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Volume 17 - Winter 1989

Contents

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Articles

  • The 1987 Swedish Family Law Reform

  • Fariborz Nozari
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 February 2019, pp. 219-232

  • A major family law reform was implemented in Sweden during 1987. A new marriage code was enacted. Certain limited rights were granted to cohabitants. A special law protecting the right of homosexual cohabitants was adopted. And consequently, the Inheritance Code and a number of other laws had to be amended to meet the requirement of the above mentioned legislation.

Legislative Perspectives

Articles

  • The Influence of the West German Constitution on the Legal System of the Country

  • Juergen Christoph Goedan
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 February 2019, pp. 111-122

  • Article 1 of the Basic Law the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, reads as follow:

    1. “(1) The dignity of man shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

    2. (2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.

    3. (3) The following basic rights shall bind the legislature, the executive and the judiciary as directly enforceable law.”

    This article answers, in a nutshell, all the questions one might raise regarding the influence of a constitution on the legal system of a country.

Bibliographies

Notes and Comments

Other

Bibliographies

Periodical Reviews

Notes and Comments

International Documentation

Periodical Reviews

Notes and Comments

International Documentation

Book Review Essay

International Documentation

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