Current Issue: Volume 4 - Issue 1 (March 2010)

Preface

Claudia Fuchs & Konrad Lachmayer
Preface

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Articles

Cornel Marian
Learning From Others: The Scalia-Breyer Debate and the
Benefits of Foreign Sources of Law to U.S. Constitutional
Interpretation of Counter-Terrorism Initiatives

5

Anna Jasiak
Changing the rules mid-game. Legislative interference in
specific pending cases: separation of powers and fair trial.
A comparison between the European Court of Human
Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court's views

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Constitutional Developments
in Austria

Anke Sembacher
Focus: Bona fides

77

René Merten
Elimination of tenure-track contract model for university
assistants – no infringement of principle of equality

79

Claudia Priewasser
Interference in a public-law contract
by the legislator without justification –
a violation of the principle of equality

83

Sandra Kramer
No infringement of the principle of equal treatment
by abolition of the death grant
in the doctor's law of obligations

87

EMA@ICL

Anete Erdmane
Liberty behind closed doors …?
Involuntary placement and medical
treatment in psychiatric institutions
rom the human rights perspective

90

Book Review

Ralph Wilde, International Territorial Administration:
How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never
Went Away, Oxford University Press, 2008,
ISBN 978-0-199-27432-1, 640 pp.
(reviewed by Bernhard Knoll)

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Dr. Konrad Lachmayer , Schottenbastei 10-16 (Juridicum), A-1010 Wien - Austria, Email: konrad.lachmayer@univie.ac.at