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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.
Recreating Creativity, Reinventing Inventiveness: AI and Intellectual Property Law (Law and Change)
As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to generate inventions and creative works, a critical question to be addressed is whether intellectual property (IP) laws should protect such works. This book examines the critical question of whether intellectual property laws should protect works generated by artificial intelligence.If we do not wish to use IP laws to protect such works, how can we still support research, development, and innovation in society? If we do wish to use IP laws to protect such works, should the copyright, patents, and other IP rights attach to the human creator of the AI technology or the AI system? The book explores these compelling societal, economic, and legal issues. The authors evaluate the continuing relevance of existing laws, explore the divergent approaches being debated by nations around the world, and present visions for change.The book will enable both lawyers and non-lawyers to reimagine governance frameworks to create laws that equitably balance the interests of creators, investors, and end users of AI-generated works.
Reformbaustelle Bundesstaat
Der Band befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, ob der Föderalismus in Deutschland in seiner jetzigen Form noch den Herausforderungen der Zukunft gewachsen ist, oder ob es weiterer, auch das Grundgesetz betreffender Reformen bedarf. Aufbauend auf einer Rückschau, die die einschneidenden Entwicklungen im deutschen Bundesstaat insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund bedeutender Grundgesetzreformen würdigt, folgt eine Bestandsaufnahme des aktuellen Zustands in den Bereichen Bildung, Innere Sicherheit und Integrationspolitik. Hierbei werden einerseits das Ausmaß an Wandel und Konstanz des deutschen Föderalismus ermittelt. Andererseits werden seine Leistungs- und Zukunftsfähigkeit sowie mögliche Reformbedarfe in international vergleichender Perspektive durch eine Analyse alternativer Föderalismusmodelle diskutiert.
Reforming Intellectual Property
Reforming Intellectual Property brings together 19 of the world’s leading scholars in the field to offer their unique insight into the future of intellectual property. Providing a diverse array of perspectives on the most pressing reforms needed in the current IP regime, whether in terms of legislation at national and international levels, or interpretation of existing law, this exceptional book highlights the key issues in this area and sets out an agenda for future research and policy.Examining the question of what changes to IP law and policy are most urgent and would have the most impact, chapters cover a wide range of subjects, with some focusing on specific topics such as the reform of non-traditional trademarks, or the fair use and research exemption in patent law. Other contributions take a broader approach, such as a reappraisal of performers’ rights in audio and audiovisual media that encompasses implications for creativity, welfare and ethics in the film industry, and a proposal for the creation of an International Intellectual Property Treaty.This book will prove to be crucial reading for all scholars and students of IP law, as well as policymakers and practitioners in the field. It will also be of interest to researchers working in related fields such as competition and human rights law for its intersecting analysis of these areas.
Reframing the Game: A Special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies
Capitalism is fast approaching the tipping point into a new sustainable economy that will allow people and the planet to prosper. Pieces of a jigsaw are coming together and bringing into focus a picture of a new, vibrant, attractive and sustainable economic operating system. This quiet revolution is underway - if we could only allow it to flourish.This Special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies brings together key voices in business and academia that show us how to accelerate towards this tipping point by exploring the role that business in society, responsible education, leadership techniques and legal reform will have in shaping the new sustainable economy.Including contributions from Paul Polman, Katrin Muff, Beate Sjafjell and Gabriele Zedlmayer, this outstanding collection proposes leading insights and innovative solutions to the challenge of creating new economies that work for people and the planet.
Refugee Law in Context:The Exclusion Clause
Both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly indicate those asylum seekers who should be excluded from refugee status, excluded from asylum. The refugee lawyer, in order to fully appreciate the importance and relevance of this principle, needs to look beyond refugee law proper. The insight needed for the decision whether or not to apply the so-called 'exclusion clause' is to be found elsewhere within the realms of international law: international humanitarian law, international criminal law and United Nations law. In this publication, contributors pay ample attention to developments in these related fields. Complemented with a wealth of relevant materials, including informative treaties, conventions and (draft-)resolutions on these very themes, this book is an indispensable guide for all those involved with asylum seekers, refugees and the upholding of the principles of refugee law. This collection amounts to a true Article 1F Handbook.
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives
This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.Given the recent "re-politicization" of forced migration and refugees in Europe and the U.S., this edited collection presents an in-depth, multi-dimensional analysis of the history of policies and laws related to the status of refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe and the challenges and prospects of refugee and asylum seeker assistance and integration in the 21st century.The book provides rich insights on institutional perspectives critical to understanding the politics and practices of refugee resettlement and the asylum process in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including international human rights and humanitarian law as well as domestic laws and policies related to forced migrants. Issues addressed include social welfare supports for resettled refugees; culturally responsive health and mental health approaches to working with refugees and asylum seekers; systemic failures in the asylum processing systems; and rights-based approaches to working with forced migrant children. The book also examines policy developments and strategies to advance the well-being and social inclusion of refugees in the U.S. and Europe.