On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the advocacy group Liberty On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti - who joined Liberty, the UK's leading civil rights organisation, on 10...
From the Kennedy administration through the end of the Reagan era, the Potomac Institute gave vital, behind-the-scenes support to countless public-and-private-sector initiatives related to equal opportunity, urban social problems, and race relations. Part history and part memoir of Harold C. Fleming, the institute's leader, The Potomac Chronicle tells for the first time how the institute served as a creative broker of talent, ideas, and resources among minorities, activists, and interest groups....
In This Provocative work, Frank S. Ravitch redirects the heated debate over prayer in the public schools. He asserts that current legal discourse, which centers this controversial issue around First Amendment rights, underestimates the ways in which school prayer fosters discrimination against religious minorities and dissenters. Arguing that traditional Constitutional doctrine is inadequate to address the harmful effects of public school religious exercises, Ravitch looks to civil rights princi...
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Selected Other Procedural Provisions (Selected Statutes)
by Kevin Clermont
Updated to include the latest amendments and proposals, this statutory supplement provides the clearest and most useful collection of statutes and rules for courses in civil procedure-even including a sample set of local rules. The Supplement's unique organizational structure presents much information, but manages to do so without sacrificing a clean and usable presentation of the rules. A clever system of annotation succinctly explains amendments, and a separate presentation of the advisory com...
The New Civil Rights Research (Law, Justice and Power)
by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen
Bringing together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book draws on narratives of individuals from a variety of contexts to provide a rich and contextualized understanding of what happens when law interacts with other competing systems or forms of social organization. By privileging the real world, lived experiences of those most influenced by rights, the collection moves beyond the traditional polarizing debates, and unlike other research in...
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers' Rights (New Directions in the History of Education)
by M A Nash and Karen L. Graves
A groundbreaking examination of the intricate legal framework that prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other innocent Black people have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power—the decisions of the Supreme Court, state and local gover...
The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one's skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a per...
Das BGB nimmt mit der Schuldrechtsmodernisierung 2002 den neuen Begriff der Pflichtverletzung in das Leistungsstoerungsrecht auf, um dieses rechtliche Problem ohne Ruckgriff auf die Lehre von der Positiven Vertragsverletzung loesen zu koennen. Der Autor geht davon aus, dass dieser Begriff der Pflichtverletzung im neuen BGB gleichbedeutend ist mit dem der nicht gehoerigen Erfullung des alten BGB. Er geht in seiner Arbeit auf die Entwicklung des Leistungsstoerungsrechts mit dem Begriff der nicht g...
Strom ist leitungsgebunden. Daher mussen Anlagen zur Erzeugung von Strom aus Erneuerbaren Energien zwecks Einspeisung und Fortleitung des produzierten Stroms an das Netz der allgemeinen Versorgung angeschlossen werden. Ist das Netz in der vorgefundenen Situation nicht zur Abnahme des Stroms geeignet, muss der jeweilige Netzbetreiber unter bestimmten Umstanden die Kapazitat seines Netzes auf eigene Kosten erweitern. Die Arbeit untersucht die Rechtslage hinsichtlich dieser Pflicht zur Kapazitatser...
Diese Arbeit soll eine umfassende Betrachtung des Einsatzes der Narkoanalyse bieten. Dabei befindet sich das behandelte Thema an der Schnittstelle von Medizingeschichte, juristischer Zeitgeschichte, strafrechtlicher Dogmatik, Verfassungsrecht und Rechtspolitik. Der enge Bezug zur intensiv diskutierten Frage nach einer ausnahmsweisen Zulassigkeit der sogenannten "Rettungsfolter" war Anlass, der fast in Vergessenheit geratenen juristischen Kontroverse um die Narkoanalyse wieder Beachtung zu schenk...
Civil Rights Chronicle
by Clayborne Carson and Myrtle Evers-Williams
This thought-provoking monograph provides a systematic, philosophically-grounded reconceptualisation of press freedom and press regulation. In a major departure from orthodox norms, the book argues that press freedom and coercive independent press regulation are not mutually exclusive; that newspapers could be made to compensate their victims, through regulation, without jeopardising their free speech rights; that their perceived public watchdog status does not exempt them; and, ultimately, that...
Annexbedingungen Und Koppelungsgeschaefte Im Anwendungsbereich Des 87 I Betrvg
by Eckart Gaude
Die Untersuchung berucksichtigt in ihrem Schwerpunkt die Tatsache, dass Koppelungsgeschafte im Anwendungsbereich des 87 I BetrVG gleichermassen von Betriebsraten und Arbeitgebern veranlasst werden. Dabei wird die Zulassigkeit der Koppelungsgeschafte im Wege der Auslegung des 87 I BetrVG gepruft und unter Berucksichtigung der Betriebsautonomie ihre grundsatzliche Zulassigkeit festgestellt, die allerdings insoweit durch den in 2 I BetrVG normierten Grundsatz der vertrauensvollen Zusammenarbeit...
Asia Pacific and Human Rights (New Regionalisms) (The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms)
by Paul Close and David Askew
Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as a major source of disagreement, dispute and discord at and between the local, regional and global l...
Community of Rights - Rights of Community
by Author Daniel Fischlin, Martha Nandorfy, and Professor of Law School of Law Upendra Baxi
Ein Wechsel der Hochschulrechtsform soll die Effizienz der Hochschulen steigern und private Mazene aktivieren. Dieses Werk untersucht, welche Organisationsformen fur staatliche Universitaten verfassungsrechtlich zulassig und im Hinblick auf die Ziele der Reform geeignet sind. Im Rahmen der verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben finden u.a. die Wissenschaftsfreiheit nach Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG, die landesverfassungsrechtlichen Garantien der akademischen Selbstverwaltung, die demokratische Legitimation der Hoc...