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Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions, Applications (Comparative Constitutional Change)
This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from national and transnational perspectives, expanding on its many forms, functions, and applications with recourse to comparative insights. The book is divided in three main Parts, each of them preceded by a separate critical introduction in which an informed scholar contextualizes the chapters and offers reflections on the themes they develop. The first Part, titled 'Forms', is composed of chapters that address, from a theoretical and comparative perspective, questions related to the recognition of constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutional legislation. The second Part is titled 'Functions', and contains chapters that explore the explanatory power of quasi-constitutionality in different institutional contexts. The third Part, titled 'Applications', considers the ways in which constitutional statutes and quasi-constitutionality operate in relation to particular tensions and debates present in various jurisdictions.
Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics
This book explores accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries. It asks fresh questions about accountability and its place and importance in democratic societies. Accountability matters. It matters because it connects the governors with the governed, and for this reason it is a hallmark of democratic governance. And yet, amidst a backdrop of concerns about democratic back-sliding, the rise of populism, the role of algorithmic governance, moral barbarism, and post-truth politics - to mention just a few issues - a number of potentially far-reaching questions of accountability have been asked. It is for exactly this reason that this book explores the concept of accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries. It asks fresh questions about accountability and its place and importance in democratic societies.The book considers the questions raised by the shifting architecture of accountability. Whilst some scholars suggest that accountability processes have never been so effective -trumpeting the rise of monitory democracy with its dense array of watchdogs, sleaze-busters, auditors, legislative committees, statutory supports, and investigative mechanisms - others express concern about the risk of 'overloads', 'gaps', and 'traps'. This has led to a focus on fuzzy accountability and diagonal accountability, pointing to increasing conceptual confusion. Bringing together world-leading scholars and former politicians and public servants, the book cuts through this confusion and provides the reader with the answers to the most debated issues, including rarely discussed 'pathologies of accountability', post-human governance, and a novel focus on balance and proportionality.
Questions of Character
This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law. The essays are elegantly written and combine forceful argumentation with original ideas on a wide range of questions, such as:"Is Aristotle's theory of character a moral theory?," "Are character traits in tension with personal autonomy", "How do traits differ from mental disorders?," "What is the role of gossip in character attribution?," and "Can businessmen be virtuous?" The chapters are organized thematically into 5 sections, each prefaced by its own special introduction. In the introductions, the editor brings out often unexpected connections among different lines of argument pursued by the authors and raises important questions for further discussion. The collection as a whole offers students of character a unique opportunity to engage with some of the best contemporary work on the topic.
Race and National Security (Just Security)
On both a national and global stage we are witnessing a reckoning on issues of racial justice. This historical moment that continues to unfold in the United States and elsewhere also creates an opening to spark and revitalize debate and policy changes on a range of crucial topics, including national security. By surfacing the depths to which White hegemonic power influences our institutions and cultural assumptions, we gain more accurate understanding of how race manifests in national security domestically, transnationally, and globally. In Race and National Security, leading experts challenge conventional interpretations of national security by illuminating the underpinning of White supremacy in our social consciousness. The volume centers the experience of those who have long been on the receiving end of racialized state violence. It finds that re-envisioning national security requires more than just reducing the size and scope of the security state. Contributors offer visions for reforming and transforming national security, including adopting an abolitionist framework. Race and National Security invites us to radically reimagine a world where the security state does not keep Black, Brown, and other marginalized peoples subordinated through threats of and actual incarceration, violence, torture, and death. Race and National Security is a groundbreaking volume which serves as a catalyst for remembering, exposing, and reconceiving the role of race in national security. The Just Security book series from OUP tackles contemporary problems in international law and security that are of interest to a global community of scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and students. With each volume taking a particular thematic focus and gathering leading experts, the series as a whole aims to rigorously and critically reflect on developments in these areas of law, policy, and practice. Each volume will be accompanied by a series of shorter digital pieces in Just Security's online forum at www.justsecurity.org, which tie the discussion to breaking news and headlines.
Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes: 21st-Century Coolies? (Elgar Studies in Labour Law)
Migrant workers around the world are subject to exploitative labor practices that give employers extraordinary bargaining power. This book brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates who explore the many ways that contracted migrant workers are rendered vulnerable in the workplace. In this book, the term ‘21st-century coolie’ is deployed as a heuristic device that foregrounds the deeply unequal structures shaping the transnational flows of short-term, migrant workers. The term ‘coolie’ harkens back to the labor arrangements of earlier centuries that involved conscripted labor, indentured servitude, and contract labor across national borders. Like those of past centuries, today’s ‘coolies’ are subject to legal constraints inside and outside the employment relationship that force them into subjugated positions within the workplace.The chapters of this anthology situate contemporary global migration regimes in histories of colonization, uncover their racialized as well as gendered nature, and examine the role of nation-states in perpetuating conditions of extreme exploitation. The permeability, mutability, and durability of racial capitalism is revealed through an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented lens.Law and social science students in graduate courses on migration, labor, employment, employment discrimination, and race and the law will gain a deeper understanding of the issues facing migrant workers today, as will students in humanities, performance studies, narrative studies, and communication studies.
Ranking and Priority of Creditors (Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law)
This book is the third volume in the Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series. It addresses one of the critical issues of any insolvency by providing comprehensive analysis of the law and practice in relation to creditor claims. As with the two previous volumes in the series the book provides a comparative view by setting out the relevant law and practice in over 20 jurisdictions drawing out the divergences and common features of domestic insolvency laws from a broad spectrum of countries. Areas covered include submission of claims, verification and admission of claims, ranking of insolvency and administration claims, treatment of non-enforceable claims, and voting and participation rights. Quality, uniformity and the high level of detail of National Reports are the key benefits of this volume. The book assists practitioners in assessing which ranking and participation rights could be asserted by the various types of creditors in the jurisdictions covered. For scholars it provides access to a wealth of information which is currently not accessible in English.
Rape Cultures and Survivors [2 volumes]: An International Perspective [2 volumes]
An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors.Historically, women, men, and children have all suffered sexual violence, during wartime and peacetime as well as inside and outside their homes. This two-volume title focuses on survivors of rape in a variety of social and cultural contexts. It examines different people who are victimized in a variety of situations (including in war and prisons) and studies the particularities of "rape cultures" that are intertwined with ethnic cultures and hatreds and other forms of conflictual social, political, and economic relations. In the introduction, the editors define rape and rape culture and provide historical and cultural context for the information presented throughout the volumes, the first of which primarily focuses on the causes and manifestations of rape cultures; the second considers the consequences of rape cultures for survivors of sexual assault. In both volumes, contributors provide case studies elucidating the experiences of a variety of victims—young, old, male, female, straight, and LGBT—in diverse locations around the world to help readers understand how truly pervasive and portentous rape culture is.
Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman
Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, including Margaret Gilbert, Richard Holton, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Elijah Milgram, Kieran Setiya, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Scott Shapiro, Michael Smith, J. David Velleman, R. Jay Wallace. It also contains an introduction by the editors, situating Bratman's work and its broader significance. The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action, rationality, and social agency.
Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Essential Readings
Budgets of governments and private insurances are limited. Not all drugs and services that appear beneficial to patients or physicians can be covered. Is there a core set of benefits that everyone should be entitled to? If so, how should this set be determined? Are fair decisions just impossible, if we know from the outset than not all needs can be met? While early work in bioethics has focused on clinical issues and a narrow set of principles, in recent years there has been a marked shift towards addressing broader population-level issues, requiring consideration of more demanding theories in philosophy, political science, and economics. At the heart of bioethics' new orientation is the goal of clarity on a complex set of questions in rationing and resource allocation. Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Essential Readings provides key excerpts from seminal and pertinent texts and case studies about these topics, contextualized by original introductions. The volume is divided into three broad sections: Conceptual Distinctions and Ethical Theory; Rationing; and Resource Allocation. Containing the most important and classic articles surrounding the theoretical and practical issues related to rationing and how to allocate scare medical resources, this collection aims to assist and inform those who wish to be a part of bioethics' 21st century shift including practitioners and policy-makers, and students and scholars in the health sciences, philosophy, law, and medical ethics.
Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory: Perspectives for the 21st Century
An original book offering a unique theoretical approach, Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory analyses the important role that legal theory plays in the development of insolvency law. It explores how law and theory are able to respond to issues of financial distress in the 21st century and questions how insolvency law could develop to address contemporary challenges.Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory brings together international experts in insolvency, who consider the key conceptual influences that have impacted insolvency law since the beginning of the 21st century. Chapters address a number of theoretical perspectives, divided into overall philosophical considerations, theoretical criticisms of the internal mechanisms of insolvency law, and how external theoretical paradigms could be used to shift perspectives on insolvency frameworks. Presenting a distinctive and conceptually holistic approach, this erudite book provides an essential contribution to an ever evolving area of legal research and practice.Re-examining Insolvency Law and Theory is a crucial read for academics and students interested in insolvency law both in the UK and internationally. It will also be highly insightful for legal professionals and practitioners specialising in insolvency law.
Re-Reading Beccaria: On the Contemporary Significance of a Penal Classic (Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics)
Cesare Beccaria's slim 1764 volume On Crimes and Punishments influenced policy developments worldwide and over decades, if not centuries, after its publication. For those who turn to Beccaria's work today, the encounter is shaped by that knowledge.Appreciative of On Crimes and Punishments' dual nature as historical document and repository of ideas, the contributions in this collection address different aspects of the criminal justice theory Beccaria offered his readers and face up to methodological questions raised by meeting a historical text of this kind – unsystematic and by modern standards often under-argued – with modern scholarly conventions in mind.Contributions in the first part of the book engage with Beccaria's political theory of criminal justice through the lenses of political and penal philosophy, considering how Beccaria's blending of social-contractarian foundations and proto-utilitarian policy analysis interlinks with the concrete set of criminal justice practices Beccaria presents as justified.This leads on to the second part where contributors approach Beccaria's ideas with present-day reforms and developments in mind. Many of his policy proposals and arguments remain significant from our contemporary perspective, their limitations and omissions proving as instructive for the contemporary scholar as their more prescient elements.The third part offers those looking at Beccaria's work today a glimpse into the practical difficulties facing the firebrand author turned public servant during his long career in the Habsburg-Lombardian administration. It puts his work into the broader context of pathways to criminal justice reform in northern Italy, Habsburgian Lombardy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Beccaria's day.
Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals
Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-by-section study of the work in the form of new interpretative essays by leading Hume scholars. The result is a comprehensive reassessment of Hume's 'recasting' of his moral philosophy in this work. Particular attention is given to the Enlightenment concepts of justice and benevolence, as well as to the concept of humanity and moral sentiment. Fifteen original chapters take the reader through the nine sections and four appendices of Hume's Enquiry, as well as 'A Dialogue,' to assess critically the moral philosophy he presents. How does it differ from the moral philosophy of the Treatise, and how should we understand the significance of the arguments he advances? Additional chapters examine the relation between Hume's mature moral philosophy and related subjects such as his epistemology, his writings on religion, beauty and criticism, the passions, and his own intellectual and philosophical development during the period in which he conceived and wrote the Enquiry.
Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the Role of Private Actors in Education (NORRAG Series on International Education and Development)
This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education. Multidisciplinary in approach, both legal and education scholars address key issues on the right to education, including parental rights in education, the impact of school choice, and evidence about inequities arising from private involvement in education at the global level. Focusing on East African and francophone countries, as well as the global level, chapters explore the role and impact of private actors and privatization in education. The book concludes by calling for the rights outlined in the Abidjan Principles not to remain locked in text, but for states to take responsibility and be held to account for delivering them, as promised in international human rights treaties. Interpreting human rights law as requiring that states provide a quality public education, this book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of education policy, human rights, and education law. It will also be beneficial for policy makers, practitioners, and advocacy groups working on the right to education.
Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand
Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him, setting the standard for the bench with a matchless combination of legal brilliance and vast cultural sophistication. Hand was also renowned as a superb writer. Now, in Reason and Imagination, Constance Jordan offers a unique sampling of the correspondence between Hand and a stellar array of intellectual and legal giants, including Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Berenson, and many other prominent political and philosophical thinkers. The letters--many of which have never been published before--cover almost half a century, often taking the form of brief essays on current events, usually seen through the prism of their historical moment. They reflect Hand's engagement with the issues of the day, ranging from the aftermath of World War I and the League of Nations, the effects of the Depression in the United States, the rise of fascism and the outbreak World War II, McCarthyism, and the Supreme Court's decisions on segregation, among many other topics. Equally important, the letters showcase decades of penetrating and original thought on the major themes of American jurisprudence, particularly key interpretations of the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and will thus be invaluable to those interested in legal issues. Most of these letters have never before been published, making this collection a priceless window into the mind and life of one of the giants of American law.
