Portrait of Ya'akov Meir [Jacob Meyer], Head of the Rabbinical Court and President of the Consistorium of the Community of Strasbourg; France.

Caption: J. Meyer, Grand-Rabbin et President du Consistoire Israelite du Department du Bas-Rhin a Strasbourg; also translated in Hebrew

Towards a Stronger Conception of Democracy in the Strasbourg Convention

The purpose of this article is to examine the promotion of democracy through human rights law. The focus will be on the possibilities for using the European Convention on Human Rights to promote participatory democracy. The author argues that the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court is beginning to recognise some participatory measures such as the requirement of consultation, notably under Article 8 of the Convention.

The Record of the House of Lords in Strasbourg

This article reviews the outcomes in those cases between 1966 and 2009 where a claimant who lost in the House of Lords went on to lodge an application with the European Commission or Court of Human Rights.

Viri Galilaei : extr. des Motets d'Attaingnant / Couillard, comp. ; Arrang. de Smijers ; Chorale de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg ; Abbé Alphonse Hoch, chef de choeur

Titre uniforme : [Viri Galilaei]

Formules de serments à l'usage de l'officialité de Strasbourg.

Ancienne cote "77-4"

Traduction de la lettre prétendue du juif Samuel Marrachitan à son maître Rabbi Isaac, sur la vérité du christianisme ; traduite de l'hébreu en latin par Alfonse d'Espagne et du latin en allemand par Vrinhert, curé de Strasbourg.

Traduction de la lettre prétendue du juif Samuel Marrachitan à son maître Rabbi Isaac sur la vérité du christianisme. Incipit : "Hie hebt sich an ein Epystel oder ein sandunge..." — Fol. 19 v° : Constitution de Frédéric Barberousse sur la puissance impériale, 1180, texte latin et traduction allemande, la dernière ajoutée postérieurement. Explicit (fol. 21) : "In der stat zu Regenspurg, in dem fronhof."

Borrowing and shift-induced interference: contrasting patterns in French-Germanic contact in Brussels and Strasbourg

The main aim of the present article is to test hypotheses derived from the model for contact- induced language change as formulated in Thomason and Kaufman (1988 et seq.). As the model correctly predicts the asymmetries between the mutual influences of the Germanic and the Romance varieties in Brussels and Strasbourg it is a very powerful tool for describing the contact patterns in these cities. The analysis shows that the contact patterns are very similar, both from a quantitative and from a qualitative point of view, despite important differences in the sociolinguistic situation of both cities. The striking similarities in the outcome of language contact seem to find a plausible explanation in the fact that the language contact situations in both cities are similar from a typological point of view: in each city a variety of French is in contact with a Germanic variety (Alsatian and Brussels Dutch). Thus, the claim of the present article is that the structure of the languages plays a more prominent role in the outcome of language contact than the sociolinguistic history of the speakers.