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Duncker & Humblot Der Beitrag Der Biologie Zu Fragen Von Recht Und
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Duncker & Humblot Das Scheininstitut Der Unmittelbaren
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Emanzipation Und Recht: Zur Geschichte Der
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Peter Lang AG The New Foundations of Labour Law
Book SynopsisThis book explores the challenges of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law and social security under three headings. The first, «The changing foundations of labour law» focuses on the law itself. Here the authors discuss how a changing political setting influences the very foundations of contemporary labour law. The contributions in the second section, «Precarious work – the new normative model?», deal with the challenges that various new business models put to regulating working life and social welfare. The contributions in the final section, «New forms of labour mobility», treat the difficulties related to the protection of workers who move over borders between countries and continents. The book is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the future of labour law.Table of ContentsChallenges of globalisation and digitalisation – Especially issues related to precarious work the «gig» economy, labour migration – Domestic work – Fundamental rights – «Access justice» and non-discrimination law
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Peter Lang AG Towards an Internormative Hermeneutics for Social
Book SynopsisThe author discusses to what extent a generally binding norm of social justice can be established in a modern, plural society. The book presents the difficulty associated with the preservation of plurality of different life forms. It also considers the plurality of the principles of social justice so as not to fall back to prioritization and the absolutization of their claims. This book argues for a more constructive way to search for criteria for complementarity, referring methodologically to Rawls’ and Honneth’s theories of justice. The author contents that the principles of social justice and their sources of normativity are plural. Table of ContentsJohn Rawls and the Principles of Justice – Axel Honneth and Recognition as a Theory of Justice – On the Issue of Plurality of Principles of Justice – Internormative Hermeneutics: a Hermeneutics of Plurality
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Peter Lang AG The Limits of Juristic Power from the Perspective
Book SynopsisThe aim of the book is to outline and discuss a way of thinking about the limits of juristic power. In terms of research methodology, the authors’ approach entails relating the topography of such limits to selected theoretical frameworks developed within the Polish sociological tradition. The argument draws, above all, on the works of Leon Petrażycki, Jerzy Lande, Bronisław Wróblewski, Adam Podgórecki, Florian Znaniecki, Jacek Szmatka, and Piotr Sztompka. Striving to have each aspect shed light on the other, the authors seek out theoretical arguments which support their account of these limits. They present their model of the limits of juristic power, which includes the following constitutive factors: 1) politico-legal culture, 2) legal texts, 3) juristic culture, and 4) subjective factors (i.e. an individual, axiological sense rooted in ethical and aesthetic judgments)
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Peter Lang AG Die Entwicklung der zivilrechtlichen
Book SynopsisDas Buch zeichnet die rechtshistorische Entwicklung eines der problematischsten Bereiche des heutigen Betreuungsrechts nach. In zeitlicher Hinsicht erstreckt sich die Darstellung vom Ausgang der frühen Neuzeit (1794) über das 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Dabei liegt der Fokus zunächst auf den preußischen Regelungen des Allgemeinen Landrechts und der Vormundschaftsordnung, erweitert sich aber später mit Geltung des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches auch auf die übrigen deutschen Länder. Wiederkehrende Fragestellungen, wie etwa der Stellenwert des fürsorgerechtlichen Unterbringungsbegriffs, die Rolle der Gutachter im Verfahren oder aber die Abgrenzung zu anderen Formen der Unterbringung werden jeweils epochenweise beleuchtet. Darüber hinaus leistet der Autor durch die Darstellung der Behandlung psychisch kranker Menschen einen sozialgeschichtlichen Beitrag und stellt somit eine Verbindung zwischen der Disziplin des Rechts und der Sozialwissenschaft her.
