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West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song – The Place of the Sunjata Story in the British Library’s Exhibition
No full textThe British Library mounted a major exhibition entitled West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song from October 2015 to February 2016. It brought together the intellectual traditions of literature, music and art from across 17 countries, referencing 1000 years of history to offer insight into a profound, engaging and current literary culture with centuries-old written heritage existing alongside ancient oral traditions that persist to this day. This paper describes the intentions of the exhibition – to dispel misconception and to encourage engagement with West African intellectual traditions – foregrounding the place of oral traditions in descriptions of each of the five primary sections, with a focus on forms of oral traditions, and on the Sunjata epic specifically. The final section of the paper evaluates the impact and legacy of the exhibition, demonstrating how it engaged teams across the institution by invoking the British Library “machine,” and, most importantly, young visitors of West African backgrounds as they “reclaimed” and took pride in their histories
Rechtsdienstleistungen durch Nicht-Berufsträger und legal tech nach RDG – implodiert das anwaltliche Berufsrecht?
No full textDer Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem aufkommenden Wettbewerb auf dem Rechtsberatungsmarkt, insoweit sich neben der Anwaltschaft übrige, insbesondere technologisierte Dienstleister anschicken, Rechtsdienstleistungen zu erbringen. Es keimt die Frage auf, ob Rechtsanwälte aufgrund der Fortentwicklung des juristischen Angebots zunehmend verdrängt werden als Rechtsdienstleister. Oder ruft diese Entwicklung gar positive Auswirkungen hervor
Ocean Rights – Challenges and Prospects
No full textThe pressing environmental crises of the Anthropocene are inherently connected to ocean health. Yet, the oceans are currently in a critical state. The article explores the idea of giving rights to oceans as one way to enhance their legal protection. It draws on scholarship and practice regarding the existing legal rights of nature, and discusses the challenges and prospects of ocean rights. In doing so, the article raises and addresses three fundamental questions for the recognition of such rights: first, why oceans should hold their own rights in the first place; second, who, i.e. what exact entity or entities, shall hold ocean rights; and finally, how such rights could be implemented and represented and thus be given practical effect
Tradition, Transnational Connections, and Teaching through Sunjata’s Story: Interview with Hawa Kassé, Mady Diabaté and Lassana Diabaté
No full textThis article presents an interview with Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Lassana Diabaté, and Chérif Keita - a conversation facilitated by Ely Lyonblum, at the time a Research Assistant with Marcia Ostashewski at Cape Breton University’s for the Singing Storytellers Symposium. Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté is a jalimuso (female griot) who descends from a prestigious lineage of oral performers and wordsmiths from the village of Kéla in Southern Mali. Lassana Diabaté is a balafon player originally from Republic of Guinea who moved to Mali at a young age and is recognized as one of the best players of jali bala (the balafon of the Mande griots). Jali/Djeli and jalimuso often learn techniques and repertoire through extended familial networks of musicians within Mande society that often cross national boundaries. The two musicians discuss their musical upbringings, the importance of epics like the Sunjata Fasa in Mande culture, and the effect that new technologies have on musical performance and historical narrative. Chérif Keita acted as translator for the interview and provides an introduction to this article
Regulating Uncertainty: On the Regulation of Human Behavior and its Interpretation by the Court of Justice of the European Union
No full textMore often than not, laws are meant to regulate human behavior. However, human beings’ reactions to such regulations are to a large degree uncertain and one can only try to predict them. In that regard, the neighboring field of behavioral economics might provide relevant and necessary insights for effective regulation. However, the Court of Justice of the European Union might, should, or ought to rely on such findings when interpreting European Union (EU) secondary law, to give such rules the most effective meaning by limiting possible infringements on individuals’ fundamental rights. Built on an assessment of the Market in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), as part of European capital markets law, and with references to consumer protection law, the Taxonomy Regulation, and other European legal acts, this paper, first of all, demonstrates that not only the European legislator but also the Court can, in most