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A transforming society undergoes changes on many levels. The main two of these are changes in the structures and culture of society. But how do these large changes affect the lives of individuals and small communities? This book, Teachers on the Waves of Transformation, attempts to aid in the understanding of theses questions by means of exploratory research at two schools in a small town in central Bohemia. The scholar followed the fates of two generations of teachers at both schools. In interviews with the teachers, management and also the parents, she focuses on the areas of relationships, values, shared stories and even symbolic and ritual worlds, the culture of the schools.
Europe has come a long way at least in the institutional response to racism. This book describes the responses of the Council of Europe and the European Union to the worrying trends of racism and xenophobia in the 1990s, and considers the prospects for combating discrimination in Europe using tools that have emerged as a result. Part one looks at the evolution of the Council of Europe apparatus to combat discrimination and the anti-discrimination standards prescribed by its institutions. Part two considers the legislative measures recently adopted by the European Union. The contributions in Part three take a comparative perspective of all measures adopted at European level to combat racial and ethnic discrimination.
The Ultimate Rule of Law addresses the age-old tension between law and politics by examining whether the personal beliefs of judges come into play in adjudicating on issues of religious freedom, sex discrimination, and social and economic rights. Decisions by the Supreme Courts of India, Japan, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Israel, the Constitutional Courts of Germany, Hungary, South Africa, and the European Court of Human Rights on such controversial issues as government funding of religious schools, abortion, same sex marriages, women in the military, and rights to basic shelter and life saving medical treatment are evaluated and compared. Beatty develops a radical alternative to the...
Papers originally presented at two interntational symposia organized by the Art-Law Centre.
The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.
This book examines ways of holding multinational corporations liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the companies' home States.
This volume provides a detailed review of the process of international commercial arbitration, from the drafting of the arbitration agreement to the enforcement of the arbitral tribunal's award. It has been revised to include appendices which describe the arbitration rules of various countries.
Georges Abi-Saab began his writing and teaching at a time when the process of decolonization, and thereafter the quest for emancipation, began to make its far-reaching impact on the international scene, producing significant changes in the international environment, both quantitatively in increasing the number of nation-States and qualitatively in changing patterns of interests and claims. This was bound to result in new pressures on the international legal system itself and in a questioning of the traditional Eurocentric content of international law. In his work and teaching Professor Abi-Saab viewed the dynamics of international law as a function of two driving forces: the emergence of the...
For every leader there are dozens of followers working closely with them. This updated third edition speaks to those followers and gives them the insights and tools for being effective partners with their leaders.