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Peter Lang AG Informations- und Ratgeberbroschueren zum
Book SynopsisDie Publikation analysiert die komplexe Textsorte Informations- und Ratgeberbroschüren zum Nachbarrecht. Es liegt die Hypothese zugrunde, dass mit dieser Textsorte nicht nur Informationen vermittelt, sondern durch die Emittenten auch eine Verhaltensbeeinflussung auf Rezipientenseite angestrebt wird und somit gesellschaftliche Funktionen erfüllt werden. Die Analyse verbindet textlinguistische, lexikalische sowie systemtheoretische Parameter. Sie erbringt den Beweis, dass Textsorten als kommunikative Strukturen von Funktionssystemen aufgefasst werden können. Es wird verdeutlicht, dass für eine komplette funktionale Erfassung von Texten ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz notwendig ist.
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Peter Lang AG Naturalism and the Frontiers of Legal Science
Book SynopsisThe essay addresses one of the main challenges to the contemporary methodology of the law, namely a new wave of naturalistic approaches that follow the rapid progress in the studies of the mind as a basis for psychological, behavioral, and cultural phenomena. The book aims to address the extent to which new developments of a naturalistic worldview affect the methodological foundations of studying and explaining the law, and distinguishes two fundamentally different models of scientific inquiry. Interpreting legal texts has to remain an anti-naturalistic, hermeneutic enterprise, conceiving law as a combination of causally related facts. As such, its scientific status depends mostly on its ability to become a part of an interdisciplinary web of naturalistic explanations of reality.Table of ContentsScience and its methodological foundations – The Problems of legal methodology – Legal Science and the Science of Law – Naturalism and legal sciences – Naturalism and the Philosophy of Law
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Peter Lang AG Taking one’s own Life: Euthanasia and Suicide in
Book SynopsisThe book describes the historical development of the legislation on euthanasia and suicide in The Netherlands. During the last about 70 years. Part 1 summarizes the development until about 2017. Parts 2 and 3 deal with the period from August 2017 until about the end of February 2022. The book ends when neither in the Netherlands nor in Germany legislation on euthanasia was completed. Presently, in many countries, legislation on euthanasia is discussed, about to be prepared, or there already exist legislative proposals. The aim of the book is to let the Dutch respective public opinions, political ideas, research results, proposals from legal academics, science, and court decisions participate in the international discussion so that in so far comparison can help also to find answers to open questions and satisfying legal regulations.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Part 1 The development of Euthanasia and Law from the beginning until 2017 – Part 2 The development from 2017 until the end of 2021 – Part 3 Open questions and a view of the prospects of the future – Part 4 Appendix – Bibliography – Some other publications of the same author (until 2021)
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Peter Lang AG Democracy, Legal Education and the Political
Book SynopsisThe articles collected in the book present a view of legal education in Central and Eastern Europe, considering the relationship between democracy and the Political. In this perspective, legal education is a forum for this articulation and an area for a discursive search for solutions. On the one hand, democracy is a continuous object of research for the legal academia; legal theorists and constitutionalists debate the juridical foundations of modern constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. On the other hand, as university teachers, legal academics contribute to shaping future lawyer-citizens by instilling in them a certain vision of civic virtues and democratic values.Table of ContentsThe relationship between legal education and democracy. A lawyer's vision in civil society. Recent changes in legal education in Central and Eastern Europe. Models of legal education.
