Religionsgemeinschaften in Israel

English summary: Angelika Gunzel analyzes the legal status of religious communities in Israel. Within this framework her study aims at defining different legal categories for these communities, in order to determine whether Israel is a religious state or a secular state which cooperates to a cert...

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim als Prediger der Aufklärung

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755) was one of the most remarkable theologians of the eighteenth century and early Enlightenment theology. By combining research perspectives on both Mosheim's sermons and his homiletics, Sophia Farnbauer's ground-breaking study represents a methodological novelt...

Europaisches Kollisionsrecht und auslandisches Recht im nationalen Zivilverfahren

Mit der Europaisierung des internationalen Privatrechts verfolgt die Union das Ziel , dass ein Streitfall - unabhangig vom Gerichtsstand - in allen Mitgliedstaaten nach demselben Recht beurteilt wird. Ob dies in der Praxis gelingt, hangt allerdings von den nationalen Verfahrensregeln zur Anwendun...

Okonomische Analyse der rechtlichen Organisation von Innovationen

Ungeschriebene Korrekturinstrumente im Zivilprozessrecht

Rechtsschutzbedurfnis und Treu und Glauben haben als ungeschriebene Normen des Zivilprozessrechts eine uberragende Bedeutung in Praxis und Wissenschaft erlangt. Umso misslicher ist es, dass im Zusammenhang mit diesen Regelungen viele Fragen und Probleme ungeklart sind. So ist nicht nur zweifelhaf...

Max Weber's Sociology of Religion

This volume is a collection of ten articles by Christopher Adair-Toteff that examine the fundamental aspects of Max Weber's sociology of religion. They were published between 2002 and 2015 in various renowned journals and deal with various topics such as charisma, asceticism, mysticism, theodicy,...

Regulierungsmechanismen des Verbraucherschutzes im Maklerrecht

Der Rechtsverkehr mit Immobilienmaklern ist fur die Kunden mit besonderen Risiken verbunden, die nicht nur in der Komplexitat von Immobiliengeschaften begrundet sind. Die typische Konfliktsituation eines Dreipersonenverhaltnisses und die Erfolgsabhangigkeit der Provision setzen zudem Anreize fur ...

Mark and Matthew I

The study of Mark and Matthew from a comparative perspective has a long history. Ever since the theory of Markan priority became firmly established in the 19th century however, many studies, especially commentaries on either Mark or Matthew, make observations related primarily to one of the Gospe...

Bedürftige Erben

From the standpoint of unconscionability, Lisa Fey enquires into whether the canons of the Social State restrict testamentary freedom as a formative aspect of the German law of inheritance.

Ubersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi

English summary: The first critical and complete translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Sanhedrin. The tractate treats the criminal Law of the Talmud. German description: Der vorliegende Band ist die erste vollstandige Ubersetzung der Traktats Sanhedrin (Gerichtshof) des Talmud Yerushalmi ...

Heimliche Grundrechtseingriffe

Der investigative Staat versucht mit vielen Mitteln und in guter Absicht, Informationen uber Einzelne durch heimliche Ausforschung zu gewinnen. Nicht selten macht sich der Gesetzgeber dabei allzu leicht einen kurzfristigen Sicherheitsutilitarismus zu eigen und entledigt sich seiner Verantwortung....

Die Rechtsstellung des Menschen im Volkerrecht

English summary: The individual has long been seen as being only a part of the state, which is the primary subject of public international law. Recently, however, it has become a generally accepted fact that the individual has international rights and obligations, which means that he has at least...

Essays on Biblical Historiography: From Jeroboam II to John Hyrcanus I

This volume is a collection of articles and new essays by Israel Finkelstein that offers an outline for reconstructing the evolution of biblical historiography over 700 years, starting with Israel in the early eighth century BCE and ending with the days of the Hasmoneans in the late second centur...

Das sakrale Asyl in der Alten Welt

English summary: Religious asylum is one of the few legal institutions in which religion and the law overlap. Thus in this legal institution religiousness and the spirit are reflected especially impressively in differing forms through the ages. Christian Traulsen examines the history of religious...

