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  • 1
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    ISBN: 9789400745100 , 1283612313 , 9781283612319
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 424 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 16
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The universalism of human rights
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    Keywords: Public law ; Constitutional law ; Law ; Law ; Public law ; Constitutional law ; Konferenzschrift 2010 ; Konferenzschrift ; Menschenrecht ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained that universalism of human rights is both a concept and a normative reality. The normative character of human rights is scrutinized through the study of international and regional agreements as well as national constitutions. As a consequence, limitations of normativity are identified, usually on the international level, and take the form of exceptions, reservations, and interpretations. The book is based on the General and National Reports which were originally presented at the 18th International Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Washington D.C. 2010.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Universalism of Human Rights; Foreword; Préface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Human Rights and Peace; Contemporary Developments; Plurinational Level of Protection; Instruments and Mechanisms; Questionnaire; Results; Evaluation; Chapter 1: Reflections on the Universality of Human Rights; 1.1 Are Human Rights Universal?; 1.1.1 How to Define Universality?; 1.1.2 The Human Rights Idea, the Political Transformation of This Idea Into Normative Structures, and the Gap Between Normative Claim and Reality; 1.1.3 Normative Claim and Normative Reality; 1.1.4 Universality v. Relativism 7
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.1.5 Human Rights and National Constitutional Law1.2 Are Fundamental Rights Binding?; 1.2.1 International and Regional Level; 1.2.2 State Level; 1.2.3 The Effects of Human Rights Soft Law; 1.2.4 Human Rights and the Rule of Law; References; Chapter 2: Universal Human Rights in the Law of the United States; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Human Rights in the States; 2.3 Federal Protections of Human Rights; 2.4 International Human Rights Standards; 2.5 Conclusion and Prospects for the Future; References; Chapter 3: Diversité culturelle et droits de la personne: la situation au Canada*
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 Traités et droit canadien3.2 Actes unilatéraux des organisations internationales et droit canadien; 3.3 Particularismes locaux canadiens; 3.3.1 Peuples autochtones canadiens; 3.3.2 Minorités linguistiques canadiennes; 3.3.3 Minorités ethniques et religieuses canadiennes; 3.4 Conclusion; Bibliographie; Monographie; Articles; Jurisprudence; Législation; Documents internationaux; Rapports; Sites Web; Annexe - Conventions auxquelles le Canada est partie; Chapter 4: The Impact of the Jurisprudence Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Chilean Constitutional System; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 The Inter-American System of Human Rights4.2.1 The System Based on the OAS Charter; 4.2.2 System Based on the Convention; 4.3 Constitution, Law and Rights in Chile; 4.4 The Position of the International Treaties on Human Rights in the Chilean Constitutional System; 4.4.1 The Hierarchy of International Treaties on Human Rights; 4.4.2 The History of Article 5 (2) Second Sentence of the Constitution; 4.4.3 The Principle of Harmonious Interpretation of the Constitution and the Requirements for Constitutional Amendments
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.4 The Hierarchical Superiority of Treaties on Human Rights with Regard to National Law4.4.5 The Chilean Constitution and the American Treaty on Human Rights; 4.4.6 The Relationship Between the San José de Costa Rica Court's Judgments and the Judgments of the Chilean Courts; 4.4.6.1 The San José de Costa Rica Court's Judgments Have No Supremacy over Chilean Courts; 4.4.6.2 The Enforcement of the San José Court's Judgments May Need to Reform the Internal Law; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Bibliography; Legal Documents; Judgments
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: The Universal Nature of Human Rights: The Brazilian Stance Within Latin America's Human Rights Scenario
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9789400765641
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 200 p. 22 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Law, Governance and Technology Series 10
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Pagallo, Ugo The laws of robots
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computers Law and legislation ; Civil law ; Criminal Law ; Law ; Law ; Ethics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computers Law and legislation ; Civil law ; Criminal Law ; Computer ; Privatrecht ; Strafrecht ; Roboter ; Recht
