Jahrbuch für erbrecht und schenkungsrecht

It is the goal of the "Hereditare Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erbrecht e.V." association to pursue scholarly studies of inheritance law and the pre-death succession of property. One of its main concerns is to promote the connection between scholarship and practice, which is why the journal...

Geschichtsschreibung und täufertum

Integrating the Anabaptist movement coherently into their own historiographical concept of the Reformation challenged both Lutheran and Reformed scholars. Steffie Schmidt examines the extent to which these narrative patterns were questioned and possibly updated under the conditions of pietism and...

The future of cohesion policy

The contributors to this volume explore the future of EU Cohesion Policy, one of the main pillars of the EU budget. With contributions from 15 experts, the volume focuses on the rationale of Cohesion Policy, its economic impacts over 30 years, effectiveness factors, and ways to enhance performanc...

Handlungslasten des urhebers

Normally in copyright law, a work's creator holds exclusive rights and anyone wishing to use the work has had to seek prior consent. However, a role reversal of this principle now often requires copyright holders to actively object by way of opt-outs. Darius Rostam's timely study analyses existin...

Frauenfragen

Marianne Weber (1870-1954) has been overshadowed by her husband Max Weber for decades, yet without her commitment, he would not have achieved world renown. During her lifetime, however, things were different for Marianne Weber, and she was celebrated in Heidelberg and throughout Germany for her d...

Geist

This compendium examines how the Spirit is depicted and functions in biblical texts and their historical and religious contexts, while also tracing the Spirit's discursive history from antiquity to today.

The historical location of p

The contributors to this volume aim to situate the Priestly writings more precisely in time and place. They give special attention to choosing relevant criteria --such as geographic indicators and references to material culture within the texts themselves.

Haftung für greenwashing auf dem finanzmarkt

The EU relies significantly on a sustainable capital market to achieve its goals on climate change. With various information disclosures, investors are now supposed to invest their capital sustainably. Jonas Gnauert examines the instruments under private law to enforce sustainability-related disc...

Die menschenwürdige existenz von geflüchteten

What rights do refugees have regarding their physical subsistence? And how do refugees achieve a dignified subsistence level? Annalena Mayr explores these questions by examining international, European and national law and tracing the process of legal mobilization of refugees using interviews wit...

Christusbeziehung und christuserkenntnis im johannesevangelium

When and how do the disciples in the narrative development in the Gospel of John get into a relationship with and attain knowledge of Christ? Stefan Zorn develops a model of a multi-stage process of relationship and knowledge that includes crises and reaches its climax in encountering the Risen C...

Die tatbestandswirkung von verwaltungsakten und beschlüssen

The factual effect of administrative acts means that all state authorities applying the law must generally accept a legally effective administrative act and base further decisions on it as a given fact without reviewing its legality. Matthias Ziegler takes this brief definition from case law and ...

Forgetting to remember

Jenna Kemp theorizes the formation of the Bible as a process of cultural memory in which forgetting is central. By examining secondary additions, it situates biblical scribes as figures who mediate the memory of texts. They remember text, add to it, and change how it can be remembered in the future.

Budgetrecht und repräsentative demokratie im mehrebenensystem

There is an area of conflict between democracy and the multi-level system. This is particularly evident in financial constitutional law. Ruth Weber examines the relationship between budgetary powers and representative democracy in the multi-level system from the perspective of constitutional hist...

Die verfassungspräambel als spiegel des verfassungsverständnisses

Constitutional preambles reveal more than one might expect: They reflect political self-understanding, disclose constitutional aspirations, and expose differences between political regimes. Using the example of preambles, the author demonstrates how closely law, politics, and ideology can be inte...

Geschäftsanteilsübertragungen deutscher gmbhs im ausland

Maximilian Möstl deals with the implementation of the transfer of shares of German limited liability companies abroad. This is an everyday problem, particularly in the context of cross-border transactions. The paper explicitly takes into account the changes introduced by the 2008 reform of limite...

Modernes personengesellschaftsrecht

German partnership law reinvented itself with the Partnership Law Modernization Act (MoPeG) - the most significant reform since 1900. This comprehensive volume examines both traditional and emerging structures of partnership law, from crypto companies to venture capital. Leading experts provide c...

Die tatsächliche vermutung

What the factual presumption really is remains unclear in many cases, despite the great popularity of this form of evidence in case law. Felix Uebel examines this question based on the long dogmatic history of the doctrine of presumption and a legal comparison with the French law of evidence.

The calling metaphor in paul's epistles

Drawing on cognitive metaphor theory, Fiva Savkovi? examines Paul's use of calling terminology and demonstrates how Paul integrated the Israelite understanding of divine calling, redefining it as God's action to bring humans into the ???????? - a community that shapes its identity in relation to ...

Absolute wirkung obligatorischer rechte

The contractual right to use another person's property is more than just a relative right, which in essence would limit it to the contracting parties. Rather, such an obligatory right does affect any third party because it constitutes an element of property rights and is derived from the property...

Critical race theory

Law's complex relationship with racism has increasingly become a matter of academic interest. Sociolegal thought tackling this relationship, however, remains scarce. A promising avenue for answers lies in insights generated by critical race theory as reconstructed in this award-winning work.

The literary history of the pentateuch

Joel Baden explores the history of the Pentateuch's literary composition, offering both detailed analyses of specific passages and broad theoretical and methodological reflections. His essays also serve as a record of the recent growth of the neo-documentary hypothesis in Pentateuchal scholarship.