Rechtliche Grundlagen der Informationswirtschaft (Springer Notes Rechtswissenschaft)
Der elektronischen Informationswirtschaft kommt rasch steigende Bedeutung zu: IT-Produktion, -Dienstleistungen und -Einzelhandel sowie Telekom und Consultancy Services sind integraler Bestandteil einer entwickelten Wirtschaft. Auch aus dem Medienbereich, dem Druck- und Verlagswesen waren Informationstechnologien nie wegzudenken. Durch die Verbindung von öffentlich-rechtlichen und zivilrechtlichen Fragen und unter Berücksichtigung internationaler Bezüge des anzuwendenden Rechts verschafft dieses Skriptum dem Leser einen guten Überblick über die Materie. Es werden unter anderem Zugangs- und Ausübungsbedingungen in der Informationswirtschaft dargestellt: Kommunikations- und Medien- sowie Signatur- und Zertifizierungsdienste, E-Commerce sowie Dienstleistungen in der automatischen Datenverarbeitung und Informationstechnik. Punktuelle Vertiefungen, etwa im Bereich des Datenschutzes, des Rechtsschutzes von Software oder spezifischer Probleme des Vertragsrechts, machen es auch für den Praktiker interessant.
Rechtserfahrung und Reine Rechtslehre (Forschungen aus Staat und Recht #104)
Die vorliegenden Abhandlungen stammen aus einem internationalen Symposium an der Universität "Federico II" in Neapel. Die Autoren kommen aus Italien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Österreich und den USA. Als Zivilrechtslehrer, Strafrechtslehrer, Verfassungsrechtslehrer, Völkerrechtslehrer und Verwaltungsrechtslehrer sind sie erfahrene Dogmatiker und praxisorientierte Theoretiker des Rechts. Unter dem Thema "Reine Rechtslehre und Rechtserfahrung" antworten sie auf die Frage, was die Rechtstheorie Hans Kelsens für die verschiedenen Gebiete des positiven Rechts zu leisten vermag. Leitgedanke ist, daß sich die Rechtstheorie am Gegenstand "Recht" bewähren muß. Gerade im Hinblick auf die notwendige Orientierung des Rechtsdenkens an der Wirklichkeit erbringen die Beiträge das verblüffende Ergebnis: In Hans Kelsens reiner Lehre vom Recht sind kulturell-soziale Prämissen mit rechts- und staatstheoretischen Ideologien verbunden, die einen geradezu existentiellen Realitätsbezug aufweisen.
Rechtserhaltende Gewalt — eine ethische Verortung: Fragen zur Gewalt • Band 2 (Gerechter Frieden)
Mit dem gerechten Frieden geht - gerade wie er in der Friedensdenkschrift der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland niedergelegt ist - für viele seiner Vertreterinnen und Vertreter eine Absage an die Lehre vom gerechten Krieg einher. Friedensordnung wird als Rechtsordnung begriffen. Mit diesem rechtsethischen Verständnis verbindet sich aber kein radikaler Pazifismus. Vielmehr bleibt Frieden auf die Durchsetzung des Rechts – und dafür steht der Terminus der rechtserhaltenden Gewalt – verwiesen. Ihre ethischen Kriterien werden dann aber wieder im Rückgriff auf den gerechten Krieg generiert. Diese Parallelität ist nicht unproblematisch. In einen anderen Rahmen gestellt gilt es, grundlegend über die Begründung und Verortung der rechtserhaltenden Gewalt neu nachzudenken.
Rechtserhaltende Gewalt - zur Kriteriologie: Fragen zur Gewalt • Band 3 (Gerechter Frieden)
Der gerechte Frieden stellt mit seiner Maxime Si vis pacem para pacem (Wenn du den Frieden willst, bereite den Frieden vor) einen Perspektivenwechsel in der christlichen Friedensethik dar. Nicht mehr der Krieg, sondern der Frieden steht im Fokus des neuen Konzeptes. Dennoch bleibt die Frage militärischer Gewaltanwendung auch beim gerechten Frieden virulent, verbinden sich mit dem im deutschen Protestantismus verfolgten Ansatz eines Friedens durch Recht zugleich Fragen der Rechtsdurchsetzung. Der Band nimmt die ethischen Kriterien der rechtserhaltenden Gewalt, die der Lehre vom gerechten Krieg entnommen sind, in den Blick und diskutiert sowohl situationsspezifische Konkretionen als auch potenziell notwendige Erweiterungen.
