Animals set for protection by German constitution

Animals set for protection by German constitution

The fourth attempt to enshrine the protection of animals in the German constitution looks likely to succeed as one of a number of recent moves in Europe changing the outlook for research. Paragraph 20a of the German constitution imposes on the state the duty to protect the natural resources and the environment. Before the end of May, this paragraph is likely to grow by three words in length, an...

The Conceptual Jurisprudence of the German Constitution

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20 Years after Chernobyl – A Radiation Protection Perspective Statement by the German Commission on Radiological Protection

EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL LAW Death by Constitution? The Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe

However, if this were its only drawback, this brief comment would be unnecessary. But, in fact, the Draft constitution (we will use this term as a convenient shorthand and so as to underline the sense of alienation that oozes from the use of the term constitution, although it would be better to speak of a draft treaty) raises issues on a number of rather fundamental points. Its main characteris...

A set of semantic norms for German and Italian.

The psychological community frequently investigates semantic norms of properties produced by native speakers after being presented concept words, and these norms are of great value for a wide variety of psychological experiments. This paper presents a new set of norms that includes a collection of properties from a production experiment for the German and the Italian languages. Stimuli consiste...