Das aktiendarlehen

Die darlehensweise Uberlassung von Wertpapieren hat erhebliche wirtschaftliche Bedeutung. Zu den vom Darlehensnehmer verfolgten Zwecken kann u.a. die Erfullung von eigenen Lieferverpflichtungen gehoren. Eingesetzt werden Wertpapierdarlehen aber auch fur Strategien, die der Entkopplung von Stimmre...

Verteilungsverfahren

In den unterschiedlichsten Sachbereichen obliegt es der Verwaltung, knappe Guter in Konkurrenzsituationen zu verteilen, etwa Studienplatze, offentliche Auftrage oder Telekommunikationsfrequenzen. Dieser Aufgabe dienende Verwaltungsverfahren lassen sich trotz der Heterogenitat der Materien als neu...

Von texten zu geschichten

Im vorliegenden Aufsatzband stellt Cilliers Breytenbach seine Sicht der Exegese des Neuen Testaments als historische Textwissenschaft und der darauf aufbauenden Teildisziplinen (Einleitungswissenschaft, Geschichte des werdenden Christentums, besonders die Geschichte seiner Religion) dar und zeigt...

Schiedsbindung von gruppenunternehmen

Under which assumptions can third parties be bound to arbitration agreements? This book analyses this topic, which is specifically relevant for groups of companies, considering the voluntary character of commercial arbitration, laying out a system to bind non-signatories to arbitration agreements...

Kartellrecht der softwarevertrage

English summary: Arne Nordmeyer analyses software agreements in European anti-trust law where the technology transfer block exemption in particular is intended to regulate contracts dealing with these intellectual property rights. However, the author is able to show that this instrument is not su...

The jewish-christian controversy

Samuel Krauss (1866-1948), formerly Rector of the Israelitisch-theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna, was one of the last great representatives of the Wissenschaft des Judentums. His substantial studies of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world continue to be used as reference books.This volume forms a ...

A grammar of the ethics of john

In this volume, Jan G. van der Watt analyses the ethics of the Letters of John against their respective socio-historical backgrounds to reveal a detailed ethical landscape. The author shows that 1 John is pastoral in nature and encourages the addressees not to be deceived but to remain loyal to t...

Mystik und theologie des rabbinischen judentums

Das wagnis des gewohnlichen

English summary: Is Christian faith possible without metaphysics? Is the idea of a non-metaphysical philosophy of religion or theology not contradictory in itself? In conversation with Wittgenstein's and Stanley Cavell's thinking, which is critical of metaphysics, Andreas Hunziker searches for a ...

Hexerei und magie im strafrecht

Noch im 21. Jahrhundert ist der Glaube an Hexerei und Magie verbreitet. In jungerer Zeit ergangene Judikate belegen, dass es sich hierbei um ein ernstes gesellschaftliches Problem handelt, dem sich die Strafrechtswissenschaft bislang weitgehend entzogen hat. Im Kern geht es um die Strafbarkeit ma...

Die verfassung als "allgemeiner teil"

English summary: Thorsten Hollstein studies Nipperdey's biography, his methodology and his legal philosophy as well his conception of private law ranging from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi period and up to the Federal Republic. Instead of focusing on collective labor law, which was the stronges...

Mos christianorum

The preferred moral curriculum of a Roman education abounded with exemplary stories of Rome's native heroes. To inculcate conceptions of virtuous leadership, politicians and populace alike deployed exempla as rhetorical vehicles of the mos maiorum (way of the ancestors). James Petitfils explores ...

Streitbeilegung in den internationalen wirtschaftsbeziehungen

Wissenschaft und skeptizismus

Rechtsetzung durch betriebsvereinbarung zwischen privatautonomie und tarifautonomie

Theology, history, and the modern german university

Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of scientific theology ( wissenschaftliche Theologi...

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...

Deaktivierung von implantaten am lebensende

Modern medicine offers new possibilites of sustaining life, including fully implanted technical devices. Can patient autonomy justify a lethal deactivation of such devices, or does this constitute an impermissible killing on request? The author outlines the legal boundaries of deactivating implan...

Perspektiven zur praexistenz im fruhjudentum und fruhen christentum

Die Rede von der Praexistenz Christi wurde lange als problematisches Mythologumenon wahrgenommen und in der Bibelwissenschaft eher vernachlassigt. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes wollen zu einer neuen Wahrnehmung der Vielfalt der sprachlichen Formen, der Bedeutungshorizonte und Intentionen d...