    Abstract: This book explores how the design, construction, and use of robotics technology may affect today’s legal systems and, more particularly, matters of responsibility and agency in criminal law, contractual obligations, and torts. By distinguishing between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as proper agents in the legal arena, jurists will have to address a new generation of “hard cases.” General disagreement may concern immunity in criminal law (e.g., the employment of robot soldiers in battle), personal accountability for certain robots in contracts (e.g., robo-traders), much as clauses of strict liability and negligence-based responsibility in extra-contractual obligations (e.g., service robots in tort law). Since robots are here to stay, the aim of the law should be to wisely govern our mutual relationships
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: On Law, Philosophy and Technology; 2.1 The Philosophy of Law and Robots; 2.1.1 The Law in Literature; 2.1.2 Sources, Concepts, and Legal Reasoning; 2.1.3 The Levels of Abstraction; 2.2 The Principle of Responsibility; 2.2.1 Immunity; 2.2.2 Strict Liability; 2.2.3 Personal Fault; 2.2.4 Responsibility for a Robot; 2.3 Agency and Accountability of Artificial Agents; 2.3.1 A Moral Threshold; 2.3.2 Agents Before the Law; 2.4 Who Pays?; Chapter 3: Crimes; 3.1 Sci-Fi Scenarios
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 The States of Mind and Criminal Acts3.3 Robots and Just Wars; 3.3.1 What Robots Might Change; 3.3.2 Just Causes of War; 3.3.3 Conditions of Just Wars; 3.3.4 Proportionality; 3.4 The Phenomenology of Picciotto Roboto; 3.4.1 Picciotto by Design; 3.4.2 Crimes of Intent; 3.4.3 Crimes of Negligence; 3.5 A Failure of Causation?; Chapter 4: Contracts; 4.1 Pacts, Clauses and Risk; 4.2 The Artificial Doctor; 4.2.1 Parties, Counterparties and Third Parties; 4.2.2 Producers, Users and Patients; 4.3 Robo-Traders; 4.3.1 Artificial Greediness; 4.3.2 The Robot and the Principal
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.3 A New Agent in Town4.4 Modern Robots, Ancient Slaves; 4.4.1 The Digital Peculium; 4.5 The UV Revolution; 4.5.1 AI Chauffeurs and Intelligent Car Sharing; 4.5.2 Unjust Damages; Chapter 5: Torts; 5.1 Bad Intentions; 5.2 Children, Pets and Negligence; 5.2.1 American Parents; 5.2.2 Italian Parents; 5.3 AI Employees and Strict Liability Rules; 5.3.1 The Digital Peculium Revisited; 5.4 Burdens of Proof; 5.4.1 The Precautionary Principle; 5.4.2 Robotic Openness; Chapter 6: Law as Meta-technology; 6.1 Robots as Legal Persons; 6.1.1 The Front of Robotic Liberation; 6.1.2 The Pragmatic Stance
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Robots as Strict Agents6.3 Sources of Good and Evil; 6.4 Levels of Complexity; 6.4.1 Technologies of Social Control; 6.4.2 The Political Requirement; Conclusions; References
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789400763142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 202 p. 2 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 25
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Human law and computer law
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    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Humanities ; Law ; Law ; Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Humanities ; Datenverarbeitung ; Internet ; Recht ; Datenverarbeitung ; Internet ; Recht
    Abstract: The focus of this book is on the epistemological and hermeneutic implications of data science and artificial intelligence for democracy and the Rule of Law. How do the normative effects of automated decision systems or the interventions of robotic fellow ‘beings’ compare to the legal effect of written and unwritten law? To investigate these questions the book brings together two disciplinary perspectives rarely combined within the framework of one volume. One starts from the perspective of ‘code and law’ and the other develops from the domain of ‘law and literature’. Integrating original analyses of relevant novels or films, the authors discuss how computational technologies challenge traditional forms of legal thought and affect the regulation of human behavior. Thus, pertinent questions are raised about the theoretical assumptions underlying both scientific and legal practice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 0: Prefatory Remarks on Human Law and Computer Law; 0.1 Comparative Law; 0.2 Computer Law?; 0.3 Comparing Human Law and Computer Law; 0.4 Human Language and Computer Language: Law, Code and Literature; References; Part I: Law and Code; Chapter 1: Prefatory Remarks on Part I: Law and Code; 1.1 Law and Language; 1.2 Language and Computer Code; 1.3 Law as Code: Two Strands of Research; 1.3.1 Artificial Intelligence and Legal Subjectivity; 1.3.2 Legal and Technological Normativity; References; Chapter 2: From Galatea 2.2 to Watson - And Back?
