Paradigmen des wahlrechts

Fabian Michl examines the history and present of German electoral law from a new perspective. Instead of the traditional distinction between majority and proportional representation, he introduces the paradigmatic contrast between personal and party-based elections.

Mt. lykaion

This volume introduces readers to the famous Arkadian sanctuaries of Zeus and Pan at Mt Lykaion, a site renowned in antiquity as the birthplace of Zeus. It offers an overview of the historical and contemporary campaigns, illustrating the site’s importance from antiquity to the present through its...

(keine) haftung für produktfehler?

This book examines two systems of compensation for damages-the German producer and product liability system, which internalizes damages, and the New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme for replacing liability-which organize compensation for personal injury caused by accidents involving defective...

Les grottes des crocodiles de maabdah (samoun)

The "Crocodile Pit" at Maabdeh (or Maabda/Samoun Caves) in Egypt is an ancient burial site where mummified crocodiles were found, having been sacrificed as offerings to the Nile crocodile god Sobek, especially in Ptolemaic times.

Religionsunterricht und religionsfreiheit

Peter Unruh shows how Article 4 of the Basic Law, as an aid to the interpretation of Article 7(2) and (3) of the Basic Law, opens up new scope for interdenominational and interreligious models of religious education. In this way, corresponding teaching formats can be legitimized under religious c...

Öffentliche beschaffungskooperation

Tassilo Schröck examines the scope for action and reform options regarding cooperations between contracting authorities in public procurement. He analyses the constitutional framework of administrative organisation, the tendering obligations under public procurement law as well as the fundamental...

Notstandsspruchpraxis als menschenrechtssystemschutz

States of emergencies often pose a greater threat to human rights than to the state itself. Max Milas examines how human rights adjudicative bodies in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the UN have developed and applied consistent standards in states of emergencies - upholding human rights through...

Jews, pagans and christians in the roman empire

This volume brings together a series of articles on religion in the Roman Empire by Jan N. Bremmer, all of which have been updated and revised where necessary. Organised into four thematic sections, they emphasise the interplay between early Christianity and its pagan surroundings but also analys...

Festschrift für walter g. paefgen zum siebzigsten geburtstag

The Festschrift brings together 33 articles on fundamental issues in commercial law. The articles focus on the main areas of the honoree's academic work and cover topics from the entire spectrum of national and international corporate and capital market law, as well as issues relating to group la...

Sexuelle selbstbestimmung und schmerzensgeld

Sexual violence leaves deep scars, yet the damages awarded are often shamefully low. Elena März analyses and identifies the legal foundations and weaknesses in current practice as well as procedural hurdles before going on to develop concrete proposals for a more just system of compensating long-...

Empire criticism of the new testament

The question of how early Christians navigated their daily existence within the Roman Empire, and to what degree they expressed criticism of their imperial surroundings, has become a subject of heated debate in recent years. This volume gathers experts who focus on one methodological approach eac...

Medienrecht

The new edition offers numerous innovations, including the distinction between media law and related areas of law, journalistic protection zones, the protection of press products, and current issues in commercial law. Digital services such as social networks and search engines are also examined i...

The semeia narratives in the gospel of john

The volume brings together papers from the seminar »Johannine Literature« of the Society of New Testament Studies, offering a broad overview of current scholarship after the decline of the Semeia Source hypothesis. The contributors explore central issues of Johannine exegesis through detailed cas...

Der johanneische pneuma-paraklet und das sokratische daimonion

The Holy Spirit plays a central role in the Gospel of John. Michael R. Jost first describes the Johannine conception of the Holy Spirit and then compares it with ancient Jewish and Hellenistic conceptions of spirit(s).

Kleine summe der theologie

What is the meaning of faith? What can a revelation of God mean? Tom Kleffmann provides a thorough portrayal of the overall context of Christian faith and thinking as a theology of communication.

Käuferschutzverfahren

Conflicts in e-commerce are increasingly settled not by courts but by private companies through buyer protection procedures. Martin von Villiez examines their legal basis, their effects on contractual relationships, and reviews the legal limits of such procedures.

