schaffen – mit Geldbußen bis zu 3 % des weltweiten Nettojahresumsatzes.
Für die Compliance-Welt markiert die CSDDD einen Paradigmenwechsel: Während sich Compliance bislang vor allem auf die eigene Organisation und den Selbstschutz konzentrierte, verlangt die Richtlinie nun Verantwortung über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinaus. Unternehmen müssen nicht nur ihr eigenes Verhalten steuern, sondern auch prüfen, wie ihre Geschäftspartner, Lieferanten und Auftragnehmer mit Menschenrechten, Umwelt und Ethik umgehen und welche bislang wenig beachteten Risiken in der Lieferkette bestehen. Auch Unternehmen, die nicht direkt CSDDD-pflichtig sind, werden diese Anforderungen in der Praxis zu spüren bekommen: CSDDD-pflichtige Kunden werden mit Nachdruck versuchen, Verantwortung und Pflichten weiterzugeben sowie Audit- und Kontrollrechte, Informationspflichten, Geschäftspartnerprüfungen und Compliance-Standards bei ihren Lieferanten einzufordern.
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen die CSDDD rechtlich fundiert, praxisorientiert und zugleich wirtschaftlich sinnvoll umsetzen können. Es verbindet juristische Anforderungen mit praktischen Leitlinien aus Compliance-, Risiko- und Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und macht deutlich: Lieferkettensorgfalt ist keine Bürde, sondern eine strategische Chance.
Ausgehend von der historischen Entwicklung (Rana Plaza, Deepwater Horizon, UN-Leitprinzipien) werden die zentralen Pflichten der Richtlinie (Risikomanagement, Prävention, Abhilfe, Berichterstattung) erläutert und in konkrete Handlungsschritte übersetzt – inklusive Governance-Strukturen, Vertragspraxis, Due-Diligence-Tools, Schulung und Stakeholder-Kommunikation. Dabei werden immer wieder Unternehmensbeispiele und praktische Referenzen herangezogen, um zu zeigen, wie Unternehmen vergleichbare Herausforderungen bereits adressiert haben oder welche Lehren sich aus prominenten Fällen ziehen lassen. Ein eigenes Kapitel zeigt, wie Unternehmen durch glaubwürdige Umsetzung Vertrauen, Reputation und Wettbewerbsvorteile aufbauen. Das Buch richtet sich an Unternehmen jeder Größe, die CSDDD-Pflichten direkt oder indirekt betreffen, und liefert pragmatische Roadmaps für Compliance-Verantwortliche, Juristen, Nachhaltigkeitsmanager, Einkäufer, Risikomanager und Entscheidungsträger.

Die neue EU-Richtlinie über die Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) ist bereits in Kraft und wird nach den jüngsten Änderungen auf EU-Ebene schrittweise ab 2028 für große Unternehmen und Konzerne EU-weit anwendbar. &nbsp;Sie verpflichtet Unternehmen, Menschenrechts- und Umweltstandards entlang ihrer gesamten Wertschöpfungskette zu prüfen, Risiken zu mindern und Abhilfe zu schaffen – mit Geldbußen bis zu 3 % des weltweiten Nettojahresumsatzes.Für die Compliance-Welt markiert die CSDDD einen Paradigmenwechsel: Während sich Compliance bislang vor allem auf die eigene Organisation und den Selbstschutz konzentrierte, verlangt die Richtlinie nun Verantwortung über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinaus. Unternehmen müssen nicht nur ihr eigenes Verhalten steuern, sondern auch prüfen, wie ihre Geschäftspartner, Lieferanten und Auftragnehmer mit Menschenrechten, Umwelt und Ethik umgehen und welche bislang wenig beachteten Risiken in der Lieferkette bestehen. Auch Unternehmen, die nicht direkt CSDDD-pflichtig sind, werden diese Anforderungen in der Praxis zu spüren bekommen: CSDDD-pflichtige Kunden werden mit Nachdruck versuchen, Verantwortung und Pflichten weiterzugeben sowie Audit- und Kontrollrechte, Informationspflichten, Geschäftspartnerprüfungen und Compliance-Standards bei ihren Lieferanten einzufordern.Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen die CSDDD rechtlich fundiert, praxisorientiert und zugleich wirtschaftlich sinnvoll umsetzen können. Es verbindet juristische Anforderungen mit praktischen Leitlinien aus Compliance-, Risiko- und Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und macht deutlich: Lieferkettensorgfalt ist keine Bürde, sondern eine strategische Chance.
 Ausgehend von der historischen Entwicklung (Rana Plaza, Deepwater Horizon, UN-Leitprinzipien) werden die zentralen Pflichten der Richtlinie (Risikomanagement, Prävention, Abhilfe, Berichterstattung) erläutert und in konkrete Handlungsschritte übersetzt – inklusive Governance-Strukturen, Vertragspraxis, Due-Diligence-Tools, Schulung und Stakeholder-Kommunikation. Dabei werden immer wieder Unternehmensbeispiele und praktische Referenzen herangezogen, um zu zeigen, wie Unternehmen vergleichbare Herausforderungen bereits adressiert haben oder welche Lehren sich aus prominenten Fällen ziehen lassen. Ein eigenes Kapitel zeigt, wie Unternehmen durch glaubwürdige Umsetzung Vertrauen, Reputation und Wettbewerbsvorteile aufbauen.
 
