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.