Justin, dialog mit tryphon

This volume presents Justin's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, the first surviving literary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, with a new German translation of the Greek text, an introduction, explanatory notes, and thematic essays.

Gewinnaussichten in investitionsschutzabkommen

Max Ransiek's comparative investigation finds that the increasing focus on the legitimate expectations of an investor is closely related to the fact that every investment decision is characterized by the difficulty of having to calculate uncertain future profits.

Gelenkte restitution

The author provides the first legal-historical analysis of the restitution law provisions of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR from 1945 onwards. These were aimed at returning property - seized or "aryanised" between 1933 and 1945 - that was formerly owned by Jewish communities, and which wa...

Judaica in the library of ludwig rosenberger, chicago, illinois

The Rosenberger Collection of Judaica in the University of Chicago Library is the result of a lifetime of book collecting by Ludwig Rosenberger, a retired Chicago businessman. Born in Munich in 1904, Rosenberger left Germany for Palestine in 1924, and on to Chicago in 1928, in the midst of the po...

Meister, jünger, rebellen

The articles in this volume deal with the contrast between "succession" and "contradiction" (enantiosis and acolouthesis) within intellectual traditions. The authors study various forms and manifestations of these phenomena in three case groups from antiquity to the Middle Ages and the modern era...

Dialogische rechtsentwicklung im europäischen verwaltungsrecht

European Administrative Law is the result of reciprocal transnational legal receptions. Alban Spielkamp analyses the structures of these reception processes in the field of administrative transparency and drafts the concept of dialogical legal development as a new approach in describing the evolu...

Tiere vor gericht?

Advocating for the interests of animals is increasingly seen as one of the greatest challenges of our time in order to achieve comprehensive social justice. Nina Kerstensteiner examines the change in social values with regard to the field of animal welfare and the need for legal change to reflect...

Der zustellungsverkehr mit dem vereinigten königreich

Daniel Nitschmann examines the impact of Brexit on the delivery of services between Germany and the United Kingdom. He investigates the consequences of reverting from the European Service Regulation to the Hague Service Convention and to the German-British Convention regarding Legal Proceedings i...

Body and gender in martin luther's anthropology (1520-1530)

Sini Mikkola examines sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther’s view of the human being from the perspectives of bodiliness, gender, sexuality, and power. Luther’s construction of femininity, masculinity, and the gender system are investigated by considering both his theoretical and practical vi...

Vertrauensgrundsatz und rechtsstaatlichkeitskrise in der eu

Trust is good - but is control better? Where does the member states' autonomy to sovereignly decide on the enforcement of Union values end and when is a centralised reaction by the EU indicated? Konstantina Poulou examines the legal nature of mutual trust based on EU primary law and assesses the ...

Die wirksamkeit von rechtswahl und gerichtsstandsvereinbarung

Leonard Joseph Schmitz examines the parameters of the fundamental transactions in private international law and procedural law under party autonomy and develops a uniform, coherent system for the evaluation of the effectiveness of choice of law and the agreement on jurisdiction in legal transacti...

Die drittwirkungen der forderungsabtretung im internationalen privatrecht

The assignment of claims poses a particular challenge in terms of conflict of laws. The most discussed question is: Which law is applied if a third party wishes to access a claim that has been assigned? Is this assignment effective against the third party? Theresa Frech's study addresses this que...

Tora in der perserzeit

Reinhard Achenbach offers a collection of studies on the redactional composition of the Pentateuch, the history of institutions, and the rights of foreigners in the scribal tradition of Judah during the Second Temple Period in the Persian Empire (539-333 B.C.E.).

The lord's prayer

The contributions in this volume are the result of an international symposium held at the University of Tubingen in October 2018. They examine the Lord's Prayer in conversation with Jewish traditions, relate it to New Testament theology, and explore its reception history in early Christianity.

Der zahlungsauslösedienstleister

In the course of the widespread digitalization, technically innovative internet payment methods have developed alongside the booming online trade, including so-called payment initiation services. These enable simple payment on the Internet without a credit card, based solely on online banking, en...

Agb-reform und rechtsflucht

Konfliktlinien im nichtdiskriminierungsrecht

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Includes devotional texts which reflect the practice of Egyptian Christians in the early Byzantine period (hymns and prayers), fragments of unknown prose and other fragments of extant authors.