situations, rely on behavioral economic findings. Although human behavior as well as results stemming from experimental research are to a certain degree uncertain, concepts developed in behavioral economics describe human behavior better than concepts implying (fully) rational behavior. In addition, obstacles – stemming from both the field of behavioral economics and legal methodology – that arise when applying these experimental findings to interpreting EU secondary law will be summarized and ideas to counter those obstacles are presented. The overall objective of this paper is to further a discussion on how to best incorporate findings from the field of behavioral economics into legal methodology. For this, the paper references, among others, European capital markets law but strives to abstract and generalize key aspects to facilitate a broader reception and discussion
Placebos in der medizinischen Behandlung
No full textDie Lösung des beim Einsatz von Placebos in der medizinischen Behandlung bestehenden sog. »Aufklärungsdilemmas« wird in der Literatur kontrovers diskutiert. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob die vorgeschlagenen Lösungsansätze mit dem an der Patientenautonomie ausgerichteten Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnis vereinbar sind
Inge Hieblinger (1928–2007) – Frauenförderung mit Hilfe des Arbeits- und Sozialrechts
No full textInge Hieblinger war ab 1967 als Professorin für Staatsrecht und Rechtstheorie in Halle (Saale) tätig und forschte zu Fragen der Gleichberechtigung im DDR-Recht. Der Beitrag kontextualisiert ihr wissenschaftliches Wirken, das auch Rechtsvergleiche zur BRD enthält
Missbrauch von Grundrechten im Kontext der EMRK
No full textDer vorliegende Aufsatz widmet sich der verfassungsrechtlichen Norm des Art. 18 GG im Kontext der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK). Er untersucht die Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Grundgesetz und der EMRK und erörtert die Erfolgsaussichten eines Verwirkungsverfahrens nach Art. 18 S. 2 GG. In diesem Zusammenhang wird die Frage aufgeworfen, welche rechtlichen und praktischen Herausforderungen sich für einen Verwirkungsausspruch des Bundesverfassungsgerichts ergeben, wenn der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte in einem späteren Verfahren involviert ist
Capabilitarian Social Justice in EU: Care, Dependency, and the Conception of the Person
No full textWhile the European Union (EU) is nominally committed to the promotion of social justice by virtue of Article 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU), the substantive meaning of this objective remains an open question. By first presenting an ideal of social justice for the EU, and then comparing it to the acquis, this paper hopes to make a small contribution to a (necessarily larger) debate about the substantive content of the social justice objective and about the place of political philosophy within legal scholarship more broadly. To do so, Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach (CA) is used as a starting point. Nussbaum proposes a list of ten central human capabilities, all of which must be ensured (at least) at a threshold level in order for a given polity to be considered minimally just. Rather than considering the individual capabilities, the analysis focuses on the conception of the person underlying Nussbaum’s CA, contrasting it with the conception which emerges from the analysis of the legal subject in EU law. It argues that the latter is not only unrealistic but unjust. Focusing on the construction of the disabled legal subject, as well as its intersections with the statuses of ‘worker’ and ‘migrant’, the paper contrasts EU law and policy with Nussbaum’s normative ideal. It finds that the conception of the person underlying the construction of the EU legal subject is insufficiently receptive to care and vulnerability as constitutively human traits, and moreover struggles to conceive of personhood outside of a productivity framework
Ecomusicology, performance and environmental crises: Nurturing human relationships with the environment
No full textThis introductory article to the special issue overviews central themes of the field of Ecomusicology as drawn out from the discussions of Indigenous Australian and Aoetearoa New Zealand music and dance performance and/or sound and movement practices as considered with relation to their environments. We discuss how these practices are holistic multimodal art forms, emphasise the importance of deep listening and discuss the role of collective memory and metaphor as central to Indigenous understanding and relating . We also illustrate how these performance traditions exist within contexts of cultural and environmental disruption yet have the power to adapt to ecological change as they have done so over generations. We draw the major themes of this issue together to show how the health of people, Country and music and interconnected and how these interrelational connections have long been central to survival