the Pershing missile protests in comparative perspective /
Peter E. Quint.
1st ed.
New York :
Routledge-Cavendish,
2008.
xii, 288 pages ;
23 cm
The University of Texas at Austin studies in foreign and transnational law
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-281) and index.
The anti-missle demonstrations : the protests and their context -- The sit-down blockades in the criminal courts -- The sit-down blockades in the Constitutional Court : the Court and the arguments -- The sit-down blockades in the Constitutional Court : the decisions of 1986 and 1995 -- The great cases of 1995 : success for the "long march" of 1968?
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"In the 1980s the West German Peace Movement - fearing that the stationing of NATO nuclear missiles in Germany threatened an imminent nuclear war in Europe - engaged in massive protests, including sustained civil disobedience in the form of sit-down demonstrations. Civil Disobedience and the German Courts traces the historical and philosophical background of this movement and follows a group of demonstrators through their trials in the German criminal courts up to the German Constitutional Court - in which their fate was determined in two important constitutional cases. In this context, the volume also analyzes the German Constitutional Court, as a crucial institution of government, in comparative perspective. The book is the first full-length English language treatment of these events and these constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history."--Jacket.