Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Constitutional

Das Buch thematisiert die Entwicklung des konstitutionellen preussischen Verfassungswerks seit den Marzereignissen des Jahres 1848. Es gliedert sich in zwei Teile: Der Hauptteil ist als Quellenedition ausgestaltet. In ihm sind neben den eigentlichen Verfassungstexten und den ihnen bis zum Untergang der Monarchie widerfahrenen Anderungen diverse weitere in den Kontext gehorende Vorschriften und Entwurfstexte sowie die zuletzt im Jahre 1918 geltende Fassung der preussischen Verfassung authentisch in chronologischer Reihenfolge abgedruckt. Namentlich die dort vorgenommene erstmalige...

This volume contains presentations and discussions from a conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Professors held in Kiel on 3-6 October 2012.

Equality and Liberty in the Golden Age of State...

In the past several years religion has increasingly become an integral component of discussions about diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Of particular concern has been the formulation of limits on religious freedom. Defining Harm explores the ways in which religion and religious freedom are conceptualized and regulated in a cultural context of fear of the "other" and religious "extremism."

Drawing from literature on risk society, governance, feminist legal theory, and religious rights, Lori Beaman looks at the case of Jehovah's Witness Bethany Hughes who was denied her...

In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement -- fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe -- engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations. Civil Disobedience and the German Courts traces the historical and philosophical background of this movement and follows a group of demonstrators through their trials in the German criminal courts up to the German Constitutional Court -- in which their fate was determined in two important constitutional cases. In this...

This book examines administrative law in Asia, exploring the profound changes in the legal regimes of many Asian states that have taken place in recent years. Political democratization in some countries, economic change more broadly and the forces of globalization have put pressure on the developmental state model, wherein bureaucrats governed in a kind of managed capitalism and public-private partnerships were central. In their stead, a more market-oriented regulatory state model seems to be emerging in many jurisdictions, with emphases on transparency, publicity, and constrained...