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Das Schweigen eines Rechtsanwaltes: Fallbearbeitung im Bürgerlichen Recht für Fortgeschrittene
No full textDie Fallbearbeitung entstammt einer Hausarbeit, die in der Übung für Fortgeschrittene im Bürgerlichen Recht an der Leibniz Universität Hannover von Prof. Dr. Bernd Oppermann im Sommersemester 2021 gestellt wurde. Die Hausarbeit beinhaltet überwiegend Fragestellungen aus dem HGB, aber auch Fragestellungen aus dem Allgemeinen Teil des BGB. Besonders werden die Probleme bei der Erteilung einer Prokura und die des kaufmännischen Bestätigungsschreibens erörtert
Korematsu v. United States: “Wrong the Day it was Decided”: An interview with Dr. Karen Korematsu
No full text“Korematsu [v. United States] was gravely wrong the day it was decided, and has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—has no place in law under the Constitution.”
Chief Justice John Roberts, from Trump v. Hawaii (2018
On the Rich Choreographies of Critical Thought: From Dancing Bodies to Human-Animal Relations in Art, Anthropology, and American Studies: A Conversation with Jane Desmond
No full textJane C. Desmond is an eminent scholar, engaged public intellectual, former choreographer, and specialist in performance studies, human-animal studies, and transnational studies of the United States. A professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she also heads The Animal Studies Initiative at Illinois and serves as affiliate faculty in veterinary medicine and the Department of Dance. Throughout her career, she has been active in initiating transdisciplinary conversations with scholars and students around the world. She has held faculty appointments at Cornell University, Duke University, the University of Iowa and visiting professorships and fellowships at a number of universities abroad, including Budapest, Beijing, Edinburgh, and currently she is a Fulbright Professor at the University of Göttingen. The idea of this interview is to see how her fascinating career evolved through different stages—from being a dancer to an extremely versatile intellectual and thinker, who has done work in very different, yet related fields: choreography and performance studies, film and video, critical theory and Cultural Studies, American Studies and Anthropology, and, more recently, in the transdisciplinary field of Animal Studies, where, in her writing and teaching, she explores human-animal relationships in the context of veterinary medicine, practices of mourning, in zoos and natural history museums, and "on the margins of death"—in pet cemeteries, as taxidermy and roadkill—as well as diverse forms of nonhuman creativity, communication, and coexistence with human animals
Does the Decline of the Humanities Track the Decline in Civil Society?
No full textThe following conversation took place on January 28, 2022 in Davis California between Margaret Ferguson, David Simpson, Andrea Ross and the interviewer, NASJ editor Andrew Majeske (AM). Margaret Ferguson (MF), Professor Emerita at UC Davis, is author of Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France, as well as other books and numerous articles. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is past president of the Modern Language Association, and she was co-editor for the 6th and most recent edition of the Norton Anthology of Poetry. Margie’s husband, David Simpson (DS), Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, retired from there as G. B. Needham Endowed Chair in English. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a former Guggenheim Fellow, and is a past president of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. He is author of many books, most recently of States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature (U of Chicago P 2019), and Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature, forthcoming later this year from Stanford UP. Andrea Ross (AR) is the author of Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness and teaches in UC Davis’ University Writing Program
Crises of Legitimacy? Warfare, National Identity, and Counterinsurgency Tactics in the Public Imagination: An interview with Barbara Elias
No full textFor our special issue of the New American Studies Journal “American Crises” I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Barbara Elias, Associate Professor at the department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College, Maine, who specializes in international relations, U.S. foreign policy, national security, and political Islam
Is the International Law Commission Taking Regionalism Seriously (Enough)?
No full textRegionalism poses a challenge to the work of the International Law Commission (ILC). The Commission, entrusted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with the “progressive development of international law and its codification”, is tasked with identifying and elaborating universally accepted and acceptable rules of international law. The challenge posed by regionalism lies in its ambivalent role precisely in relation to the mandate of the ILC: on the one hand, a significant share of practice in international law is generated at the regional level. Since regional practice thus constitutes a substantial part of State practice, the ILC cannot avoid taking regional practice into account if it is to identify and develop common rules. On the other hand, regionalism often involves claims for special legal treatment based on the affiliation with a region; thus, deviations from precisely those general legal rules which the ILC seeks to codify and develop. The present contribution analyses how the Commission has approached regionalism in its previous work and identifies four approaches. It shows that each of these approaches suffers from shortcomings. At the same time, the current projects on General principles of law (GPL) and Sea-level rise in relation to international law possibly indicate the emergence of a more fruitful fifth approach. Based on this analysis, the present contribution shows that the practice of the ILC evinces two methodological challenges arising from regional plurality –, the challenge of equal regional representation and the challenge of regional exceptionalism, – and makes suggestions as to how to address these in the future
Poetry and Democracy: A Conversation with Robert Pinsky
No full textRobert Pinsky is one of America's best-known poets and critics. Born in 1940 in New Jersey, his own writing, as well as his three terms as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1997–2000), have been critical to creating a robust dialogue in American poetry. Author of more than nineteen books that span the genres of poetry, essay, translation, and libretto, his oeuvre is a testimony to the essential place of poetry in America. A memoir, entitled Jersey Breaks, will be published this October. The founder of the Favorite Poem Project (videos available at www.favoritepoem.org), Pinsky has received numer- ous honorary doctorates and is the recipient of many awards including a Pre- mio Capri (Italy), the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His volume, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry