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Mein Wille, eure Moral – Patientenautonomie aus rechtlicher und ethischer Sicht: Bericht zur Veranstaltung aus der Reihe »Recht interdisziplinär«
No full textGleichheit und Diskriminierung im sportlichen Wettbewerb: Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe intergeschlechtlicher Sportler*innen vor dem Hintergrund des Beschlusses des BVerfG zur personenstandsrechtlichen Anerkennung intergeschlechtlicher Menschen
No full textDer Beitrag befasst sich mit der Verwirklichung des Rechts
intergeschlechtlicher Menschen auf Teilhabe am Geschlechterbinär gestalteten Sportwettkampf. Erläutert werden verschiedene Lösungsansätze anhand des Falls der Läuferin Caster Semenya, die seit mehreren Jahren für ein unbeschränktes Teilnahmerecht an internationalen Leichtathletikwettbewerben kämpft
Interpretation and Application of the ECHR: Between Universalism and Regionalism
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Activism and Civil Society: An Interview with Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center
No full textOn November 26, 2021, Lecia Brooks, the Chief of Staff and Culture of the Southern Poverty Law Center, visited Go?ttingen on a lecture tour initiated by the Georg-August-Universita?t and sponsored, in large part, by the United States Embassy. I interviewed Brooks before her talk. What follows is a condensed ver- sion of our conversation, edited and reorganized for readability
Vaccine Hesitancy and Individualism: An Interview with Jennifer Reich
No full textWhen Jennifer Reich’s Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines came out with New York University Press in 2016, vaccine hesitancy was just beginning to receive national attention. The Disneyland measles outbreak had occurred the year before, and an increasing number of parents were switching to charter schools and home schooling in order to avoid the vaccine requirements of the public-school system. Reich interviewed many of these parents and took their reasoning seriously. She discovered that although their decisions do not make sense from a public health perspective, they were actually privatizing the healthcare decisions relevant to their families in ways being promoted by corporations and the government. What the privatization of health care means for the public sphere was one topic of our conversation. At the end of the interview, Reich links privatization with the growing distrust of governmental and scientific expertise to describe a crisis of knowledge that extends far beyond current vaccine debates
Review of Susanne Rohr, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland
No full textMuch has already been written on the Holocaust and its history, but the question of how we can cope with it, how we can live with what we know about it, or how we can imagine what has been called “unimaginable” has been haunting several generations of those who collectively inherited either a history of pain and suffering or a history of collective crime. In view of such moral complexities, Susanne Rohr’s study of representations of the Holocaust in the United States and Germany is a remarkable scholarly achievement. It deals with seventy years of artistic and literary documents—memoirs, autobiographies, fictions, films, graphic novels—written by subsequent generations of artists (survivors, the children and grandchildren of survivors, or the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators)—i.e., texts in at least two languages and in the changing historical contexts of at least two cultures and societies. (In addition to American and German documents Rohr occasionally includes Israeli sources.) She is also aware of the changing theoretical frame surrounding these documents—the problems inherent in the concept of a “generation,” of “collective memory,” of “trauma” and the possibility of its generational transmission; of the postmodern or poststructuralist rejection of even the possibility of representation. The questions raised by this book and its author concern the status of the Holocaust in the memory of those who did not experience it, for whom, therefore, it will always be a mediated event—mediated through historiography, literature, and, increasingly, through genres of popular culture (i.e., by films, TV-shows, comic books and graphic novels)
Orwell, Jones and the New York Times:: Conversations Shaping the Fundamental Rights of Privacy
No full textThe conversations among Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four, the US Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones, and the New York Times compellingly illustrate the ways “law feeds and is fed by the world around it,” as Judge Guido Calabresi once put it. A suspected drug dealer, Antoine Jones was convicted and sentenced to life in prison at trial, but the case was overturned on appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court had to decide whether using a GPS tracking unit on the suspect’s vehicle violated Jones’ constitutional rights. Both lawyers and judges spoke often about whether this surveillance technique brought the U.S. closer to a state akin to the one in Nineteen Eight-Four. The New York Times covered this story, adding media sensationalism to the events. This article explores the legal development of privacy and surveillance at a specific historical moment, as it relates to both Orwell’s text, and the media at the nexus of privacy. One of the main issues was whether a U.S. citizen might reasonably expect a GPS tracking unit to trace their every movement, and exactly where that reasonable expectation of privacy ends. We see that technology has far outstripped even what Orwell envisioned in his dystopian masterpiece, and that only conscious resistance and legal protection can reverse what has often and ironically become a “voluntary” surrendering of the right to privacy