Schutzgesetzhaftung fur fehlerhafte rechnungslegung

Die Einordnung bilanzrechtlicher Vorschriften nach HGB und IAS/IFRS als Schutzgesetze ist seit jeher umstritten. Zunachst liegt das an der komplexen Multifunktionalitat der Rechnungslegung. Daruber hinaus ist die Dogmatik des 823 Abs. 2 BGB weiterhin von erheblichen Unsicherheiten gepragt. Noch ...

Was leistet die diakonie furs gemeinwohl?

Die polarisierenden politischen Ereignisse der jungeren Vergangenheit haben Fragen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhaltes neu aufgeworfen. Welche gemeinsam geteilten Vorstellungen des Guten sollen gelten, und in welchen Praxisformen realisieren sie sich? Welche neuen Herausforderungen stellen sich...

Exodus, exilpolitik und revolution

Michael Walzer zahlt zu den bedeutendsten politischen Theoretikern der Gegenwart. Gleichwohl weist die weltweite Aufmerksamkeit einen `blinden` Fleck auf, wenn es darum geht, Walzers kommunitaristische Gerechtigkeitsphilosophie vor dem Hintergrund der judischen politischen Theorie zu situieren. D...

Religion und anerkennung

English summary: Modern Christian social welfare work thrives on religious motivation and intuitions yet operates within a quite secular practice sector. The need for a theological understanding of diaconia which does not ignore the advantages of secular professionalism or smother welfare's burni...

Das christusbild des philipperhymnus im spiegel alter übersetzungen

Christian Blumenthal untersucht die frühesten Übersetzungen des Philipperhymnus. Er konzentriert sich dabei auf das mehrdeutige Christusbild dieses faszinierenden Textes und fragt, wie lateinische, koptische, syrische, armenische, äthiopische und arabische Übersetzungen mit den Mehrdeutigkeiten d...

Reproduktive freiheiten

The broad sphere of reproducing life, from procreation to pregnancy and birth, has never been systematically presented in the German constitutional law discourse. Laura Anna Klein argues that it is time for a new conception of fundamental rights that takes interdisciplinary findings into consider...

Christ, the spirit and the community of god

The volume collects text-critical, exegetical and biblical-theologicalessays by Arie Zwiep on the Acts of the Apostles, dealing primarilywith the opening chapters of Acts in the wider context of first-centuryChristianity and its Umwelt. The articles include treatments of theascension and exaltati...

Segen

Religionsunterricht 4.0

Based on current religious constitutional law, the authors discuss the necessity and options for a future-proof further development of religious education in schools, which will do justice to the growing religious plurality as well as the religious development of the pupils.

Orthodoxie als konsensbildung

English summary: This historical analysis of Lutheran Orthodoxy emphasizes the movement's commitment to intellectual freedom and diversity. Based on newly discovered source material, the study describes academic culture at the University of Wittenberg during the early-modern period. It focuses in...

Das lukasevangelium

English summary: In this commentary, Michael Wolter places Luke's story of Jesus in its cultural context and elaborates on its relationship to the early Jewish and the Graeco-Roman environment. He also focuses on the form-critical and narratological analysis of the individual narratives and in ad...

Elephantine in context

This volume deals with the spectacular discovery of archaeological relics and epigraphic sources at the military colony located on the island of Elephantine in the Nile, on the border between Egypt and present-day Sudan. The contributors examine three main subject areas: society and administratio...

Die fluchtlingspolitik, der staat und das recht

Nach wie vor bewegt die Fluchtlingspolitik die deutsche Offentlichkeit. Terminologisch und inhaltlich behandeln viele rechtswissenschaftliche Veroffentlichungen der vergangenen Monate das Thema als ein Szenario des Versagens staatlicher Institutionen und der Missachtung rechtlicher Bindungen. Der...

Treuepflichten unter miterben

English summary: If a decedent has several heirs, these then form a community of heirs, and disputes often arise among them. Christian Hellfeld shows that conflicts of interests within the community of heirs can be solved with the help of reciprocal fiduciary duties. German description: In der Er...

Rechtsangleichung durch richtlinien

Die Rechtsangleichung stellt eine der bedeutendsten Formen der Rechtsetzung in der EU dar. Dennoch bleibt die genaue Bedeutung dieses Rechtsetzungsmodus unklar. In seiner historisch fundierten Untersuchung zeigt Joel Herok, wie der seit den 1950er Jahren gefuhrte Streit um das Wesen und das Legit...

