Strafverfassungsrecht

This volume takes up the jurisprudential contours of constitutional criminal law as an interdisciplinary challenge. Its contributions open up the fundamentals of constitutional criminal law and enlarge on selected individual issues.

Rechtsstaat und strafrecht

Gesetzlich bestimmte strafbarkeit des eigendopings

Rechtsfragen einer nachhaltigen forstwirtschaft

Das ombudswesen als institutionelle gestaltungsoption des umwelt- und planungsrechts

Volkerrechtliche vorgaben fur die verleihung der staatsangehorigkeit

Die durchsetzung von normenkontrollentscheidungen

Das georgische versammlungsrecht im schnittpunkt von verfassungs- und verwaltungsrecht

The right to assemble is an important part of a democracy. Taking Georgia and the legal-political development process it currently finds itself in as an example, Ketevan Giorgishvili reveals the conflicts that are bound up with this and their legitimation. When compared to the rulings of the Euro...

Residualkompetenzen des bundesverfassungsgerichts

Demokratisierung der verwaltung durch partizipation

Representative democracies are increasingly using various forms of deliberative and participatory citizen participation. In a legal comparison between Hamburg and Scotland, Christina Schulz examines the influence of such instruments on democratic systems from a constitutional perspective.

Franzosisches verfassungsrecht im 21. jahrhundert

Recent developments in French constitutional law have been characterised by remarkable innovations, which have included new forms of citizens' participation supplementing representative government and by the development of environmental guarantees on a constitutional level.

Vertrauen in europa

Journalistischer quellenschutz im zeitalter der digitalisierung und globalisierung

In Germany, the protection of journalistic sources is considered one of the basic prerequisites for freedom of the press. However, the existing legal framework does not take sufficient account of the changed conditions brought about by digitization and globalization. The German "reporter's privil...

Das offentlich-rechtliche binnenkollisionsrecht der ds-gvo

Die neujustierung des nachhaltigkeitsprinzips im verwaltungsrecht

Freigebige zuwendungen an personengesellschaften

The study examines donations to partnerships under the principles of corporate law, income tax law, accounting law and balance sheet tax law. For this purpose, it analyzes the tax subject and the object of the donation in general and donations by partners, sister partnerships and third parties as...

Anteilseignerkontrolle

What defines a credit institution from a supervisory perspective? And what requirements are placed on its shareholders? Clemens Bohm explores these questions in his study on the European Central Bank's prudential supervision of qualifying holdings in the banking sector.

Strukturen des bergrechts

Armin von Weschpfennig sheds light on the structures that have developed throughout the history of German mining law, examines constitutional requirements and integrates the sometimes very specific regulatory system into the dogmatics of general administration law as well as planning and environm...

Ethik und patentrecht

Die freie preisbildung im strommarkt 2.0

Unternehmerische organisationsfreiheit und gemeinwohlbelange

Concerns about public welfare mean that enterprises are increasingly confronted with legal regulations about how they are organised. Florian Rast examines the phenomena that occur in different areas as a result and analyses the structural features of the regulatory strategy. He accentuates the fr...

Kollektivautonomer datenschutz

Der offentliche zweck

Thorsten Helm develops a definition of public purpose based on certain criteria and on legal proceedings. He regards the public purpose as a suitable justification for public corporations only if it is sufficiently concrete and if it has undergone a process of careful consideration. In doing so, ...

Koharenz im glucksspiel

Rechtsschutz im rahmen der europaischen bankenaufsicht

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...

Jahrbuch des offentlichen rechts der gegenwart. neue folge

Profiling - personlichkeitsschutz durch datenschutz?

Horizontalwirkung im vergleich

Die rechtswirklichkeit der datenschutzrechtlichen einwilligung

The concept of consent is often used on the Internet as a justification for the processing of personal data. But are we really dealing with a valid expression of will when using the various services? Robert Rothmann addresses this question using Facebook as an example. Based on empirical facts, a...

Bewertungsportale

Stefan Michel determines the applicability of defamation law and data protection law with regard to online reviews. He suggests extending the scope of the journalistic exemption beyond professional journalists and that other forms of public communication should not be subject to the duties under ...

