Law : Constitutional

The Treaty of Amsterdam’s closer co-operation paragraphs had the merit of putting a long standing practice of diversity not only into a new straightjacket but also into a new perspective. However it also created new sources of confusion. The Treaty of Nice brought some modifications but no great clarification, leaving the latter to legal practice and, in its absence, to scholarship. This is the challenge picked up by the present book. Its specific approach is to find analogies for these novel EU techniques of flexibility in past of existing but experienced constitutional systems, either confederate or federal. The book combines legal analysis with historical detail. In this book, you will find a presentation of the numerous contexts of flexible co-operation. The main topics to come out of the debates were 1) the necessity of leadership or dominance in closer co-operation projects; 2) the usefulness of the flexibility provisions; 3) the control and transparency of enhanced co-operation forms; 4) the way they lead to unity or diversity. These issues come together in the epilogue by W.T. Eijsbouts, (European Law, University of Amsterdam) who, notwithstanding all complexity, detects a model of ‘balanced constitution’. more...

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This book examines the Corn Laws and their repeal, and explores the development of free trade ideas in Britain and around the world. The contributors are leading international experts in the field from Britain, Europe and the United States. more...

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Dora Kostakopoulou develops a new institutional framework for anational citizenship. more...

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Geistiges Eigentum ist eine Schl??sselressource. Im Zeitalter von Digitalisierung und Globalisierung ist sein Schutz gleichwohl in eine Akzeptanzkrise geraten. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse eines Dialogs zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft in Bereichen, in denen sich die Frage, ob die Rechte zum Schutz Geistigen Eigentums einen legitimen Schutz- oder einen Ausbeutungstitel verschaffen, besonders nachhaltig stellt. Dies betrifft die Biotechnologie und den patentrechtlichen Schutz von nat??rlichen und genetischen Ressourcen, den Schutz von Software im Urheber- und Patentrecht sowie die Zukunft des Urheberrechts im Zeitalter digitaler Medien. Anliegen des in zwei Veranstaltungen durchgef??hrten Dialogs war es, das Bewusstsein f??r den berechtigten Kern von Patentrecht und Urheberrecht zu st??rken, aber auch aufzuzeigen, wo dieser Kern aufgeweicht ist. more...

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An in-depth look at five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state. Over the past two decades, federal courts have become contentious battlefields in America’s growing religious wars. Since 1989, five momentous court cases have divided communities—and the nation. Peter Irons, a noted constitutional scholar, lawyer, and author of the bestselling May It Please the Court, delivers a compelling narrative accompanied by first-person accounts from both sides of the fight in these historic cases. In 1989, residents of San Diego challenged a forty-three-foot-high cross in the center of a public park; 1995 brought a dispute in a Texas town over the recital of prayers at high school football games; in rural Kentucky in 1999, a lawsuit was filed against displaying the Ten Commandments in county courthouses; in 2000, a California parent challenged the words ''under God'' in his daughter’s daily Pledge of Allegiance. And, finally, in 2004, parents in Dover, Pennsylvania, challenged the school board’s requirement that ''intelligent design'' be taught as an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Irons’s detailed, in-depth investigation of each of these trials is followed by interviews with the people involved to provide a complete picture of the ongoing wars for ''the soul of America.'' more...

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