Okonomische Methoden im Recht

Okonomische Argumente werden auch fur Juristen immer wichtiger. Dieses Lehrbuch soll Juristen mit okonomischen Methoden vertraut machen, um ihnen ein besseres Verstandnis dieser Argumente zu geben. Es richtet sich dabei sowohl an Studierende als auch an Wissenschaftler und Praktiker.Fur die Neuau...

Reformation und die Ethik der Wirtschaft

Von Max Weber stammt die grosse These, dass der protestantische Geist eine der grossen Antriebskrafte des modernen Kapitalismus sei. Religiose Grundlagen der innerweltlichen Askese, Luthers Berufsbegriff, Calvinismus und englischer Puritanismus haben nach Weber direkt die Entwicklung des neuzeitl...

Versorgungspflichten in der Europaischen Union

Is a separate model of public service provision currently being developed in the European Union? To find out, Markus Kern's comparative study goes back to the roots of Member States' public service concepts, mapping their origins and contrasting them with the EU's emerging provisions.

Musse in der Metropole

Flanerie is the most striking expression of urban otium . This volume shows to what extent it represents an appropriate category of analysis for German metropolitan literature of the late 18th and early 19th century. The focus is on the journal London and Paris as well as on selected travelogues ...

Innenansichten des deutschen und ostasiatischen Rechts

Der vorliegende Tagungsband versammelt die Ergebnisse der 4. Konferenz deutschsprachiger Juristen in Ostasien, die 2019 an der Chungnam-Universitat in Daejeon (Korea) stattfand. Enthalten sind Beitrage zum Verfassungsrecht und Privatrecht in Bezug auf Deutschland und auf Europa, vor allem aber sp...

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...

Ecclesia maledicens

In scheinbarem Gegensatz zum christlichen Fluchverbot liegt im Mittelalter der Befund einer `Ecclesia maledicens` vor, die die spirituellen und sozialen Folgewirkungen der kirchlichen Exkommunikation offentlichkeitswirksam inszenierte. Im Zentrum der Analyse von Christian Jaser steht der Blick in...

Syrien im 1.-7. Jahrhundert nach Christus

English summary: The articles in this conference volume cover the development of Syrian Christianity from the 1st century AD up to the early Islamic period. The topics of the essays start with the Syrians in the New Testament and deal with issues pertaining to the beginnings of the ascetic moveme...

Law and Life

Preston M. Sprinkle examines the interpretation of Lev 18:5 (awhich if a person does he will live by them) in early Judaism and in Paul. This passage from Leviticus, used in later Old Testament tradition (Ezek 20:11, 13, 21; Neh 9:29), became one of the more important verses from the Hebrew Bible...

Bildung und Wissenschaft als Standortfaktoren

English summary: The reform of the education system must be based on the durability and the synthesizing power of knowledge as well as the idea of education. However, institutions of higher education have to fulfil the functional requirements of a business enterprise and are committed to the econ...

Die Legitimation der polyzentralen EU-Verwaltung

English summary: The EU, the European Central Bank and agencies are part of a polycentric-autonomous administration with a special functional legitimacy. The author develops a new model where political, financial and legal accountability mechanisms guarantee democratic control through the democra...

Wettbewerbsgleichheit im grenzuberschreitenden Handel

English summary: German lawmakers must guarantee equality of competition for the benefit of cross-border trade in goods and services as stipulated by EC law as well as by the law of the WTO. Joachim Englisch analyzes the pertinent bans of discriminatory practices in the supranational legal system...

Kommunikative Verfahrenshandlungen im deutschen und europaischen Verwaltungsrecht

English summary: Does traditional administrative procedural law meet the requirements of the information society? In dealing with some communicative procedural acts, such as for example the right to a fair hearing, Barbara Bredemeier focuses on the current discussion. A detailed and practical ana...

Metapher - Narratio - Mimesis - Doxologie

Die Beschrankung der Ruckwirkung von Entscheidungen des Europaischen Gerichtshofs

English summary: Judicial retroactivity and its limitation in EU law are of unchanged practical relevance. Frank Rosenkranz discusses their theoretical foundations, analyses requirements and consequences on a comprehensive basis, and integrates them in the multilevel system of EU and Member State...