Forgiving and Forgetting

Forgiveness has traditionally been associated with a duty to remember in order for reconciliation to be possible. Human failure, evil, and atrocities could thus only be forgiven on the basis of a saving memory. Forgetting, by contrast, had to be excluded in the interest of a truthful and genuinel...

Anthropologie des Alten Testaments

Seit der klassischen Darstellung H.W. Wolffs von 1973 gibt es keinen Gesamtentwurf einer alttestamentlichen Anthropologie mehr. Diese Lucke versucht Bernd Janowski mit seinem Lehr- und Studienbuch zu schliessen, das sich von Wolffs Lehrbuch nicht nur durch einen anderen Ansatz, sondern auch durch...

The Case for Proto-Mark

The most common explanation for the material shared by Matthew and Luke (the double tradition) is that Matthew and Luke both used a source now lost, called Q. If we adopt the Q hypothesis to account for the double tradition, then what theory best accounts for the material that Matthew and Luke sh...

Dispositives Vertragsrecht

English summary: Gaps in contracts are inevitable. Psychological limits to foreseeing every contingency combined with high transaction costs prevent contracting parties from closing perfectly complete contracts. The state thus becomes responsible for supporting private autonomy in contract format...

Die Septuaginta - Texte, Theologien, Einflusse

English summary: The Septuagint - the Greek translation of the Old Testament - originated as a Jewish translation of the Bible which was started in the 3rd century BC. It provides insights into the way in which those Jews who spoke Greek understood the scriptures. Septuagint research is an indepe...

Vorschlage und Gutachten zur Umsetzung des EU-Ubereinkommens uber Insolvenzverfahren im deutschen Recht

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Die Fesselung des Midas

Die Ordnung der Freiheit

English summary: This Festschrift is dedicated to Christian Starck, one of the outstanding representatives of public law in Germany, on his 70th birthday. An international circle of authors pay their respects to him in articles dealing with basic issues and current problems from the history and t...

Theologie und neuzeitliches Christentum

English summary: Martin Laube does a systematic reconstruction of Trutz Rendtorff's theory of Christianity, one of the most demanding and powerful theological concepts of the second half of the 20th century. The author begins by describing the different theological, philosophical and sociological...

We

We exist; we exist as humans; and as humans we can exist in a human or inhuman way. We are not responsible for the fact that we exist or that we are human, but we are responsible for how we live as humans. Therefore, we need to become clear about what it means to be human and to live in a human w...

Die deliktische Haftung fur fremdes Verhalten im franzosischen und deutschen Recht

Aufbruch nach Europa

English summary: Authors from 25 countries have contributed to a Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg. The articles cover the history and future research projects of the Institute, aspects of German, European and international econom...

Neues Testament und fruhrabbinisches Judentum

English summary: This volume contains significant published and unpublished essays written by the Judaism and New Testament scholar Friedrich Avemarie, who died unexpectedly in October 2012. Set against the background of an excellent knowledge of the rabbinic literature and with a decidedly theol...

Mangelfolgeschaden im deutschen und ungarischen Recht

English summary: Defective performances and the damage resulting from these are a constant problem for which lawmakers thought they had found a certain solution. Adam Fuglinszky questions this and examines whether or not the desirable extent of compensation for consequential damages has been foun...

Martin Luthers Reformation der Ehe

Gleichheitssatz und Religionsgemeinschaften

Welche Anforderungen stellt der Gleichheitssatz an die Behandlung der Religionsgemeinschaften durch den Staat? Welche Folgen ergeben sich durch die unterschiedlichen gleichheitsrechtlichen Bestimmungen im Grundgesetz und auf europaischer Ebene? Welche Bedeutung kommt hierbei den verfassungsrechtl...

Der Auftrag der Nationalokonomie

Die Immunitat der Vereinten Nationen

English summary: The remit of the United Nations is to protect human rights. But what happens when this obligation is violated? Are victims able to hold the United Nations to account in court? The unequivocal answer is no - because the UN enjoys legal immunity. Jakub Krumrey challenges this and i...

