Weltkulturv?lkerrecht und nationalstaatliche Umsetzung

Die Turbulenzen, die der geplante Bau der sog. “Waldschl?sschenbrücke” in Dresden ausgel?st hat, haben inzwischen auch das lange Zeit als harmonisch betrachtete Verh?ltnis zwischen v?lkerrechtlichen übereinkommen zum Schutz von Kulturgütern und ihrem Schutz durch nationales Recht erreicht. Ihre Verbindlichkeit für die Praxis der beh?rdlichen Zulassungsentscheidungen steht dabei ebenso in Frage, wie Regelungstauglichkeit des deutschen Rechts. Im Folgenden wird der Gegenstandsbereich des Weltkulturv?lkerrechts umrissen (I.). Dabei wird auf die Welterbekonvention besonders eingegangen (II.). Ihre Umsetzung in Deutschland wird dargestellt (III.) und nach ihren Defiziten gefragt (IV.). Abschlie?end werden einige Schlussfolgerung zum ?nderungsbedarf entwickelt (V.).     

Competition law enforcement under informational asymmetry

China-EU Law Journal - Competition law enforcement, whether by public officials, private parties and consumers or the courts, has to resolve informational and resource asymmetries. Current EU...     

Epilogue: International Norms for Nationality: An Elusive Goal?

Netherlands International Law Review -     

An already archived latent fingerprint as a DNA source for STR typing in a murder case

Former studies have shown that even a single skin contact, resulting in a latent fingerprint, can transfer enough DNA for genetic analysis. However, up to now latent fingerprints have usually not been used for DNA typing. In the present case the smeared trace of a hand was found in the suspect's car and archived. As it could not be evaluated in a classical manner, the evidence had to be examined by molecular genetic methods. DNA was extracted and typed in five different STR loci. Based on the yielded results, the significance of the findings is discussed.     

Begrenzte Rationalität und regulatives Lernen in der EG: die Liberalisierung der Elektrizitätsversorgung

The article analyses the liberalization of the EC electricity supply industry. Confronting the intergovernmental approach, the case study is based on the premise that the member state executives act within the limits of a bounded rationality and do therefore not always represent clear and fixed interests in EU negotiations. Taking the examples of France and Germany, it shows that the national positions and preferences may change greatly during the course of the decision making process. While the French positional changes may be reasonably well explained by the intergovernmental approach, the German preference changes are attributed to effects of the EC institutions and negotiations. Institutional principles, policy-concepts and fairness criteria guide member state orientations and behavior and hinder the pursuit of unilateral advantages. Incremental negotiation techniques within the Council induce learning processes and cause reassessments of the domestic situations. Furthermore, the EC decisions may cause behavioral changes which clearly surpass their regulatory content even if they contain extensive flexibilisation mechanisms.     

Childhood Predictors and Mid-Adolescent Correlates of Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol Use among Male and Female Youth

The identification of salient risk factors for alcohol consumption among male and female adolescents is an important topic not only for etiology research but also for designing effective gender-specific alcohol prevention programs for young people. This study examined the extent to which problematic alcohol use trajectories from ages 14 to 18 among male and female youth were related to childhood predictors assessed at age 9 (i.e., impulsivity, academic self-confidence, social problems with peers), socio-demographic variables, and mid-adolescent correlates [i.e., parental use, body mass index (BMI), risky peer context, conduct problems at school, parent–child relationship, somatic complaints]. Data analysis was based on a representative German longitudinal study (1986–1995, n = 1,619, 55 % female). Using growth mixture modeling methodology, associations of childhood predictors and mid-adolescent correlates to distinctive trajectories of alcohol use were examined for males and females separately. For males, a problematic consumption trajectory was associated with poor relationships to parents in adolescence and small community size. For females, low impulsivity during childhood, high BMI, and contact with deviant peers during adolescence predicted problematic as compared to normative alcohol use trajectories. Additionally, high parental alcohol use, low parental educational background, and conduct problems at school during adolescence were common predictors of a problematic alcohol use trajectory in both genders. The results provide insights regarding differences in the gender-typical development of adolescent alcohol use as well as stress the need of gender-specific intervention components along with universal prevention strategies against problematic consumption trajectories.