Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Civil Rights

In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions. This book is concerned with mechanisms that either divert from or speed up the proceedings.

Koen Vriend argues that the fair trial rights as established by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 ECHR provide a normative framework that does not only apply in a full criminal trial, but that it can also be used for diverted and shortened proceedings. He shows that the concept of fairness as derived from ECtHR case law is a fundamental principle that underlies all criminal law enforcement. It provides...

Gegenstand des Handbuchs ist die Frage nach der Relevanz des Konzepts der "Zivilen Sicherheit" fur Recht und Rechtswissenschaft.

Das ursprunglich nicht-juristischen Begriffsverwendungen entstammende Konzept ist geeignet, tradierte Diskussionen uber Neue Sicherheitsbegriffe oder die Neue Sicherheitsarchitektur in andere Bahnen zu lenken. Dadurch findet es auch Eingang in rechtspolitische, verwaltungswissenschaftliche und technikorientierte Sicherheitsdiskurse.

Das Handbuch geht zentral folgenden Fragen nach:

Welche Relevanz erlangt das Konzept der Zivilen Sicherheit im...

Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and LGBT Equality tells another story, about the First Amendment's crucial yet largely forgotten role in the first few decades of the gay rights movement.

Between the 1950s and 1980s, when many courts were still openly hostile to sexual minorities, they nonetheless recognized the freedom...

This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level. It describes the organisation and regulatory frameworks of these three professional team sports and highlights the legal, economic and regulatory factors that influence the final form of an athlete's working conditions.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them. Various national and supranational human rights instruments have been developed and implemented in order to transition society away from atrocity and callousness toward a more just and inclusive future. In some countries this is done by means of an overarching constitution, while in others international conventions or ordinary legislation hold sway.

Contract law plays a pivotal role in this context. According to many, this is done through the much-debated...

Der Fokus der Autorin liegt auf der innereuropaischen Zusammenarbeit im Gemeinsamen Europaischen Asylsystem (GEAS). Dabei stehen die Ausgestaltung und die Zukunft des Fluchtlingsrechts in den Mitgliedstaaten und auf europaischer Ebene im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion. Die Untersuchung ermittelt das Solidaritatsprinzip des Unionsrechts (Art. 80 AEUV) im Hinblick auf die menschenrechtlichen Verpflichtungen der Union und ihrer Mitgliedstaaten gegenuber Fluchtlingen. Dazu arbeitet die Autorin die rechtlichen Bewertungsmastabe heraus, analysiert die Praktiken auf Ebene des Verwaltungsrechts und...