Nachrichtendienste und bewaffnete konflikte

German intelligence services are integrated into military reconnaissance in a variety of ways and as such are placed alongside the Bundeswehr's own structures. The Bundesnachrichtendienst, for example, also acts as the military foreign intelligence service. The contributions collected here shed l...

'memory also gives a right'

Oscar Weller looks at the life of Norman Bentwich, the first Attorney General in the British League of Nations Mandate of Palestine. Bentwich was a committed Zionist and at the same time the highest legal official in the British Mandate administration. This conflict of interests renders Bentwich ...

Biblia americana

Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728) is colonial America's first commentary on the whole Bible. Perhaps best remembered for his writings on Salem witchcraft, the hugely prolific Mather was undeniably one of New England's leading Enlightenment thinkers.

Counternarratives in the exodus plague cycle

In this study, Lenin Prado explores how the Priestly version of the plagues in Egypt revises the Yahwistic account. He shows how the Priestly narrative uses literary techniques to create a counternarrative that aims to replace the Yahwistic version, revealing key differences and tensions between ...

Die lehre von der rechtskraft entwickelt aus dem rechtsbegriff

Adolf Julius Merkl's Lehre von der Rechtskraft is an undiscovered classic of legal theory and a vital text of the Vienna School of Jurisprudence, founded by Hans Kelsen. At its core is the dynamic conception of legal orders, describing the legal-theoretical foundations of how legal norms are cre...

Der bauvertrag

The construction contract places high demands on the applicable contract law. Sören Segger-Piening's study takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to develop a doctrine of cooperation and modification where the construction contract is categorised as a structure that allows exchange a...

Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de ben sira

Charlotte Obeid propose la première étude approfondie du langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira. Elle met en valeur la richesse de l'enseignement du Sage et propose des outils pratiques pour rendre le message biblique plus accessible.

Bgb i: einführung und allgemeiner teil

With this textbook and workbook, Dieter Leipold enables the reader to acquire a basic knowledge of German civil law. The new edition has been completely revised and updated.

Die grundrechtswirkung auf das privatrechtsverhältnis

The questions of how and why the fundamental rights of Germany's Basic Law affect its civil law have long been discussed and recent rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court have added fresh impetus to the debate. In this volume, Henning Schaaf analyses the German constitution, current legal li...

Die innengesellschaft

Commentary on the pseudonymous letters of aeschines

Zilong Guo examines the letters attributed to Aeschines, highlighting their blend of literary traditions. Through analysis and commentary, he reveals their role in Greek literature, from rhetorical exercises to epistolary fiction, and offers insight into their historical and literary significance.

Eine juristin unter ökonomen

In memory of Heike Schweitzer, this volume brings together selected writings of the Kronberger Kreis and thus honors the role of the antitrust lawyer as a bridge builder between different academic disciplines and her tireless commitment to a free legal and economic system.

Die verwirkung von unterlassungsansprüchen im lauterkeitsrecht

Lena Carla Weber examines the scope and dimension of the established legal doctrine of estoppel for claims for injunctive relief under unfair competition law. The impetus for this is a paradigm shift in German case law on the handling of such claims as a central instrument of the law on fair trad...

Autonome mobilität und datenschutz

Digitalisation is shaping the future of mobility. And while self-driving cars already offer flexible, sustainable transport solutions, they also bring with them a host of data privacy challenges. Henry Ogunrinde's study provides practical insights how the USA, China and Europe are dealing with th...

A 'blended system' of judicial review in germany

Different state actors can reasonably disagree about what guaranteed rights mean. Lisa Rabeneick argues that the German Federal Constitutional Court should, at times, exercise weak-form judicial review and defer in its decision-making to the legislative rights understanding, which may be equally ...

Banished from the city

Mark Jeong examines scenes in the New Testament book of Acts where members of the church are banished or exiled from cities. He argues that the author of Luke-Acts presents the church as a community of political exiles, whose exilic way of life is presented as part of following Jesus.

1 thessalonians

In this epigraphical commentary, the author examines the apostle Paul's first Epistle to the Thessalonians in the light of ancient inscriptions. He proposes new interpretations to better appreciate the significance of the letter in its socio-historical and epigraphic context.

Chronicles and social memory

Doren G. Snoek evaluates social and cultural memory in biblical research and offers a new approach to one biblical history, Chronicles, a book often considered derivative of its biblical sources, revealing it to be a robust, independent story of ancient Israel and Judah.

The city and its teacher

The studies collected in this volume examine an episode of religious conflict that profoundly impacted the life of Constantinople - the deposition and exile of its bishop, John Chrysostom. Each article takes as its starting point the Oratio funebris . Together they offer a multifaceted explorati...

Auslegungsgeschichte

Drawing on three broad, cross-genre and cross-confessional studies on the use of key New Testament texts during the Reformation and the age of Confessionalization, Patrick Bahl positions interpretation history as a central sub-discipline of church history and explores its hermeneutical and method...

Bildung und kirche

The sixth church membership survey in Germany offers current empirical insights into how respondents perceive "church" and how they assess its activities. Alongside an introduction to the study's methodology and interpretive framework, the book focuses primarily on the analysis and interpretation...

Vibes as value

Vibes as value explores the relationship between subjectivity, labour and value in the hospitality industry. It develops an approach to hospitality work as a form of affective labour that produces value in the form of ‘vibes’, showing how youth, gender, sexuality, race and social class are embodi...