Rechtsfragen der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (Europainstitut Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Schriftenreihe Europainstitut Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Publication Series #14)
Spätestens mit dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union im Jahre 1995 sind Fragen der Europäischen Integration auch in Österreich in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt. Die Vollendung der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion gilt als weitere wichtige Stufe des europäischen Integrationsprozesses. Die Rechtsfragen, die im Zusammenhang mit der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion aufgeworfen werden, sind bislang wenig untersucht. Eben diesen Rechtsfragen ist dieser Band der "Schriftenreihe des Forschungsinstituts für Europafragen der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien" gewidmet. Ausgewiesene Experten aus dem In- und Ausland erörtern und analysieren die mannigfaltigen verfassungs- und zivilrechtlichen Fragen sowie österreichspezifische Aspekte einer gemeinsamen Währung in Europa.
Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsdogmatik: Festschrift Hermann Eichler zum 70. Geburtstag am 10. Oktober 1977 dargebracht von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern (Linzer Universitätsschriften #1)
Mit der Festschrift zu Ehren Hermann Eichlers iibernimmt die Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultat der Johannes Kepler Universitat in Linz die Pflege einer altbewahrten Tradition der Wiirdigung ver dienter Rechtslehrer. DaB alle damit verbundenen Anfangsschwie rigkeiten bewaltigt werden konnten, ist nicht zuletzt der besonderen Wertschatzung des Jubilars zu danken. Dennoch mochte ich es nicht versaumen, die Verdienste aller jener hervorzuheben, die zum Ge ling en des Werkes beigetragen haben. Mein Dank gilt im beson deren Herrn o. Univ. Prof. Richard Holzhammer, der sich urn die Aufnahme der Festschrift in die Linzer Universitatsschriftenreihe ver dient gemacht hat und dem Jubilar statt eines Beitrages sein unter Mitarbeit Dris. Walter Rinner entstehendes Lehrbuch fUr "Allge meines Handelsrecht und Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz" widmen wird. Herzlicher Dank gebiihrt aber auch allen jenen, die als tatkraftige Forderer wissenschaftlicher Forschung die Druddegung der Fest schrift durch finanzielle Beitrage erleichtert haben. Bedanken mochte ich mich schlieBlich noch bei Frau Maria Steinleitner fUr die Erle digung aller Schreibarbeiten und bei allen iibrigen Mitarbeitern des Instituts fUr Osterreichische und Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, die mir stets hilfreich zur Seite gestanden sind. Linz, im Juli 1977 Ursula FloBmann VII ZUM GELEIT "Die Heranbildung des Verstandnisses fUr Entwicklungsstufen, fUr die Glei chungen zwischen Kultur- und Rechts zustand, fUr die Bediirfnisse der jewei ligen tatsachlichen Gegebenheiten, bil den den wichtigsten Erziehungswert einer jeden geschichtlichen EinfUhrung in die Wissenschaft des Privatrechts.
