In the mid-1970s the high courts of several western democracies handed down constitutional decisions concerning the legal regulation of abortion. All of the courts sustained their abortion statutes except the United States and West Germany, which moved in opposite directions. The US Supreme Court voided the conservative abortion statutes of various states while West Germany\u27s highest court nullified an abortion statute that took a liberal stance on abortion. The extended opinions of the American and German courts and their contrasting grounds for decision make them fitting candidates for a comparative analysis of abortion jurisprudence. The abortion issue illustrates the tension between liberty and community in a constitutional polity. A...
The Supreme Court\u27s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which held that women have a federal constituti...
Abortion is one of the most controversial and contentious issues of our time. Few topics generate as...
In Roe v. Wade,1 which was ctecided in 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States held that prior ...
In the mid-1970s the high courts of several western democracies handed down constitutional decisions...
The US Supreme Court’s 1973 and the German Federal Constitutional Court’s 1975 decisions on abortion...
What I plan to do here is to tell you the story of Germany\u27s legal approach to abortion and offer...
Between January 1973 and February 1975 five major constitutional courts in the Western world ruled o...
Liberalism defines a relationship between individuals and the state in which individuals are treated...
Book Chapter Donald P. Kommers, Abortion and the Constitution: The Cases of West Germany and the Uni...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.In this Article, Professors Levy and Somek enga...
Although several commentators have previously suggested that the United States and Germany now share...
In the First and Second Abortion decisions, the German Constitutional Court drew on earlier jurispru...
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution protects a woman's decision whether or no...
This Article draws attention to the significance of rights-talk in shaping proper abortion legislati...
This Article analyzes the legal regulation of abortion within the context of Europe’s multilevel sys...
The Supreme Court\u27s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which held that women have a federal constituti...
Abortion is one of the most controversial and contentious issues of our time. Few topics generate as...
In Roe v. Wade,1 which was ctecided in 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States held that prior ...
In the mid-1970s the high courts of several western democracies handed down constitutional decisions...
The US Supreme Court’s 1973 and the German Federal Constitutional Court’s 1975 decisions on abortion...
What I plan to do here is to tell you the story of Germany\u27s legal approach to abortion and offer...
Between January 1973 and February 1975 five major constitutional courts in the Western world ruled o...
Liberalism defines a relationship between individuals and the state in which individuals are treated...
Book Chapter Donald P. Kommers, Abortion and the Constitution: The Cases of West Germany and the Uni...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.In this Article, Professors Levy and Somek enga...
Although several commentators have previously suggested that the United States and Germany now share...
In the First and Second Abortion decisions, the German Constitutional Court drew on earlier jurispru...
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution protects a woman's decision whether or no...
This Article draws attention to the significance of rights-talk in shaping proper abortion legislati...
This Article analyzes the legal regulation of abortion within the context of Europe’s multilevel sys...
The Supreme Court\u27s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which held that women have a federal constituti...
Abortion is one of the most controversial and contentious issues of our time. Few topics generate as...
In Roe v. Wade,1 which was ctecided in 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States held that prior ...
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