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Introduction 12.1.1 Mythical Beginnings; 2.1.2 Beyond Snow's Two Cultures; 2.2 Eliza and the Turing Test: A Human Machine?; 2.3 IBM's Heros: Deep Blue and Watson; 2.3.1 Deep Blue; 2.3.2 Watson; 2.4 Searle's Chinese Room Argument: Syntax and Meaning; 2.5 Back to 'My Fair Lady'; 2.6 The Legal Status of Smart Contraptions: Tools, Rivals or Companions?; 2.6.1 Embodiment, Emotion and Cognition; 2.6.2 Legal Implications of Smart Agents; 2.6.2.1 Artificial Legal Subjects: The Agency of Corporations; 2.6.2.2 Artificial Legal Subjects: The Agency of Other 'Intelligent Machines'
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.7 Concluding RemarksReferences; Chapter 3: What Robots Want: Autonomous Machines, Codes and New Frontiers of Legal Responsibility; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The No New Responsibility Thesis; 3.3 The New Weak Responsibility Thesis; 3.3.1 New Crimes, New Punishments; 3.3.2 New Agents, New Contracts; 3.4 The New Strong Responsibility Thesis; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Abort, Retry, Fail: Scoping Techno-Regulation and Other Techno-Effects; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 What Is Techno-Regulation?; 4.3 The Limits of the Debate on Techno-Regulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Beyond the Limits of Techno-Regulation, Part 1: Persuasion, Nudging and Affordances4.5 Beyond the Limits of Techno-Regulation, Part 2: Unintentional and Implicit Influences of Technology; 4.6 The Full Scope of Techno-Effects; 4.7 Abort, Retry, Fail. Or: Liberating the Boxed-in Concept of Techno-Regulation; References; Chapter 5: A Bump in the Road. Ruling Out Law from Technology; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Law Is Dead, Long Live Techno-Regulation?; 5.3 Incorporeal Rules or Brute Matter? Two Inescapable Truisms; 5.4 The Practice of Law and the Price of the Practice Turn; 5.5 The Medium of Law
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.6 Hart - The Concept of Law5.6.1 A Practice Theory of Rules; 5.6.2 Demarcating Law as a Practice: Law as a System of Rules; 5.7 Latour - The Passage of Law; 5.7.1 How to Study Law as a Practice? An Ethnography of the Council of State; 5.7.2 Demarcating Law as a Practice: Law as a Regime of Reattachment; 5.7.2.1 The Transfer of Value Objects; 5.7.2.2 Acts of Attachment; 5.7.2.3 Clef de Lecture; 5.8 Beyond Incorporeal Rules and Material Media?; 5.8.1 Institution - Regime of Enunciation; 5.8.2 The Legal Trajectory of Enunciation; 5.9 Law and Technology; 5.9.1 A Bump in the Road
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.9.2 Law as Tracing Through Reattachments
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    ISBN: 9789400759282
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 216 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 7
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Australia's children's courts today and tomorrow
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    Keywords: Public law ; Criminology ; Social work ; Psychic research ; Law ; Law ; Public law ; Criminology ; Social work ; Psychic research ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Australien ; Kinderkriminalität ; Jugendgerichtsbarkeit ; Australien ; Kinderkriminalität ; Jugendgerichtsbarkeit