Das regressrisiko des befreiungsglaubigers

Der Befreiungsanspruch - etwa im Innenverhaltnis zwischen Drittsicherungsgeber und Hauptschuldner - bezweckt den Schutz des Befreiungsglaubigers vor der endgultigen Belastung mit einer einem Dritten gegenuber bestehenden Verbindlichkeit, deren Folgen im Verhaltnis zwischen Befreiungsglaubiger und...

Rechtsdiskurs, rechtsprinzipien, rechtsbegriff

The contributions collected in this volume critically approach the three elementary building blocks of Alexy's theory of fundamental rights: legal discourse, legal principles and the concept of law. They question core theses, expanding contexts, and thus opening up alternative approaches to both ...

Rhetoric and poetic in thomas more's 'utopia'

Die sprache im werk friedrich nietzsches

Das Werk Friedrich Nietzsches stellt die Theologie auf eine harte Probe. Denn wird nicht mit dem Tod Gottes, den Nietzsche in seiner "Frohlichen Wissenschaft" ausrufen lasst, auch der Tod der Theologie ausgerufen? Christian Jung stellt sich dieser Frage, indem er - ausgehend von Nietzsches Fruhsc...

Die abgeltungsteuer fur private kapitalertrage - ein verfassungswidriger sondertarif

English summary: Since 2009 and as a general rule, income and capital gains that arise from individual financial investments are no longer included in the tax base of the progressive income tax. Instead, they are subject to proportional and relatively low taxation, usually by way of a final withh...

Walter eucken: ein leben für menschenwürde und wettbewerb

This biographical study of Walter Eucken, focuses on his personal contacts and formative experiences, his work as scholar and teacher as well as on his engagement in the resistance against the Nazi regime and his struggle for the concept of a functional und humane economic and social order that l...

The discourse of machiavelli's 'ii principe'

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...

Paradiesgarten oder gefangnis?

English summary: The Dominican Convent of St. Katharina was one of the most important German convents in the late Middle Ages. After its reform in 1428, it became a pioneer in the Dominican observance movement. Just a hundred years after the reform, the theology and the practice of piety as well ...

Das ende des hermetismus

English summary: When did the Renaissance end? With provocative precision, Frances Yates said it ended in 1614, the year in which Isaac Casaubon exposed the allegedly ancient writings of Hermes Trismegistos as a forgery from late antiquity. However Casaubon was not the first person to produce arg...

Heidenapostel aus israel

The dead sea scrolls. hebrew, aramaic, and greek texts with english translations

The Dead Sea Scrolls represent the remains of an ancient Jewish library which antedates 68 C.E. It is the most significant discovery of biblically related ancient manuscripts, and represents more than 600 ancient Jewish documents. The series being published by J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) and Wes...

Dauerhaft aufgegebene anlagen

Eine Vielzahl von auch normativ anknupfbaren Erwagungen spricht fur die Notwendigkeit des Ruckbaus dauerhaft aufgegebener Anlagen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erortert Julian Philipp Seibert die Rechtsfolgen der dauerhaften Nutzungsaufgabe im Hinblick auf den Eintritt der Baurechtswidrigkeit und den E...

Depotenzierung der souveranitat

English summary: The concept of sovereignty as characterised by Hobbes has shown itself to be crucial to politics and theology right up to the present. According to Carl Schmitt, it implies a law-positing power itself beyond the law which stems from the early Modern Age's metaphysical-theological...

Celebrating arthur darby nock

Arthur Darby Nock (1902-1963) made lasting contributions to classical scholarship and the history of religion, including the study of ancient religion, magic, and the relationship of paganism to ancient Judaism and early Christianity. Almost ninety years after its publication, his work, Conversio...

Eschatologische fortschreibungen im buch hiob

Hiob leidet. Der paradigmatisch gottesfurchtige Mann, weise, gerecht und wohlhabend in allen Bereichen, verliert alles und steht am Rande des Todes. Er geht sogar so weit, Gott anzuklagen und seine Restitution einzufordern. Sonja Feldmar beleuchtet in der vorliegenden Studie eine der vielen theol...

