Civil Disobedience and the German Courts

副标题: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective (UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law)

ISBN: 9780415442855

出版社: Routledge Cavendish

出版年: 2008-02-14

页数: 300

定价: USD 135.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement - fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe - engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations. "Civil Disobedience and the German Courts" traces the historical and philosophical background of this movement and follows a group of demonstrators through their trials in the German criminal courts up to the German Constitutional Court - in which their fate was determined in two important constitutional cases. In this context, the volume also analyses the German Constitutional Court, as a crucial institution of government, in comparative perspective. This book is the first full-length English language treatment of these events and constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.