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Statutory obligations to take out liability insurance are, in
practice, the most important means to ensure compensability of
damage arising from dangerous activities. However, in contrast to
the significant practical impact, academic research on the topic
has not been extensive so far. This study, therefore, undertakes a
comprehensive survey of compulsory liability insurance from nine
national perspectives (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic,
Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and the United
Kingdom) and takes constitutional and European law (four freedoms,
European Convention on Human Rights) as well as the Principles of
European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL) into account. It also
contains an extensive economic analysis of compulsory liability
insurance and discusses aspects of insurability. A Comparative
Report, Conclusions and an Annex containing a compilation of rules
on compulsory liability insurance in the nine national legal
systems complete the study. It considers in particular: the aims of
provisions stating an obligation to take out liability insurance
the mandatory content of insurance cover the protection mechanisms
linked to compulsory liability insurance the control mechanisms and
the sanctions imposed structural deficiencies of existing
compulsory liability insurance systems
The Christian Right of the 1980s forged its political identity
largely in response to what it perceived as liberal 'judicial
activism'. Robert Daniel Rubin tells this story as it played out in
Mobile, Alabama. There, a community conflict pitted a group of
conservative evangelicals, a sympathetic federal judge, and a
handful of conservative intellectuals against a religious agnostic
opposed to prayer in schools, and a school system accused of
promoting a religion called 'secular humanism'. The twists in the
Mobile conflict speak to the changes and continuities that marked
the relationship of 1980s' religious conservatism to democracy, the
courts, and the Constitution. By alternately focusing its gaze on
the local conflict and related events in Washington, DC, this book
weaves a captivating narrative. Historians, political scientists,
and constitutional lawyers will find, in Rubin's study, a
challenging new perspective on the history of the Christian Right
in the United States.
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