Rechtspolitik der Zukunft - Zukunft der Rechtspolitik (Texte zur Rechtspolitik #3)
Fragen der Rechtsgestaltung, nach geeigneten und in der Sache passenden rechtlichen Handlungs-und Organisations formen oder nach gegenstandsadäquaten Regelungstechniken werden von der Rechtswissenschaft in Österreich nur am Ran de aufgegriffen. Dieser Befund kontrastiert in auffälliger Weisc mit dem Umstand, daß viele Juristen in rechtsgestaltenden Funktionen tätig und dort tagtäglich mit dem Problem kon frontiert sind, in unterschiedlichsten Sachbereichen für die Umsetzung politischer Regelungsziele die sachadäquaten recht lichen Umsetzungsmechanismen und -instrumente finden zu müssen. Sie werden dabei von der Rechtswissenschaft, sowohl was ihre Ausbildung, als auch was die wissenschaftliche Unter stützung durch Aufzeigen von Möglichkeiten und Alternativen anlangt, allein gelassen. Dies verwundert um so mehr, als der Or Innovationsbedarf im Bereich rechtlicher Handlungs-und ganisationsformen und die Notwendigkeit neuer Regelungs zugänge allenthalben betont wird. Die praktisch tätigen Legisten können das Problem allein kaum bewältigen. Gesetzesvorhaben stehen weitgehend un ter dem Diktat tagespolitischer Bedürfnisse. Probleme wer den anlaßfallbezogen und punktuell gelöst. Der Gesetzgeber läuft oft gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen hinterher und ist bloß bemüht, allzu unliebsamen Auswirkungen punktuell gegenzusteuern. Damit bekämpft er Symptome, wo Regulie rung von Ursachen notwendig wäre. Kongruenz und Geschlos senheit rechtlicher Teilsysteme gehen verloren bzw lösen sich auf. Hinter einer Flut von Einzelfallbestimmungen läßt sich nur mehr mit Mühe die Fiktion eines Regelungszusammen hangs aufrechterhalten. Damit gehen aber auch grunds ätz li- VI Vorwort che gesellschaftspolitische Entscheidungen in den einzelnenRechtsgebieten immer mehr verloren. Eine Diskussion über grundsätzliche Zielvorstellungen (und nicht über punktuelle Änderungsvorschläge ) findet im Rahmen des formalisierten Gesetzgebungsverfahrens kaum statt.
Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (Studies in Private International Law - Asia)
This collection offers a study of the regimes for the recognition and enforcement of foreign commercial judgments in 15 Asian jurisdictions: mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. For practising lawyers, the book is intended as a practical guide to current law and procedures for enforcing judgments in the selected jurisdictions. However, it does not stop at describing current law and practice. Of interest to academics and students, it also analyses the common principles of the enforcement regimes across the jurisdictions, and identifies what should be regarded as the norm for enforcement in Asian countries for the purpose of attracting foreign direct investment and catalysing rapid economic development. In light of the common principles identified, the book explores how laws in Asia may generally be improved to enable judgments to be more readily enforced, while ensuring that legitimate concerns over indirect jurisdiction, due process and domestic public policy are respected and addressed. With this in mind, the book discusses the potential impact that the adoption of the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements might have on Asian jurisdictions; it also considers the potential impact of the convention for the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters presently being drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.This timely book argues that it is imperative to adopt a uniform system for the recognition and enforcement of judgments throughout Asia if there is to be traction for the enhanced cross-border commerce that is expected to result from endeavours such as the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), CPTPP (also known as TPP-11), and RCEP.
Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War
This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era, or the first decade of the twenty-first century. A great deal has changed since then. This book considers the implications for civil-military relations of many of these changes. Specifically, it focuses on factors such as breakdowns in democratic and civil-military norms and conventions; intensifying partisanship and deepening political divisions in American society; as well as new technology and the evolving character of armed conflict. Chapters are organized around the principal actors in civil-military relations, and the book includes sections on the military, civilian leadership, and the public. It explores the roles and obligations of each. The book also examines how changes in contemporary armed conflict influence civil-military relations. Chapters in this section examine the cyber domain, grey zone operations, asymmetric warfare and emerging technology. The book thus brings the study of civil-military relations into the contemporary era, in which new geopolitical realities and the changing character of armed conflict combine with domestic political tensions to test, if not potentially redefine, those relations.
The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 2
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution—together known as the Reconstruction Amendments—abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom. Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments along with materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume II covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional talks to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post–Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.
The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 1
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution—together known as the Reconstruction Amendments—abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents the key speeches, debates, and public dialogues that surrounded the adoption of the three amendments, allowing us to more fully experience how they reshaped the nature of American life and freedom. Volume I outlines a broad historical context for the Reconstruction Amendments and contains materials related to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, while Volume 2 covers the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments on the rights of citizenship and enfranchisement. The documents in this collection encompass a sweeping range of primary sources, from congressional debates to court cases, public speeches to newspaper articles. As a whole, the volumes meticulously depict a significant period of legal change even as they illuminate the ways in which people across the land grappled with the process of constitutional reconstruction. Filling a major gap in the literature on the era, The Reconstruction Amendments will be indispensable for readers in politics, history, and law, as well as anyone seeking a better understanding of the post–Civil War basis of American constitutional democracy.