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Peter Lang AG Law, Pandemics and Ownership Restrictions
Book SynopsisThe book deals with (unfortunately) a highly relevant question of extraordinary measures adopted in many countries in connection with the recent pandemic, and the impact of such measures on ownership rights and constitutional freedoms as a whole. Using the methods of synthesis, analysis and historical comparison, the researchers address this issue from different perspectives, starting with the origins of state-governed crisis management, through the theoretical status of such measures and their role in the legal system, to the question of liability for damages arising from their imposition and application. Based on a critical analysis of existing measures, the book provides feedback on their compliance with basic legal principles and suggests possible solutions of encountered problems.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors - Introductory Note on Law, Pandemics and Ownership Limitations -Jakub Handrlica -Selected Aspects of Crises and Their Solutions in Roman Law and Politics - V. Dvorský, D. Macek, M. Novák, K. Stloukalová and J. Ullmann - Selected Aspects of the Legal Regulations of Epidemics in the Czech Lands in the Period from the Nineteenth Century to the Year 1948 -T. Blažková and J. Šouša -Administrative Measures in Times of Pandemics -J. Balounová and G. Prokopová -Ad Hoc Legislation: The Legal Dilemma behind the Customized Approach Towards Crisis Management -V. Sharp -Compensation for Damage Caused by State Measures Adopted to Combat a Pandemic -G. Blahoudková
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Peter Lang AG Formalised Access to Pre-jurisdictional Free
Book SynopsisOne of the constitutional obligations of states is the defence of human rights. Such state activities encompass providing free pre-litigation legal aid. In search for solutions allowing to improve Polish model, the authors employed a comparative method. As a result, they analysed solutions adopted in international law, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.Swedish law is an example of a system with a rich legislative history in the area of free legal aid and contemporary solutions based on the model of legal aid with a “discount”. The choice of Ukraine was based on the fact that its regulations are very modern, elastic and put to the ultimate test of war. The United Kingdom was chosen as an example of a country with a common law system, where pre-litigation-free legal aid has its unique form based on grant financing.In the summary of the book, the authors strive for presenting the proposal of a model of free pre-litigation legal aid for the polish legal system based on the experience of compared legal systems.Table of ContentsChapter I. Free pre- litigation legal aid – analysis from the perspective of international and European law - Chapter II. Free pre- litigation legal aid – an analysis of examples of selected legal systems - Chapter III. Polish solutions -
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Lit Verlag The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial
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Lit Verlag Understanding Law in Society: Developments in
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Lit Verlag Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: 66
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Lit Verlag The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial
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Springer Sociology of law
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Springer VS Sackgasse mit Ausweg
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Discourse Of Law
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1985. This Volume I, Part 2 of the History and Anthropology series and focuses as Law as a discourse, including essays on disputes of locals in Eastern Brittiany on the ninth century, a British Indian dilemma when looking at property law, law-enforcement in eighteenth century England, Islamic Law in the Medieval Middle East and its social contest and silent law in context of the slaves in nineteenth century Brazil.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Law, Anthropology and History, Law as Discourse, Ancestors: Henry Maine and the constitution of primitive society, Law and Knowledge: Disputes, their conduct and their settlement in the village communities of eastern Brittany in the ninth century, Social relations on stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens, Law and Local Power: The benevolent proprietor and the property law: A British-Indian dilemma, Law, arbitrariness and the power of the Lords of North Lebanon, The Legal Discourse: Speech and Silences: 11Reading the Riot Act: The discourse of law-enforcement in 18th century England, Silences of the law: Customary law and positive law on the manumission of slaves in 19th century Brazil, Islamic law and the social context of exchange in the medieval Middle East.
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1987. This is Volume six of the annual published under the auspices of the Institute of Jewish Law of the Boston University School of Law. The symposium on the Philosophy of Jewish Law, which forms the main content of both this and the next issue, represents a major contribution to an area of investigation which has attracted increasing interest in recent years.Table of ContentsJewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
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Harwood-Academic Publishers Jewish Law Annual (Vol 11)
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2004. This collection of papers is Volume eleven of the The Jewish Law Institute. Split onto two parts, it covers topics such as The Rabbinic Law on Entry and Seizure, the Problem of Priority in Civil Law, Analogical Argument in Early Jewish law amongst others. Part two entitled Chronicle, has examples of cases.Table of ContentsPart 1 The Rabbinic law on entry and seizure: mine and thine - the problem of priority in civil law (hashavat aveda); ancient variants and interpretations of some laws of the Book of the Covenant as reflected in early prophets' narratives; credit transactions in Geonic times in the light of the law against usury; contractual intent - is the reasonable person standard sufficient?; can an observant Jew practice law? a look at some Halakhic problems; on the nature of analogical argument in early Jewish law. Part 2 Chronicle: the case of Mrs Paula Cohen and her children; the Jewish will in English law; Grumet v. Board of Education of Kiryas Joel - towards a lemonaid theory of the first amendment's religious clauses; Jewish law in the State of Israel. Part 3 Book reviews: survey of recent literature.