Die "Auffassungen" des UN-Menschenrechtsausschusses zum Schutze der Religionsfreiheit

Die internationale Dimension der Religionsfreiheit erfahrt seit einigen Jahren verstarkte Beachtung. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Rechtsprechung des Europaischen Gerichtshofs fur Menschenrechte (EGMR), die spatestens seit den Entscheidungen zu Kruzifixen in italienischen Klassenzimmern nicht nu...

Eingreifende Denkerinnen

Wer ein Intellektueller ist, ist umstritten. In einem aber gleichen sich die Studien zur Geschichte der Intellektuellen: Sie blenden Frauen aus. Dieser Band gibt Frauen ein Forum, die als Kulturproduzentinnen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert mit offentlichen Stellungnahmen in die politische Arena einge...

Foderalismus und Subsidiaritat

English summary: A federal order is usually adopted in order to have an institutional framework of government that accounts for regional heterogeneity and allows differentiating government action according to regionally diverse preferences. However, every federal system continuously needs to find...

Kritischer Religionsdiskurs

English summary: This volume continues Ulrich Barth's series of studies, Religion in der Moderne (religion in the modern period, 2003), Aufgeklarter Protestantismus (enlightened Protestantism, 2004) and Gott als Projekt der Vernunft (God as a project of reason, 2005) and further examines the pers...

Die Prognoseentscheidung im Offentlichen Recht

Vom legislativen Sozialexperiment bis zur Polizeiverfugung: Hoheitstrager treffen standig Entscheidungen auf der Basis von Annahmen uber die Zukunft. Die darin liegende Ungewissheit belastet, schafft aber auch Raum fur Gestaltung und Innovation. Mit dieser Ambivalenz umzugehen, ist Aufgabe des Of...

Gemeinnutzige Rechtstrager in Japan und Deutschland

English summary: The Japanese legislature had left legal requirements for non-profit-making legal entities untouched for over a hundred years. Since 1998, however, legal rules concerning non-profit-making legal entities have gradually been fundamentally reformed. This has happened against the bac...

Sicherungsrechte an Schutzrechten

Sachverhaltsaufklarung im Verwaltungsprozess

Der Anfang der Reformation

The historiographical significance of the Reformation is debatable. Against the backdrop of the discussion surrounding continuities and upheavals between the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation, Thomas Kaufmann analyzes the extent to which the Reformation marked a "beginning." In doing so, he fo...

Erwerb mit Mitteln der Erbschaft

Die Mittelsurrogation nach 2019 I BGB und 2111 I BGB steht in grundlegendem Widerspruch zum Vermogensrecht des BGB. Indem diese Tatbestande die vermogensrechtliche Zuordnung eines Gegenstands an die Herkunft der Erwerbsmittel knupfen, durchbrechen sie die fundamentale Trennung von Schuld- und S...

Zivilprozessrecht

This textbook provides law students with a basic knowledge of civil procedure law. This new edition has been completely revised and updated.

Woellner und das Religionsedikt

English summary: The Edict concerning the constitution of religion in the Prussian states, dated July 9, 1788, was the most significant decree on church policy in late 18th century Prussia. With this edict and the measures that followed, Johann Christoph v. Woellner attempted to counteract the th...

Sovereign Wealth Funds

English summary: Maximilian Preisser deals with the recent phenomenon of foreign sovereign wealth fund investments in Europe. He begins with an analysis of the chances and risks of new investors and then submits a regulatory proposal for European host countries, thereby encouraging the German gov...

Offentliches Kulturrecht

Freiheit und/oder Gemeinwohl

Am 17. Marz 2015 fand im Rektoratsfestsaal der Technischen Universitat Dresden in Anwesenheit vieler Weggefahrten und Freunde ein Festkolloquium aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstags von Klaus Adomeit statt. Mit dem Spannungsverhaltnis von individueller Freiheit und kollektiven Gemeinwohlinteressen beha...

Selbstbehalt bei Verbriefungen

English summary: Retention is intended as a means of decreasing the misdirected incentives in securitizations, which were identified as one of the causes of the international financial crisis in 2007. Hildrun Siepmann studies its potential and its limitations from the perspective of law and econo...

Uber die Evolution des Rechts

English summary: Christoph Henke studies the causes and the mechanisms of the changes in the law and describes the driving forces behind the changes. In doing so, his main concern is why the law is changing. His study is based on the Darwinist approach that the principles of variation and selecti...

