Gesammelte Werke in deutscher Sprache

English summary: In his investigations of the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation - the two fundamental problems of the theory of knowledge - Popper criticizes in great detail apriorism (Kant, Fries and Nelson) and logical positivism (Wittgenstein, Schlick and Carnap). He also giv...

Book of Seven Seals

The Book of Revelation is a peculiar text whose special status in early Christianity is manifested by its manuscript attestation, transmission, literary references and discussions among early Church writers. This special status forms the nucleus of these collected essays and is highlighted from v...

Grundrechte im Naheverhaltnis

English summary: Conflicts within public institutions have always been a difficult terrain for fundamental rights doctrine. How, and to what extent, is the concept of liberty affected by the fact that the person in question is a state servant or a user or inmate of a public institution? The balan...

Ubersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi

English summary: This is a complete translation of the Yerushalmi Yoma into German. It includes a commentary based on classical commentaries and modern scholarship as weIl as textual notes, cross references, parallels and indexes. Yoma deals with the ritual of the Day of Atonement. In eight chapt...

"Einheitstaterschaft" statt Tatherrschaft

English summary: German criminal law distinguishes between various forms of participation in the perpetration of an offence. Whereas the individual forms of the perpetration of an offence have been standardized in section 25 of the German Penal Code, the participation has been regulated in sectio...

Handbuch Europäische Souveränität

The concept of a sovereign Europe is currently the subject of a lively debate. The Handbook addresses this debate from a legal point of view and discusses it from a historical, institutional and doctrinal perspective.

Zession und Rechtszuweisung

English summary: The assignor assigns a right to performance of an obligation by way of assignment to the assignee. Who is, however, entitled to the remedial rights, such as the right to damages, the right to avoidance, the right to terminate the contract and the consumers' rights to withdraw fro...

Dritterstreckung im Gesellschaftsrecht

Wenn von Corporate Governance die Rede ist, geht es meist um die grosse Aktiengesellschaft und dort vor allem um die Rollen und das Zusammenwirken der Leitungsorgane. Zunehmend geraten jedoch auch externe Dritte in das Blickfeld, welche mit der Gesellschaft organisationsrechtlich nicht verbunden ...

Patristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17th Century

The reception of ancient Christian literature in the 17th century was not limited to theology or dogmatics; the multitude of genres is indicative of the way patristic texts were dealt with. Using selected paradigms (comparative literature, encyclopedias, biblical hermeneutics, interdenominational...

Der Amicus Curiae im Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht

Das Rechtsinstitut des amicus curiae ist insbesondere aus dem U.S.-amerikanischen Recht bekannt: Ein am Prozess an sich unbeteiligter Dritter gibt dem Gericht eine Stellungnahme ab mit Informationen uber Hintergrund oder Umfeld der zu entscheidenden Frage. Mittlerweile sind amici in einer Vielzah...

Glücksspielregulierung

Gambling is a particularly controversial topic and gambling regulation a taxing legislative task. This handbook collects contributions on the foundations of German gambling regulation as well as on the various legal fields shaping and regulating gambling in Germany.

Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible

Cian J. Power explores ideas about linguistic diversity from the Hebrew Bible, including Hebrew and other ancient languages, like Aramaic. He argues that different ideas are linked to historical changes and show a concern for ethnic, religious and other boundaries.

Gutglaubig gelebte Statusverhaltnisse

In spite of the strict formalization of the law of status relationships it does happen that a status under personal law is legally void, a fact which has gone unrecognized. How does the law react to an incorrect declaration of a name, a void marriage which is actually being practised or a parent-...

Argumentation und Apologetik

In this study, Serkan Ince describes the history of Islamic apologetics on Christianity in the Middle Ages and analyses central Islamic arguments on Christian theology, especially those of al-Jaʿfarī, who lived and worked in Egypt in the 13th century. The study contains a full translation of the ...

Postcontinental Realism

Is philosophy still alive? Are there any alternatives to univocal postmodernist thought? Is there any point to asking age-old questions about the existence of reality and the possibility of knowledge, about being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology)? Ernesto Castro issues a resounding yes to the...

