Als im Sommer 2022 die Wahlrechtskommission des Deutschen Bundestages die Einführung einer Ersatzstimme empfahl, griff sie ein Konzept auf, das ursprünglich nur die negativen Auswirkungen von Sperrklauseln abmildern sollte.
Offering an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for students and general readers investigating human trafficking, this book examines the phenomenon in its many forms, the factors contributing to its existence, the victims it affects, and those who perpetrate this horrific crime.
Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.
Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs.
'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to read this.
This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.
This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall's seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions.
Maximilian Wolf untersucht, ob und in welche Grundrechte die Nutzung von Technologien eingreift, die zur automatisierten und teilweise flächendeckenden Auswertung öffentlich zugänglicher Inhalte im Internet eingesetzt werden können.
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles play in securing to citizens the human rights standards laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights, including the new 'remedy' under the Human Rights Act 1998; and to evaluate tort principles for compliance with those standards.
Thelegal struggle for civil rights throughout the Southeast and into the 1980s In this book, twenty-threelawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civilrights in the United States South.
Introduces the Everyday Peace Indicators as a measurement, diagnostic and evaluation tool and makes an argument for its utility in conflict affected contexts.
Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right.
Cet ouvrage s'occupe de théorie du droit, qui ne s’intéresse pas à l’issue d'un litige, à savoir qui est responsable, mais au cheminement qui mène de la norme générale à la norme particulière directement applicable au règlement d'un litige, et qui va donner gain de cause à l’une ou à l’autre des parties au conflit.
Taking as a starting point the widely accepted view that states confronted with terrorism must find a proper equilibrium between their respective obligations of preserving fundamental rights and fighting terrorism effectively, this book seeks to demonstrate how the design and enforcement of a human rights instrument may influence the result of that exercise.
Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.
Die „rechtskulturellen und rechtshistorischen Betrachtungen“ treffen mittlerweile auf grundlegende Krisen-Symptome und staatspolitische, den Freiheitsbegriff neu austarierende Tendenzen.
Freedom of information is an extension of freedom of speech, a fundamental human right recognized in international law, which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium, be it orally, in writing, print, through the Internet or through art forms.
Drei Jahre nach der Einfuhrung der Europaischen Burgerinitiative (EBI) bietet der Band einen kritischen, wenngleich vorsichtig optimistischen Ausblick auf die Moglichkeiten und Grenzen dieses neuen Instruments transnationaler partizipativer Demokratie in der Europaischen Union.
Für eine unionsweite und unionseinheitliche Konkretisierung und Fortentwicklung des Datenschutzrechts kommt praktisch nur der Europäische Gerichtshof in Frage.
Cet ouvrage traite de l’histoire législative et sociale de l’adoption québécoise, en s’intéressant plus particulièrement aux adoptions intrafamiliales et à la manière dont l’adoption légale redéfinit juridiquement les liens familiaux de l’enfant adopté.
