(Ebook) Civil Disobedience and the German Courts: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective (UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law) by Peter E. Quint ISBN 9780203933008, 9780415442855, 0203933001, 0415442850

(Ebook) Civil Disobedience and the German Courts: The Pershing Missile Protests in Comparative Perspective (UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law) by Peter E. Quint ISBN 9780203933008, 9780415442855, 0203933001, 0415442850

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 constitutional decisions, and it also places the decisions at an important turning-point in German constitutional history.