Grundfragen des europaischen kollisionsrechts

Das Europaische Kollisionsrecht dient der europaischen Idee eines Raums der Freiheit, der Sicherheit und des Rechts ohne Binnengrenzen. Diese Aufgabe kann es nur erfullen, wenn sich die Akteure des Rechts immer wieder von Neuem seinen Grundfragen stellen. Sie betreffen zunachst die politischen, o...

Gesundheitspolitische handlungsspielraume der mitgliedstaaten im europaischen gemeinschaftsrecht

English summary: In its rulings, the ECJ has emphasized the application of the fundamental economic freedoms of the EC Treaty, especially of the provisions relating to the free movement of goods and the freedom to provide medical services within the social security systems of the Member States. C...

Intensivere drittwirkung

Are or should information intermediaries be bound by freedom of expression when moderating content on their platforms? Amélie Heldt argues in favor of a more "intensive" horizontal effect of freedom of expression - thereby analyzing content moderation from a constitutional, comparative, and inter...

Die jesus-deutung von ernst troeltsch im kontext der liberalen theologie

Science in qumran aramaic texts

The studies in this volume examine the knowledge and ideas about the natural and human world as reflected in the Aramaic texts of Qumran. Two questions guide the individual essays: What knowledge and what methods did they adopt from Mesopotamia? And how did they adapt this knowledge to their mono...

Die anlehnende markennutzung fur nicht ahnliche produkte

Markeninhaber investieren mitunter astronomische Summen in die Werbung und erwarten einen moglichst umfassenden Schutz ihrer Marken. Es sind vielfach Tendenzen zu erkennen, diesem Wunsch nachzukommen. Dabei wird aber zu selten danach gefragt, warum und in welchem Umfang der Markenschutz wirklich ...

Briefwechsel mit adam rechenberg 1686-1704

The correspondence between Spener and Adam Rechenberg offers comprehensive insights into Spener's life, thinking, work, and networks that portray many areas of contemporary spiritual and societal life outside of religious circles. Volume 2 of the correspondence contains 173 letters from the years...

Die bedeutung der eu-grundrechtecharta fur das nationale steuerrecht

Does European Union law ensure taxation in line with equality? Is such taxation even prescribed by Article 20 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights? And what does tax justice mean at union level anyway? Paul Lemmen addresses these questions with reference to the values of European primary law, the...

The oxyrhynchus papyri volume lix

Papyri nos 3963-4008

Der elohistische psalter

English summary: Claudia Sussenbach deals with the composition and the theology of the so-called Elohistic Psalter (Ps 42-83). She examines the structure of the Psalter and, using the observations she has made, shows that the Elohistic Psalter was originally a separate composition. The second Psa...

Was ist philosophie?

Future hope and present reality

This book is the first of a two-volume work with the overall title Future Hope and Present Reality. These volumes had their origin in the Speaker's Lectures that Andrew Chester gave in Oxford; their main focus is central themes in biblical eschatology, and especially the apparent contradictions b...

Okonomische analyse des europarechts

English summary: Despite the numerous publications concerning the basic economic principles of the European integration process, studies on individual institutional and material questions are still rare. Against this backdrop, the 12th Travemunde Symposium was dedicated to the analysis of some ke...

Internationales jahrbuch fur hermeneutik

English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the ...

Handlungshoheit

Die neuere Entwicklung des Vertragsrechts wird teils unter Schlagworten wie "Materialisierung" oder "Wiederkehr der Vertragsgerechtigkeit" zusammengefasst. Es besteht aber auch ein Konsens daruber, dass Selbstbestimmung und Vertragsbindung nach wie vor Kernelemente des Vertragsrechts sind. Bernha...

The law applicable to security interests in intermediated securities under ohada law

Justin Monsenepwo analyzes conflict of laws issues related to international securities transactions in the African states of the OHADA region. He focuses on the interplay of conflict of laws rules with substantive law and the evaluation of the Hague Convention on certain rights with respect to se...

Epicureanism and the gospel of john

The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then have been easy for an Epicurean to become a Christian or vice-versa? Fergus J. King suggests that such claims become unlikely when detailed analyses of the two traditions are se...

