Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law
Preface Claudia Fuchs & Konrad Lachmayer 3 Preface
Articles Cornel Marian 5 Learning From Others: The Scalia-Breyer Debate and the Benefits of Foreign Sources of Law to U.S. Constitutional Interpretation of Counter-Terrorism Initiatives
Anna Jasiak 20 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
Quoc Loc Hong 37 Democracy's Twin Challenges: Hans Kelsen and the Problem of Extremist Speech
Gregor Heißl 58 Family Protection and Deportations or Removals The Relevance of the Protection of Family Life for the Assessment of Deportations or Removals in Australia
Constitutional Anke Sembacher 77 Developments Focus: Bona fides in Austria
René Merten 79 Elimination of tenure-track contract model for university assistants – no infringement of principle of equality
Claudia Priewasser 83 Interference in a public-law contract by the legislator without justification – a violation of the principle of equality
Sandra Kramer 87 No infringement of the principle of equal treatment by abolition of the death grant in the doctor's law of obligations
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EMA@ICL Anete Erdmane 90 Liberty behind closed doors …? Involuntary placement and medical treatment in psychiatric institutions rom the human rights perspective
Book Reviews Ralph Wilde, International Territorial Administration: 147 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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Editors-in-Chief: Dr. Claudia Fuchs LL.M., Dr. Konrad Lachmayer
Editorial Board: Mag. Jürgen Busch D.E.A LL.M., Dr. Christoph Bezemek LL.M., Dr. Kerstin Buchinger, Dr. Harald Eberhard, Dr. Elisabeth Handl-Petz LL.M., Dr. Gregor Heißl E.MA., Dr. Thomas Kröll, Dr. Thomas Müller LL.M., MMag. Dr. Michaela Salamun, Dr. Anke Sembacher, Dr. Hedwig Unger
Scientific Advisory Board: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernd-Christian Funk, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Gamper, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Grabenwarter, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Holoubek, President of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhart Holzinger, SC aD Dr. Claudia Kahr, Univ.- Prof. Dr. Margit Karollus LL.M., Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Lienbacher, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Marrella, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Theo Öhlinger, Univ.-Prof. Dr. August Reinisch, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schmalenbach, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Schulev-Steindl, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Somek, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Stelzer, Univ. Prof. Dr. Bea Verschraegen LL.M. E.M.M., Univ.-Prof. DDr. Bernd Wieser
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Media owner & publisher: Dr. Konrad Lachmayer, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Vienna – Faculty of Law, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed.
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