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Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
Donald P. Kommers and Gilburt D. Loescher
A collection of articles examines the human rights thrust of President Carter's foreign policy, considering its formation, definition, difficulties, and implementation and evaluating its political and moral overtones
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Privacy in Britain
Walter F. Pratt
Beginning with an analysis of a landmark article in an American law journal, this study describes the growth of claims to a right to privacy in Britain and contrasts the nature of the British and American interpretations of the precedents of this right.
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Techniques in the Investigation and Prosecution of Organized Crime: Manuals of Law and Procedure, 3 v.
G. Robert Blakey and Ronald. Goldstock
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Freedom and Education: Pierce v. Society of Sisters Reconsidered
Donald P. Kommers and Michael J. Wahoske
Symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landmark case, Pierce v. Society of Sisters. Pierce v. Society of Sisters has long been celebrated as the Supreme Court case which vindicated the existence & free exercise of the right to private education.
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Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, Abortion and the Constitution: The Cases of West Germany and the United States, in Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies 83 (Edward Manier, William Liu, & David Solomon eds., 1977)
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court substantially curtailed the power of the American states to prohibit or limit the right of a woman to procure an abortion. On February 25, 1975, the West German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the German parliament, by permitting abortions within the first three months of pregnancy, violated the constitutional rights of unborn children. These decisions provide us with an uncommon opportunity to compare the constitutional law of different nations on abortion. That the highest tribunals of two robust constitutional democracies and secular political cultures should decide the question of the unborn child's right to life under the constitutions of their respective countries differently should excite the wonder of us all, no matter where we may stand in the abortion controversy.
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Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court
Donald P. Kommers
The Federal Constitutional Court is an important policy-making institution in the German political system. As the guardian of the Basic Law, the Constitutional Court has played a critical role in umpiring the federal system, resolving conflicts among branches of the national government, overseeing the process of parliamentary democracy, monitoring the financing of political parties, and reviewing restrictions on basic rights and liberties. In each of these areas, the Court's decisions have shaped the contours of German life and politics. Its influence is fully the equal of that of the Supreme Court in American politics. Despite its “activist” record of nullifying laws favored by legislative majorities, the German Court has managed to retain its institutional independence as well as the trust of the general public.
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Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell
Thomas L. Shaffer
Solving Problems and Telling Stories; Lawyer Persona and Feelings it Disguises; Establishing a Working Relationship; Getting the Facts (Interviewing); Theories and Models for Helping Relationships; Interventions and Skills; Place, Space and Territory; Sharing Authority and Collaborative Decision Making; Moral Dimension; Understanding Ourselves.
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The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion
John M. Finnis, Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon
During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible. These five essays, together here for the first time in a single volume, offer radically differing points of view; they provide the best sustained discussion of these philosophical issues available anywhere.
Contents: Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"; Roger Wertheimer, "Understanding the Abortion Argument"; Michael Tooley, "Abortion and Infanticide"; John Finnis, "The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion"; and Judith Jarvis Thomson, "Rights and Deaths."
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Menschenwürde und Freiheitliche Rechtsordnung
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, Freedom and Authority, in Menschenwürde und Freiheitliche Rechtsordnung 357 (Gerhard Leibholz et al. eds., 1974).
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