Die unbegrenzte auslegung

Bernd Ruthers provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the development of civil law during National Socialism.

Handbuch antidiskriminierungsrecht

How does the law deal with discrimination? What does international, European and domestic anti-discrimination law look like? And how do public law, private law and criminal law handle discrimination? The handbook analyzes the basic structures of anti-discrimination law as well as foundational que...

Verbraucherschutz und grundgesetz

Dispositives recht und grundgesetz

Die zukunft der medienverfassung

Verbotenes online-glucksspiel und verbotene zahlungen

Patrick Kemper discusses the consequences of the operation of unauthorized online gambling across all legal fields under German law. In particular, he examines the claims situation between the player, the payment service provider, and the gambling operator.

Anlegerschutz durch produktverbote auf finanzmarkten

Flexibilitatspotentiale auf verteilernetzebene

In order to balance electricity supply and consumption at any time, flexibility applications are required, especially on the distribution network level. An amendment of the current legal framework is therefore required to encourage distribution network operators to manage bottlenecks. In her stud...

Kartellrechtliche vermutungen bei art. 101 aeuv

Leon Burkhart studies three presumptions which facilitate finding evidence in European competition law of whether and how long an undertaking participated in a cartel. In addition he deals with the means of rebutting the presumptions should the undertaking publicly distance itself, report itself ...

Verteilungsentscheidungen und verteilungsverfahren

Menschenwurde in der zwangsvollstreckung

Die haftung privater militarunternehmen

The United States relied heavily on private military companies for campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, which led to over a hundred decisions in US civil courts from 2004 to 2020. By recording, categorizing and analyzing all these rulings in one study, Sebastian Sobotta answers the question of whet...

Aktenbeiziehung und anfangsverdacht im insolvenzstrafverfahren

German national reports on the 21st international congress of comparative law

A variety of contributions from members of the German Association for Comparative Law is among the papers presented at the 21st International Congress of Comparative Law in Asuncion (Paraguay). This volume provides an overview of the conference's wide-ranging topics and reflects the present state...

Die mitversicherung

From Italy in the High Middle Ages to the industrialised countries of the present day, there have always been risks that no-one wished to bear and no-one wanted to assume alone. The co-insurance of a risk is thus the nucleus of insurance that is constantly topical.

Entscheidungen des bundesverfassungsgerichts (bverfge)

Grundgesetz-kommentar

The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation ...

Nichtiges verwaltungshandeln

Offentlichkeit und geheimhaltung im verwaltungsprozess

Internationaler menschenrechtsschutz

This book gives a synoptic description of first generation human rights as protected by the ECHR and the CCPR. The new edition has been completely revised and updated.

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung

Atypischer einzelfall und allgemeines gesetz

In atypical cases, laws can lead to grossly unfair results. Max Weber studies the constitutional law challenges which such atypical cases present to lawmakers and shows the extent to which unfair harshness can be avoided or at least compensated within the framework of applicable law.

Flexibilisierung von netzverknupfungspunkten

Vereine als gefahr

As menacing criminal and extremist associations increase their degree of organisation by becoming more decentralised and multi-levelled, so the need to counteract the threats they pose rises. Sandra Lukosek's analysis of Germany's current law locates potential for reform.

Kontrolle einer sich ausdifferenzierenden eu-eigenverwaltung

Eu-befugnisnormen für mitgliedstaatliche behörden

EU regulations increasingly contain provisions that grant member state authorities direct powers of administrative intervention in individual cases, which poses numerous challenges for the national administration and the national legislator. Rudi Lang's work shows how member states can deal with ...

Öffentliches recht als verhaltensordnung

This volume provides a systematic account for the core subjects of public law as the basic operating system for regulatory activity in Germany. It offers an up-to-date review of the canon of theories for behavioral analysis, establishes connections with the pertinent legal subject matters, and ex...

Datenschutz in der amtlichen statistik

It is the task of official statistics to collect, process and analyze the data. Thomas Kienle studies how the European General Data Protection Regulation impacts the work done by the Federal Statistical Office and how much scope for German lawmakers remains within this.

Protestkulturen

The form of protest in environment demonstrations differs across generation, location and political orientation. How do Fridays for Future, the Last Generation and similar groups "do protest"? 12 scholars share their observations on topics such as civil disobedience, protest encampments and the i...