Revisiting Max Weber's Ethic of Responsibility

To what extent could Max Weber's ethic of responsibility serve as a model for us today? An adequate answer to this question could only be given on the basis of a satisfactory interpretation and thorough assessment of his ethic of responsibility. In this monograph Etienne de Villiers sets himself ...

Menschenrechte und Frieden als Rechtsprinzipien des Volkerrechts

In modernen multidimensionalen Friedensmissionen begrenzen sich Menschenrechtsschutz und Friedenssicherung vielfach gegenseitig. Wegen des fragmentarischen Zustands des jus post bellum und des Fehlens einer uberzeugenden Konkretisierungsmethode gelingt es Sicherheitsrat und Peacekeepern nicht imm...

The Community Rules from Qumran

In this volume, Charlotte Hempel offers the first comprehensive commentary on all twelve ancient manuscripts of the Rules of the Community, works which contain the most important descriptions of the organisation and values ascribed to the movement associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The best pr...

Die richtige Ordnung

English summary: The present collection of essays in honor of Jan Kropholler celebrates a scholar of international distinction who has exerted a decisive influence on the development of conflict of laws and the international unification of private law in the past decades. The volume contains cont...

Jahrbuch des offentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. Neue Folge

Das Jubilaums-Jahrbuch zum 50. Band wird von einem Vorwort des Herausgebers Peter Haberle eingeleitet, der das Jahrbuch seit 1983 betreut. Haberle hat in dieser Zeit u.a. neue Literaturgattungen eingefugt (Richterbilder, Europaische Staatsrechtslehrer) und Schwerpunktbande (ab 1989 Dokumentatione...

Exodus im Matthäusevangelium

Franz Tóth offers a detailed interpretation of these first four chapters of Matthew, placing the Jesus story in the context of Israel's scripture and its post-biblical reception history, in particular the so-called Rewritten Scripture.

Patenthinterhalte in Normungsprozessen

Das Verhaltnis von Patent- und Wettbewerbsrecht zeichnet sich seit jeher durch Spannungen und Konflikte, aber auch durch ein gemeinsames Ziel der Forderung von Innovationen und technischem Fortschritt aus. Besondere Fragen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Patent- und Wettbewerbsrecht stellen sich im...

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen fur die Weiterentwicklung von Europol

English summary: Europol is embedded in a dynamic development procedure of international police cooperation. Gregor Srock analyzes the perspectives for Europol's development by looking at the varying regulations of Article 30 Paragraph 2 of the EU Treaty and the European constitution. He shows th...

Tod und Jenseits im alten Israel und in seiner Umwelt

English summary: This collection of essays contains the results of an international and interdisciplinary conference on this topic which took place in Leipzig in 2007. The articles provide new approaches to the reevaluation of the different concepts of death in the ancient world. The authors give...

Dialogik des Rechts

In einer Sammlung seiner Schriften erscheint Rolf Groschners Arbeit an den Grundlagen des Rechts. Publiziert von 1982 bis 2012, in den drei Jahrzehnten zwischen Promotion und Pensionierung, erzahlen die Veroffentlichungen eine Geschichte, die philosophisch, dogmatisch und methodologisch in immer ...

Gesamtschuld und Erlass

English summary: A creditor to whom several persons are jointly liable can claim the entire debt or part of the debt from each of these debtors without any limitations until his claim has been met. The cross-liabilities of the joint and several debtors need not concern him. This basic principle i...

Christusbekenntnis und Jesusuberlieferung bei Paulus

English summary: Detlef Hausser examines the relationship between Jesus and Paul, focusing on Christology. His work explores the theological and tradition-historical relationship between Paul, the early Christian tradition of confession and the tradition handed down from Jesus. The pre-Pauline Ch...

Die Haftung des Kommanditisten auf der Grundlage kapitalgesellschaftsrechtlicher Prinzipien

English summary: In this volume, David Bartlitz re-conceives the basic principles of the liability of partners within the limited commercial partnership in German law. In so doing, he adheres to the basic idea that an appropriate reconciliation of interests can be achieved if the principles of li...