    Abstract: The Children’s Court is one of society’s most important social institutions. At the same time, it is steeped in controversy. This is in large measure due to the persistence and complexity of the problems with which it deals, namely, juvenile crime and child abuse and neglect.Despite the importance of the Children’s Court as a means of holding young people accountable for their anti-social behaviour and parents for the care of their children, it has not been the subject of close study. Certainly it has not been previously studied nationally. This edited collection, is based on the findings of study that spanned the six States and two Territories of Australia. The study sought to examine the current challenges faced by the Children’s Court and to identify desirable and feasible directions for reform in each State and Territory. A further unique feature of this study is that it canvassed the views of judges and magistrates who preside over this court
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - Allan Borowski and Rosemary Sheehan -- Part One: the mandate of the Children’s Court -- 2 The Children’s Court in the Australian Capital Territory - Peter Camilleri and Morag McArthur,- 3 The Children’s Court in New South Wales - Elizabeth Fernandez, Jane Bolitho and Dr Patricia Hansen -- 4 Youth Justice, Child Protection and the Role of the Youth Courts in the Northern Territory - Debora West and David Heath -- 5 The Children’s Court in Queensland - Claire Tilbury and Paul Mazerolle -- 6 The Children’s Court in South Australia - Paul Delfabbro and Andrew Day -- 7 The Children’s Court in Tasmania - Rob White and Max Travers and Michael McKinnon -- 8 The Children’s Court in Victoria - Allan Borowski and Rosemary Sheehan -- 9 Cultural Slippage, Resource Divide, Aboriginal Children and Multisystemic Reform - Mike Clare, Joe Clare, Brenda Clare, Caroline Spiranovic --  Part two: Australia in the international context -- 10 A Portrait of Australis's Children's Courts - Allan Borowski -- 11. Care and protection: Australia and the international context - Marie Connolly -- 12 Juvenile Justice: Australian Court responses situated in the international context - Judy Cashmore -- About the authors -- Index.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781402063626
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 83
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Linderfalk, Ulf, 1964 - On the interpretation of treaties
    DDC: 340
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    Keywords: Law ; Law Philosophy ; Comparative law ; Public law ; Comparative law ; European Law/Public International Law ; General Law/Fundamentals ; International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law ; Law Theory/Law Philosophy ; Law Philosophy ; Law ; Public law ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Auslegung ; Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités : 1969
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the modern international law of treaty interpretation expressed in 1969 Vienna Convention, Articles 31-33. As stated by the anonymous referee, it is the most theoretically advanced and analytically refined work yet accomplished on this topic. The style of writing is clear and concise, and the organisation of the book meets the demands of scholars and practitioners alike.
