Articles for category: Asien

Strategic Decoration in the Persianate and Latinate Worlds c. 1500-1700

As the academic year draws slowly to a close, we are also approaching the concluding session of the 2012-2013 Rechtskulturen Colloquium. This  inaugural year of Rechtskulturen has been an exciting and challenging beginning, with a great group of fellows. On Monday, 25 June, historian Gijs Kruijtzer (2011-2012 Rechtskulturen Fellow at Humboldt University Law School) will talk in Recht im Kontext‘s Rechtskulturen Colloquium about Strategic Decoration in the Persianate and Latinate Worlds c. 1500-1700 Ever since Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets, there has been a sense in all three of the Abrahamic religions that man-made likenesses of animated beings may in ... continue reading

24. Juni 2012

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EuGH stoppt Sippenhaft durch Sanktionen

Der Sohn kann nicht unbedingt etwas dafür, wenn der Vater ein Schurke ist – aber bei der Tochter ist das anders: Die haftet für die Übeltaten der Mutter. So zumindest der EuGH in zwei heute verkündeten Urteilen, die beide die Frage betreffen, bis zu welchem Grad die EU bei Sanktionen gegen Staaten auch das Umfeld der eigentlichen Targets einbeziehen darf. Ich gestehe, das Wortspiel ist ein bisschen billig: Im einen Fall handelt es sich um einen tatsächlichen Sohn, im anderen um die Tochtergesellschaft eines Unternehmens. Aber es geht ja tatsächlich um den gleichen Kern: Ist es zulässig, aus der bloßen ... continue reading

13. März 2012

Race, Caste and Law: Dalit and African American Responses to Legal Conservatism

As we continue to discuss the fundamental rights situation in the EU in our Verfassungsblog online symposion, we do keep an eye on law and politics in Germany – and on the world beyond our old world. I am currently in Cairo, to attend a conference on „International Law and the Periphery“ where I already listened to interesting, sometimes provocative and often enlightening presentations on law and revolution, political and ecological sustainability and cores and peripheries in international legal history. As so often, the things that remain undiscussed and undisputed are speaking a very clear language as well. But I ... continue reading

18. Februar 2012

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Case-Law adopted by China?

By RUIYI LI This post was originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Group’s Blog and his reposted here with thanks. On the 26th of November 2011, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPCC) announced the first set of ‘guiding cases’: two civil law cases and two criminal cases.  This marks the establishment of the guiding cases system in China.  What is a guiding case?  A guiding case is a judgement selected by the SPCC from judgments already handed down by courts – both lower level courts and the SPCC itself.  Once the judgment has been selected by the SPCC as guiding ... continue reading

30. Januar 2012