Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

Part I: Foundations

1. Introduction: the centrality and importance of civil liberties

2. Theoretical underpinnings

3. Historical context

Part II: Protecting civil liberties in a democratic state

4. The right to vote

5. Life, liberty and security of the person (including the prohibition of torture)

6. The freedoms of thought, conscience, expression, association and assembly: the right to a political life

7. Freedom of information

Part III: Contemporary challenges

8. National Security and civil liberties

9. Civil liberties beyond the nation state: the EU

10. Civil liberties in a global age

Part IV: Conclusion

11. Renewing civil liberties

This book provides a fresh, clear, and stimulating approach to civil liberties by tying the law and practice firmly to democratic and political rights. The author examines the key civil liberties of our democratic age:-

• the right to vote;
• the rights to life, liberty and security of the person;
• the freedoms of thought, conscience, expression, association and assembly;
• the right of access to information;
• and discusses the contemporary challenges that civil liberties face, such as those of globalisation and the war on terror.