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That the recent turn in European Constitutional Review has effectively brought about a revolution in European law has been observed before. At issue are two major developments in European judicial review. On the one hand, the European Court of Human Rights has been collapsing traditional boundaries between constitutional law and private law with a series of decisions that effectively recognized the "horizontal" effect of Convention rights in the private sphere. On the other hand, the European Court of Justice has also given horizontal effect to fundamental liberties embodied in the Treaty...

Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained that universalism of human rights is both a 'concept' and a 'normative reality'. The normative character of human rights is scrutinized through the study of international and regional agreements as well as national constitutions. As a consequence, limitations of normativity are identified,...

This collection of decisions provides clear and definitive access to the case law of the participating state constitutional courts. The decisions of the state constitutional courts reflect the interplay between constitutional law and federal jurisdiction on the one side and state constitutions on the other. The decisions document a major feature of German federalism.

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In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lochner v. New York. This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the leading case contending that novel economic regulations were unconstitutional. Sure to be controversial, Rehabilitating Lochner argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent--and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more...

In this volume, attorney Robert M. Lichtman provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in "Communist" cases during the McCarthy era. Lichtman shows the Court's vulnerability to public criticism and attacks by the elected branches during periods of political repression. The book describes every Communist-related decision of the era (none is omitted), placing them in the context of political events and revealing the range and intrusiveness of McCarthy-era repression.In Fred Vinson's term as chief justice (1946-53), the Court largely rubber-stamped government...

Mit diesem Arbeitsbuch werden Studierende an die hohen Anforderungen der juristischen Fallbearbeitung herangefuhrt. Die in dem Band behandelten Falle sind komplex, verschachtelt und bedingt durch die Materie des Staatsorganisationsrechts sicher noch weniger aus dem Gesetz ableitbar als zivil- und strafrechtliche Falle. Sie mussen durchdacht und selbst gelost werden. Der Band enthalt zahlreiche Fussnoten mit weiterfuhrenden Hinweisen.

Bei sexuellen Missbrauchsvorwurfen steht so gut wie immer die Existenz des Beschuldigten auf dem Spiel, gleich, ob die Beschuldigung zu Recht oder Unrecht erhoben wird. In den Fallen des sexuellen Missbrauchs geht es haufig um die beweisrechtlich schwierige Situation Aussage gegen Aussage. Hier sind Vorwurfe des ofteren falsch und die Fehlurteilsquote ist hoch. Die Verurteilung eines zu Unrecht Angeklagten begunstigen insbesondere Verfahrensmangel in der deutschen und osterreichischen Strafrechtspraxis, obwohl es fur beide Verfahrensordnungen effektive Korrekturmoglichkeiten gibt.
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