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Lit Verlag Legal and Institutional Framework for Empowerment
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Transcript Verlag Global Contestations of Gender Rights
Book SynopsisAcross the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.Table of ContentsGlobal Contestations of Gender Rights; Analytical Framing; Gendering Global Entanglements; Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights; Gender Equality Policy in Practice in the Era of Global Contestation; Worldwide Anti-Gender Mobilization; Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law; Decolonizing Universalism?; Self, Relation and Gender Rights; Legal Equality without Justice; Family Law Exceptionalism and Contestations over Women's Rights in Mali's Family Code Reform; The Legal Contestation of Abortion Rights; Reproductive Rights as Battlefield in the New Cold War; Post-Conflict Gender Inequalities in Nigeria; Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities; Politicizations of Religion in Morocco and Germany; Mera Jism Meri Marzi; Global Contestations over Gender Equality in Islam; Authors.
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V&R Unipress Ehe Imperial
Book SynopsisEheschließung, Scheidung, Zugang zu Vermögen während und nach der Ehe: All dies war über die Jahrhunderte durch kirchliche und zivile Ordnungen strukturiert. Das Recht nahm damit sehr direkt Einfluss auf die persönliche Lebenspraxis. Obwohl das 19. Jahrhundert von zunehmender Rechtsvereinheitlichung gekennzeichnet war, bestanden vor allem in größeren territorialen Zusammenhängen partikulare Rechte weiter fort. Dies konnte Handlungsoptionen eröffnen in zahlreichen Fällen führte jedoch nur ein Wechsel in einen anderen Rechtsraum zum erwünschten Ziel, zum Beispiel einer Scheidung oder einer Wiederverheiratung. Differente Zugehörigkeiten konnten umgekehrt heiratswillige Paare vor große Herausforderungen stellen. An den Schnittstellen zwischen verschiedenen Rechtslogiken fragen die Beiträge nach Handlungsräumen von Männern und Frauen und nach den damit verbundenen Geschlechternormen.Aus dem Inhalt: Familienrecht(e) in der Habsburgermonarchie als Herausforderung des Empire / State, Church and Divorce from the Ottoman Empire to the Early Modern Greek State / French Basque Women's Adaptation to Legal Systems across Spaces, Times and Places / Eine Rechts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte deutsch-russischer Eheschließungen von 18751926 / Schariagerichtsakten aus dem habsburgischen Bosnien-Herzegowina (18781918) / Verwandtschaftshandeln in einer ökonomisch auseinanderdriftenden Gesellschaft: Eine Hochzeit in Benin. Marriage, divorce, access to property during and after marriage, all this was structured over the centuries by ecclesiastical and civil provisions. Law thus had a very direct influence on personal life. The nineteenth century in particular was characterized by increasing legal unification, but particular rights continued to exist in larger territorial contexts. This legal heterogeneity as well as migration between different jurisdictional spaces could open up new possibilities to act. Conversely, different affiliations in regard to confession or ethnicity could pose great challenges for couples willing to marry. The aim of this issue is to ask at the interfaces between different legal logics about the spheres of action of men and women and the associated gender norms.
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Demokratischer Konstitutionalismus: Dieter Grimms
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Methodology of Criminal Law Theory: Art, Politics
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Cradle of Laws: Drafting and Negotiating
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Liberal Legitimacy: The Justification of
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Recht Und Humanismus, Wirtschaften Und Humanitat:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Innovative Teaching in European Legal Education:
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Vitasta Publishing Patiala House
Book SynopsisPatiala House: Palace to Seat of Justice is a treasure trove for historians, culture enthusiasts, students, litigants, lawyers and judges alike.
