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Beyond The Death Penalty: The Development In Catholic Social Teaching
Mark J. Wolff
Book: Beyond The Death Penalty: The Development In Catholic Social Teaching
In recent years, and especially through the leadership of the late Pope John Paul II, Catholic Social Doctrine has become strongly opposed to capital punishment in practically all cases. The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty is based on its support for a consistent ethic of life for all of humanity. This consistent ethic also includes defending the unborn, the handicapped, victims of human rights abuses, and countless others whose human dignity is violated. This book, a collection of papers gathered as part of a project by the Florida Council of Catholic Scholarship, describes and defends the official Catholic theological opposition to the use of the death penalty in practically all cases. The book was produced by the Pax Romana Center for International Study of Catholic Social Teaching. Both bodies are hosted by and located at Saint Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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Zoot Suit (1981): Realism, Romance and the Anti-Musical– Film as Social Justice
Lenora P. Ledwon
Book: Screening Justice-The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order And Social Justice
Screening Justice is designed to tell the complex story of law through an exploration of forty films focusing upon courtroom dramas, social issues and questions of justice. These motion pictures are evaluated by distinguished scholars who, using a range of narrative styles, compare the law on the screen and the law in action. The work serves as a guide to understanding law, the rhetoric of law and images of justice. The book will introduce readers to new films as well as help create new perspectives on familiar classic movies.
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Information About the UN Dialogue of Civilizations
Roza Pati
Book: The New Dialogue of Civilizations
This book is an international collection of reflections, statements, and resources responding to the United Nations call for a new “dialogue among civilizations,” a theme taken up by the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in relation to its work on behalf of a “Culture of Peace.” These contributions were occasioned by the 11 September 2002 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. They come from members around the world of Pax Romana / International Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs (ICMICA), and were gathered by the US federation of Pax Romana / ICMICA.
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Demographic Change and the Protection of Minorities
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Globaler Demographischer Wandel und Schutz Der Menschenrechte
The world's population was 20.1 billion people at the beginning of the 6th century, rose to six billion at the end of the 2050th century and will have grown to 8.9 billion in 2050, according to the UN's latest forecast. These developments give rise to numerous problems, especially since the strongest population growth will take place in countries where economic development is stagnating or even declining. The conflicts to be expected are often described with the term "cut-throat competition". It is expected that there will be increased migration worldwide, both voluntarily by economic migrants and also involuntarily by displacement. According to past experience, ethnic and religious minorities in particular will be exposed to displacement. In the worst case, they are even threatened with physical annihilation. Waves of migration can lead to the destabilisation of the countries or regions affected by them. Problems also arise from the fact that there are already binding regulations on birth control in individual countries. It should also be noted that by the number of people aged sixty and over will more than triple. The resulting problems, which have been largely ignored, are dealt with in this conference proceedings.
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Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction
David R. Upham
Book: Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nineteenth century, when these principles faced their first great challenges. Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war, came from the South; and after the war came positivism, relativism, and radical egalitarianism, which originated in Europe and infiltrated American universities, where intellectuals repudiated the founders' views as historically obsolete and insufficiently concerned with true human liberation. In ten chapters covering major thinkers in nineteenth-century American political thought, contributors discuss the rise and resolution of ideological conflicts in the early generations of the American republic. In Challenges to the American Founding Pestritto and West have compiled an invaluable resource for the roots of the twentieth-century departure in American politics from the political vision of the American founders.
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Ethnic Groups
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
This outstanding comprehensive sourcebook of the worst in human behavior throughout history also includes instances of some of the best responses. It is aimed at the adult general reader but will be valuable for both specialists and older students studying the destruction of a people. The editor and contributors are broadly representative of academic experts around the world, and some of them have had extensive involvement with the subject.
The 350 signed, well-documented entries, varying from 500 to 5,000 words, as appropriate, are arranged alphabetically. The topics comprise the diverse aspects of crimes against humanity--acts and consequences, cultural memory and representation, international institutions and laws. Each article is well written, balanced (such as the entry on the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps), and includes see also references and a bibliography. The set covers judicial decisions and events as recent as mid-2004. There is some overlap (for example, in treating different aspects of the crimes in the Balkans), but each entry is fresh and shows careful editing.