Das recht der öffentlichen gesundheit

Based on the discoveries made by public health research, Andrea Kießling analyzes the general framework in constitutional law for the prevention of disease and the promotion of health by the state. In this way she makes an attempt to systematize public health law, something which has not been don...

Auferstehungsvorstellungen in apokryph-gewordenen evangelien

Cornelius Voigt uses selected sources to trace diverse ways early Christian communities in the second and third centuries understood the Easter event. This study reveals fascinating new interpretations that emerged from evolving theological necessities, while also highlighting the formative role ...

Das prinzip der rechtsschutzgleichheit im recht der prozesskostenhilfe

Deutéronome 26 sur fond de la lecture de gerhard von rad

Le livre analyse le chapitre 26 du Deutéronome, situé à la conclusion du corpus des lois. Cette analyse démontre l'unité du chapitre et l'importance de son rôle dans la structure du Deutéronome. L'étude met particulièrement en valeur l'acte théologique de raconter l'histoire et son lien avec la l...

Vertrauensgedanke und rechtsfortbildung

Claims for damages due to misrepresentations about investment products on the capital market give rise to one fundamental question: To what extent are market actors free to willingly cause damages to each other while seeking their own profit? In this context, German courts often apply Sec. 826 of...

Die beschrankung der erbenhaftung in der insolvenz

English summary: Philipp S. Fischinger studies the partially conflicting relationship between bankruptcy law on the one hand and the right of an heir to limit his liability for the debts of the estate on the other hand in cases in which an insolvency proceeding is pending concerning his own or th...

Ethik der zeit - zeiten der ethik

Is ethics time-dependent? To what extent do time contexts or time dimensions such as past and future also determine present action? In dialogue with ancient concepts of time ethics (Egyptian, Greek-philosophical and Jewish-Christian tradition), new perspectives for present fields of action are ga...

Envisioning the christian society

Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) is one of the most influential Danish theologians in history. As a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Hemmingsen played an important role in moulding Danish society according to his understanding of Lutheranism during the second half of the sixteenth century. ...

Musse und gesellschaft

Musse ist ein freies Verweilen in der Zeit jenseits von Zweckrationalismus und Utilitarismus. Sie zielt auf Freiheit von Zeitzwangen und unmittelbarer Leistungserwartung, auf asthetisch und raumlich inszenierte Lebensformen einer Freiheit, die in der Zeit nicht der Herrschaft der Zeit unterliegt....

Max weber-gesamtausgabe

Im Auftrag des Vereins fur Socialpolitik arbeitet Max Weber eine grossangelegte Enquete uber die Lage der Landarbeiter in Ostelbien aus. Auf der Basis von mehreren hundert Fragebogen sollten die exakten Lohnverhaltnisse der Landarbeiter ermittelt und die Entwicklung der Landarbeiterschaft insbeso...

Die messopfertheologie martin luthers

English summary: The sacrifice of the mass is a religious ritual which is of crucial importance for the thinking and the self-understanding of late medieval society. Wolfgang Simon examines its theological and political background and shows how Luther developed his own concept of sacrament and sa...

Rechtsdurchsetzung durch vertragsstrafe und aufrechnung

Die Durchsetzung materiellen Rechts wird in aller Regel dem Prozessrecht zugeschrieben, das spatestens auf der Ebene der Vollstreckung die Ausubung hoheitlicher Staatsgewalt vorsieht. Daneben aber halt das materielle Privatrecht selbst verschiedene Moglichkeiten bereit, die Durchsetzung privatrec...

Unternehmerische entscheidungen des vorstands

Die "Business Judgment Rule" ( 93 Abs. 1 S. 2 AktG) soll dem Vorstand der AG einen Haftungsfreiraum bei "unternehmerischen Entscheidungen" bieten, weist aber nach wie vor in ihrem Anwendungsbereich erhebliche Unscharfen auf. Auch ihre haftungsrechtlichen Auswirkungen werden unterschiedlich bewert...

Alternative dispute resolution fur verbraucherstreitigkeiten

The European Union promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for consumer disputes. Gordon Kardos examines the impact and the integration process of consumer ADR in England and Germany. The work analyses the goals and functions of ADR with regard to their political-economic steerin...

Max weber-gesamtausgabe

Europaisches versicherungsvertragsrecht 3-volume set

Geldmarktsteuerung und krisenpravention

English summary: The Reichsbank was set up in 1875 as the German Empire's first state-controlled bank with private shareholders. Christopher Scholz examines the legal historical reasons for this within a European context. German description: Die Reichsbank wurde durch das Bankgesetz von 1875 als...