Der Schutz des immateriellen Erfullungsinteresses bei Vertragsverletzung durch Schadensersatz

English summary: Christina Maslow examines if and under which conditions immaterial interests in a proper performance of the contract are protected through monetary compensation. The author works through the jurisdiction of both legal systems, analyzes and evaluates the respective approaches and ...

Von Jakob zu Abraham

Die vorliegenden Aufsatze von Matthias Kockert behandeln Texte und Themen der Erzvateruberlieferung wie Gen 12-13 (Verheissung und Erfullung), Gen 15 (Glaube und Gerechtigkeit), Gen 16 und 17 (Bund und Erwahlung), Gen 28 (Land und Tempel) und Gen 32 (Damonen, Engel, Gottesboten). Dabei verhilft d...

Anspruchskonkurrenz bei grenzüberschreitendem Lebenssachverhalt

According to the German Civil Code, a contracting party may demand compensation for damages on the basis of either contractual or delictual claims., while in France the delictual remedy is not possible. This work discusses which rule is applicable if the law of more than one country is to be appl...

Methodenfragen der Romanistik im Wandel

Das Buch gibt einen Uberblick der zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gefuhrten Diskussion uber die methodologischen Ansatze der Romanistik und berucksichtigt dabei insbesondere die von Paul Koschaker 1938 vorgeschlagene "Aktualisierung" des romischen Rechts. Die damaligen Kontroversen umfassten die F...

Diktierte Parteiautonomie

Dispute resolution clauses determine which forum - court or arbitral tribunal - decides a later conflict between the parties and which law it then applies. Mascha Hesse examines if and under which conditions these clauses themselves stand up to scrutiny in standard form contracts before the Germa...

kollektive Wahrnehmung von Musikrechten (1903-1938)

Alice Struve-Urbanczyk explores how collecting societies for copyrighted music developed in Germany between 1903 and 1938. She focuses on the founding of such societies for musical performance and mechanical reproduction rights and the creation of a legal monopoly for the management of rights to ...

Karl Marx' kommunistischer Individualismus

English summary: Marx's communism is often regarded too hastily as antiliberalism, the individual seems to be subordinate to the collective. Marx did in fact reject contemporary liberalism, but not because he thought that individual freedom was not important. Marx struggled against the misunderst...

Body and Hope

Die Erfindung des 19. Jahrhunderts

The common narrative that the legal epoch of the 19th century was dominated by formalist and positivist thinking is the product of a professional dispute that erupted in Western jurisprudence around 1900 and continues to preoccupy legal historiography to this day.

Festschrift fur Karl Loewenstein

Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des Internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre 2007

English summary: This volume contains all 2007 German court decisions of significance in the fields of private international law and international procedural law along with their publication references and indexes. German description: Der neue Band stellt eine unverzichtbare Arbeitshilfe fur Wiss...

Nietzsche und das Neue Testament

English summary: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Nietzsche's death. As a philosopher, he is of such great importance to theology and to the church because among atheists he is the one who in spite of his deliberate and agressively advocated godlessness was never able to get away from...

The Hour of Justification in the Fourth Gospel

The Gospel according to John reenacts and corrects verdicts against Jesus in trials before Jewish and Roman courts. The issue is judging according to appearance or righteously, which permeates practically his entire Gospel. Amador shows how John establishes Jesus as the righteous King who is just...

Der ausubende Musiker im Recht Deutschlands und der USA

English summary: The rights of the performing artist to his interpretation are restricted in Germany and in the USA in relation to those of the work's creator. Using the performing musician as an example, Simon Apel shows that from the perspective of legal history or legal theory this discriminat...

Vereinheitlichung des Rechts der Mobiliarsicherheiten

English summary: Presently, the law relating to security interests in movable goods varies greatly within Europe. The different national regimes are a substantial obstacle to securing transnational commercial transactions within the European Union. Thilo Rott examines different proposals for solv...