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This research review provides a comprehensive overview of
children's human rights. Beginning with the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights treaty
in the world, it explores the theory, doctrine, and implementation
of the legal frameworks addressing child labor, child soldiers, and
child trafficking, as well as children's socio-economic rights,
including their rights to education. This topical research review
is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and activists.
Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that
have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law
in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new
families have been created. Borders have become more porous,
allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join new families and
women fleeing domestic violence to escape from old ones. People of
different nationalities marry, have children, and divorce, not
necessarily in that order. They file suits in their respective home
states or third states, demanding support, custody, and property.
Otherwise law-abiding parents risk jail in desperate efforts to
abduct their own children from foreign ex-spouses. The aim of this
Handbook is to provide scholars, postgraduate students, judges, and
practioners with a broad but authoritative review of current
research in the area of International Family Law. The contributors
reflect on a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions and their
approaches vary. Each chapter has a distinct subject matter and was
written by an author who was invited because of his or her
expertise on that subject. This volume provides a valuable
contribution to emerging understandings of the subject.
International law has become part of everyday family law practice,
as lawyers everywhere are confronted with questions regarding the
rights of 'mail-order' brides, the adoption of children from other
countries, the abduction of children by foreign parents, and
domestic violence victims seeking asylum. Indeed, globalization is
transforming family law, even as families themselves are being
redefined. This book provides a practical overview of such issues
and also examines the ways in which culture shapes family law in
different countries. It provides students with a useful
introduction to challenging, complicated and fascinating issues in
international family law. Finally, by incorporating a comparative
perspective, it gives readers an opportunity to re-examine their
own legal systems.
In Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that
civilization itself is the major source of human unhappiness,
inhibiting instincts and generating guilt. In Globalization and its
Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz shows how the 'economic architecture'
that produced globalization has also driven the backlash against
it. This book brings together some of international law's most
outspoken 'discontents'; those who situate their malaise in
international law itself. Their shared objective is to expose
international law's complicity in the ongoing economic and
financial global crises and to assess its capacity - and its will -
to constructively address them. Some, like Freud, view that which
holds us together as an inevitable source of discontent. Others,
like Stiglitz, draw on the energy of the backlash. How have these
crises affected particular groups, sovereign states, and
international law itself? How have they responded? When does crisis
serve as a catalyst, and for what?
International law has become part of everyday family law practice,
as lawyers everywhere are confronted with questions regarding the
rights of 'mail-order' brides, the adoption of children from other
countries, the abduction of children by foreign parents, and
domestic violence victims seeking asylum. Indeed, globalization is
transforming family law, even as families themselves are being
redefined. This book provides a practical overview of such issues
and also examines the ways in which culture shapes family law in
different countries. It provides students with a useful
introduction to challenging, complicated and fascinating issues in
international family law. Finally, by incorporating a comparative
perspective, it gives readers an opportunity to re-examine their
own legal systems.
Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that
have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law
in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new
families have been created. Borders have become more porous,
allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join new families and
women fleeing domestic violence to escape from old ones. People of
different nationalities marry, have children, and divorce, not
necessarily in that order. They file suits in their respective home
states or third states, demanding support, custody, and property.
Otherwise law-abiding parents risk jail in desperate efforts to
abduct their own children from foreign ex-spouses. The aim of this
Handbook is to provide scholars, postgraduate students, judges, and
practioners with a broad but authoritative review of current
research in the area of International Family Law. The contributors
reflect on a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions and their
approaches vary. Each chapter has a distinct subject matter and was
written by an author who was invited because of his or her
expertise on that subject. This volume provides a valuable
contribution to emerging understandings of the subject.
Die Autoren geben einen Uberblick uber die Ergebnisse des
NRW-Landesprogramms "Mensch und Technik - Sozialvertragliche
Technikgestaltung." In diesem Programm wurden uber einhundert
Projekte gefordert, die die Wechselwirkungen zwischen neuen
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und Wirtschaft,
Gesellschaft und Politik sowie deren Gestaltbarkeit untersuchten.
In diesem Band resumiert der Projekttrager die Einzelergebnisse,
bilanziert das Gesamtprogramm und wagt einen Ausblick in die
Zukunft der sozialvertraglichen Gestaltung neuer Technologien. Das
Buch ist damit eine unerlassliche Diskussionsgrundlage fur alle,
die uber Technikgestaltung, Technikfolgenabschatzung und
Sozialvertraglichkeit mitreden wollen."
Franz Lenk (1898-1968) war einer der bekanntesten Maler der Neuen
Sachlichkeit. Die Publikation bietet eine aktuelle Betrachtung zu
seinem Werk und kunstlerischen Werdegang. Dabei werden Fragen nicht
nur zu seinen kunstlerischen Vorbildern gestellt, sondern auch zu
seinem Weltbild und dessen Manifestation in seiner Malerei.
Analysiert wird unter anderem die ambivalente Haltung Lenks in den
Jahren 1933 bis 1945 und im Kontext der Zeitereignisse bewertet.
Biografische und kunsthistorische Erkenntnisse, unter anderem zur
Gruppe "Die Sieben" und zu seiner Teilnahme an den Ausstellungen
des Carnegie Instituts in Pittsburgh in den 1930er-Jahren, werden
in die Darstellung einbezogen. Ausstellung und Katalog stellen
zahlreiche Werke aus 24 privaten und oeffentlichen Sammlungen in
Deutschland und der Schweiz vor.
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