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Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to
open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted
over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic
reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles,
pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times
successfully slowed admissions. The first comprehensive historical
exploration of American refugee affairs from the midcentury to the
present, "Americans at the Gate" explores the reasons behind the
remarkable changes to American refugee policy, laws, and
programs.
Carl Bon Tempo looks at the Hungarian, Cuban, and Indochinese
refugee crises, and he examines major pieces of legislation,
including the Refugee Relief Act and the 1980 Refugee Act. He
argues that the American commitment to refugees in the post-1945
era occurred not just because of foreign policy imperatives during
the Cold War, but also because of particular domestic developments
within the United States such as the Red Scare, the Civil Rights
Movement, the rise of the Right, and partisan electoral politics.
Using a wide variety of sources and documents, "Americans at the
Gate" considers policy and law developments in connection with the
organization and administration of refugee programs.
The Freedom of Information Act, developed at the height of the Cold
War, highlighted the power struggles between Congress and the
president in that tumultuous era. By drawing on previously unseen
primary source material and exhaustive archival research, this book
reveals the largely untold and fascinating narrative of the
development of the FOIA, and demonstrates how this single policy
issue transformed presidential behaviour. The author explores the
policy's lasting influence on the politics surrounding contemporary
debates on government secrecy, public records and the public's
'right to know', and examines the modern development and use of
'executive privilege'.
Following on from the first volume, this unique book is the only
collection of native analyses of the status of legislation in 30
European jurisdictions plus the EU. Each chapter, written by a
national authority in the legislative field, presents and
critically assesses: - the national constitutional environment and
its connection with EU law; - the nature and types of legislation;
- the legislative process; - the drafting process; - jurisprudence
conventions; - the training of drafters. The book opens with a
comparative chapter on the these six themes, and concludes with an
analysis of trends and best practices in Europe. Legislation in
Europe is a necessary addition to law and policy libraries,
law-making institutions and agencies, and an invaluable tool for
constitutional and drafting academics and practitioners.
More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to
seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade, over a half million
children have fled from Central America to the United States,
seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by violence.
Yet upon their arrival, they fail to find the protection that our
laws promise, based on the broadly shared belief that children
should be safeguarded. A meticulously researched ethnography,
Precarious Protections chronicles the experiences and perspectives
of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration
attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the US
asylum process. Chiara Galli debunks assumptions about asylum,
including the idea that people are being denied protection because
they file bogus claims. In practice, the United States interprets
asylum law far more narrowly than what is necessary to recognize
real-world experiences of escape from life-threatening violence.
This is especially true for children from Central America. Galli
reveals the formidable challenges of lawyering with children and
exposes the human toll of the US immigration bureaucracy.
Since the 2004 presidential campaign, when the Bush presidential
advance team prevented anyone who seemed unsympathetic to their
candidate from attending his ostensibly public appearances, it has
become commonplace for law enforcement officers and political event
sponsors to classify ordinary expressions of dissent as security
threats and to try to keep officeholders as far removed from
possible protest as they can. Thus without formally limiting free
speech the government places arbitrary restrictions on how, when,
and where such speech may occur.
Why have radio and television never been granted the same First
Amendment freedoms that we have always accorded the printed word?
In this fascinating work, Lucas A. Powe, Jr., examines the strange
paradox governing our treatment of the two types of media. 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
1987.
Der Standardkommentar zum Haftungsrecht des Strassenverkehrs
erscheint in der Neuauflage in der bewahrten systematischen Form,
die Handbuch und Kommentar verbindet. Das Werk behandelt samtliche
Tatbestande einer verschuldensunabhangigen Haftung, erlautert die
Haftung aus unerlaubter Handlung sowie alle sonstigen
Haftungstatbestande und enthalt alle Regelungskomplexe, aus denen
sich eine Beschrankung oder ein Ausschluss der Haftung herleiten
lasst. Jeweils gesonderte Abschnitte sind dem Ersatz des
Sachschadens und des Personenschadens in all ihren Auspragungen
gewidmet. Ausfuhrlich behandelt wird der Forderungsubergang auf
Privatversicherer, Sozialversicherungs- und Versorgungstrager.
Erlauterungen zu den prozessualen, insbesondere beweisrechtlichen
Fragen der Verkehrsunfallhaftung schliessen das Werk ab. In der
Neuauflage wird die Rechtsprechung zum Schadensersatzrecht weiter
ausdifferenziert, das neue Versicherungsvertragsgesetz
eingearbeitet und der verstarkte Einfluss des internationalen und
europaischen Rechts auf das Verkehrshaftungsrecht berucksichtigt.
Examines LatCrit's emergence as a scholarly and activist community
within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal
academy in 1995, LatCrit theory is a genre of critical outsider
jurisprudence-a vital hub of contemporary scholarship that includes
Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory, among other
critical schools of legal knowledge. Its basic goals have been: (1)
to develop a critical, activist, and inter-disciplinary discourse
on law and society affecting Latinas/os/x, and (2) to foster both
the development of coalitional theory and practice as well as the
accessibility of this knowledge to agents of social and legal
transformative change. This slim volume tells the story of
LatCrit's growth and influence as a scholarly and activist
community. Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender offer a living
example of how critical outsider academics can organize long-term
collective action, both in law and society, that will help those
similarly inclined to better organize themselves. Part roadmap,
part historical record, and part a path forward, LatCrit: From
Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activismshows that with
coalition, collaboration, and community, social transformation can
take root.
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