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Coffee and Music: Anthropotechnologies of the Enlightenment
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JSTOR link to article (restricted access) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709534
Eugene Marlow, Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression. (2018)
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JSTOR link to article (restricted access) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709534
Katherine Meizel, Multivocality: Singing on the Borders of Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2020)
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JSTOR link to article (restricted access) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703251
The European Court of Human Rights Through the Looking Glass of Gender: An Evaluation
No full textGender equality is of paramount importance for a functioning democracy and for economic growth. It is a central tenet of human rights law and has seen significant developments on the legislative, judicial, and policy levels of the Council of Europe. Through a mélange of theory, legislation, and jurisprudential analysis, this paper will assess developments in the European Court of Human Rights’ approach to the issue of gender equality. This will be achieved through a survey of case law involving domestic violence, child-bearing, and the wearing of religious dress by women. The paper will demonstrate that, despite the existence of significant milestones in the ambit of promoting gender equality, and, notwithstanding effective advancements made by this body, particularly vis-à-vis domestic violence case law, improvements to its approach remain necessary. More specifically, on one level, the Court denounces and works against gender inequality and discrimination but, on another, consciously or unconsciously, its approach and findings are marred by its own stereotypes, patriarchal influences, misconceptions, and preconceptions about what gender equality actually is and how it should be pursued
The Soft Touch of International Financial Regulation: Status, Flaws and Future
No full textThe 2008 global financial crisis focused attention on the relationship between the behaviour of international financial institutions and the rules they follow. Many banks in the US and Europe failed, in part, due to their inability to absorb the fallout of the US mortgage market collapse. If international financial institutions could not protect themselves from the cycles of the market, how come regulators were unable to do so either? The most relevant instrument of international financial regulation for understanding the 2008 crisis is the Basel Accords, the rules that specify how much capital a bank should always hold in reserve. However, these rules are ‘soft law’ and so, non-binding. It is a myth of course that soft law is the only way to regulate international finance, as many scholars argue. Despite numerous rounds of reform, the Basel Accords have always been inadequate. The purpose of this paper is to account for the flaws of the Basel Accords and the role that soft law plays in creating those flaws. This paper also analyses the competing theories behind the rise of soft law within financial regulation and the ‘political economy’ explanation is endorsed. The final section of the paper discusses the future of financial regulation and soft law, as well as highlighting innovations from outside the hard/soft law dichotomy and outside the Global North. This paper concludes by stating that the theory behind soft law does not play out in practice within finance and that it remains in place because it suits the interests of large institutions and powerful states. At the same time, a return to Bretton Woods or a new World Financial Organization is problematic and, as such, we must look beyond the hard/soft law debate and embrace the work of the Global South and East
Perspectives for a New International Crime Against the Environment: International Criminal Responsibility for Environmental Degradation under the Rome Statute
No full textThis article draws attention to the need of a reform of the environmental protection by means of international criminal law as enshrined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. After giving a short overview of the contemporary environmental protection in war- and peacetime offered by international criminal law, it becomes clear that international criminal law fails to succeed at offering sufficient environmental protection. This paper outlines that there is no convincing reason for a differentiated approach in international criminal law to environmental damage in wartime and in peacetime, and that a shift from an anthropocentric to an ecocentric approach would positively contribute to a more effective protection of the environment. It is therefore argued for the introduction of a new integral and ecocentric international crime against the environment in the Rome Statute. The paper then elaborates on existing proposals on such a new crime against the environment before some proper observations on the exact contours of the crime are made. A focus lies on the new crime’s threshold of seriousness as well as on the necessary mens rea requirements. The insufficiency of the contemporary legal framework and the merits of a new crime against the environment are exemplified by an archetype example of peacetime environmental damage, the Chevron/Texaco oil spill scenario in Ecuador
Melville’s Majestic Missive: “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”
No full textIn keeping with the spirit of American Studies, this article engages in an interdisciplinary examination of Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853). Employing a broad literary-critical-historical methodology that also incorporates cultural and social theory, I sociohistorically contextualize “Bartleby” and demonstrate how this stylistically innovative short story anticipated later works of modernist, existential, and postmodern literature. Now internationally renowned as a classic of American literature, “Bartleby” is of interest not only for its historically innovative style—which continues to resonate with contemporary readers—but also for how it potentially serves as Melville’s self-reflexive meditation on his then declining literary career
Auf Verdacht gekündigt: Das Institut der Verdachtskündigung und dessen grundrechtlichen Implikationen.
No full textDer Aufsatz stellt das Institut der Verdachtskündigung vom
zugrundeliegenden grundrechtlichen Zielkonflikt ausgehend
dar. Besonders berücksichtigt wird hierbei die an der Verdachtskündigung
geäußerte Kritik. Anschließend wird anhand
der Konsequenzen einer sich im Nachhinein als unberechtigt
erweisenden Verdachtskündigung hinterfragt, ob diese in
ihrer derzeitigen Ausgestaltung die sich entgegenstehenden
grundrechtlichen Interessen von Arbeitgebenden 1 und Arbeitnehmenden
tatsächlich in einen angemessenen Ausgleich
bringt
Das böswillige Untätigbleiben ohne Einstehungspflicht – nur eine unterlassene Hilfeleistung?
No full textDer Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Problem der weitgehenden Strafbarkeitslücke der (von mir sogenannten) »böswillig « unterlassenen Hilfeleistung ohne Garantenpflichtigkeit des Täters, auf das ich im zweiten Semester meines Studiums aufgrund eines Falles aus meinem damaligen Strafrecht IIBegleitkolleg 1 stieß und das ich seither - erst recht, nachdem ich feststellte, dass das Problem in der Strafrechtsliteratur bisher (noch) nicht näher thematisiert worden ist - einer angemessenen Lösung zuführen möchte. Daher beschränkt sich mein Beitrag nicht nur auf das Beschreiben der bestehenden Strafzumessungslücke, sondern stellt zugleich einen konkreten Lösungsvorschlag zu ihrer Schließung vor
Der Reichsdeputationshauptschluss von 1803: Hintergrund, Inhalt und Folgen
No full textDer folgende Beitrag zeichnet die Hintergründe und Entstehungsgeschichte des letzten »Gesetzes« des Heiligen
Römischen Reiches nach, welches die damalige politische
Struktur nachhaltig veränderte und nur wenige Jahre später zum unaufhaltsamen Ende des Alten Reiches führte. Neben den inhaltichen Kernpunkten werden auch territoriale, kulturelle und sozio-ökonomische Auswirkungen dargestellt sowie beginnende Entwicklungslinien für zentrale verfassungsrechtliche Prinzipien skizziert, die bis heute bestehen und fortwirken