Peter E. Quint

Civil Disobedience and the German Courts (eBook, PDF)

The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is the first fulllength English language treatment of the civil disobedience of the West German Peace Movement in the 1980s and the resulting trials of some of its members in the German Constitutional Court. The book uses these events and critical cases to analyze the German Constitutional Court as a crucial institution of government, and it also placestheoutcomes of the casesat an important turningpoint in German constitutional history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134107421
• Artikelnr.: 42980188

Autorenporträt

Peter E. Quint is Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, U.S.A. His main research interests include American constitutional law and comparative constitutional law, particularly the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is the author of The Imperfect Union: Constitutional Structures of German Unification (Princeton University Press, 1997), as well as numerous articles on American and German constitutional law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Anti-missile Demonstrations: The Protests and their Context 2. The Sit-down Blockades in the Criminal Courts 3. The Sit-down Blockades in the Constitutional Court: The Court and the Arguments 4. The Sit-down Blockades in the Constitutional Court: The Decisions of 1986 and 1995 5. The Great Cases of 1995: Success for the 'Long March' of 1968? Epilogue

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Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: THE ANTI-MISSILE DEMONSTRATIONS: THE PROTESTS AND THEIR CONTEXT
Chapter II: THE SIT-DOWN BLOCKADES IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS
Chapter III: THE SIT-DOWN BLOCKADES IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: THE COURT
AND THE ARGUMENTS
Chapter IV: THE SIT-DOWN BLOCKADES IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT: THE
DECISIONS OF 1986 AND 1995
Chapter V: THE GREAT CASES OF 1995 -- SUCCESS FOR THE "LONG MARCH" OF 1968?
Epilogue