 Das Buch richtet sich an Unternehmen jeder Größe, die CSDDD-Pflichten direkt oder indirekt betreffen, und liefert pragmatische Roadmaps für Compliance-Verantwortliche, Juristen, Nachhaltigkeitsmanager, Einkäufer, Risikomanager und Entscheidungsträger.

Wie Unternehmen die EU-CSDDD effizient, glaubwürdig und gewinnbringend umsetzen

Lieferkette und Verantwortung

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

This book examines the relationship between LGBTIQ communities and law in Australia from colonial times to the present day, with a particular concentration on the last 40 years. Using a socio-legal analysis that combines legislation, case law, media reports, policy materials and government data, it traces the historical shift from criminalisation and erasure to conditional legal recognition. The book develops a critical queer perspective, analysing how sexual and gender minorities moved from being classified through the figure of the criminal ‘homosexual’ to being recognised as members of LGBTIQ communities with a status of almost legal equality. Structured historically, its chapters examine distinct phases of legal reform, governance and LGBTIQ activism. The book covers key issues in sexuality, gender, family, embodiment and sex classification, while offering an extended account of the legal questions affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. Although focused on Australia, it speaks to wider debates across post-colonial jurisdictions, Commonwealth countries and the United States. It will be of interest to students and academics in socio-legal studies, queer legal theory, sexuality and gender studies, law reform, and LGBTIQ politics and activism.Allen George
 is Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he has lectured since 2009. His research focuses on law, sexuality, gender and LGBTIQ communities. He has also taught sociology and criminology at the University of Newcastle.

This book examines the relationship between LGBTIQ communities and law in Australia from colonial times to the present day, with a particular concentration on the last 40 years. Using a socio-legal analysis that combines legislation, case law, media reports, policy materials and government data, it traces the historical shift from criminalisation and erasure to conditional legal recognition. The book develops a critical queer perspective, analysing how sexual and gender minorities moved from being classified through the figure of the criminal ‘homosexual’ to being recognised as members of LGBTIQ communities with a status of almost legal equality. Structured historically, its chapters examine distinct phases of legal reform, governance and LGBTIQ activism. The book covers key issues in sexuality, gender, family, embodiment and sex classification, while offering an extended account of the legal questions affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. Although focused on Australia, it speaks to wider debates across post-colonial jurisdictions, Commonwealth countries and the United States. It will be of interest to students and academics in socio-legal studies, queer legal theory, sexuality and gender studies, law reform, and LGBTIQ politics and activism.

From Erasure to Eligibility

Law, Governance and the Queer Subject

This book explores how law can safeguard the marine environment in the era of deep-sea mining.In our increasingly interconnected and resource-intensive world, the demand for mineral resources has reached unprecedented levels. Rapid industrialization, technological advancements, and a growing global population have intensified our reliance on minerals: for electronics, renewable energy systems, infrastructure, and manufacturing.This escalating demand has pushed humanity to explore new frontiers, with the deep sea emerging as a potential reservoir of untapped resources. As terrestrial deposits become harder to access, the allure of deep-sea minerals grows ever more compelling.Yet, with opportunity comes responsibility. Balancing economic interests with the preservation of fragile and largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystems requires robust and enforceable legal frameworks. Since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, international law has sought to govern ocean resources while protecting the environment.This book offers a meticulous examination of these legal frameworks, environmental considerations, and the governance of deep-sea mineral exploration. It provides a comprehensive foundation in ocean law, covering the intricacies of international regulations, state rights, regulatory challenges, and also addressing social dimensions and human rights considerations.