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk Law & Economics: Essays in Honour of Erling Eide
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Brill Assisted Reproduction in Israel: Law, Religion
Book SynopsisThe theme of this BRP is the right to procreate in the Israeli context. Our discussion of this right includes the implementation of the right to procreate, restrictions on the right (due to societal, legal, or religious concerns), and the effect of the changing conception of the right to procreate (both substantively and in practice) on core family concepts.Table of ContentsAbstract; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Right to Procreate in Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Legal Arrangements, Difficulties, and Challenges: I. Background II. Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Restricted Openness A. Preserving the Traditional, Heterosexual Family Structure B. The Centrality of Genetic Connections C. Protecting Religious Interests III. Proposals for Changing the Current Legal Situation Chapter 2. The Right to Posthumous Procreation: I. Background II. The Parents' Right to Posthumous Fertilization III. The Future of the Parents' Right to Posthumous Fertilization: Two Concepts of the Right to Procreation A. The Supreme Court vs. Proposed Legislation: Two Concepts B. The Ancient Predecessor of the Two-Concepts Model IV. Posthumous Fertilization: Modern Jewish Law V. Summary Chapter 3. Conceptual Implications of the Modern Right to Procreate: I. Background II. Israeli Family Law Concepts of Parenthood: Considerate Functionalism III. Jewish Law Concepts of Parenthood in the Israeli Context IV. Conclusions: Functional Parenthood and Conceptual Dynamism Chapter 4. The Modern Right to Procreate: Basic Jewish Law Approaches: I. Background II. Areas of Tension III. Jewish Law under Societal Pressure IV. Closing Remarks.
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Brill Law’s Dominion: Jewish Community, Religion, and
Book SynopsisIn Law’s Dominion, Jay Berkovitz offers a novel approach to the history of early modern Jewry. Set in the city of Metz, on the Moselle river, this study of a vibrant prerevolutionary community draws on a wide spectrum of legal sources that tell a story about community, religion, and family that has not been told before. Focusing on the community’s leadership, public institutions, and judiciary, this study challenges the assumption that Jewish life was in a steady state of decline before the French Revolution. To the contrary, the evidence reveals a robust community that integrated religious values and civic consciousness, interacted with French society, and showed remarkable signs of collaboration between Jewish law and the French judicial system. In Law’s Dominion, Jay Berkovitz has gathered and meticulously mined a dazzling array of rich and complex rabbinic texts and records from Western Europe during the early modern period, including the pinkas of the rabbinic court of Metz that he previously rescued from oblivion. What emerges is a remarkably fresh depiction and incisive comparative treatment of central aspects of Jewish law, religion and family, which will have far-reaching ramifications for all future studies in these disciplines. -Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Law at Yeshiva UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Maps Introduction Part 1: Foundations 1 Writing Jewish History through a Legal Lens Rabbinic Responsa Literature Communal Registers (Pinkasim) Lay and Rabbinic Court Records Law as a Cultural System The Production of the Metz Pinkas Beit Din 2 The Foundations of the Metz Kehillah Return of the Jews to France and the Establishment of the Metz Community Ritual and Identity Material Culture Economic Integration Part 2: Community, Governance, Authority 3 Communal Autonomy and Governance Electoral and Administrative Procedures Consumption and Social Status Poverty and Social Welfare Juridical Autonomy and Recourse to Non-Jewish Courts Policing Religious and Cultural Boundaries 4 Lay and Rabbinic Judicial Authority Lay and Rabbinic Tribunals Sources of Law Judicial Procedure Functions of the Beit Din 5 Navigating the Challenges of Multiple Jurisdictions Language Production of Bi-lingual Documents Patterns of Litigation in the Beit Din Judicial Behavior of the Metz Beit Din The Acquaintance of the Beit Din with French Law and Judicial Procedure Navigating the Two Systems The Impact of French Law on Rabbinic Jurisprudence Part 3: Family Affairs 6 Guardianship and Inheritance Guardianship Inheritance Testamentary Charity 7 Women, Marriage, and Property Betrothal and Marriage Marital Property Women in Credit and Commerce 8 Conclusion and Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Czech Republic
