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This article presents an ethnographic study of the case of Ende Gelände (EG), a German civil disobedience network undertaking action for climate justice. We reveal how a politics of legitimacy in civil society organizations such as EG are structured and constructed through different styles of civic action. Specifically, in our case study, a dominant pattern of civil anarchizing (CA) emerged, in which legitimacy was continuously negotiated in ...

Medieval and early modern rulers commonly proclaimed that protecting the legal entitlements of the personae miserabiles, who included widows, orphans, the chronically ill and "the poor," was among their principal duties. The entitlement of the poor to legal services was not a matter of grace but was in fact their "good right." For example, widows, orphans, and other personae miserabili had the privilege of being heard in first instance before ...

This study looks at the possibilities to complement the general data protection framework with specific rules for employment relations. Data protection in employment relations clearly touches on labour law. The specific actors involved, the social partners, and the strategies used in the past to harmonise labour law, are taken into account. The study evaluates the application of the existing general data protection framework in employment ...

Het is tamelijk merkwaardig dat foutloze aansprakelijkheid vrijwel uitsluitend met de industrialisering en de toenemende mechanisering van arbeid en transport sinds de late achttiende eeuw wordt geassocieerd. Ook voordien bestonden immers vormen van objectieve gehoudenheid voor schade, veroorzaakt door zaken of door andere personen, en vele van de daaraan verbonden regels konden zonder problemen worden toegepast in de sterk gewijzigde ...