On verbal accentuation in the rigveda

Das schuldverschreibungsgesetz als anleiheorganisationsrecht und gesellschaftsrecht

Jews and christians?

When exactly did the "Parting of the Ways" between Jews and Christians take place? Was it already Jesus who separated himself and his followers from "the Jews"? Or did Paul with his mission of pagans make the decisive step? Or do we have to wait longer - until after 70 CE, when the Jerusalem Temp...

Effizienz als rechtsprinzip

Aus Rezensionen zu fruheren Auflagen: "Es handelt sich um eine ganz aussergewohnlich sachkundige und grundliche Arbeit, die noch dazu so souveran und elegant geschrieben ist, dass es eine Freude macht, sie zu lesen. Selbst komplizierte Sachverhalte und Zusammenhange werden einfach und unpratentio...

Offentliche finanzen: ausgabenpolitik

English summary: Giacomo Corneo presents a manual in public economics centered around the problems and merits of the welfare state. The manual employs modern microeconomic techniques, especially the tools provided by the economics of information. A variety of empirical and institutional findings ...

Schuldgrundsatz

In recent years, new questions have led to a new approach to the category of guilt. Should companies, or artificial intelligence, such as robots, also be able to be found guilty in future? This book looks at the origins and history of criminal guilt and lays the ground for the answer to the quest...

Jahrbuch des offentlichen rechts der gegenwart. neue folge

Kirchenleitung nach barmen

English summary: Church government is not only carried out actively, it is also 'experienced' by those working for the church full-time and as volunteers. It is evident that church government is concerned not only with the existence but also the application of legal regulations. There is a connec...

Motivirrtum bei schenkung und letztwilliger verfügung

While in German law only last wills are voidable for mistake, French and Austrian law provide for the voidability of donations as well. Luca Wimmer traces the origin of these provisions in Roman law and in the philosophy of Aristoteles and Thomas Aquinas before subjecting modern German law to a c...

Der direktanspruch im europaischen internationalen privatrecht

English summary: The question of which law is applicable when an injured party takes action against the liability insurance of his (foreign) tortfeaser arises in connection with motor vehicle liability insurance and with other compulsory and voluntary liability insurances as well. Based on compar...

Doping - warum nicht?

English summary: This volume documents the contributions of a multidisciplinary conference in which a comparative study of doping was carried out. Based on a sceptical appraisal of this subject from a jurisprudential perspective, the authors outline the basic biochemical principles, the sociologi...

Spatmittelalterliche frauenfrommigkeit am niederrhein

English summary: At the end of the 14 century, the reform movement of the late medieval church, known as the devotio moderna , originated in the IJssel valley. Due to the history of their development, their contacts and their book culture, women's convents in Geldern and Sonsbeck were exemplary o...

Grenzuberschreitende einflussnahme im konzern

Trotz wachsender Relevanz grenzuberschreitender Unternehmensgruppen hat der rechtspolitische und rechtswissenschaftliche Diskurs bislang nur zu punktuellen Harmonisierungsansatzen in der Europaischen Union im Bereich des Konzernrechts gefuhrt. Maximilian Lotz untersucht und bewertet bestehende ko...

Entsprechungen: gott - wahrheit - mensch

Der vorliegende Band enthalt Beitrage zur Gotteslehre, Christologie, Anthropologie und Hermeneutik. Mit philosophischem Problembewusstsein geht Eberhard Jungel im Modell von Analogie und Metapher der Frage nach, was Wahrheit genannt zu werden verdient. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit alten u...

Albrecht ritschl

The articles collected in this volume offer an overview of the central themes of Albrecht Ritschl's theology. They trace how Ritschl theologically justifies the unity of religion and ethics and ask how his theory of a Christian way of life can be made fruitful for the present.

Das problem der souveranitat

English summary: More than 50 years after its completion, Wilhelm Hennis' doctoral thesis in jurisprudence is now available in print for the first time. As the reader will notice, it has lost none of its topicality. The book contains a whole host of ideas upon which Hennis later elaborated in his...

Rechts- und staatslehre-paket

Das reichsjustizprufungsamt

Juristenausbildung ist Staatsausbildung: eine Ausbildung durch und fur den Staat. Sie ist damit zugleich Ausfluss und Reproduktion des jeweils herrschenden Rechts. Es ist also kaum verwunderlich, dass der sich selbst als neu definierende, nationalsozialistische Staat auch vor der Juristenausbildu...