The Mysteries of Mithras

In this work, Attilio Mastrocinque cautions against an approach to Mithraism based on the belief that this mystic cult resembles Christianity. While both Christian and pagan authors testified that Mithraic elements were indeed borrowed, according to Attilio Mastrocinque this was only done by some...

Diplomatie und Pergament

Kristina Odenweller veranschaulicht in diesem Band die diplomatische Karriere des aus Padua stammenden gelehrten Juristen Giovan Francesco Capodilista, die in der ersten Halfte des 15. Jahrhunderts eine bemerkenswerte geographische Spannweite erreichte. Als Diplomat in Diensten der Republik Vened...

Arbeitsteilung und Vertrag

English summary: The sophisticated division of labor typical for highly developed economies represents a challenge for private law systems that evolved over centuries. The historical, comparative and economic deliberations of Troger's analysis supply a normative foundation that can guide both, th...

Das Vorbenutzungsrecht

Chancen und Risiken von Pflanzeninnovationen im Recht

English summary: Helene Berlincourt-Heinecke reveals the interaction between intellectual property, licensing and liability law when it comes to introducing new plants to agriculture. What appropriate level of responsibility can scientific progress bear in this? Looking to the respective German (...

Amicus Curiae

English summary: In order to satisfy the aggrieved party's need for information and the wish to exercise influence in litigation, U.S. procedural law relies on the concept of amicus curiae. This means that a non-involved person or body of persons can be permitted to communicate views on issues co...

Die Systematik privatrechtlicher Rechtsprechungsanderungen

English summary: In this work, Ulrich Keil deals with the question of whether or not there is a system to the changing of court decisions by the Federal Civil Court. He focuses on the fact that German law, unlike Anglo-Saxon law, is a codified and not a case law system. Thus, German lawyers are n...

Luther und das Konzil

English summary: As an institution of the church and a Christian authority, the council became a central and, from the perspective of religious policy, highly controversial topic during the Reformation. The discussions, which were held on theological, church and political levels, were triggered b...

Haftung fur Totung

English summary: In regard to wrongful death, English, French and German tort law are remarkably different. German tort law restricts claims granted to dependants as a result of a relative's death to cases in which the death caused the loss of an enforceable right to financial support and entirel...

Kommunikation in der Demokratie

Zum 100. Geburtstag Helmut Ridders werden ausgewahlte Texte zur Meinungs-, Presse- und Kunstfreiheit aus den 50er bis 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts neu veroffentlicht. Diese waren teilweise nur noch schwer zuganglich. Helmut Ridder war ein politisch engagierter Staatsrechtler, dem vor allem w...

Jahrbuch des offentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart. Neue Folge

Band 58 des Jahrbuchs setzt die Beitragsreihe zum 60jahrigen Jubilaum des Grundgesetzes mit sechs Aufsatzen prominenter auslandischer Autoren fort. In den Rubriken "Abhandlungen", die "Staatsrechtslehre in Selbstdarstellungen" sowie in den "Berichten" kommen zahlreiche Autoren aus Europa und Ube...

Sunde und Vergebung

English summary: In his detailed analysis of Ex 32-34, Michael Konkel examines the most important current models of Pentateuchal theory. Contrary to the present trend towards dating them from a later period, he offers evidence of a preexilic composition in Ex 32* which reflects the fall of the No...

Proclaiming the Judge of the Living and the Dead

Kai Akagi considers the Christological significance of Jesus's role in judgement in the speeches in Acts 10:34-43 and 17:22-31. Reading these speeches as part of the narrative of Luke-Acts with attention to scriptural use and influence reveals that the scope of Jesus's judgment and the use of scr...

Moderner Kapitalismus

Wohlstand fur Massen, Bevolkerungswachstum, technischer Fortschritt in Industrie und Landwirtschaft, aber auch Umweltzerstorung, soziale Ungleichheit und Krieg werden in der jungeren Diskussion wieder haufiger mit dem Begriff des Kapitalismus verbunden. Der "Moderne Kapitalismus" habe in einer l...

Investorentransparenz

English summary: The meaning of a securities law is essentially transparency. One aspect of this objective is the notification requirements with regard to major shareholdings under section 27a of the German Securities Trading Act. Jonas-Benjamin Ulmrich provides a detailed analysis of these regul...

