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Ann Goldberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Mellage Trial and the Politics of Insane Asylums in Wilhelmine Germany
The Journal of Modern History, 2002Co-Authors: Ann GoldbergAbstract:On September 20, 1894, a pamphlet entitled 39 Monate bei gesundem Geiste als irrsinnig eingekerkert hit the book stands in Germany.1 Its author, Heinrich Mellage, a tavern keeper from the industrial town of Iserlohn (Westphalia), detailed his recent exploits in “liberating” a Scottish priest (Alexander Forbes) from the clutches of a Catholic insane asylum in the Rhineland. In telling this story, Mellage’s expose brought to light an array of shocking abuses in the asylum. For his literary effort, he was slapped with a libel Lawsuit, the charges brought jointly by the state and the Mariaberg asylum under paragraph twenty of the Reich Press Law (and sections of the criminal code).2 Mellage was eventually acquitted, but not before a nine-day trial, splashed across the front pages of newspapers across Germany, exposed to a rapt country the gory details of abuses in the asylum and the complicity of Church, state, and medicine in the scandal. The Mellage trial became a national sensation, inspiring an avalanche of Press coverage, spin-off pamphlets, parliamentary debates, and psychiatric proclamations. Administrative reforms were enacted that strengthened state oversight and extended medical jurisdiction in asylums. At the same time, and despite (or because of) these reforms, the case contributed to a mounting backlash against psychiatry and asylums, intensifying public fears and helping to spur the formation of an extraparliamentary reform movement dubbed “antipsychiatry.”3
Lin Xing-le - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On Position of Press Law in China's Law System
Journal of Ningxia Communist Party Institute, 2011Co-Authors: Lin Xing-leAbstract:Press Law is an important Law of government's restriction on news free,of the protection on political rights and freedom such as citizen's freedom on speech and publishing prescribed in the Constitution and of the foundation of the Constitution and relative Laws.The establishment of Press Law is the evidence for the measurement of the perfection of socialist Law system.
Anne S.y. Cheung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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One Step Forward Two Steps Back: A Study of Press Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Journalism & Communication Monographs, 2001Co-Authors: Anne S.y. CheungAbstract:This monograph is a study of Press Law in Hong Kong after sovereignty retrocession to the People's Republic of China. It asks why has the unprecedented constitutional commitment for Press freedom after the handover failed to translate into practical guarantees in the legal arena? Reasons that may be accounted for are two. First, Hong Kong Law is marked by inconsistent legislations. Second, this inconsistency leads to a heavy reliance on executive restraint and judicial enforcement to protect the Press. Most disturbing is the constant denial and disregard of the role and value of the Press by the judiciary. This monograph further contends that in marking the boundary for the exercise of Press freedom, the judiciary is also defining the triadic relationship among the authorities, the Press and the citizens. This monograph concludes that unless there is a profound judicial awakening, Hong Kong's Press freedom as a legal right will remain illusionary and empty.
Luo Wan-li - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the General Sources Of the Press Law——The Legislative Choice of the Sources of the Press Law of China
Journal of Nanhua University, 2005Co-Authors: Luo Wan-liAbstract:The general sources of the Press Law mean the general forms of the effect of it.The legislation of the Press Law of China is still under discussion.In this article the authors studied the forms of the Press Law and tried to interpret the general sources of it in order to serve the legislation of the Press Law of China.
Miguel Vatter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Edinburgh University Press - Law and life beyond incorporation: Agamben, highest poverty, and the papal legal revolution
Agamben and Radical Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Miguel VatterAbstract:The final chapter this the book reconstructs and problematises Agamben’s account of form-of-life in The Highest Poverty’s by situating it in the context of the ‘papal legal revolution’ of the 12th and 13th Centuries. It begins by comparing Agamben’s analysis of Law and life in State of Exception and that in The Highest Poverty. Vatter argues that Agamben’s account of the conflict between the Franciscans and the Papacy is problematic because it fails to address the legal dispositif that ultimately spelled the defeat of the Franciscan project to emancipate life from Law, that of incorporation. The chapter concludes by reconstructing the history of the common-Law apparatus of the ‘trust’ as an alternative to the corporation, and argues that this can provide an understanding of group action that is neither sovereign nor anti-nomian.
