Law : Constitutional

This book explains the politics behind the design of the U.S. Constitution. more...

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Bernhard Raschauer, Ordinarius am Institut fA1/4r Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht der UniversitAt Wien, hat durch seine umfassende und nachhaltige TAtigkeit als Forscher und Fachgutachter sowie als niederAsterreichischer Landesumweltanwalt, als Mitglied des UnabhAngigen Umweltsenates, als Vorsitzender der Aufgabenreformkommission sowie als Mitglied des A-sterreich-Konvents maAgeblich Einfluss auf das europAische und Asterreichische A-ffentliche Recht genommen. Der vorliegende Festband, der Bernhard Raschauer von Kollegen und WeggefAhrten gewidmet wurde, soll sein vielfAltiges Engagement in Lehre, Forschung und Praxis wA1/4rdigen. In diesem Sinne reprAsentieren die im Werk enthaltenen BeitrAge ein breites Spektrum gemeinschaftsrechtlicher und Affentlich-rechtlicher Untersuchungen sowie eng damit verknA1/4pfter privat- und unternehmensrechtlicher Fragestellungen. Das Themenspektrum der BeitrAge soll damit ein Spiegelbild sowohl der vergangenen als auch der aktuellen Forschungsvorhaben des Jubilars darstellen. more...

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The idea of administrative justice is central to the British system of public law, more embracing than judicial review, or even administrative law itself. It embraces all the mechanisms designed to achieve a proper balance between the exercise of public and quasi-public power and those affected by the exercise of that power. This book contains revised versions of the papers given at the International Conference on Administrative Justice held in Bristol in 1997. Forty years after the publication of the Franks Committee report on Tribunals and Inquiries, the conference reflected on developments since then and sought to provoke debate about how the future might unfold. Participants included policy makers, tribunal chairs and ombudsmen, other decision-takers as well as academics - a formidable combination of expertise in the operation of the administrative justice system. Among the themes addressed in the papers are the following: the effect of the changing nature of the state on current institutions; human rights and administrative justice; the relationship between decision taking, reviews of decisions, and the adjudication of appeals; and the overview of administrative justice, taking into account lessons from abroad. The new millenium provides an opportunity for the reappraisal of the British system of administrative justice; this volume presents an indispenable repository of the ideas needed to understand how that system should develop over the coming years. Contributors:. Michael Adler, Margaret Allars, Dame Elizabeth Anson, Lord Archer of Sandwell, Michael Barnes, Julia Black, Christa Christensen, David Clark, Gwynn Davis, Godfrey Cole, Suzanne Day, Julian Farrand, Tamara Goriely, Michael Harris (Ed), Neville Harris, Tony Holland, Terence Ison, Christine Lally, Douglas Lewis, Rosemary Lyster, Aileen McHarg, Walter Merricks, Linda Mulcahy, Stephen Oliver, Alan Page, Martin Partington (Ed), David Pearl, Jane Pearson, Paulyn Marrinan Quinn, John Raine, Andrew Rein, A more...

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Ambiguity in the Rule of Law was the theme of a colloquium organized by the Hogendorp Centre for European Constitutional Studies in Amsterdam in 1999. The discussion centered around the assumption that enhancing the Rule of Law at the international plane, e.g. by creating law-making and judicial bodies there, often affects the Rule of Law at the domestic plane. Particularly, within national states it would lead to a shift of authority away from the legislature to the executive. Several speakers from The Netherlands, Belgium, The United Kingdom, France and Germany tackled the theme from different angles, expressing thoughts not only on the dangers, but also on the positive effects of increasing international lawmaking on the Rule of Law. more...

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Why do most welfare applicants fail to challenge adverse decisions despite a continuing sense of need?. The book addresses this severely under-researched and under-theorised question. Using English homelessness law as their case study,the authors explore why homeless applicants did -- but more often did not -- challenge adverse decisions by seeking internal administrative review. They draw out from their data a list of the barriers to the take up of grievance rights. Further, by combining extensive interview data from aggrieved homeless applicants with ethnographic data about bureaucratic decision-making, they are able to situate these barriers within the dynamics of the citizen-bureaucracy relationship. Additionally, they point to other contexts which inform applicants’ decisions about whether to request an internal review. Drawing on a diverse literature -- risk, trust, audit, legal consciousness, and complaints -- the authors lay the foundations for our understanding of the (non-)emergence of administrative disputes. more...

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