In many countries today there is a growing and genuinely-held concern that the institutional arrangements for the protection of human rights suffer from a 'democratic deficit'.
As the nation turned its back on Reconstruction, the Supreme Court in turn narrowed Thirteenth-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Amendment protections of former slaves, thus straying from the understanding of the amendments' framers.
The national-conservative government of Hungary has been heavily criticised for its violation of EU values, primarily, the rule of law in recent years.
This study of the English judiciary stimulates a discussion of the factors shaping judicial independence, including accountability and constitutional adjudication.
Over the past two decades Global Legal Pluralism has become one of the leading analytical frameworks for understanding and conceptualizing law in the 21st century.
This book addresses the various ways in which modern approaches to the protection of national security have impacted upon the constitutional order of the United Kingdom.
Dieser Schwerpunkte-Band zum Verfassungsprozessrecht stellt in Anlehnung an die Lehrbücher zum materiellen Verfassungsrecht von "Degenhart, Staatsrecht I.
La obra que el lector tiene en sus manos está dedicada al estudio de la consolidación de la Carta de Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea, una vez que el texto ha cumplido los veinte años desde su proclamación (Niza, 2000) y transcurridos ya los primeros diez años desde que, con la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Lisboa (2009), la Carta deviniera un texto jurídicamente vinculante (tanto para las instituciones de la UE como para los Estados miembros cuando aplican Derecho de la Unión), con el mismo valor jurídico que los Tratados de la Unión.
Dynasties and Interludes provides a comprehensive and unique overview of elections and voting in Canada from Confederation to the recent spate of minority governments.
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American Constitutional History presents a concise introduction to the constitutional developments that have taken place over the past 225 years, treating trends from history, law, and political science.
The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law.
This theory-guided interdisciplinary study provides a broad conceptual perspective on the current EU crisis which goes beyond short-term detailed analysis.
Die "Textausgabe für Praktiker" enthält eine umfassende Einführung sowie die Texte der Gemeindeordnung, des Gesetzes über die kommunale Zusammenarbeit, der Verwaltungsgemeinschaftsordnung für den Freistaat Bayern, der Verordnung über die Aufgaben der Mitgliedsgemeinden von Verwaltungsgemeinschaften sowie der Kommunalhaushaltsverordnungen auf aktuellem Stand.
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party "e;A sober, knowledgeable scholarly analysis of a timely issue.
Public Law is concerned with the law governing the institutions of the state and the relationship between the state and the individual, and is a core subject for all students reading for a qualifying law degree.
Francis Gurry's renowned work, Breach of Confidence, published in 1984, was groundbreaking and invaluable in the field of intellectual property as the first text to synthesise the then burgeoning case law on breach of confidence into a systematic form.
Affirmative Action and the Law analyses the practical application of affirmative action measures and their efficacy in achieving substantive equality through the lenses of the United Nations human rights machinery and the legal regime and policies implemented in China, India, Central and South America, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