Book SynopsisThis volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers the Czech Republic and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Czech language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.Table of ContentsForeword by the Editors General Introduction 1 Status of Religious Communities 1.1 Constitutional and Legal Guarantees 1.2 Legal Recognition of Churches and Religious Societies 1.3 Legal Persons Established by Registered Religious Communities 1.4 Religious Communities as Associations 2 Relations between the State and Islam 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Legal Basis for the Muslim Communities in the Czech Republic 2.3 Other Muslim Communities 2.4 General Provisions on Islamic Foundations (waqf) 3 State Support for Islamic Religious Communities 4 The Islamic Community of the Czech Republic 5 Muslims and the Law on Issues of Social Integration 5.1 Introduction 5.2 International Protection of Foreigners 5.3 The State Strategy for the Integration of Foreigners 5.4 Stay in the Czech Republic 5.5 Obtaining Czech Citizenship 6 Mosques and Prayer Houses 7 Burial and Cemeteries 8 Education and Schools 9 Further and Higher (Tertiary) Education 10 Islamic Chaplaincy in Public Institutions 11 Employment and Social Law 12 Islamic Slaughter and Food Regulation 12.1 Islamic Slaughter 12.2 Islamic Food Regulations 13 Islamic Goods and Services 14 Islamic Dress 15 Criminal Law 15.1 The Penal Code 15.2 The Act on the Criminal Liability of Legal Persons 16 Family Law 16.1 Private International Law 16.2 Marriage 16.3 Divorce 16.4 Czech Family Law and Islam 16.5 Children Bibliography Index
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Brill Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Portugal
Book SynopsisThis volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers Portugal and consists of an annotated collection of legal documents affecting the status of Islam and Muslims. The legal texts are published in the original Portuguese language while the annotations and supporting material are in English. By legal documents are meant the texts of legislation, including relevant secondary legislation, as well as significant court decisions. Each legal text is preceded by an introduction describing the historical, political and legal circumstances of its adoption, plus a short paragraph summarising its content. The focus of the collection is on the religious dimensions of being Muslim in Europe, i.e. on individuals' access to practise their religious obligations and on the ability to organise and manifest their religious life.Table of ContentsForeword by the Editors Introductory Remarks Ibrahim Salama General Introduction 1 Status of Religious Communities 1.1 Constitutional Guarantees 1.2 Legal Recognition of Churches and Religious Communities 1.3 Religious Entities with No Juridical Personality 1.4 Registered Religious Communities 1.5 Religious Communities as Associations 1.6 Recognition of Ministers of Religion 2 Relations between the State and Islam 2.1 Agreement between Portugal and the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims 3 State Support for Islamic Religious Communities 3.1 Religious Property or Use of Property for Religious Ends 3.2 Tax Benefits 3.3 Commission on Religious Freedom 3.4 Commission for the Religious Persuasions’ Broadcasting Time 4 Muslims in Integration Law 5 Mosques and Prayer Houses 6 Burial and Cemeteries 7 Education and Schools 7.1 Compulsory Education 7.2 Religious Education 7.3 Private Schools 8 Further and Higher (Tertiary) Education 9 Islamic Chaplaincy in Public Institutions 9.1 Religious Chaplaincy in the Armed Forces and Security Forces 9.2 Religious Chaplaincy in Prison 9.3 Religious Chaplaincy in the National Health Service 10 Employment and Social Law 10.1 Employment Law 10.2 Religious Needs in Employment and Provision for Days of Rest 10.3 Social Law 11 Islamic Slaughter and Food Regulation 12 Islamic Goods and Services 13 Islamic Dress 14 Criminal Law 15 Family Law 15.1 Private International Law 15.2 Marriage and Divorce 15.3 Children Bibliography Index
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European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) EU Law-making in Principle and Practice
Book SynopsisThis book is about how European Union (EU) law is made. It is about the ways in which legally binding rules in the form of EU Regulations, Directives and Decisions are produced through interaction between the EU institutions: the independent European Commission; the Council, bringing together the Member States; and the European Parliament, directly elected by EU citizens. It has a particular approach which distinguishes it from the many other books which are published on EU law, institutions, politics and policies. The aim is to make it possible for people not only to see the ‘big picture’ of EU law-making, and to understand the main principles which underlie this system, but also to find a lot of the practical details. It therefore offers a concise overview of EU law-making which highlights the main principles and structures involved, and it places the different steps in context around a ‘policy cycle’. This cycle is illustrated not only by examples and mini-cases at all stages, but also by a more detailed case study which looks at the EU Timber Regulation around the whole