Mark, a Pauline Theologian

The significance of the Evangelist Mark lies in the fact that he was able to write an autobiographical account of Jesus of Nazareth. It seems to have been the first account of this type; it is certainly the oldest text that has survived along with the letters of Paul. In this study, Mar Perez i D...

Pfadabhangigkeit, Institutionen und Regelreform

English summary: In this work, Rolf Ackermann deals with the far-reaching methodological and the politico-economic questions raised by the phenomenon of path dependency. He shows that it is almost impossible for a state to know ex ante what the right path is. On the other hand, it seems obvious t...

Neutestamentliches Griechisch

Reformatorische Paulusauslegungen

This volume focuses on the Swiss Reformation in Zurich, the Upper Rhine region, and Geneva. In addition, Anabaptist, humanist and Wittenberg commentators alongside Luther come into view.

Risiken des Arbeitskampfes und Versicherungsschutz

Torsten Sommer untersucht die Versicherbarkeit des Arbeitskampfrisikos. Damit greift er ein in der deutschsprachigen Literatur bislang kaum beachtetes Forschungsfeld im Schnittmengenbereich der Betatigungsfelder des Arbeitsrechts und der Versicherungswissenschaften auf. Er arbeitet die wirtschaft...

Zustimmungserfordernis beim Europaischen Stabilitatsmechanismus

Der Europaische Stabilitatsmechanismus (ESM) bildet eine der zentralen Massnahmen zur Bewaltigung der sogenannten Eurokrise und wirft grundlegende Fragen des Europa- und des Verfassungsrechts auf. Lena Ketterer stellt seine Entstehung in den Kontext der Rettungspolitik der Jahre 2010 bis 2014 und...

Regulierung von Systemen Künstlicher Intelligenz durch die DSGVO

Is the GDPR a useful instrument for regulating artificial intelligence? This book examines this question. The work covers three main topics: It analyses individual provisions of the GDPR, explores its potential for reform and highlights the limits of data protection regulation.

Die Europaische Union im universellen Volkergewohnheitsrecht

Gemass Artikel 3 Absatz 5 des Vertrages uber die Europaische Union leistet die Europaische Union einen Beitrag zur "strikten Einhaltung und Weiterentwicklung des Volkerrechts". Als Volkerrechtssubjekt ist sie auch an die Normen des universellen Volkergewohnheitsrechts gebunden. Carolin Damm unter...

Fernsehen und Horfunk in der Verfassung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zugleich ein Beitrag zu weiteren allgemeinen verfassungsrechtlichen und kommunikationsrechtlichen Fragen

Ethik der Liebe

English summary: This volume contains the contributions to the International Research Symposium held in October 2000 at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion in Zurich in cooperation with the Soren Kierkegaard Research Center in Copenhagen and the German Society for the Philos...

Europarecht

Das Recht der Europaischen Union ist in ein dynamisches Umfeld eingebettet, das stark durch politische, wirtschaftliche, soziale, kulturelle und institutionelle Kontexte gepragt ist. Diese Einbettung wirkt auf Entstehung, Auslegung und Anwendung des Rechts zuruck: Das Verstandnis von Unionsrecht ...

Gesammelte Schriften in deutscher Sprache

Dieser Band der Gesammelten Schriften von Friedrich A. von Hayek kann - neben der Verfassung der Freiheit - als das zweite Hauptwerk des bedeutenden Okonomen und Sozialphilosophen gelten. Es ist die Einzelveroffentlichung, die den besten Uberblick uber sein gesamtes theoretisches Werk bietet. Sie...

Von Jesus zur neutestamentlichen Theologie

Mobiliarsicherheiten nach ukrainischem Recht

Mit der Unterzeichnung des Assoziierungsabkommens hat die Ukraine den zollfreien Zugang zu den Markten der Europaischen Union bekommen. Auch fur deutsche Unternehmen, die an einer Erweiterung ihrer Absatzmarkte interessiert sind, konnte der ukrainische Markt zukunftig interessant werden. Nach ein...

Extrinsic Ordering in Classical Arabic

Extrinsic ordering is when the order of application of two rules must be specifically indicated and does not follow from a general principle. In Arabic the survival of a long vowel in a syllable made closed by a contraction may be a case of such ordering.

