The German Experience of Professionalization


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An exploration of the experience of the modern learned professions in Germany up to World War II.




Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914


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He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion."--BOOK JACKET.







A Modern History of German Criminal Law


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Increasingly, international governmental networks and organisations make it necessary to master the legal principles of other jurisdictions. Since the advent of international criminal tribunals this need has fully reached criminal law. A large part of their work is based on comparative research. The legal systems which contribute most to this systemic discussion are common law and civil law, sometimes called continental law. So far this dialogue appears to have been dominated by the former. While there are many reasons for this, one stands out very clearly: Language. English has become the lingua franca of international legal research. The present book addresses this issue. Thomas Vormbaum is one of the foremost German legal historians and the book's original has become a cornerstone of research into the history of German criminal law beyond doctrinal expositions; it allows a look at the system’s genesis, its ideological, political and cultural roots. In the field of comparative research, it is of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the law’s provenance, in other words its historical DNA.










Protecting Motherhood


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Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Germans, emerging from the rubble of the Third Reich, viewed a reconsideration of gender relations as an essential part of social reconstruction. The debate over "woman's place" in the fifties was part of West Germany's confrontation with the ideological legacy of National Socialism. At the same time, the presence of the Cold War influenced all debates about women and the family. In response to the "woman question," West Germans defined the boundaries not only between women and men, but also between East and West. Moeller's study shows that public policy is a crucial arena where women's needs, capacities, and possibilities are discussed, identified, defined, and reinforced. Nowhere more explicitly than in the first decade of West Germany's history did, in Joan Scott's words, "politics construct gender and gender construct politics." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.




Strafzumessung


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In September 2018 the criminal law section of the 72nd Deutscher Juristentag (DJT, “German Assembly of Jurists”) debated the question “Sentencing Guidelines vs. Free Judicial Discretion – Is German Sentencing Law in Need of Reform?” Despite the expert opinion provided by Johannes Kaspar and the accompanying scholarly commentaries, ensuing proposals for fundamental reform met with rejection. The comparative perspective was limited to the US Federal sentencing guidelines. The intention of this volume is therefore, on the one hand, to draw a more nuanced picture of Anglo-American sentencing law focusing on three legal systems (England/Wales, USA and Canada) accompanied by commentaries from a German perspective; on the other hand, we want to make the German perspective (better) known within the Anglo-American legal world by reproducing important DJT documents in English language. To ensure the widest possible distribution we opted for a bilingual open access publication.




Biotechnologie, Ethik und Recht Im Wissenschaftlichen Zeitalter


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Content: Bioethik, Technologie und Recht: A. Kaufmann: Biotechnologie und Bioethik u I. Kato: Why is Bioethics Sought in our Contemporary Society? uW. Maihofer: Gerechtigkeit und Zweckmaaigkeit u C. B. Lowy: Self-Regarding and Other-Regarding Commitment in Medical Decision Making u H. Nito: Evolutionary Process of the Principle of the Right to a Healthy Environment uM. Santos: Technol. Possibilities and the Dignity of Human Life u Naturrechtliche Grundlagen des positiven Rechts: R. P. Francis: Natural Law as Fundamental to Positive Law u H. Klenner: Widerstandsrecht bei Kant u J. Llompart: Dichot. Rechtsphilosophie u U. Z. Pak: Naturrechtsdenktradition u D. A. J. Richards: Liberalism and Theories of Virtue and Vice u Menschenrechte und soziale Gerechtigkeit: E. E. Dais: Rights and Judicial Reasoning: The Deprivational Theory u G. Lafrance: La rationalite des Droits de l'homme uU. Lohmann: Sozialstaat, Sozialpolitik, soziale Gerechtigkeit u S. Morimura: Paternalism and the Indeterminacy of Personal Identity u Y. Nawata: Grundrecht und das Staat-Burger-Verhaltnis u C. Wellman: Social Justice and Human Rights u W. Sadurski: Human Rights and Fundamental Values u Computer und Recht: C. Biagioli: Normative Texts and Representation Languages u M. Kitahara: Impact of the Computer on the Interpretation of Law u A. A. Martino: Legal Expert Systems u F. Lachmayer: Expertensysteme fur die Gesetzgebung u H. Matsumoto: Logical Formalization of Hohfeld's Fundamental Legal Conceptions u A. Saarenpaa: Legal Data Banks and Skills. (Franz Steiner 1991)




Finanz-archiv


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