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Die besondere Problematik bioethischer Entscheidungen liegt darin, dass uber sie in pluralistischen Gesellschaften regelmassig kein Konsens zu erzielen ist. Gleichzeitig erfordert die Rechtssicherheit in vielen Fallen, wie etwa der Stammzellforschung, der Transplantationsmedizin und der Sterbehilfe, eine Regelung auf uberindividueller Ebene. Ein Handeln des Gesetzgebers ist gefragt, aber es gibt keine anerkannten Standards, anhand derer ein Gesetz erlassen werden konnte; ein Konsens uber inhaltliche Fragen erscheint ausgeschlossen.

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Frage, wie...

Interest in "NFIB v. Sebelius" has been extraordinarily high, from as soon as the legislation was passed, through lower court rulings, the Supreme Court s grant of certiorari, and the decision itself, both for its substantive holdings and the purported behind-the-scene dynamics. Legal blogs exploded with analysis, bioethicists opined on our collective responsibilities, and philosophers tackled concepts like coercion and the activity/inactivity distinction. This volume aims to bring together scholars from disparate fields to analyze various features of the decision. It comprises over twenty...

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they work for and with challenge the system. In conditions where organised political opposition is prohibited, rights lawyers have begun to articulate and coordinate demands for legal and political change.

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Business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the corporate governance movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 reinforces the State s duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and greater access by victims to effective remedy, both judicial and non-judicial.

This book draws on the UN Guiding Principles and recent national plans of action, to provide an overview of relevant...

The author demonstrates that medieval assemblies have a significant history well before the great age of parliaments and Estates. He deals with assemblies, council, and consent, and shows how the older procedures were transformed by the increasingly bureaucratic Capetian governments after the royal conquest of Languedoc in the 13th century.

Originally published in 1964.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions...