Product Description: Are Nazis entitled to freedom of expression? In 1977, Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America, sought to hold a Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois. Skokie had one of the largest Holocaust survivor populations outside New York City...read more

Is litigation an appropriate, effective way to promote social change? What criteria should we use to distinguish among causes, and is there a sound basis in law for making distinctions? In Only Judgment, Aryeh Neier examines how the role of litigation and the public interest bar has changed since Brown v. Board of Education, the impact of litigation in advancing causes, as well as its impact on the movements espousing those causes. Suggesting that in the US, public interest litigation can be a double-edged sword, Only Judgment explores both the possibilities and the limits of litigation as a way to advance interests. Neier s writing gets at the heart of how groups and movements gain, or fail to gain, access to political power.

Product Description: En 1982, la comunidad maya de Santa María Tzejá fue una de las tantas masacradas y erradicadas por parte de fuerzas armadas y paramilitares guatemaltecas. Aunque diversos factores ocultaron los acontecimientos, la antropóloga Beatriz Manz ofrece en este libro tanto un estudio académico como un testimonio personal del nacimiento, destrucción y renacimiento de este lugar, característico de las fuerzas y conflictos de la Guatemala contemporánea...read more

Product Description: Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963 and becoming its youngest executive director, Aryeh Neier has been at the forefront of efforts to fight for civil liberties, human rights, and social justice. Whether he was confronting police abuse, defending draft opponents or defending free speech, as he did at the ACLU; out-maneuvering the Reagan administration over military abuses in El Salvador, promoting accountability for political crimes in Argentina and Chile or supporting dissidents in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as he did at Human Rights Watch; or trying to eradicate landmines, promote stability in the Balkans or establish an International Criminal Court, as he has at the Open Society Institute; Aryeh Neier has been methodical, relentless, and unusually successful...read more

Product Description: This volume of essays is dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday. The authors come from the different but intersecting worlds of academia, politics and business. The editors have chosen the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach and in reference to the example of Giordano Bruno, who was burnt at the stake 400 years ago for holding heretic views which were probably far more backward than the views of those condemning him...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An internationally prominent activist for human rights examines the war crimes of recent world history and demonstrates the need for the creation of a permanent tribunal at the United Nations to judge and sentence war criminals. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Is litigation an appropriate, effective way to promote social change? What criteria should we use to distinguish among causes, and is there a sound basis in law for making distinctions? In Only Judgment, Aryeh Neier examines how the role of litigation and the public interest bar has changed since Brown v...read more

The executive director of the American Civil Liberties union describes prevalent methods of securing personal information in both public and private institutions.