Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.
Neues Lehrbuch zum Staatsrecht für den gehobenen DienstFundierte und strukturierte Kenntnisse des Staatsrechts sind für alle Anwärterinnen und Anwärter des gehobenen Dienstes in der Bundes- und Landesverwaltung unerlässlich.
Das Repetitorium befasst sich mit den Eckpunkten und Meilensteinen in der Entwicklung der Menschenrechteund vermittelt eine prägnante Übersicht der politischen und rechtlichen Umsetzung der Menschenrechte in der Neuzeit.
Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, data protection has been elevated to the status of a fundamental right in the European Union and is now enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights alongside the right to privacy.
"e;A balanced and thorough look at the United States' most important contemporary race issues, with timely content and excellent supporting documentation.
It is commonly asserted that bills of rights have had a 'righting' effect on the principles of judicial review of administrative action and have been a key driver of the modern expansion in judicial oversight of the executive arm of government.
It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts.
Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of positive and negative right paradigms.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.
This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.
Das Buch zeichnet das politische Ringen von Politikern und Ministerialbeamten, Richtern und Wissenschaftlern um eine Europäische Union seit dem Haager Europakongress 1948 bis zum Vertrag von Lissabon 2007 nach.
This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.
Across eighteenth-century Europe, political power resided overwhelmingly with absolute monarchs, with notable exceptions including the much-studied British Parliament as well as the frequently overlooked Hungarian Diet, which placed serious constraints on royal power and broadened opportunities for political participation.
The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.
Comprehensive analysis of international law''s protection of women''s rights in armed conflict, with an emphasis on how these protections operate in practice.
In this book, leading international thinkers take up the demanding challenge to rethink our understanding of social justice at work and our means for achieving it at a time when global forces are tearing the familiar fabric of our working lives and the laws regulating them.
The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy.
A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment''s prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.
Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different traditions in terms of how each understands the idea of universal human rights.