    Abstract: In the practice of modern international law, disputes as to the meaning of specific treaty provisions are a frequent occurrence. It is the assumption underlying any such dispute that in a process of interpretation a distinction has to be made between the legally correct and incorrect interpretation result. The legal correctness of an interpretation result is determined by reference to the relevant international law, as reflected in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), Articles 31-33. The result of an interpretation process is correct when it can be successfully defended as being in accordance with the provisions of VCLT Articles 31-33. The result is incorrect when it cannot be so defended. Traditionally, the substance of Articles 31-33 has been described by reference to the various means of interpretation enumerated in said provisions, and little more than that. As argued in this book, more detail is required. On closer inspection, not only does the Vienna Convention provide information on the interpretation data (or means of interpretation) to be used by appliers when interpreting a treaty provision. It also instructs the appliers how, by using each datum, they shall argue to arrive at a conclusion about the meaning of the interpreted provision, and, to some extent, it determines the weight that different data of interpretation shall be afforded when appliers discover that, depending on the specific datum they bring to bear on the interpretation process, the conclusion arrived at will be different. Hence, the regime laid down in VCLT Articles 31-33 will have to be described as a system of rules. This book investigates the contents and structure of this system. By importing knowledge from linguistics, and pragmatics in particular, a model is established giving representation to the concept of a rule of interpretation. Drawing on this model, the book then proceeds to reconstruct the contents of the various rules of interpretation. To facilitate reference, the conclusions suggest a list of 44 rules, all of which can be invoked by appliers citing VCLT Articles 31-33.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; The Rule Of Interpretation; Using Conventional Language ("The Ordinary Meaning"); Using the Context: The "Text" of a Treaty; Using the Context: The Elements Set Out in VCLT Article 31 2(A) AND (B); Using The Context: The Elements Set Out in VCLT Article 31 3; Using the Object and Purpose; Using the Supplementary Means of Interpretation; Using Supplementary Means of Interpretation (Cont'd); The Relationships Between Different Means of Interpretation; The Special Rule Regarding the Interpretation of Treaties Authenticated In Two Or More Languages
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflecting on the Outcome: International Law on a Scale Between Radical Legal Skepticism And The One-Right-Answer ThesisBack Matter
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781402038426
    Language: English
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    DDC: 341.2422
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    Keywords: Law ; Philosophy of Law ; Political Science ; Comparative law ; Public law ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Osteuropa ; Europäische Union ; Demokratisierung ; Erweiterung ; Politischer Wandel ; Europäische Union ; Erweiterung ; Osteuropa ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Südosteuropa ; Demokratisierung ; Rechtsstaatsprinzip ; Konstitutionalismus
    Abstract: "The accession of eight post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (and also of Malta and Cyprus) to the European Union in 2004 has been heralded as perhaps the most important development in the history of European integration so far. While the impact of the enlargement on the constitutional structures and practices of the EU has already generated a rich scholarly literature, the influence of the accession on constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law among the new member states has been largely ignored. This book fills this gap, and addresses the question of the consequences of the ""external force"" of European enlargement upon the understanding and practice of democracy and the rule of law and among both the main legal-political actors and the general public in the new member-states. A number of leading legal scholars, sociologists and political scientists, both from Central and Eastern Europe and from outside, address these issues in a systematic and critical way. Taken together, these essays help answer a fundamental question: does the European Union have the potential of promoting and consolidate democracy and human rights?"
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; EU Enlargement and Democracy in New Member States; The Eastern EU Enlargement and the Janus-headed Nature of the Constitutional Treaty; A Problem of their Own, Solutions of their Own: CEE Jurisdictions and the Problems of Lustration and Retroactivity; Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe; Sub-National Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Europeanization; The Copenhagen Criteria and the Evolution of Popular Consent to EU Norms: From Legality to Normative Justifiability in Poland and the Czech Republic
    Description / Table of Contents: Becoming "Europeans": The Impact of EU "Constitutionalism" on Post-Communist Pre-ModernityHappy Returns to Europe? The Union's Identity, Constitution-Making, and its Impact on the Central European Accession States; An Evolutionary Approach to the Constitutionalism of an Enlarged EU: Why will Cognitive and Cultural Boundaries Matter?; Constitutional Tolerance and EU Enlargement: The Politics of Dissent?; Europeanization Through Judicial Activism? The Hungarian Constitutional Court's Legitimacy and the "Return to Europe"
