TY - JOUR A1 - Burek, Wojciech T1 - Reservations to the Istanbul Convention and the role of GREVIO: A call for new approach JF - Human rights law review N2 - The question of whether the monitoring bodies have competence concerning reservations is at the centre of the discussion of reservations to human rights treaties that has occupied many international legal scholars over the last few decades. The Istanbul Convention’s treaty monitoring body, GREVIO, is the only human rights treaty monitoring body with a direct competence concerning reservations. However, as practice to date shows, it does not make much use of this power. This is a big disappointment considering all the efforts of other bodies in the past and the doctrinal positions of various scholars. The main aims of this article are threefold to: present GREVIO’s practice to date concerning reservations, provide a brief historical overview of how other human rights treaty bodies have approached their role concerning reservations, and finally, attempt to explain why GREVIO has abandoned a more proactive position on reservations. KW - reservations to human rights treaties KW - interpretative declarations KW - Istanbul Convention KW - GREVIO KW - human rights treaty monitoring bodies Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac030 SN - 1461-7781 SN - 1744-1021 VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burek, Wojciech T1 - Treaty flexibility unilaterally boosted BT - reservations to European social charters JF - Netherlands quarterly of human rights N2 - Thus far, research into reservations to treaties has often overlooked reservations formulated to both European Social Charters (and its Protocols) and the relevant European Committee of Social Rights practices. There are several pressing reasons to further explore this gap in existing literature. First, an analysis of practices within the European Social Charters (and Protocols) will provide a fuller picture of the reservations and responses of treaty bodies. Second, in the context of previous landmark events it is worth noting the practices of another human rights treaty monitoring body that is often omitted from analyses. Third, the very fact that the formulation of reservations to treaties gives parties such far-reaching flexibility to shape their contractual obligations (à la carte) is surprising. An important outcome of the research is the finding that, despite the far-reaching flexibility present in the treaties analysed, both the States Parties and the European Committee of Social Rights generally treat them as conventional treaties to which the general rules on reservations apply. Consequently, there is no basis for assuming that the mere fact of adopting the à la carte system in a treaty with no reservation clause implies a formal prohibition of reservations or otherwise discourages their formulation. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/09240519231151950 SN - 0924-0519 SN - 2214-7357 VL - 41 IS - 1 SP - 35 EP - 52 PB - Sage Publications Ltd CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - How to integrate environmental law into constitutional law BT - the German experience JF - Revue juridique de l’Océan Indien N2 - This chapter consists of three parts. In the first part, I will give a short overview about the integration of the protection of the environment into German constitutional law. This section will start with the presentation of the relevant provision, Art. 20a BL. Then, I will elaborate on its legal character. In the second part, I will make some brief remarks on the practical implications of Art. 20a BL. Finally, I will present some preliminary conclusions. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-03328965 SN - 1630-6910 VL - 26 IS - 31 SP - 171 EP - 175 PB - Université de La Réunion CY - Saint-Denis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ehrensperger, Kathy T1 - Narratives of Belonging BT - The Role of Paul's Genealogical Reasoning JF - Early Christianity N2 - Die Darstellungen genealogischer Netzwerke waren in der Antike Ausdruck der Weltsicht ihrer Erzähler, mit deren Hilfe Nähe und Distanz zwischen verschiedenen Gruppen und Völkern ausgedrückt und hergestellt werden konnte. Auch Paulus bedient sich genealogischer Argumente, um die Beziehung nicht-jüdischer Christus-Gläubiger zu Israel und ihrem Gott zu verdeutlichen. Es handelt sich um eine ethnozentrische Argumentation, deren Fokus aber gleichzeitig eindeutig theozentrisch ist. KW - genealogies KW - identity KW - Israel KW - seed of Abraham KW - promise Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/186870317X15017545210233 SN - 1868-7032 SN - 1868-8020 VL - 8 SP - 373 EP - 392 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tedeschini, Michele T1 - Human Rights as a Limit to Utopian Thinking? JF - MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474137 SN - 1434-2820 VL - 24 IS - 1/2 SP - 12 EP - 23 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Eckart T1 - The Founding of the Human Rights Centre in 1994 JF - MenschenRechtsMagazin : MRM ; Informationen, Meinungen, Analysen Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-438633 SN - 1434-2820 VL - 24 IS - 1/2 SP - 5 EP - 11 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steinert, Christoph A1 - Yordanova, Nikoleta T1 - Coalition in a Large German Federal State JF - German politics N2 - This article seeks to explain the 2013 coalition between the CDU and the Greens in the German federal state of Hesse. It applies traditional office-seeking and policy-seeking coalition formation theories to the case alongside a new explanation underscoring the influence of past behaviour on coalition partnership; namely, the negative impact of a pre-electoral commitment breach on future coalition formation. The results show that pure office-seeking cannot explain the coalition outcome. Instead, as the analysis of textual data extracted from political parties' manifestos shows, there has been a constant process of policy approximation between the CDU and the Greens in Hesse. Additionally, we find evidence suggesting that the SPD's breach on their promise not to rely on support by the Left Party in 2008 shaped the CDU's refusal to coalesce with the SPD in 2013. The findings add to our understanding of the interplay between office-seeking and policy-seeking motivations as well as the personal enmities of key actors in shaping the coalition formation. The study further offers insights into the new German coalition option between the Greens and the CDU, which can serve as a blueprint at the national level. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2015.1060589 SN - 0964-4008 SN - 1743-8993 VL - 25 SP - 54 EP - 72 PB - Springer CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiss, Norman T1 - Human Rights Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-90-04-18004-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Xenophobia Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.mpepil.com/subscriber_articles_by_author?letter=W ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Assembly, freedom of, international protection Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.mpepil.com/subscriber_articles_by_author?letter=W ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Aliens, intregration Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.mpepil.com/subscriber_articles_by_author?letter=W ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Eckart T1 - Some thoughts on preventive protection of human rights Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Eckart T1 - Some thoughts on the legal status of the peopleµs republic of china relating to the international covenant on civil and political rights Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Eckart T1 - The Reporting system under the international covenent on civil and political rights Y1 - 1998 SN - 3- 87061-636-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Overlapping human rights guarantees : Summary of the discuccion on their impact on the examination procedure Y1 - 1998 SN - 3- 87061-636-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - The monitoring of human rights treaty obligations : Summary of the discussion on the reporting system Y1 - 1998 SN - 3- 87061-636-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strauß, Ekkehard T1 - Changes in the understanding of Human Rights in Europe - especially in Germany Y1 - 1998 SN - 83-87545-07-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Overlapping human rights guarantees : An analysis of causes and a scetch of possible effects N2 - Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit den Ursachen und Folgen menschenrechtlicher Mehrfachgarantien und konkurrierender Kontrollmechanismen. Y1 - 1998 SN - 3- 87061-636-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Eckart T1 - The universal protection of human rights : reality or utopia? Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Human Rights Y1 - 2002 SN - 90-411-1865-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on German Jurisprudence Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - The Protection of Minorities in a Federalm State : the Case of Germany Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-275-98024-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pollmann, Arnd T1 - Dignity after measure Y1 - 2005 SN - 0012-1045 ER -