Predictive policing und gefahrenkategorien

Predictive policing systems can forecast future crime and support contemporary police work. But how are they to be classified in police law and what powers can officers be granted as a result? And how much freedom should be given up for increased safety?

Generelle tatsachen im verwaltungsprozess

Administrative courts base their decisions not only on the facts of the individual case, but also on broader empirical assumptions. Roman Hensel examines the theoretical, procedural and institutional issues that arise when courts deal with such general facts.

Nichtwissen bei maschinellem lernen

Iva Kostov analyses the legal implications of different gaps in knowledge, often addressed with catchwords like "blackbox" or "opacity" , that go hand-in-hand with the implementation of machine learning.

Kompensation durch verfahren

It is a common belief in public law scholarship that the procedural containment of state decisions compensates for the fact that substantive law requirements only weakly determine the content of the decision. Jochen Rauber examines this thesis and shows that the conditions it rests upon are more ...

Funktionswandel des verwaltungsprozesses

In this work, the author puts access to the court into the context of the theory of democracy and explicates access to administrative jurisdiction as a facilitation of deliberation. The result of this study is an update of administrative legal protection in a modern democracy.

Eigentum und natur

Is property a cause of ecological crises, or a key to their solution? Whatever property is appropriated, how it is treated, and how it is disposed of always impacts nature. This study traces the reasons for this finding and shows how property can be rethought in line with the preconditions of soc...

Pfadabhängigkeit und recht

Path dependence or path dependency is a widely used concept in the social sciences. Nico Schröter investigates whether the concept can also be used to explain legal phenomena. He finds that path dependence can particularly explain much about how informal legal rules (e.g. doctrinal rules) emerge ...

Wissenschaft und praxis im verwaltungsrecht (1949-2020)

Do legal science and legal practice work together cooperatively and productively? Or has there been a rupture between the two spheres recently? And: Who influences whom? The relationship between science and practice, especially in administrative law, is the subject of tangible controversies.

Die handelskammer hamburg und der freihafen

Felix Dressel explores the role of the Chamber of Commerce in defending the free port within the North German Confederation. Scrutinizing both the chamber's role in terms of principled retention of the free port and the part it plays in its statutory structuring, the study incorporates legal as w...

Staatliche entscheidungen unter unsicherheit

Indra Spiecker has developed a theory, that does justice to the specific features of decisions under uncertainty and assures their constitutional legality. She employs an intra-disciplinary approach, including insights from neighbouring sciences such as economy and behavioural sciences.

Planerische neuausrichtung der urbanen mobilität

Urban mobility and urban road transport are in crisis: transport planning that has so far been unsuccessful in many places has to be redirected to ensure the success of future mobility plans. A decisive factor for this will be municipal planning’s integration into the complex systems of spatial, ...

Verschränkung von europäischem verordnungsrecht und nationalen normen

The author develops a methodical approach to deal with the application of regulation law in the EU’s multi-layered legal system. This concept is then applied to selected GDPR example cases, which gives new insights into current legal issues in data protection law.

Social bots

Automated profiles ("social bots") are used in social networks to manipulate public opinion. The author addresses this highly relevant issue from a constitutional perspective. He develops a normative framework to map the risks of digital manipulation for the democratic system and to design adequa...

Verantwortlichkeit nichtverantwortlicher

The importance of regulations designed to deal with states of emergency and avert danger remains unbroken; these rules have been enshrined in the law for some time and ought to legitimise serious interventions in the fundamental rights of non-responsible persons. This study shows that numerous le...

Glücksspielrechtliche werberegulierung

Regulation of gambling advertising is one of the most important instruments of gambling regulation and is characterised by complexity. The author shows that the current regulation of advertising under gambling law and its implementation by authorities and courts does not adequately fulfil the req...

Kompensatorische kontrolle heimlicher grundrechtseingriffe

The secret surveillance by intelligence services conflicts with the constitutional principle of limiting power through control. n this work, the author maps out the basic principles of a security law control dogma based on the latest developments in legislation and jurisprudence.

