Strategische Umweltprüfung für Lärmaktionspläne

In Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie über die Strategische Umweltprüfung trat am 26. 6. 2005 die Neufassung des Gesetzes über die Umweltvertr?glichkeitsprüfung (UVPG) in Kraft, mit dem für bestimmte Pl?ne und Programme das Erfordernis einer Strategischen Umweltprüfung (SUP) eingeführt wird. SUP-pflichtig k?nnen danach unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen auch L?rmaktionspl?ne sein, die als Teil der L?rmminderungsplanung eine Neuregelung im Sechsten Teil des Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetzes (BImSchG) erfuhren, die ebenfalls EU-rechtlich bedingt ist. Die Neuerungen im BImSchG dienen der Umsetzung der Umgebungsl?rmrichtlinie und traten am 30. 6. 2005 in Kraft. * Der Verfasser ist am Landratsamt Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab u. a. für Umweltrecht zust?ndig.     

TRIBUTES: Nina Shapiro Adams 1943–2007

The author interviews Francisco Xavier do Amaral, one of the founding leaders of Timor-Leste's independence movement, in August 2007, a few years before his death in Dili in March 2012.     

The Role of Legal Education in Producing Psychological Distress Among Law Students and Lawyers

The anecdotal literature suggests that the process of legal education impairs the maintenance of emotional well-being in law students. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a cross-sequential research design that empirically assessed the validity of this hypothesis. Data were collected, using four standardized self-report instruments (Brief Symptom Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, and Hassle Scale) on subjects before and during law school and after graduation. Before law school, subjects expressed psychopathological symptom responses that were similar to the normal population. Yet during law school and after graduation symptom levels were significantly elevated. The implications of these results are presented.     

Pan Am makes the going great

Abstract

The great Boeing 707/321C cargo jet rolled off the runway toward the unloading ramp of Travis Air Force Base. Turned and stopped by the white-overalled technician waving a long, orange-coned flashlight, its doors rolled open to reveal the lightweight load it had brought on its return from the distant battlefield: one hundred and sixty-eight plastic-wrapped, aluminum-boxed bundles, the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. Another Pan American World Airways all-cargo charter was ready for unloading.     

Learning from Conflict

Efforts to achieve comprehensive international agreement on measures against international terrorism through the United Nations have failed until now. In a review of United Nations proceedings on the subject since 1972 the author sets forth the principal issues that have occupied the minds of the participants. Chief among them was the question of the scope and effect of a condemnation of international terrorism. Agreement on what the term itself included could not be reached because of fears of the adverse effect of a condemnation on existing struggles for national liberation and self‐determination. Nor could agreement be had that violence for the achievement of political ends should be confined to the areas of actual tension. Hence, there could be no common understanding on the question of who were to be regarded as “innocent” victims. The author concludes with a suggestion that a step‐by‐step effort might have yielded a better outcome.