Der internationale und innerstaatliche Schutz von Arbeitnehmerrechten in der kolumbianischen Blumenindustrie

Die Diskrepanz zwischen Recht und Rechtswirklichkeit ist ein Merkmal nicht nur, aber insbesondere von Entwicklungslandern. Katrin Merhof analysiert diese Diskrepanz anhand des Beispiels des kolumbianischen Arbeitsrechts und dessen Umsetzung in der Blumenindustrie. Sie setzt sich mit der tatsachli...

Die Rechtsstellung nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften - The Legal Status of Cohabitants

English summary: The book contains an extensive analysis of the legal status of cohabitants in nine European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as articles on specific issues, an overview of the historic development and demographical data. The contents of the respective legisla...

The Gospel According to Luke

In this fourth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist. His commentary shows that Luke succeeds in preserving the history of Jesus and its theological impact and that this history st...

Class Actions zur Durchsetzung des europaischen Kartellrechts

English summary: Although class actions are well known in the U.S., they are traditionally not part of the procedural system in continental European countries such as Germany. In order to strengthen private enforcement of European antitrust law, the European Commission is planning to introduce cl...

Grundgesetz-Kommentar (3. Auflage)

Mit dem Erscheinen von Band III ist die Neuauflage der Kommentierungen der Praambel und der Art. 1 bis 146 GG abgeschlossen. Die gesamte 3. Auflage bildet den jeweils aktuellen Stand von Judikatur und Literatur ab und enthalt aufgrund einiger personeller Veranderungen im Autorenkreis zahlreiche N...

Schriftdiskurse im Johannesevangelium

Marion Moser deals with the references to scripture in John's Gospel, a classical theme in the interpretation of the Evangelist. Through the application of inter-textual and narrative methods, a central and hitherto barely observed aspect of the use of scripture in the fourth gospel comes into fo...

Religion als Quelle des Selbst

English summary: Michael Kuhnlein deals with the religious background and motives of Taylor's social philosophy and his philosophy of freedom. In doing so, his main objective is to prove that the primacy of the good over the right, advocated by Taylor in an ethical context, cannot be separated fr...

The Politics of Dead Kings

In the narrative of Israel and Judah found in the Book of Kings, the end of a king's rule is summed up in a series of stock statements that begin with the poetic idiom for death: and [the king] lay with his fathers. The summary statements all revolve around the problem of royal death and successi...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

The texts compiled in this volume document and illuminate the path of thought upon which Weber turned to sociology comparatively late in life. He wanted to clarify the position and the function of this new science, which was highly controversial in Germany, in connection with cultural and social ...

Jesus and the Historians

Much has been written about the life of Jesus in works that often claim to be historical and to employ historical methods. Yet only sometimes are the methods and the presuppositions involved made explicit. However, it has also been claimed more recently that a decisive change in our view of the n...

Literary Structure and Setting in Ezekiel

Historically, form critical studies of prophetic literature have answered mainly historical questions. However, scholars recently have begun to address literary topics as well. This study of the book of Ezekiel addresses two such topics-literary structure and literary setting-in order to read Eze...

Die universelle Durchsetzung des Rechts auf Nahrung gegen transnationale Unternehmen

Des Menschen Wurde - entdeckt und erfunden im Humanismus der italienischen Renaissance

English summary: Our knowledge of the value of dignity dates back to its intellectual history. If it is forgotten, one of the basic ethical principles of the constitutional state loses its political meaning. The twelve articles in this conference volume attempt to prevent this loss by reflecting ...

Die Griechischen Gotter

English summary: Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, who hailed from Leptis Magna in Libya, was a Stoic philosopher living in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Nero. Of his works (writings on rhetoric and philosophy; commentaries on works of the poet Virgil) only the Epidrome ton kata ten Helleniken theo...

Die Rechtsfolgen der Existenzvernichtungshaftung

English summary: In principle, partners in a limited liability company are not liable for the obligations of their company. In exceptional cases however there is an obligation to meet claims if the partners have deliberately caused the company's insolvency. Sarah Rock analyzes the legal consequen...

Steuerhinterziehung

English summary: Klaus Beckmann presents an economic theory of tax evasion, dealing with both the individual's decision to cheat on his or her taxes and the social consequences of, as well as policies against, tax evasion. In the first part of this book, he reviews the neo-classical theory of tax...