Governance and Sustainability in Ocean Energy and Mineral Activities

Legal Perspectives on Deep Sea Mining

ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism' Patrick Radden Keefe'Joseph Conrad called colonial ventures in Africa "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience". After reading this book you might want to add the words "until now"' The TimesHow we became addicted to a supply chain that wreaks havoc across the globe.Epic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply of battery metals - essential for the decarbonization of our economies - and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industry.Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global "energy transition"-the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. The race to electrify the world's economy has begun, and China has a considerable head start. From Indonesia to South America to Central Africa, Beijing has invested in mines and infrastructure for decades. But the U.S. has begun fighting back with massive investments of its own, as well as sanctions and disruptive tariffs.In this rush for green energy, the world has become utterly reliant on resources unearthed far away and willfully blind to the terrible political, environmental, and social consequences of their extraction. If the Democratic Republic of the Congo possesses such riches, why are its children routinely descending deep into treacherous mines to dig with the most rudimentary of tools, or in some cases their bare hands? Why are Indonesia's seas and skies being polluted in a rush for battery metals? Why is the Western Sahara, a source for phosphates, still being treated like a colony? Who must pay the price for progress?With unparalleled, original reporting, Nicolas Niarchos reveals how the scramble to control these metals and their production is overturning the world order, just as the global race to drill for oil shaped the twentieth century. Exploring the advent of the lithium-ion battery and tracing the supply chain for its production, Niarchos tells the story both of the people driving these tectonic changes and those whose lives are being upended. He reveals the true, devastating consequences of our best intentions and helps us prepare for an uncertain future. If you have ever used a smartphone or driven an electric vehicle, you are implicated.

A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

The Elements of Power

A definitive collection of essays by one of the leading living theorists of social power, brought together here for the first time. In this consolidated summation of his works, Steven Lukes reflects on the central questions and changing nature of 'the power debate' as it has evolved since the publication of his seminal work Power: A Radical View. Including six essays on power as it relates to central themes of truth, domination and moral responsibility, and engaging with nine influential recent and contemporary theorists of power, Power and Domination and Other Essays provides a major critique of a debate that remains as alive and contentious as ever. Bringing up to date Lukes's work on power in one accessible volume, this book is an essential companion to Power: A Radical View, now in its third edition, and useful for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of the history of social and political thought, political science and political sociology.

Power and Domination and Other Essays

The Che Guevara Library

En una carta a su madre en 1954, un joven Ernesto Guevara escribió: "Las Américas serán el teatro de mis aventuras de una manera mucho más significativa de lo que yo hubiera creído". En America Latina se&nbsp;narra la historia de esas aventuras, trazando la evolución del Che desde el joven e impresionable estudiante de medicina al "guerrillero heroico", asesinado a sangre fría en Bolivia. A lo largo de diecisiete años, esta antología se nutre de los archivos personales de su familia y ofrece lo mejor de los escritos del Che: ejemplos de su periodismo, ensayos, discursos, cartas e incluso poemas. A medida que el Che documenta sus primeros viajes por América Latina, su participación en las revoluciones guatemalteca y cubana, y su ascenso a la prominencia internacional bajo el mando de Fidel Castro, vemos cómo su ferviente compromiso con la justicia social moldeó y fue moldeado por el continente al que llamó hogar. Casi la mitad de este libro se publica por primera vez y es anterior a la llegada del Che a Cuba con la expedición guerrillera de Fidel Castro en 1956. También se incluyen sus notas para su libro inacabado, The Social Role of Doctors in Latin America.

En una carta a su madre en 1954, un joven Ernesto Guevara escribió: "Las Américas serán el teatro de mis aventuras de una manera mucho más significativa de lo que yo hubiera creído". En America Latina se&nbsp;narra la historia de esas aventuras, trazando la evolución del Che desde el joven e impresionable estudiante de medicina al "guerrillero heroico", asesinado a sangre fría en Bolivia. A lo largo de diecisiete años, esta antología se nutre de los archivos personales de su familia y ofrece lo mejor de los escritos del Che: ejemplos de su periodismo, ensayos, discursos, cartas e incluso poemas. A medida que el Che documenta sus primeros viajes por América Latina, su participación en las revoluciones guatemalteca y cubana, y su ascenso a la prominencia internacional bajo el mando de Fidel Castro, vemos cómo su ferviente compromiso con la justicia social moldeó y fue moldeado por el continente al que llamó hogar. Casi la mitad de este libro se publica por primera vez y es anterior a la llegada del Che a Cuba con la expedición guerrillera de Fidel Castro en 1956. También se incluyen sus notas para su libro inacabado, The Social Role of Doctors in Latin America.

