The book consists of thirteen studies examining different aspects of human life protection in the early stage of its development. The contributions are arranged in three parts. Part I focuses on theoretical problems and examines the main issues of contemporary jurisprudence. The foundation of human rights, different approaches to sovereignty, the relation between law and science, the legitimacy of judicial power, and the nature of legal authority are discussed. Part II presents the issues within the national contexts of the USA, Germany, Austria and Poland. In a wider perspective, Part III examines the issue of the protection of human life in the prenatal phase on three different levels: within the EU, within the European Court of Human Rights case law and the UN system.
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Schriften zur Philosophie
10
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Frankfurt a.M.
Deutschland
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Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
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978-3-631-64227-6 (9783631642276)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Aleksander Stepkowski, member of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, scholar at the universities of Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and Leuven (Belgium). His research activity concentrates on private and public comparative law and interrelations between philosophy and legal culture.
Contents: Jane Adolphe: The Legal Anthropology of Human Rights: A Canvass of Approaches to Explain the Same Reality - Piero A. Tozzi: Sovereignties: Evaluating Claims for a «Right to Abortion» under International Law - José Miguel Serrano Ruiz-Calderón: Eugenics as a Human Right - Nikolas T. Nikas: The Crisis of Reason in Western Jurisprudence and the Weakening of Life Protection - Aleksander Stepkowski: The Necessity for a Holistic Approach to Protecting Human Life - William L. Saunders: Judicial Interference in the Protection of Human Life - A Perspective from the United States - Christian Hillgruber: German Constitutional Law and the Protection of Human Life in the Prenatal Phase - Thomas J. Piskernigg: The Child as Damage in the Light of Austrian Law - Malgorzata Galazka: Polish Penal Law on the Human Being in the Prenatal Stage - Olgierd Pankiewicz: An Essay About the Values Justifying Eugenic Abortion as Confronted with the Constitution and the Real World - Dobrochna Bach-Golecka: To Be or Not to Be . a Parent? Abortion and the Right to Life within a European Union Legal Context - Grégor Puppinck: Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights - Stefano Gennarini: The Diffusion of Sexual and Reproductive Rights through the UN Human Rights Framework.