Die praktische Konkordanz von Kompetenzen

English summary: Jurisdictional conflicts are ubiquitous in multi-level systems, especially in a globalized world. For the first time, Matthias Klass conceives of jurisdictional competences not as policies but as principles. Based on the main idea of a practical concordance of jurisdictions, Klas...

Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity

Revision der Lehre von der objektiven Zurechnung

Nach der Lehre von der objektiven Zurechnung ist ein strafrechtlicher Erfolg nur dann als Werk des Handelnden anzusehen, wenn neben den herkommlichen Tatbestandsmerkmalen - Handlung, Erfolg und Kausalitat - zusatzliche, wertende Kriterien erfullt sind: Der Erfolg sei nur dann objektiv zurechenbar...

Das Verbot der geltungserhaltenden Reduktion

English summary: The principle of not preserving the validity of an unfair provision in standard terms of business by means of rectification remains generally accepted. This is despite the questionable suitability of such an all-or-nothing legal outcome, amidst a trend towards ever-increasing con...

Open Access

Envisioning Judaism

This volume offers an extensive collection of cutting-edge articles in Jewish studies and related areas that celebrate Peter Schafer and take their lead from his groundbreaking scholarship. The collection lays particular emphasis on the dynamics of continuity and change in Jewish society, culture...

Berufsrecht und Berufsethik der Anwaltschaft in Deutschland und Europa

This collection of selected essays by Hans-Jurgen Hellwig deals with the German and European regulation of the legal profession and professional ethics standards for lawyers. In recent years, these essays have significantly shaped the development of both areas. Their common thread is the fundamen...

Staatsverschuldung und Verfassung

Die Foderalismusreform II hat die Verschuldungsgrenzen fur Bund und Lander verscharft und damit den Verfassungsgerichten als Kontrollinstanzen die Verantwortung fur eine generationengerechte staatliche Kreditaufnahme ubertragen. Allerdings bestehen spezifische Wirkungsbeschrankungen der Rechtspre...

Gottesbewusstsein

English summary: Christian Noack's study is based on the form-critical observation that Philo's three exegetical commentaries each have a different sociocultural context. The 'Exposition of the Law' is interpreted as a document of a political missionary theology, aimed at Jewish and non-Jewish pu...

Der Rang und die grundlegende Bedeutung des Kirchenrechts im Verstandnis der evangelischen und katholischen Kirche

English summary: Dietmar Konrad discusses whether or not the special status of church law in the Catholic Church represents an obstacle for ecumenism between both denominations. Based on a description of the different ecclesiological bases of both denominations, he explains their effects on each ...

An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation von des christlichen Standes Besserung

Die Adelsschrift ist ein Schlusseldokument der fruhen Reformation; in ihr zeigt sich Luther erstmals als jener Reformator, der das lateineuropaische Kirchenwesen in seiner bestehenden Form radikal in Frage stellte. Die Schrift, die nicht nur die herrschenden Stande, sondern alle Christen beiderle...

Die Zeloten

English summary: This new edition of Martin Hengel's classic Die Zeloten (ET The Zealots , 1989) makes a seminal work in the field of Ancient Judaism available again, in German, fifty years after its first appearance. The new edition contains the original text with corrections. An additional appe...

Imagery in the Gospel of John

The Gospel of John is well-known for its wealth and depth of figurative language, metaphors and symbols. These articles, written by some of the leading scholars in Johannine exegesis and particularly in the debate on Johannine imagery, utilize a broad variety of methods of interpretation. The aut...

Bernhard von Waging (+ 1472), ein Theologe der Melker Reformbewegung

English summary: Ulrike Treusch analyzes the life and writings of Bernard of Waging and discusses his late medieval monastic theology. Bernard (a 1472), Benedictine monk of Tegernsee, was one of the leading thinkers of the 15th century reform of Melk (Austria), which more than 100 Benedictine mon...

Bet-El - Erinnerungen an eine Stadt

English summary: In the Old Testament, the city of Beth-el is mentioned in 71 different places, making it the second most important city in Old Testament traditions. In this study, Melanie Kohlmoos shows how these traditions were shaped. In order to do so, she focuses on the memories of Beth-el i...

Guterzuordnung als Rechtsprinzip

English summary: Social, economic and technological developments have resulted in the creation of new goods such as electricity, merchandising of celebrities, or Internet domains. As long as the legislator has not made a specific decision about whom to grant exclusive rights for such new goods, s...