Despertar de un continente

América Latina

In a movement-defining book, the "godmother of the current moment of dissatisfaction with establishment politics" (The New York Times) tells the story of the rising anti-monopoly movement and charts a course to a democratic futureIn a short, sharp political book, The Nation magazine's "Anti-Monopolist" columnist and "a prophet of the resurgent left" (Franklin Foer) explains the battle between the forces of oligarchy and the rise of the new anti-monopoly movement. Using the stories of modern anti-monopoly heroes including Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan; grocer Anthony Pena, who turned his frustrations with big box stores into a new grocers movement; and Doha Mekki, a Sudanese immigrant who developed the first successful criminal wage-fixing case for the Department of Justice; Teachout explains how anti-monopoly cuts across traditional political lines and gives real teeth to economic populism. Teachout, a scholar of the law of democracy and a politician whose run for governor of New York State shocked the political establishment, argues that monopoly is the architecture of private tyranny, and that breaking corporate power is essential to building a new democracy. From AI to agriculture, healthcare to energy, Americans understand that corporate concentration doesn't just cause inequality; it organizes power. Anti-Monopoly gives that feeling a name, a history, and a way forward. After a spate of books out of the Abundance movement arguing that we need to remove local democracy and focus on efficiency at scale, this book provides a sharp counterpoint.

A Citizen's Guide

Anti-Monopoly

This book honours a remarkable legal thinker, David Feldman, whose influence on public law and on multiple generations of legal scholars and practitioners has been profound. It provides a unique set of insights into some of the most topical and enduring questions in public law (broadly conceived), through the reflections of a stellar line-up of contributors on key dimensions of David Feldman's rich body of work. Each chapter constitutes an original and important contribution to the field, taking David Feldman's seminal writings as a starting-point and developing contemporary, distinctive analytical perspectives. Like David Feldman's work itself, the book ranges across - and acknowledges and explores the porous relationships between - constitutional law, administrative law and human rights and civil liberties.

Essays in Honour of David Feldman

The Mosaic of Public Law

Edition Politik

Is shrimp becoming Ecuador's new oil&nbsp;– and at what cost? Valerie Lenikus uncovers the political-economic drivers and the socio-ecological implications of extractivism: how export-led aquaculture has razed mangroves, displaced coastal livelihoods, and sharpened struggles over land and natural resources. Based on the Latin American debate on extractivism, historical conditions and inequalities, and the controversial constitution of 2008, the complex power relations on different spatial levels are depicted, linking the central role of the state and its policies with concrete struggles of communities.

Conflicts and Power Relations in Ecuador's Shrimp Sector

Tides of Extraction

This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of proportionality in constitutional law, tracing its trajectory from its origins in Prussian administrative law and German constitutional adjudication to its contemporary application across diverse legal systems. Against the conventional approaches that equate proportionality with the weighing of competing values, it argues that this test was originally conceived as a dogmatic instrument for the protection of rights, not as a balancing technique. Through a detailed comparative analysis of the German and Brazilian experiences, the book reconstructs how proportionality gradually shifted from a strict limit on state power to an open formula of judicial discretion, and proposes a coherent model to restore its normative function. The book critically re-examines the philosophical and theoretical assumptions that transformed proportionality into an indeterminate balancing exercise and reconstructs it as a structured dogmatic test defined by constitutional parameters of protection. Engaging with authors such as Robert Alexy, Bernhard Schlink and Ralf Poscher, it maps how proportionality became the dominant method of constitutional adjudication and how that dominance produced both methodological uncertainty and jurisprudential uniformity. Finally, it proposes a theoretical framework that distinguishes proportionality in the singular, as a general abstraction, from proportionalities in the plural, calibrated to the specificities of each right, context and mode of judicial review. This plural and context-sensitive approach restores the analytical precision that contemporary constitutional law often lacks. By combining historical analysis, comparative dogmatics and legal theory, the study contributes to current debates on the legitimacy and limits of judicial review, the boundaries of fundamental rights and the crisis of constitutional interpretation in modern democracies.

Origins, Models, and Dogmatic Reconstruction

Proportionality in Constitutional Law

This book is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights, which has a global vocation demonstrated by having been ratified by 173 States since it was adopted in 1966. Workers' rights need protection and reinforcement. To achieve this aim, international human rights standards can play an important role. The ICESCR is the most important global UN instrument in this respect. It covers a wide range of employment rights, including the right to strike, and has global application. But it is not sufficiently developed and used, and national implementation often needs improvement. Part 1 of the book analyses general issues related to the Covenant, such as context, development, challenges, influences at the global and regional levels, interpretation and procedural elements. Part 2 deals with the specific provisions which are directly linked to the employment relation. The book is based on a thorough analysis, mainly, but not exclusively, of the case law of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), that is monitoring the national implementation of the Covenant. Together, the chapters in this book will empower academics and practitioners in labour law to find answers to relevant and practical problems in order to better enforce and improve workers' rights. The book is the result of a project by the 'Transnational Trade Union Rights' experts Network (TTUR), linked to the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

Congress, the Supreme Court, and Religious Liberty

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