Staatsburgerschaft im 19. und 20. jahrhundert

Jhwh und die unterwelt

English summary: The Old Testament connects the God of Israel with the underworld in very different ways. Whereas the underworld seems to be a place which is completely remote from God in some texts, in other passages it is seen as something into which the power of God extends effectively. Gonke ...

Gemeinsame vergutungsregeln und tarifvertrage

Im Jahr 2002 fuhrte der Gesetzgeber das Instrument der gemeinsamen Vergutungsregeln in das Urhebervertragsrecht ein. Nach tarifvertraglichem Vorbild soll eine Selbstregulierung angemessener Kreativvergutungen durch branchenkundige Akteure erfolgen. Seither hat das Instrument vielseitige Kritik hi...

Conferences on new political economy

Increased international interdependence - globalization - has also greatly increased the potential for international conflict in various areas such as trade, competition, the environment, and human rights. Observers have counted up to 40 international courts that serve to settle such conflicts. W...

Geschichte des mittelalterlichen christentums

English summary: About one hundred years after Albert Hauck's comprehensive study, this is a description of medieval Christianity written by a Protestant church historian. In it church events are incorporated into the general development of Europe with a special focus on theology and piety. In hi...

Pflichtbeichte

Das organisationsverschulden

English summary: Annemarie Matusche-Beckmann lays a dogmatic foundation for organizational negligence. As an example of this, she takes a look at cases in which this applies, for example the liability of hospital authorities and doctors for negligence in organizing, as well as manufacturer's liab...

Die lehren von der statutenkollision

Which law applies in cross-border cases is a question that medieval and early modern jurists alike have tried to answer in their theories of statuta. Kristin Boosfeld's study traces how the theories changed over time and identifies reasons for the change in the concept of law at each specific tim...

Systemaufsicht

Systemische Risiken gefahrden die Funktionsfahigkeit zentraler gesellschaftlicher und naturlicher Systeme, so etwa die Stabilitat des Finanzsystems und der klimatischen Systeme. Wie kann der Staat effektiv vor Systemrisiken schutzen? Mit den tradierten rechtlichen Mechanismen der Risikoabwehr ist...

Die menschenwurde in der verfassungsordnung

Der Verfassungssatz von der Wurde des Menschen formuliert die zentrale Standortbestimmung der deutschen Verfassungsordnung. Sie hat uber die Grenzen des deutschen Rechtskreises hinaus Vorbildwirkung entfaltet, wie die Europaische Charta der Grundrechte belegt. Dennoch ist der normative Gehalt des...

Systemtransformation in mittel- und osteuropa und ihre folgen fur banken, borsen und kreditsicherheiten

The significance of yavneh and other essays in jewish hellenism

This volume collects thirty essays by Shaye J.D. Cohen. First published between 1980 and 2006, these essays deal with a wide variety of themes and texts: Jewish Hellenism; Josephus; the Synagogue; Conversion to Judaism; Blood and Impurity; the boundary between Judaism and Christianity. What unite...

Private international law in mainland china, taiwan and europe

Over the last decades, private international law has become the target of intense codification efforts. Inspired by the stimulating initiatives taken by some European countries, by the Brussels Convention and the Rome Convention, numerous countries in other regions of the world started to enact c...

Die urheberrechtliche haftung von intermediaren im rechtsvergleich

Wie haften Vermittler fur Urheberrechtsverletzungen ihrer Nutzer? Laura Jones zieht auf Grundlage einer rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung die Grenze zwischen unmittelbarer und mittelbarer Haftung. Dabei entwickelt sie ein eigenes Haftungskonzept, das den ausufernden Tatbestand der offentlichen Wi...

Luke-acts and jewish historiography

In this book, Samson Uytanlet states his observation that there is an unnecessary disjunction between Luke's theology and literature in previous studies on Luke-Acts: Luke's theology is typically studied in light of Jewish writings while Luke's literature is studied in relation with Greco-Roman w...

Rechtsdurchsetzung durch technologie

Due to the use of automated systems to enforce the law

Judaea-palaestina, babylon and rome: jews in antiquity

The present volume brings together papers by internationally renowned specialists in Jewish history in the Roman period. Most of them were read at a conference at Tel Aviv University in 2009 in honour of Aharon Oppenheimer. The volume focuses on a number of well-defined key topics in the history ...

