Civil Disobedience and the German Courts : The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective EPUB

by Peter E. Quint

Part of the UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law series

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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 analyzes the German Constitutional Court, as a crucial institution of government, in comparative perspective. The 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.

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Pages:300 pages
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date:17/12/2007
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ISBN:9781134107414

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