Zusammenarbeit institutioneller aktionäre

Using a methodologically pluralistic approach, this volume analyzes coordinated engagements of institutional shareholders against the background of the European and German regulatory framework for coordinated shareholder engagements (acting in concert).

Kindeswohl zwischen verantwortung und autonomie

The best interest of the child is usually spoken of when it is endangered. But without a positive conception of what this entails, there can be no yardstick for avoiding the negative. This volume's multidisciplinary contributions give voice to a definition of the child's well-being that is both c...

Death warning in the garden of eden

In this book, Chris W. Lee examines the early Jewish reception of the divine death warning (Gen 2:16-17) in relation to its interpretative association with the introduction of physical death to humanity. The long-time rationale has been that the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evi...

Gesammelte werke

Aus dem Vorwort:Nun ist gewiss praktische Philosophie nicht selber solche Vernunftigkeit. Sie ist Philosophie, das heisst, sie ist eine Reflexion, und zwar uber das, was menschliche Lebensgestaltung zu sein hat. Im selben Sinne ist die philosophische Hermeneutik nicht selbst die Kunst des Versteh...

Die logik des kollektiven handelns

Humanitares volkerrecht als symbolische form

English summary: Armed conflicts such as the Yugoslav Wars are grave examples of the limits of international humanitarian law. Andrea Bindig focuses on Ernst Cassirer's philosophical concept of symbolic form to depict the partly self-contradictory meanings of normativity which shape our path to c...

Universale singularitat

Die spatmoderne Kritik der grossen Universalismen hat weder das politische noch das theologische Denken unberuhrt gelassen. Vor allem die Kritik am monotheistischen Exklusivismus und an seinen politischen Implikationen wirft Fragen nach der Form und Struktur theologischen Denkens auf. Im Gesprach...

Beschleunigter rechtsschutz fur zahlungsglaubiger in europa

English summary: Good granting of justice demands just results and fast decisions as well. The problem of lengthy court proceedings is not quite the same in all legal systems, but in Germany it can happen that the plaintiff has to wait for several years until he obtains an executory title. The di...

Aufgabe und durchfuhrung einer theologie des neuen testaments

English summary: The authority, task, structure and implementation of New Testament theology are the subject of current debates. Some authors look for alternatives in terms of a history of early Christian religion or theology, whereas others search for the unity of New Testament theology within t...

Metamorphosen des globalen rechts

Global law as a form of law which emerges beyond the borders of nation states does not only depend on its legal preconditions. Above all, the social and technological (implicit) preconditions are crucial for the shaping of a transnational legal system.

Religionsunterricht aus dem ausland

The content of RE lessons in Germany's state-run schools is determined by the respective local religious community. But what if a foreign state is behind this? David Fassbender seeks answers to this question from international and constitutional law perspectives.

Tarifvertragliche rechtsgestaltung fur den betrieb

English summary: Richard Giesen examines the power of trade unions and employers' associations given them by German labor law. The German law of collective agreements enables the parties concerned to enact statutes which deal with questions pertaining to the enterprise and the works constitution....

Erdbeben in der antike

English summary: Ancient Greeks and Romans lived in one of the world's most seismically active regions. Contemporary reports and literature detail not only the catastrophic effects of earthquakes but also provide insights into how these societies understood them. The current volume goes beyond tr...

Digitale unternehmenskommunikation

As digitization continues to change corporate communication radically, shareholders and board members as well as financial intermediaries are increasingly taking advantage of fast, adaptive and broadly available communication media. The present volume analyses this transformation both empirically...

Die schutzschrift in zivilrechtlichen verfahren

English summary: Valentin Spernath explains the function of the protective letter. The protective letter in German civil law suits is a statement of defence deposited in court to avoid injunctions and decisions in proceedings in which the rights of the defendant to a prior hearing is excluded by ...

Partgmbb und uk-llp als hybride gesellschaftsformen

Im Wege einer Reform des Partnerschaftsgesellschaftsgesetzes wurde im Juli 2013 die Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mit beschrankter Berufshaftung als spezielle Rechtsform fur Angehorige freier Berufe eingefuhrt. Ziel des Gesetzesgebers war es, das bekannte Modell der Partnerschaftsgesellschaft so zu ...

