Suchergebnisse

Vor 200 Jahren, laut Kirchenbucheintrag am 26. Juni 1810, wurde in Mannheim als Sohn eines »Blecharbeiters« Johann Christoph Wolff geboren. Der Vater Joseph stammte aus Philippsburg und war katholisch, dessen Ehefrau Ursula war eine geborene May. Der Schul- und Studienfreund von Lorenz Brentano und Friedrich Hecker wählte 1836 als Rechtspraktikant beim großherzoglichen Bezirksamt Baden (Baden-Baden) zu seinem Lebensmittelpunkt. Vereidigt wurde er vom Amtmann von Theobald, der seine politische Karriere bis zum Ende begleitete, schlussendlich sogar strafversetzt wurde.

I have also had the experience of sitting—though not silently—through
deliberations in the ICJ. Often professors say, "Oh well you know, they were
not quite clear where they were going because they had been ambiguous here."
The common law world of academia often misses the point spectacularly,
because in common law courts—even when you have a lot of judges—the
tradition is that a judge writes his or her own judgment, and either other
judges agree or you have to distill the ratio
decidendi of the case from the different judgments. It is
a totally different exercise when the judges must produce a collective
judgment, especially if they must produce it in more than one language. Had
academics been a fly on the wall in the deliberations at the ICJ they would
have known we knew exactly what we were doing: we did not all agree on the
outcome, and this is a disagreement that has been reduced to writing in
order to enable the court to move on.