Every continent and likely every people have had their share of the crimes, and while the impact of the Nazi Holocaust drives much of the work, the editorial team has cast its net wide, encompassing, for example, less-known crimes against the Beothuk people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Birth and death dates of persons and specific dates of the crimes are given. Entries cover ancient and modern genocides, perpetrators and Victims, incitement and resistance, denial and documentation, international tribunals and national trials, and cultural aspects, such as the ways in which genocide intersects with music and dance. The work includes separate two-page entries on the atrocities at Carthage, Srebrenica, and Wounded Knee as well as concise biographies for individuals ranging from Klaus Barbie, chief of the gestapo in France, to Louise Arbor, chief prosecutor for the International Tribune for the Former Yugoslavia. Concluding the set are a glossary, an excellent filmography, 190 pages of primary sources (historical and international texts and judicial decisions), and an accurate index, which is supplemented by a topical list of entries. Black-and-white photos convey some of the horror of what humanity has wrought. The layout of this very accessible work is noteworthy.
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Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflict: Toward a World Public Order of Human Dignity
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: The Methods of International Law
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Exploring the Edge: The Personal Reach of Transnational Agreement to Arbitrate
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: In einem vereinten Europa dem Frieden der Welt zu dienen--
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Faces of Vulnerability: Protecting Individuals, in Organic and Non-Organic Groups
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: The Living Law of Nations
Essays on refugees, minorities, indigenous peoples, and the human rights of other vulnerable groups: in memory of Atle Grahl-Madsen.
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American Indian Treaties and Modern International Law
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Sovereignty Symposium VIII, Looking Ahead – Looking Back
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Indian Gaming and Indian Sovereignty
Mark J. Wolff
Book: Sovereignty Symposium VIII, Looking Ahead – Looking Back
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Outrageous Virtue and the Spectacle of Prostitution: Dracula and the Contagious Diseases Acts
Lenora P. Ledwon
Book: The Eyes of Justice: Seventh Round Table on Law and Semiotics
The general topic of this book, miscarried justice, is suggested by the title's allusion to the sightlessness of the proverbial representation of justice. Viewpoints from several academic disciplines, e.g., philosophy, sociology, linguistics, criminal justice, literary criticism, and religious studies, are brought together with theories of law. This collection is not only interdisciplinary but cross-cultural as well. The common language is 'legal semiotics', in both a Peircean and non-Peircean idiolect. This collection is a rich, cross-referential research tool for investigators of law and semiotics in all its aspects.
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Special Legal Rules Related to Future Interests
John Makdisi
Book: Thompson on Real Property
Chapter Description:
Future interests are regarded as the most complex aspect of American property law, partly because many of the basic legal doctrines are of ancient origin and forgotten rationale. Nevertheless, the doctrines, once mastered, are usually straightforward and reliable in application. It is probably inevitable that over the centuries those venerable doctrines would collect variants, exceptions and other special rules which, in their total impact, give additional substance to future interests’ reputation for complexity. In this volume whose chapters are devoted to the various future interests in American property law, it is fitting that this concluding chapter survey these special rules, exceptions and other observations that apply to the modern American law of future interests. The chapter first surveys definitions of words and terms, then explains some of the more important specialized and often obscure legal rules, and gives clarifying explanations to various concepts and relationships unique to future interests.
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An Inquiry into Islamic Influences during the Formative Period of the Common Law
John Makdisi
Book: Islamic Law and Jurisprudence
Western scholars consider aspects of Islamic legal concepts and practices. The 11 articles are presented in sections on Islamic jurisprudence, the influence of Islamic law on European legal systems, and Islamic law in contemporary Muslim states. Requires no background in either law or Islamic studies.
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Human Activities in Outer Space: A Framework for Decision-Making
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Space Law: Views of The Future: A Compilation of Articles by A New Generation of Space Law Scholars
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Vom “verwalteten Grundrecht” zum “verwalteten Menschen”?
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Politisches Asyl und Einwanderung
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“Vorläufige Wohnheimordnung”: Anmerkungen zum Statut des Sammellagers Tübingen, Lager und Menschliche Würde
Siegfried Wiessner
Book: Lager und menschliche Würde
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