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A paradigm shift can currently be seen to be happening in terms of how conflicts are handled: the range of different conflict management procedures on offer is becoming increasingly varied. Mediation as a procedure of establishing interests in a...

Inter-sexuality is an almost unknown phenomenon in society. Mostly unknown is the fact that inter-sexual children are subjected immediately after birth to gender reassignment surgery in accordance with standard medical practice, which in many cases...

The breach of human-rights protected content by non-governmental actors accounts for one of the contemporary major challenges of human rights protection, the complexity of the exercised sovereign public authority and the advancing...

In the French Political Philosophy, against the background of current theories of democracy and referring to the current tense situation experienced by democracies due to socio-economic and political issues, a comprehensive critique of the form and...

Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenspiel von Männlichkeitsnormen, wie sie sowohl im Präzedenzrecht des schwedischen Obersten Gerichtshofs als auch im juristischen Konstrukt des Rechts auf Selbstverteidigung im schwedischen...

Conflicts conducted in a violent manner are depicted as significant social problems, especially when police is involved. The debate is often dominated by the theme "violence against police officers." Although the escalations are not new, but are...

As a point of departure, central approaches of critical legal thinking find common ground in their annoyance with the law in its alliance with the state power within a political community. Compared to phenomena of transnational law based on an...

For some time now, misconduct by police is discussed increasingly in Germany. The spectrum ranges from violent police actions at meetings (Stuttgart21, Blockupy) including illegal checks and inspections based on racist criteria (racial profiling) to...

Both of the recent verdicts of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2013 regarding the institution of civil partnerships are repeatedly declared as being compatible with basic rights as they emphatically refer to the fact that simply referring to...

The announcement by the Ukrainian government that it does not intend to sign the Agreement on Association and Free Trade with the European Union (EU) for the moment triggered a political crisis in the former Soviet Republic at the end of 2013. In...

This aid to comprehending and prevention has been well known within the legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany for a long time. It has been used to date to its widest extent within the "principal witness regulation" of § 46b of the...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, the piece traces some institutional and analytical traditions of research into the history of law in Germany in the past century. By highlighting the final...

Die Entwicklung neuer Technologien und die bedeutende Rolle des Internets im heutigen Alltag haben den Datenschutz vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt. Darüber hinaus wirkt sich die uneinheitliche Umsetzung der Richtlinie 94/46/EG, die den...

Nationales Datenschutzrecht wird zunehmend von Regelwerken auf europäischer Ebene beeinflusst. Neben der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention des Europarats sind vor allem die Grundrechtecharta der Europäischen Union und die speziellen...

Neben dem Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission zu einer Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ist die Vorratsspeicherung von Daten zum Zwecke der Ermittlung und Verfolgung von Straftaten ein weiteres beherrschendes Thema der gegenwärtigen Debatte im...

The right to be forgotten has been one of the most prominent elements of the Commission’s proposal for a new Data Protection Regulation. The scope of this right as well as its form have been discussed intensively at both national and Union levels....