Das recht der digital-ökologischen transformation

The contributions in this volume analyse the challenges facing and regulatory options open to the law of twin (green and digital) transitions. To this end, digital technologies should be geared towards ecological sustainability that accelerates sustainable transformation.

Konkurrentenklagen und ämterstabilität

With reference to the so-called principle of office stability, unsuccessful applicants for state functions are denied taking legal action to rescind the appointment of a competitor. Benno Pützer critically assesses the situation and develops an alternative legal protection model based on current ...

Methoden steuerrechtlicher entscheidungsfindung

The disciplinary identity of tax law is determined not only by its subject matter, but above all by the method of its development. A proper understanding of this sub-area of law requires a sophisticated understanding of methodology, which includes both the development of a corresponding dogmatics...

Verwaltungsrechtliche dogmatik in der entwicklung

Dogmatics should ensure the predictability of the application of law and at the same time guide necessary adaptations of the legal system. In the new expanded edition of his volume, Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann examines four central areas of administrative law dogmatics - legal sources, legal forms, ...

Kollektive gefährdungslagen im asylrecht

Decisions in asylum law are often inconsistent because the vulnerability of claimants is assessed differently, depending on the official in charge. Paul Pettersson’s study explores the reasons for this disparity and makes the case for a more systematic assessment of collective risks and a stronge...

Gefahr und allgemeines lebensrisiko

Which risks does the state ward off and which does it accept? According to a widespread line of argument, 'general risks of life' are to be tolerated. But what is meant by this term? And are the arguments behind it viable? Laura Lorena Wallenfels explores these questions and provides perceptive i...

Sektorkopplung im energieregulierungsrecht

Climate scientists and policymakers consider sector coupling crucial for achieving climate neutrality. This thesis examines how current energy regulatory laws address sector coupling and explores ways in which they should be enhanced to facilitate rapid market penetration in response to advancing...

Die regulierte arzneipflanze

With industrially produced synthetic active ingredients sitting alongside herbal medicines and their multiple bioactive substances, regulation can be a legal headache. This study sets out to remedy this by getting back to the botanical roots of pharmacy and placing the colourful world of medicina...

Rebounds im klimarecht

Despite steadily increasing energy efficiency, energy consumption continues to fall only slowly. Although it is acknowledged that lower energy consumption is vital to meet climate targets, this phenomenon - known as rebounds - has been ignored in climate legislation. Matthias Leymann explains why...

Die doppelte rechtskraft im verwaltungsgerichtlichen verfahren

If an environmental permit is flawed, the administrative court will find that it is unlawful and unenforceable, thus opening up the way for subsequent correction of the errors in supplementary administrative proceedings. The court's judgment has effects that may have a significant impact on court...

Grüne nudges

Green nudging aims to foster environmentally friendly behaviour and attitudes by simply reshaping the context of decision making. Janina Essig analyses the performance potential and limitations of this new regulatory tool and points to the role and function green nudging could play in the mix of ...

Der diskurs um die abgrenzung von kartell- und regulierungsrecht

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...

Genehmigungsverwaltungsrecht

Verwaltungsinterner unionsrechtsschutz

Bestimmte bindung unter unbestimmtheitsbedingungen

Verfassungstreue

The obligation of civil servants to be loyal to the constitution is both enshrined in Germany’s Basic Law and prescribed by ordinary law. This book provides a coherent answer to the question of which political activities of civil servants can and must be sanctioned, taking into account the requir...

Zeitenwende bei der energieversorgung

This conference volume deals with the turning point in the supply of energy, which has been necessary for a long time, and which entails significant changes in the field of energy-related environmental law and infrastructure law. It documents the lectures given during the 7th German Conference on...

Konzeptvergabe zur nachhaltigen wohnraumversorgung

The allocation of property according to concept is a form of selling municipal property. The best concept for the development and use determines to whom a property will be sold. Alexander Hohm studies the legal parameters for allocating municipal property for sustainable living space according to...

Informationsverwaltungsrecht

Rüstungsexporte in der verantwortung

Arms exports have always posed ethical and moral dilemmas and been the cause of heated discussions in political and social contexts. However, only capable courts can rule out violations of law and only an informed parliament can lend democratic legitimacy to the nowadays increasingly geopolitical...