This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities but that there are risks of strengthening group identities, reducing social cohesion,...

"Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to be have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations,...

Рассмотрены на основе анализа конституционных и земельно-правовых норм федерального законодательства и норм законодательства субъектов Российской Федерации...

На основе анализа конституционных и земельно-правовых норм федерального законодательства и норм законодательства субъектов Российской Федерации в статье...

These country reports from EU Member States constitute the background material for the FRA report on Criminal detention and alternatives: fundamental rights aspects in EU cross-border transfers. The information in the country reports is prepared under contract by the FRA’s research network...

Großunternehmen sind zentrale Akteure westlicher Gesellschaften. Sie üben massiven Einfluss auf das wirtschaftliche und politische Geschehen aus. Die Machtverteilung innerhalb von Großunternehmen ist daher eine Frage von gesellschaftlicher und politischer Tragweite. Am Beispiel des...

В статье рассматривается сущностная характеристика правовой политики в сфере местного самоуправления, дается авторское понимание правовой политики в сфере...

The paper deals with the complexity of legal norms and the instrument the German constitutional law establishes to control it, namely the requirement of normative clarity. First, I introduce a definition of complexity of written legal norms, conceptualized by their density (number of items to be...

Rational choice approaches to customary international law have gained in prominence in recent years. Although becoming increasingly sophisticated, they are not able to explain all phenomena of customary international law. This contribution claims that there are two different types of unwritten...

This study provides an in-depth and objective comparative analysis of the legal systems of protection of adults lacking legal capacity within selected EU Member States. The first two parts of the study contain for each Member State concerned a detailed description and assessment of the national...