    Description / Table of Contents: Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European UnionTransformation and Integration of Legal Cultures and Discourses-Poland; EU Enlargement and the Constitutional Principle of Judicial Independence; Post-Communist Legal Orders and the Roma: Some Implications for EU Enlargement; A Europe of Variable Geometry: Still a Winning Model?; Conclusions: The Adhesion of New Member States to the European Union and the European Constitution
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    ISBN: 9781402041549
    Language: English
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    DDC: 362.734
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    Keywords: Law ; Philosophy of Law ; Social Policy ; Social Work ; Public law
    Abstract: "The Politics of Adoption identifies and analyses the fundamental social and legal functions of adoption. It is a timely publication as across the world adoption law reform is now giving rise to contentious issues. The change process underway in England and Wales offers an opportunity and a perspective to explore areas of commonality and difference in the experience of other nations. It also provides a window through which to examine the presumption that within and between cultures there exists a common understanding of what is meant by adoption. This book offers a comparative analysis of developments in the law, policy and practice of adoption in England and Wales, the US, Australia and Ireland. It explores the global phenomenon of intercountry adoption. The impact of the European Convention and other international legal instruments are assessed and the resulting implications for the future of adoption are considered. It suggests that the more 'open' experience of adoption in indigenous communities such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Inuit of Canada challenges some of the basic assumptions underpinning adoption law in modern western nations. ""This is an excellent publication for those wanting to get an international perspective on the politics of adoption. It is authoritative and greatly informative."" Professor John Triseliotis ""Kerry O'Halloran's Politics of Adoption provides a comprehensive and thoughtful overview of adoption law, both domestic and international, in the common law world. It is an invaluable resource not only for practitioners and scholars but for anyone interested in acquiring an in depth understanding of adoption in all its forms and complexity."" Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, Director, Center on Children and Families Fredric G. Levin College of Law Co-Director, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (ICARE) Gainesville, Florida."
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 Adoption Concept Principles and Social Construct; 2 The Changing Face of Adoption in the United Kingdom; 3 The Legal Functions of Adoption; 4 International Benchmarks for Modern Adoption Law; 5 The Adoption Process in England & Wales: The Adoption and Children Act 2002; 6 The Adoption Process in Ireland; 7 The Adoption Process in the US; 8 The Adoption Process in Australia; 9 Intercountry Adoption; 10 Intraculture Adoption; Conclusions; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402047145
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: The archivist's library 4
    DDC: 651.5
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    Keywords: Dokumentation ; Betriebliche Dokumentation ; Elektronische Archivierung ; Datenschutz ; Datensicherheit ; IT-Recht ; Informationsfreiheit ; Law ; Ethics ; Information systems ; Computers Law and legislation ; Regional planning ; Internet ; Dokumentation ; Recht ; Ethik ; Regulierung
    Abstract: This book analyses the interrelationship of recordkeeping, ethics and law in terms of existing regulatory models and their application to the Internet. It proposes an Internet model based on the notion of a legal and social relationship as a means of identifying the legal and ethical rights and obligations of recordkeeping participants in networked transactions. It also provides a unique approach to property, access, privacy and evidence for online records.
    Abstract: Distributed networks such as the Internet have altered the fundamental way a record is created, captured, accessed and managed over time. Law and ethics provide the major sources of regulatory controls over participants in such networks. This book analyses the interrelationship of recordkeeping, ethics and law in terms of existing regulatory models and their application to the Internet environment. It proposes an Internet model based on the notion of a legal and social relationship as a means of identifying the legal and ethical rights and obligations of recordkeeping participants in networked transactions. Medical, business and governmental relationships within communities of common interest based on trust illustrate the practical application of the model. As legal relationships have their basis in the law of obligations found in common and civil law systems, as well as archival science, the model has a broad-based application. The relationship model also provides a unique ethical and legal approach to property, access, privacy and evidence. Most importantly, the book provides an interdisciplinary approach to Internet regulation, which contributes to closer ties between those who research, teach and work in fields of ethics, law and archival science.