cycle. In addition, the book supplies details about the procedures and practices of law-making which are often sought after by EU policy ‘practitioners’, as well as students of EU decision-making, and which so far have not been easily, if at all, to be found in published literature. While the book should be of use and interest to all those interested in how the EU works, it is written with a certain emphasis on what it all means for public actors. Almost all public officials in Europe are affected in one way or another by decisions taken in the EU, and an increasing number of officials are directly involved in shaping or implementing these decisions. Yet, as the EU has grown in size, scope and complexity, it has become increasingly difficult for people to have a clear idea of what the EU actually does, and how it really works. It is not always obvious, even to officials who are personally involved, how individual actions in the EU setting fit into the overall policy process. This book aims to answer that question.Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface and acknowledgements. List of illustrations. Part 2 1. Introduction: EU Law-Making and the Policy Cycle 2. Policy Initiation: the European Commission 3. Legislative Decision-Making: the Parliament and the Council 4. Delegated and Implementing Acts 5. Case Study: the EU Timber Regulation 6. Conclusions: EU Law-Making and EU Governance Part 3: Annexes Annex 1. EU legally binding acts (2010-2012) Annex 2. Special legislative procedures: indicative overview Annex 3. Non-legislative procedures for the adoption of legally binding acts directly based on treaty articles
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HarperCollins India Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21,
Book SynopsisLiberty After Freedom explores the origins of what is today considered the most important fundamental right in the Indian Constitution - the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21. This is the article which in recent years made the right to privacy as well as the decriminalization of homosexuality possible. Without a doubt, Article 21 has had the most outsized influence on the progressive development of rights in India. But the story of how this important right was birthed is deeply controversial and its passage in the Constituent Assembly divided opinion like no other feature of the Constitution. Liberty After Freedom explores the intellectual beginnings of this paramount fundamental right in an attempt to decode and unravel the controversies which raged at the time the Constitution was being crafted.Written in lucid prose and drawing extensively on the Constituent Assembly debates as well as a wide array of scholarly literature, it questions long-held beliefs and sheds new and important light on the fraught history of due process and Article 21. It is an indispensable book for the legal community and for everyone interested in the genesis of the Constitution.
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HarperCollins India A Constitution to Keep: Sedition and Free Speech
Book SynopsisWhen we think of the Indian Constitution, we think of the glorious chapter on fundamental rights which guarantees paramount civil liberties such as freedom of speech. But there is also a tension, because freedom of speech is compelled to co-exist with laws such as sedition - contained in Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In 2021, numerous individuals petitioned the Supreme Court to take sedition off the law books.But, what is sedition? What is its provenance? How was sedition used in colonial India against nationalist leaders? Is there any constitutional justification for its continuance?
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HarperCollins India Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21,
Book SynopsisLiberty After Freedom explores the origins of what is today considered the most important fundamental right in the Indian Constitution - the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21. This is the article which in recent years made the right to privacy as well as the decriminalization of homosexuality possible. Without a doubt, Article 21 has had the most outsized influence on the progressive development of rights in India.But the story of how this important right was birthed is deeply controversial and its passage in the Constituent Assembly divided opinion like no other feature of the Constitution. Liberty After Freedom explores the intellectual beginnings of this paramount fundamental right in an attempt to decode and unravel the controversies which raged at the time the Constitution was being crafted.
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HarperCollins India Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution,
Book SynopsisUnsealed Covers provides a unique terrain where the actions of the judiciary and its relationship with the government are examined in terms of evolution and chronology. It also comments on some of the most important judgments of the past decade.
