In two recent judgments, the apex Australian court, the High Court, decided what intuitively seems obvious: that Aboriginal Australians, as that term is understood in Australian law, cannot be deported from Australia. The case exposed several fault lines that run through Australian law.
Continue Reading →Will und kann man in den außenpolitischen Beziehungen dieselben europäischen Normen, die das koloniale Unrechtssystem begründet und aufrechterhalten haben, heute wirklich weiter zur Grundlage einer Ablehnung von Restitutionsverhandlungen machen? Die Anwendung der Maßstäbe des alten kolonialzeitlichen Europäischen (!) Völkerrechts auf die Plünderungsakte weist gerade keinen Weg aus der Eurozentrismusfalle.
Continue Reading →A bizarrely archaic hiccup for old-school historicists, curiously ambivalent and legally intriguing to others, child marriages currently enjoy an unforeseen centrality in Germany’s public life. Europe today is hard pressed to look beyond its shores for instructive twenty-first century survival scripts. India’s past offers some lessons on child marriages for the current German predicament.
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