    Description / Table of Contents: The recordkeeping-ethics-law nexus and recordkeeping regulatory models; Identity, trust, evidence and the recordkeeping nexus; Legal and social relationships and the recordkeeping nexus; Recordkeeping participants: legal and ethical responsibilities; Property, privacy, access and evidence as legal and social relationships; Legal and social relationships as regulatory mechanisms; Recordkeeping regulatory models in the web environment; Legal and social relationships: an alternative Internet regulatory model
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 74
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Angewandte Ethik ; Dilemma ; Recht
    Abstract: OVADIA EZRA
    Abstract: Aims to supply ways of thinking of, and dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. This book is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in philosophical formulations
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; A. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC DUTIES; 1. Privacy and the Public Sphere; 2. The Obligation of the State toward Individuals; 3. Public Security vs. the Right to "Be Let Alone"; 4. Freedom of Expression in Academia and the Media; B. MEDICAL ETHICS; 5. Mercy Death or Killing; 6. Donating or Selling Organs; 7. Genetic Engineering and Reproduction; C. PARENTHOOD AND THE FAMILY; 8. Rights of Relatives and Generations; 9. Procreation after Death; 10. Babies as Commodities; D. PUNISHMENT; 11. Punishment of Sex Offenders; 12. Punishment and Domestic Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Capital Punishment and the Mentally RetardedIndex
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    ISBN: 9781402042096
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 75
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    Keywords: Law ; Public Law ; Law Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Hochschulschrift ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenrecht ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Gruppe ; Recht ; Menschenrecht ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
    Abstract: "Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between ""individual"" human rights and ""collective"" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests. It also challenges the claim that group rights, so understood, conflict with the liberal principle of neutrality, on the contrary, these rights help realize the neutrality ideal as they counter cultural biases that exist in Western states. Group rights deserve to be classified as human rights because they respond to fundamental, and morally important, human interests. Reading the theories of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor as complementary rather than opposed, Group Rights as Human Rights sees group rights as anchored both in the value of cultural belonging for the development of individual autonomy and in each person's need for a recognition of her identity. This double foundation has important consequences for the scope of group rights: it highlights their potential not only in dealing with national minorities but also with immigrant groups, and it allows to determine how far such rights should also benefit illiberal groups. Participation, not intervention, should here be the guiding principle if group rights are to realize the liberal promise."
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural Minorities and Group Rights: Contested Concepts; Towards an Alternative Notion of Group Rights; Understanding Multiculturalism: Which Groups Qualify; Tolerance, Neutrality and Group Rights; On the Relevance of Cultural Belonging: Group Rights as Instrumental Rights and as Fundamental Rights; Multiculturalism, Ethnic Minorities and the Limits of Cultural Diversity
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
    ISBN: 9781402030079
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 347.47/035
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Law Philosophy ; Comparative law ; Public law ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Verfassungspolitik
    Abstract: Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a 'force for the good', but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny.
    Abstract: Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a "force for the good", but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny against the background of a wide-ranging comparative and theoretical analysis of constitutional judicial review in the modern world. He shows that, in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, their record in protecting constitutional rights has been mixed, and their impact upon the vibrancy of democratic participation and public discourse about controversial issues often negative. Sadurski urges us to reconsider the frequently unthinking enthusiasm for the imposition of judicial limits upon constitutional democracy. In the end, his reflections go to the very heart of the fundamental dilemma of constitutionalism and political theory: how best to find the balance between constitutionalism and democracy? The lively, if imperfect, democracies in Central and Eastern Europe provide a fascinating terrain for raising this question, and testing traditional answers. This innovative, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book will become essential reading for scholars and students alike in the fields of comparative constitutionalism and political theory, particularly for those with an interest in legal and political developments in the postcommunist world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1. THE MODEL OF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: AN OVERVIEW; 2. CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMACY; 3. THE MODEL OF JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ITS IMPLICATIONS; 4. CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AND LEGISLATION; 5. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND PROTECTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS; 6. PERSONAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES; 7. SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS; 8. EQUALITY AND MINORITY RIGHTS; 9. "DECOMMUNISATION", "LUSTRATION", AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY; 10. RESTRICTIONS OF RIGHTS; CONCLUSIONS; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-365) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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