Heideggers erbe

Heidegger, who is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, was characterized by extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic convictions. The contributors to this volume analyze how Heidegger's reception continues to have an impact in theology and philosophy, but also in the ...

Religiose bildungsprozesse in den taufkatechesen kyrills von jerusalem

The political changes and theological debates of the fourth century influenced and transformed the catechetical practice of late antique Christianity. The catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem reveal that in mid-fourth century Jerusalem the process of becoming a Christian was mainly underst...

Die voraussehbarkeit als voraussetzung des schadensersatzes in der vertragshaftung

Das Konzept der Voraussehbarkeit, franzosischer und anglo-amerikanischer Herkunft, hat sich wahrend der letzten Jahre zu einem sehr popularen Kriterium des vertraglichen Schadensersatzes unter den rechtsvereinheitlichenden Texten wie PECL und DCFR entwickelt. Athina Xynopoulou versucht, in den th...

Magische texte aus der kairoer geniza

Verwaltungsinterner unionsrechtsschutz

English summary: Specialised agencies and institutions have been part of the European Union's administrative landscape for many years now. But citizens' legal redress against them can vary enormously. How can effective protection be established in a coherent way? Oliver Streckert discusses relate...

Rechtstransfers

Legal transplants are often complex processes in which different legal cultures and socio-cultural structures collide. Maximillian Worner-Schonecker develops an approach to avoid future problems by presenting a typology of the causes of legal transplant

Staat und kirchen im francophonen schwarzafrika und auf madagaskar

Bibel und wissenschaft

English summary: Scholarly research on the Bible is one of the main tasks of theology, and the history of this research is an interesting piece of scholarly and cultural history. In these essays, Rudolf Smend outlines the entire progress of this research and deals with leading exegetes as well as...

Fragen nach dem einen gott

English summary: Religions, in particular the so-called montheistic ons, play a controversial part in the present global conflicts which are perceived by many as cultural struggles. Taking various standpoints, the authors of the articles in this volume question the extent to which it is the think...

The curse of the law and the crisis in galatia

Todd Wilson examines the rationale for Paul's four references to the Law in 5:13-6.10 in light of a fresh appraisal of the Galatian crisis. He contributes to the continuing debate over the relevance of this section of the letter for the rest of Galatians and for the situation in Galatia. In addit...

Jahrbuch des offentlichen rechts der gegenwart. neue folge

English summary: Survey of contents: 60 Jahre deutsches Grundgesetz (Erste Folge) Peter E. Quint: 60 Years of the Basic Law and its Interpretation: An American Perspective - Jorg Luther: Italienische Beobachtungen und Verarbeitungen des Grundgesetzes (1949-2009) - Walter Schmitt Glaeser: Uber Te...

Die haftung aus vermogensubernahme im internationalen recht

Die zweckbindung im urhebervertragsrecht

Wenn es um den Schutz des Urhebers auf der Ebene der Rechtseinraumung geht, ruckt 31 Abs. 5 UrhG in den Vordergrund. Die Norm ist Ausdruck einer grundsatzlichen Bindung der Rechtseinraumung an den Vertragszweck. Max Burda ordnet die Normsituation in ihren historischen und normtheoretischen Zusam...

Peter's legacy in early christianity

John-Christian Eurell studies how Peter's authority is portrayed to create legitimacy in Christian texts. Peter emerges as a central figure in the diverse early Christian movement and is used to discuss theological legitimacy. The main divide is between those who argue that legitimate theology sh...

Grundrechtsschutz im annahmeverfahren

English summary: The German Federal Court makes decisions about constitutional complaints only once they have been accepted handling of the acceptance procedure. This procedure has long been the subject of discussion. Anne Schafer analyzes the protection of legal rights within this system by taki...

Gottesphänomene

Phenomenology has a religiophilosophical tenet that everything is what it is. In this work, Lukas Ohly shows that it authenticates Husserl's worldliness, the abyssal ground in Heidegger's thinking on the history of being and Arendt's inaccessibility of common sense. Its only accessibility lies in...

Gott unterwegs

Die Aufdeckung der traditions- und religionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrunde des Habakukliedes eroffnet den Blick auf eine innovative Theologie, die es ermoglichte, auch in der Exilszeit an der Gegenwart Gottes festzuhalten. Judith E. Filitz stellt in diesem Werk die Frage nach dem literarischen Wach...