Equality before the law

Here are entered discussions of the principle of just legislation and administration of justice.

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• Justice
• Civil rights

• Equality before the law -- Latin America
• Equality before the law -- Pakistan

• Equal rights

• Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), by Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León de Leal (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Pakistan: Time to Take Human Rights Seriously (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (1998), by J. M. Balkin (PDF files with commentary at culturalsoftware.com)
• Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), by Wai-chee Dimock
  • page images at Chicago
  • HTML at UC Press

• Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice, by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

• A Dissertation on Divine Justice, by John Owen (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Eternal Duration of Future Punishments is not Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes of Justice and Mercy, by George M. Gorham (PDF at cimmay.com)

• Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcommunications.org)
• Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003), by Michael Albert (HTML with commentary at zcommunications.org)
• The Political Economy of Participatory Economics, by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (HTML at zcommunications.org)
• Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on America, by J. W. Smith (HTML with commentary at ied.info)

• Fairness and Freedom: The Final Report of the Equalities Review (2007), by Great Britain Equalities Review (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• The Justice of God (fourth revised edition, 1992), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Justice, Peace and Prophet Muhammad, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• A Cover-Up Exposed: The 1994 AMIA Bombing Case Hits the Wall (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 2004), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at ajc.org)
• A Glimmer of Hope: The AMIA Bombing, Five Years Later (New York: American Jewis Committee, ca. 1999), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at ajc.org)
• A Tangled Road to Justice: The AMIA Trial Nine Years Later (New York: American Jewis Committee, 2003), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at ajc.org)

• Canada's System of Justice (electronic edition, 2005), by Canada (HTML in Canada)

• Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada (c2012), by Ted McCoy (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Canada's System of Justice (electronic edition, 2005), by Canada (HTML in Canada)

• Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Les Lettres de Cachet: "Prisonniers de Famille" et "Placements Volontaires" (in French; Gand: A. Vander Haeghen, 1912), by Paul Sérieux and Lucien Libert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Brains Behind Barbed Wire! Fate of Artists, Scholars, Scientists, Brain Workers Under Hitler-Fascism: A Collective Report (1934), by Bund Proletarisch-Revolutionärer Schriftsteller Deutschlands, trans. by Herbert Arthur Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Proof of Guilt: A Study of the English Criminal Trial (Hamlyn Lectures, #7; London: Stevens and Sons, 1955), by Glanville Llewelyn Williams (PDF in the UK)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• The Grand Jury: An Essay, by George J. Edwards (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• Simple Justice (c2005), by Charles A. Murray, ed. by David Conway, contrib. by Robert Allen, John Cottingham, Christie Davies, J. C. Lester, Tom Sorell, and Vivien Stern (PDF at Civitas)

• Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet (4 volumes in 1; set did not get to all items in volume 1's projected table of contents; Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1884-1888), by Robert Cotton, ed. by Edmund Goldsmid, contrib. by James Howell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Crime and Civil Society: Can We Become a More Law-Abiding People? (c2005), by David G. Green, Emma Grove, and Nadia A. Martin (PDF at Civitas)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Simple Justice (c2005), by Charles A. Murray, ed. by David Conway, contrib. by Robert Allen, John Cottingham, Christie Davies, J. C. Lester, Tom Sorell, and Vivien Stern (PDF at Civitas)

• Freedom Under the Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #1; London: Stevens and Sons, 1949), by Sir Alfred Denning (PDF in the UK)

• Del Coraggio Civile (in Italian; Naples: Stamperia Salita Infrascata n.344, 1838), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700, by Richard L. Kagan (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Outline of the U.S. Legal System (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2004), ed. by George Clack, contrib. by Robert A. Carp and Ronald Stidham (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)
• Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice, by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

• Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• On Crimes and Punishments, by Cesare Beccaria, trans. by Edward D. Ingraham (HTML at constitution.org)

• Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire (prepublication version, 2007), by Brian Martin (PDF in Australia)
• Never Again: Ending War, Democide, and Famine Through Democratic Freedom, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at uic.edu)
• What's the Matter with Liberalism? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Ronald Beiner (HTML at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.