This volume presents an overview of the evolution of the current Chinese Constitution (1982) and the characteristics of constitutional studies since 1978.
The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century traces the development of the Supreme Court from Chief Justice Fuller (1888-1910) to the retirement of Chief Justice Burger (1969-1986).
Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt den Pflichtstoff des allgemeinen Verwaltungsrechts: Träger und Aufgaben der Verwaltung, Rechtsbindungen der Verwaltung, Handlungsformen der Verwaltung, typische Verwaltungsrechtsverhältnisse sowie das öffentliche Entschädigungsrecht.
Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?
A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases.
Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task.
El grupo de investigación en DerechoAdministrativo de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, consciente de lasnecesidades visibilizadas por la crisis sanitaria, entrega a la comunidadacadémica una obra colectiva en la cual se analizan de manera transversal losaspectos generales del derecho administrativo sanitario referidosprincipalmente a la salud pública como un interés general, la relación ydiferencia entre el derecho administrativo de la salud y el de la salubridadpública, y los aspectos organizacionales y sustanciales de la salud y lasalubridad pública.
This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The issue of who has the power to declare war or authorise military action in a democracy has become a major legal and political issue, internationally, and is set to become even more pertinent in the immediate future, particularly in the wake of military action in Syria, ongoing wars in the Middle East, and tense discussions between the United States and its allies, and Russia and China.
Die Novellierung der Landesbauordnung für Baden-Württemberg (LBO) im Jahr 2019 wird eine Vielzahl von für die bauliche Praxis wichtigen Änderungen mit sich bringen.
The publication of the Restatement Third: Unjust Enrichment and Restitution by the American Law Institute in July 2010 was an event of major importance, not only for the development of the law of unjust enrichment in the US, but also for global scholarship relating to this area of private law.
The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice examines the wide range of scholarship exploring the administrative decisions made by public authorities that affect individual citizens and the mechanisms available for the provision of redress.
Die Entwicklung von Gesetzen und Regelungen im Informationsverwaltungsrecht in Deutschland schreitet seit den neunziger Jahren stetig voran und dauert bis heute an.
The present volume focuses on the jurisprudence of national, supranational and international jurisdictions (and quasi-juridictions) as regards the legal status of same-sex couples.
In Citizenship Beyond Nationality, Luicy Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizensworking, paying taxes, making social contributions, and attending schoolsyet lack the status, gained either through birthright or naturalization, that would give them full electoral rights.
This book examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development and how these mechanisms bolster an internal security system, increasing the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise.
This is the second in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in Asian jurisdictions.
All states are challenged by the need to protect national security while maintaining the rule of law, but the issue is particularly complex in the China Hong Kong context.
This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doerAbraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all.
Key Facts Key Cases Constitutional & Administrative Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Constitutional & Administrative Law module with ease.
Focusing on the legal issues that can arise in old age and the various laws and governmental programs that address those issues, this book is organized in three parts that reflect the different stages of aging.
Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation and freedom.
Kommunen und Landkreise sind verpflichtet, Einrichtungen der sozialen Infrastruktur zu schaffen, die für die wirtschaftliche, soziale sowie kulturelle Versorgung und Unterstützung der Bevölkerung erforderlich sind.
This book investigates the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national constitutional courts by providing a more general assessment as seen from the former's perspective.