Despite a centralized political system, nation-wide legal reforms, and similar high housing demand pressures, property rights have evolved differently in Vietnam’s two leading cities Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City during the transition period. Using ethnographic fieldwork and a hedonic price model, the study shows that the two land and housing markets price tenure ambiguity differently. The differe...

This paper examines political attitudes and behavioural intentions of immigrants in the ® eld of voting behaviour. Based on a quantitative survey of the population of Turkish origin in Mannheim, Germany, and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that the political attitudes of immigrants re ̄ ect their marginal legal status: immigrants show a lower interest in the political ...

Is the political process, with all its difficulties, merely reflective of contemporary constitutionalism? Are the problems an aspect of ongoing inter-communal dialogue? To what extent are existing difficulties exacerbated by a general failure to grasp the difference between the logic of law and political theory and practice? These questions are addressed here in three basic stages: first, the r...

IN 1997, THE US SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THERE IS NO federal constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) but implied that individual states could nevertheless enact statutes permitting its practice. The lower federal courts promptly upheld the constitutionality of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act, the only US state statute authorizing PAS. Many observers of the court’s opinions th...

APLA Limited v Legal Services Commissioner (NSW)2 (‘APLA’), decided in September this year, had the potential to be a landmark decision in the field of implied constitutional freedoms comparable to Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth3 (‘ACTV’) and Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills4 (‘Nationwide News’). In the two latter cases the High Court concluded that the provision for a syst...

Many believe that we ought to save a large number from being permanently bedridden rather than save one from death. Many also believe that we ought to save one from death rather than a multitude from a very minor harm, no matter how large this multitude. I argue that a principle I call "Aggregate Relevant Claims" satisfactorily explains these judgments. I offer a rationale for this principle an...