The Contemplative Spirit

To understand reality in terms of what is possible has methodological implications which a contemplative philosophy makes explicit. The goal is no longer to determine how things are or must be but rather to provide an overview of how they could be and the diversity with which they already appea...

Friedrich Niebergall

English summary: Liberal theology is an independent and ground-breaking form of Protestant thinking which attempts to respond to the diverse challenges of the modern age by studying the historical as well as the philosophical and psychological aspects of religion. Friedrich Niebergall (1866-1932)...

The Land of the Body

This book presents the first extended study of the representation of Egypt in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. Philo is a crucial witness, not only to the experiences of the Jews of Alexandria, but to the world of early Roman Egypt in general. As historians of Roman Alexandria and Egypt are w...

Zur Ubertragung innerstaatlicher Begriffe und Rechtsgrundsatze in das Volkerrecht

Begriffe und Rechtsgrundsatze aus dem innerstaatlichen Recht werden im Volkerrecht verwendet, um volkerrechtliche Tatbestande zu erfassen und zu normieren. Wahrend die Verwendung einzelner innerstaatlicher Begriffe und Rechtsgrundsatze in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder Anlass zu Debatten in ...

Exegetische Studien

English summary: In this volume, Otfried Hofius presents a collection of studies on central texts of the Gospels, Paul's Epistles and the Septuagint as well as on basic themes in New Testament theology and hermeneutics. Among other things, he deals with the christological-soteriological testimony...

Schuldnerschutz im Europaischen Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht

Johannes Wolber examines the protection of debtors in the law of enforcement from a comparative and historical perspective. He develops guidelines for the protection of debtors in cross-border enforcement of judgments within the EU, particularly with regard to the European Account Preservation Or...

Gesetzlich nicht geregelte Schuldvertrage

English summary: In this work, Markus Stoffels focuses on various types of modern contracts, such as for example leasing or franchising agreements, and shows ways of developing a systematic concept for determining the law for these, of checking the content of the law pertaining to these and of mo...

Einheitlicher Rechtsschutz Europäischer Patente

How to turn a mosaic into a unified whole? The fragmented legal protection of European patents has long been the subject of attempted unification reforms. The Unified Patent Court Agreement has found a way for several national individual property rights to interact together, giving them the same ...

Zeiten des Teufels

English summary: Jan Lohdefink looks into how perception of the devil changed during the early days of the Reformation and how this affected time consciousness. He describes the reformatory remodulation of interpreting the past, understanding the present and future prospects, which because of the...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

English summary: In 1908, Max Weber accepted Paul Siebeck's offer to provide a new edition of the Handbook of Political Economy , first published under the editorship of Gustav von Schonberg. The previous publication was regarded as being outdated. Due to legal problems, the title of the Handbook...

Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfGE)

Die Sammlung der Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts gehort zu den einflussreichsten und meistzitierten Periodika der deutschen Jurisprudenz. Sie enthalt alle Senatsentscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfG) in ungekurzter Fassung. Begonnen mit Grundung des Gerichts im Jahr 1...

Die Haftung des Verkaufers fur mangelbedingte Schaden

English summary: Katerina Stringari does a comparative study of the seller's liability for damages caused by defects, which underwent a reform in Germany and Greece as a result of the implementation of the EU Directive on the Sale of Consumer Goods. In her examination of German law, she focuses o...

Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective

The contributors of the present volume explore Islamic and Christian ideas of human life. Informed by classical and contemporary theological questions and interests, they offer scholarship in the humanities and sciences important insights into debates pertaining to human beings, their nature, fut...

Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will"

The consensus view asserts Augustine developed his later doctrines ca. 396 CE while writing Ad Simplicianum as a result of studying scripture. His early De libero arbitrio argued for traditional free choice refuting Manichaean determinism, but his anti-Pelagian writings rejected any human ability...

Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung

Metapher und Kreuz

English summary: Although Luther's theology of the cross has always been an important subject of research, there are scarcely any suitable historical-systematic monographs which deal particularly with Luther's interpretation of the crucified Risen One. Jens Wolff provides a case study of the cros...