Die Sicherungsabtretung von Markenrechten

English summary: Antje Bramer examines how the assignment of trademark rights for security purposes takes place under the law and studies the problems this creates. Titles to a trademark are often the most important capital a company possesses. Since the abolition of the link between trademark ri...

Zwang als Grundubel in der Gesellschaft?

English summary: The basic concept of classical liberalism is a concept of negative freedom: freedom as an absence of coercion. But what is coercion? Why is coercion regarded as evil from the perspective of freedom? Friedrich A. von Hayek developed a definition of the terms freedom and coercion w...

Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion

The articles in this volume discuss polemically charged re-evaluations of the religious traditions and scriptures of the Western world, employed throughout the centuries in various religious contexts. These studies consider new religious outlooks not as glosses on inherited traditions, but as act...

Albert Hirschmans grenzuberschreitende Okonomik

English summary: Albert Hirschman crosses the borders between economic and political theory. He formulates the liberal perspective of Anglo-Saxon economics, deals with general socio-scientific research problems and studies the connection between the social structure and semantics. Originally a po...

Between Gospel and Election

How do the truth claims of the gospel of Christ square with the biblical testimony to God's abiding election of the Jewish people? In Romans 9-11, the apostle Paul reflects deeply on this fundamental theological question. The interpretation of these chapters has long been contested, however. The ...

Haftungsbeschrankung und Mindesthaftung

English summary: Alexander Bruns presents a new concept for the admissibility of limitations of liability, a concept which is valid both in the E.C. and in the U.S.A. His basic theory, which he explains and summarizes by using significant legal areas as examples, is that liability limitations in ...

Kairos

English summary: In the discourses on the interpretation of time in the Weimar Republic, kairos experienced a unique career. Flanked by satellites such as the right moment, fulfilled time and the special moment, it enjoyed a string of successes in religious socialism in particular. The fascinatin...

Vollkommenheit und Vollendung

English summary: Katharina Bracht presents the notion of perfection as central to the anthropology of Methodius of Olympus. She analyses the structure of his anthropology, paying special attention to the influence of the philosophical and theological background on Methodius' thought. Finally she ...

Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Peter-Ben Smit undertakes the first encompassing study of New Testament eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance. His study thus fills a large gap in current research. In terms of its main contributions and emphases, the study challenges the widespread assumption that the origin o...

The Origins of Pauline Pneumatology

Finny Philip inquires into Paul's initial thoughts on the Holy Spirit. Paul's conviction that he was called to be an apostle to the Gentiles and that God bestowed the Spirit upon the Gentiles apart from Torah obedience is the basis for any inquiry on this subject. Central to Philip's argument is ...

Verletzungen von Personlichkeitsrechten durch die Medien

English summary: This volume contains the lectures given at an international conference on the subject of Invasions of Personal Privacy by the Media. The authors deal with the protection of the personality from the media in an analysis of the individual legal systems in the member states of the E...

Die soziale Aufgabe des Privatrechts

English summary: Tilman Repgen deals with the only question of general principle which is not normative or dogmatic and which was discussed intensely after the first draft of the BGB (German Civil Code) in 1888 and up to the resolution passed by the Reichstag in 1896: the question of the social c...

Verlust der Staatlichkeit

English summary: Stefan Haack deals with the nature of statehood, using his own approach from the perspective of political science, by regarding statehood as a form of a fundamental political commitment of a community and developing criteria for its identification in the interaction of various po...

Handbuch der Textfunde vom Toten Meer

English summary: The Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook provides the first detailed introduction to the literary works from the library of Qumran and elsewhere. The first volume studies the manuscripts of the books of the Hebrew Bible and looks at their textual history. The text of each biblical book deve...

Gottinger Gutachten II

English summary: This volume contains the latest, previously unpublished reports made by the Institute for Ecclesiastical Law of the Protestant church in Germany. About half of the reports made by the Institute between 1990 and 2000 have been selected. Including the Jus Ecclesiasticum Volumes 14,...

Briefe aus der Frankfurter Zeit 1666-1686

English summary: The letters of Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705), the founder of Pietism, are first-class sources for ecclesiastical and cultural history, offering as they do an insight into the development and the spread of the Pietist Movement. In addition, they possess unique informational val...