Optimale ansiedlung sozialpolitischer entscheidungskompetenzen in der europaischen union

English summary: In a Europe with integrated goods and factor markets, the various national social security systems are being put under increasing pressure. The creation of the common market has changed individuals' property rights. Martin Kolmar investigates these changes in relation to the obje...

Verbraucherschutz und vertragsfreiheit im japanischen recht

English summary: Marc Dernauer examines the structures and instruments of consumer contract law in Japan. He begins with a description of the historical development of Japanese consumer law, the legal and political motives for the legal regulations and the ideological basis in Japan. He then disc...

Der vorlaufige rechtsschutz im internationalen verhaltnis

English summary: The internationalization of lifestyles has created a demand for an international harmonization of transnational provisional relief in civil cases. Sabine Kofmel Ehrenzeller develops fundamental principles of provisional relief in civil law, laying the cornerstones for this harmon...

Enki und ninma?

English summary: Enki and Ninmah is the modern name for a mythological story in the Sumerian language featuring the two main characters Enki, the god of crafts and wisdom, and Ninmah, the mother goddess. The text firstly tells of humankind's creation as a workforce for the gods and then relates h...

Die rechtliche steuerung urbanen wandels

English summary: No economic resource is as strongly regulated as the private ownership of land, and this is why urban land use law has turned into a laboratory for 'alternative' legal instruments in conformity with market conditions. Christian Schubert develops a concept for an alternative Law a...

Zugesagte gegenwart

English summary: This volume is a collection of texts on various subjects, most of which are lectures. Documentation on the origins and the first publication of these works provide information on the context in which each of the texts was written. Oswald Bayer focuses mainly on prayer as living f...

Kritische ausgabe

English summary: Johann Joachim Spalding was the most powerful and most effective Lutheran pulpit preacher at the culmination, also known as the neology, of religious Enlightenment.The first volume of Johann Joachim Spalding's Sermons ( 1 1765, 2 1768, 3 1775) is an exemplary documentation of the...

The dead sea 'new jerusalem' text

This volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea New Jerusalem text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo ...

Freiheitsentziehung

David Kuch offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the right to personal freedom according to Germany's basic law. His approach connects legal history and social theory with constitutional doctrine. A critical examination of current forms of arrest or detention shows that all measures of preve...

Transformative strafrechtskritik

Activists of the feminist and anti-racism transformative justice movement are calling for a new approach to social deviance beyond punishment and deterrence. Drawing on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary critical approaches to the criminal justice system, Franziska Dubgen deve...

Briefwechsel mit august hermann francke 1689-1704

English summary: The correspondence between Philipp Jakob Spener and August Hermann Francke is not only an excellent source of knowledge concerning the establishment of pietism in Halle and the founding of the University of Halle. The information in the commentary also makes it clear that even Fr...

Tradition(en) im alten israel

Traditionen pragen die kollektive Identitat. Sie zeugen weniger von starren vorgegebenen Inhalten, sondern von aktiven Prozessen der Konstruktion und Transformation, die der Verarbeitung der Vergangenheit und der Gestaltung der jeweiligen Gegenwart dienen. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes neh...

Josiah royce

Josiah Royce was undoubtedly one of the most interesting thinkers of classical American philosophy in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. His works cover a wide range of subjects from psychology and issues of social philosophy to metaphysics. Surrounded by philosophers such as Willi...

Grundzuge eines offentlichen familienrechts

English summary: In the eyes of legal science up to now, the family has mainly been a subject of family law as a part of civil law, and the main function of family law was to regulate the internal legal relationships among family members. Public law however deals with the community of the family ...

Marianne weber

English summary: Marianne Weber is known mainly as Max Weber's wife, as the author of his biography and the editor of his works. Up to now, her own life as a scholar and in the women's movement has received little attention. References to her profound knowledge of Max Weber's works, such as those...

Max weber-gesamtausgabe

In der Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe ist Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft nicht mehr als ein Buch in mehreren Teilen, sondern als ein Projekt in mehreren Fassungen ediert. Das bedeutet, dass die altere Fassung in funf Teilbanden vorliegt (I/22-1 bis 5), die jungere in einem davon unterschiedenen Band (I/23)...

Phanomene der macht