Umgang mit Luther

English summary: The twelve contributions of this volume - partly published elsewhere, partly unpublished - examine Luther's significance for the contemporary reader. The main subjects are the biblical question and the political problem. The book will enable to understand Luther. He has given imp...

Altes Testament und volkische Frage

English summary: The volkish ideology which had become well established during the Third Reich was centred entirely around the Germans and proclaimed their superiority over the Jews. Cornelia Weber examines the interpretation of the biblical concept of 'volk' by focusing on Johannes Hempel, who h...

Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht in 100 Leitentscheidungen

By taking actual decisions of the German Federal Court, the Federal Constitutional Court, and the European Court of Justice this textbook enables students to link learned material to a case-related understanding.

Neuausrichtung der deutschen Energieversorgung - Zwischenbilanz der Energiewende

English summary: This collection contains the results of the fifth Bayreuth Energy Law Conference. The contributions by both academic and practitioner-speakers provide an interim assessment of 2011's energy turnaround. The current situation regarding the reorientation of German energy supply is t...

Die Moglichkeiten der globalen Belastung von Unternehmen im deutschen Recht

Gesammelte Werke in deutscher Sprache

English summary: This book is the first volume of Sir Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery , now completely available for the first time in a German translation. This volume contains Popper's new and very wide-ranging elaboration on his views on induction, demarcation and...

Facets of Fear

The notion "fear of God(s)" is widespread in and beyond the Hebrew Bible. How was it understood and why did it make sense among ancient Jewish scribes to couple "fear" terminology with "God(s)" terminology? How was this notion applied, and what taxonomical challenges does it involve? Phillip Mich...

Bologna und das Rechtsstudium

English summary: This volume aims to lay the foundations for a serious discussion of the Bologna model and its possible impact on teaching and learning the law. The volume gives a broad overview of the models of legal training in different parts of Europe. German description: Ist der Bologna-Proz...

Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Europaisches Kreditsicherungsrecht

English summary: The establishment of a Single European Market for credit transactions essentially depends on the harmonization of collaterals and their mutual recognition in the Member States. This book gives an account of the achievements of this harmonization and of the scholarly work in progr...

Der einstweilige Rechtsschutz im Zivilprozess und im arbeitsgerichtlichen Verfahren

Son, Sacrifice, and Great Shepherd

Over the last few decades scholarly interest in the Epistle to the Hebrews has experienced something of a renaissance. This volume, which grew out of presentations at the 2011-2013 sessions of the revived Hebrews program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature's International Meeting, is a tes...

Bereichsverweisungen auf Ruckabwicklungssysteme im Burgerlichen Gesetzbuch

Das Burgerliche Gesetzbuch bedient sich an zahlreichen Stellen der Technik der Verweisung. Verweisungen sind ein gesetzgeberisches Mittel, um ein Gesetz zu verschlanken und zu systematisieren. Sie haben aber weit daruber hinausgehende Funktionen und Auswirkungen und pragen das Zivilrecht daher in...

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,

Way Metaphors and Way Topics in Isaiah 40-55

Oystein Lund gives a new approach to texts in Isaiah 40-55 that deal with ways and desert transformation. Earlier exegesis has mainly read these texts in a literal way. In recent years, exegetes have pointed out that the so-called 'exodus texts' should rather be interpreted metaphorically. The au...

Verantwortbares Richterrecht

English summary: Government bodies should bear responsibility for every decision which they make. The legality and legitimacy of essential case law insufficiently reflects the inadequate handling of the decision-making responsibility of the judiciary in democratic countries. The creation of judic...

Klostereintritt und Bildung

English summary: This book takes a good look at life in the convents of the late Middle Ages as described in the diary of a Cistercian nun written over a period of more than 20 years. It shows how the convents and the families of the girls entering the convent interacted. If the girls were undera...

Jesus as the Eschatological Davidic Shepherd

Young S. Chae analyzes the puzzling association of the Son of David with Jesus' healing ministry in the First Gospel. This, along with the Gospel's rich shepherd/sheep images and the theme of the restoration of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, finds a significant clue in the picture of Jesu...

Die Wiederkehr des Glanzes in der Welt