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HarperCollins India Privacy 3.0
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Juggernaut Publication The Cases That India Forgot 2021
Book SynopsisConstitutional expert Chintan Chandrachud explores ten forgotten legal cases in India, revealing the judiciary's complexities and shortcomings. The book sheds light on instances where courts have faltered in upholding justice and history, offering a critical examination of Indian institutions.
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Amsterdam University Press The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the
Book SynopsisFor more than three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independence against the majoritarian Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka. Even as the government fought LTTE on the battlefield, it also pursued a legal war through the enactment of counterterrorism laws that permitted indefinite detention and the use of confessions as sole evidence. This book applies theoretical insights from the work of philosophers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Foucault to the Sri Lankan context to examine the conflicting narratives relating to these laws produced by both sides in the conflict.Table of ContentsDo Tigers confess? Rebellion and martyrdom Facts, falsities, and fictions Punitive interrogation of Tamil Tiger suspects Judgment of the terrorist against the 'formula of justice' Fantasies, fictions, myths, and denials about Tamil Tigers' confessions Annexure BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Amsterdam University Press On Rules
Book SynopsisJustice is simultaneously a practical and an ideal concept: when we think of justice, we refer to its day-to-day administration, involving police, lawyers, judges, and politicians-but we also refer to a larger ideal, a set of basic values that guide our attempts to live together and balance competing interests, obligations, and freedoms. If we lose sight of the practical, the ideal will fail-but if we forget the ideal, the practical becomes pointless. On Rules is the culmination of decades of thinking about and working within the law as both ideal and realm of practical action. Gherardo Colombo brings to his rich philosophical analysis of the culture of justice thirty years of experience in the Italian judiciary, which saw him head up numerous important and sensitive commissions and inquiries. His exploration of the concept and application of rules of justice is powerful and clear: if we don't root our experience in a fundamental respect for rules, we cannot have a functioning, just society.Table of ContentsIntroduction 5 1. An Imaginary Country 25 Part I The Ambiguities of Justice 2. Law and Justice 33 3. Laws Difffering in Time and Space 34 4. ‘Justice’ is an Ambiguous Word 36 5. Law Comes From God 39 6. Law is Just If It is ‘Natural’ 43 7. Law is Just When It Exists 45 8. From Subject to Citizen 46 Part II Horizontal Society and Vertical Society 9. The Vertical Society 51 10. The Horizontal Society 57 11. Structure of the Two Models 64 12. Consequences of the Vertical Society 65 13. Consequences of the Horizontal Society 70 14. Fundamental Rights According to the Two Models 76 15. Sanctions According to the Vertical Model 79 16. The Consequences to Offfences in the Horizontal Society 84 17. Victim and Offfender 91 18. Limits to Personal Liberty 95 19. Vertical Society, Horizontal Society, Ideology and Religion 97 Part III Towards a Horizontal Society 20. An Attempt to Justify Law at the End of the Second Millennium 103 21. The Limits of International Rules 106 22. An Attempt at Creating a Horizontal Society: the Italian Constitution 109 23. The Person Comes First 111 24. What is Missing? 114 25. Uncertainties in the Constitutional Process 117 26. Culture 119 27. The Interests of Those Who Oppose the Horizontal Society 124 28. Security 126 29. Escaping Responsibility 128 Part IV How Do We Get There? 30. The Time Dynamic 133 31. Self-Awareness 135 Conclusion 142 Acknowledgments 144
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Amsterdam University Press The Boundaries of Data
Book SynopsisThe legal domain distinguishes between different types of data and attaches a different level of protection to each of them. Thus, non-personal data are left largely unregulated, while privacy and data protection rules apply to personal data or personal information. There are stricter rules for processing sensitive personal data than for ordinary' personal data, and metadata or communications data are regulated differently than content communications data. Technological developments challenge these legal categorisations on at least three fronts: First, the lines between the categories are becoming harder to draw and more fluid. Second, working with various categories of data works well when the category a datum or dataset falls into is relatively stable. However, this is less and less so. Third, scholars increasingly question the rationale behind the various legal categorisations. This book assesses to what extent either of these strategies is feasible and to what extent alternative ap
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