New perspectives on aramaic epigraphy in mesopotamia, qumran, egypt and idumea

Der wegfall der ausgeubten prozessfuhrungsermachtigung

Testes veritatis

The concept of the Protestant truth witnesses is one of the central legitimation strategies of the Wittenberg Reformation in its theological-historical derivation. Stefan Michels shows that it proves to be a historiographical concept with ecclesiological origins and extends the ranks of Wittenber...

Framing social criticism in the jesus movement

Materialisierung des zivilverfahrensrechts

Entscheidungen des bundesverfassungsgerichts (bverfge)

Der stoffbegriff im recht

Schadensersatz fur vorsatzliche eingriffe in fremde vertragsbeziehungen

Musikalische grenzgange

Identität und bedeutung der gruppen im masoretischen estherbuch

How would the understanding of biblical narratives change if they were analysed primarily in terms of their group phenomena? Using the Hebrew Esther narrative as an example, Vjatscheslav Dreier explores this question and develops a group-orientated hermeneutics.

Implikationen der konkreten verhältnismäßigkeitsprüfung

Since its decision in 2013, the French Cour de cassation has been reviewing the specific proportionality of the application of statutes in individual cases. What is common practice in the German courts has caused a lively debate in French doctrine. This work traces these different developments an...

Amnestiegesetze und rule of law im volkerrecht

Oxyrhynchus papyri volume lxviii

Papyri nos 4639-4704

Umgekehrter vollzug im europaischen verwaltungsrecht

As of 2014, the European Central Bank has been supervising the largest banks in the Eurozone and applying Member State law in the process. Tobias Pascher explores the question of how this reverse enforcement of financial supervision law relates to the overlapping system of European administrative...

Studium und lehre der wirtschaftswissenschaften: westdeutschland nach 1945

Beweiswurdigung und beweismass

Briefe aus der frankfurter zeit 1666-1686

Spekulative epen

Essays on the book of isaiah

Privatautonomie als argument

Sophia Schamberg examines how the principle of private autonomy is used as an argument in the decision-making of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH). She shows that the use of the private autonomy argument is context-dependent and that its understanding is subject to historical change.

Grundfragen des digitalvertragsrechts

The implementation of the EU's digital law guidelines presents special challenges to German law. It is not surprising that there is friction when such far-reaching regulations are being implemented. The conference on "Contracts for Digital Content and Digital Services" dealt with the new regulati...

Der einfluss des deutschen verfassungsrechtsdenkens in der welt: bedeutung, grenzen, zukunftsperspektiven

Kapitalmarktgeschafte mit verbrauchern unter der rom i-vo

The building of the first temple

Der räumliche anwendungsbereich der berufsrechtsnorm

Tim Kerstges develops a model for the professional law of lawyers which, starting from the determinations of constitutional and European Union law, offers tangible criteria for the determination of the territorial scope of application of norms in their public law dimensions.

Gott als ereignis des seins

Naturrecht in antike und fruher neuzeit

Nebeneinander und einheit im burgerlichen recht

Max weber-gesamtausgabe

Der tatbegriff im strafrecht

Pathos und polis

Indexfonds in der corporate governance

Die bestimmung der verantwortlichkeit fur die abwehr und beseitigung von storungen im offentlichen und privaten recht

Scriptural incipits on amulets from late antique egypt

Moglichkeiten und grenzen der einrichtung von unionsagenturen

Stoicism and the gospel of john

Do the Gospel of John and Stoicism, since they share significant vocabularies and terms such as Logos and Pneuma , indicate a shared understanding of God, the world, and living well? Fergus J. King compares their worldviews and ethical teachings and finds that they are significantly different i...

Kodifikation und anpassung des bulgarischen ipr an das europaische recht

Us-terrorlisten im deutschen privatrecht

Schrift, tradition und bekenntnis

Nachhaltigkeit durch organisation und verfahren

The oxyrhynchus papyri volume lxi

Papyri nos 4093-4300

Verhaltensnorm und kollisionsrecht

Kolner juristen im 20. jahrhundert

Konversion in den paulus- und theklaakten