Das Verstandigungsurteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und die Notwendigkeit von Reformen im Strafprozess

Rechtsbeugung in Kollegialgerichten

English summary: Thieves, murderers and arsonists render themselves liable to prosecution if they commit robbery, murder or arson. Their punishment is necessary and self-evident. Although this necessity cannot be seriously denied even among judges, their punishment is by no means a matter of cour...

Kleriker und Laien

In medieval canon law, it is said that there were two kinds of people: clergy and laity. But on closer examination, what seems to be clear becomes highly complex. This interdisciplinary volume investigates the processes that both stabilised and blurred the boundary between clergy and laity.

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Die Abanderung auslandischer Unterhaltstitel

It is generally acknowledged that a change in circumstances can require the modification of a maintenance order. In cross-border cases, various questions related to the modification arise. Katharina Elisabeth Beissel examines these in depth, particularly their conditions and limitations.

Sakularisierung und Sakralitat

Imitationsmarketing

English summary: Daniela Schork deals with the history, application and the prerequisites of misleading product marketing in accordance with Section 5 Paragraph 2 of the Act Against Unfair Competition. She analyzes its relationship to other criteria in the Act Against Unfair Competition as well a...

Gegenwartsfragen des liechtensteinischen Privat- und Wirtschaftsrechts

Entnahme und Patentierung menschlicher Korpersubstanzen

English summary: Based on an authentic case, Georg Werner studies how the rights of a donor to his bodily substances affect a patent which has been or will be issued if the invention leading to the patent is based mainly on the bodily substances of the donor. In order to weigh the rights of the d...

Kundigungsschutz ohne Prinzip

English summary: Christian Kaiser examines the Weimar draft of an employment contract law, which originated in the early days of modern German labor law, from the standpoint of its history, dogmatics and basic principles. After giving a thorough description of the circumstances surrounding its or...

Leistungshindernisse

In der Regel gibt es einen sachlichen Grund dafur, dass ein Schuldner die ihm obliegende Leistung verweigert: ein Hindernis, das der Leistung entgegensteht. Je nachdem, ob dieses Hindernis uberwindbar ist oder nicht, muss das Recht unterschiedliche Wertungsfragen beantworten: Bei unuberwindbaren ...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Der Polygraf als Entlastungsbeweis

How does a judge determine that the witness is telling the truth? Who can be believed when it's one statement against another? Johannes Makepeace examines the methods of credibility assessment and lie detection-especially that of the polygraph-and how they should and should not be used in crimina...

Grundrechtskombinationen

Kollegialtheorie

Der Segen im Neuen Testament

English summary: The blessing is a subject which is of great relevance for church practice and whose meaning, forms and gestures such as the laying on of hands in the New Testament had previously not been examined in their common context. Ulrich Heckel provides a careful exegetical and philologic...

Parallele Gesetzgebungskompetenzen

Selbstwerdung und Personalitat

English summary: The blooming of ancient thought throughout the Renaissance and the Early Modern Age took place mainly in the shape of late antique philosophy. Many of its characteristic main features have influenced modern thought in a defining manner. In the present book, Theo Kobusch addresses...

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie

Verteilungsentscheidungen und Verteilungsverfahren

English summary: In a free market economy, the direct allocation of goods by the state must seem strange. Nevertheless, this is a common and at the same time complex procedure, since it is always in conjunction with a shortage of goods and competition. Nina Malaviya discusses allocation decisions...

Sefer ha-Razim I und II - Das Buch der Geheimnisse I und II

Two macroforms dating back to late antiquity are known under the Hebrew title Sefer ha-Razim (The Book of Secrets). The first volume provides the texts of the edition, the second contains an introduction, the German translation and a German commentary on both Sefer ha-Razim titles. The set combin...

Jerusalem and the Coastal Plain in the Iron Age and Persian Periods

This volume brings together archaeological, historical, and biblical studies on the cultural, economic, and social relations between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean coast of Israel/Palestine in the period from 1200 to 300 BCE.

Biblical Interpretation in the Russian Orthodox Church

In the majority of western pre-modern and modern handbooks and surveys of the history of biblical scholarship, Eastern Orthodoxy is mostly and habitually dismissed. A clear orientation towards the western branch of the Christian church is maintained throughout. However, as the Russian Orthodox ch...

Paul, Founder of Churches

Informationssysteme im Europaischen Verwaltungsverbund

English summary: A regular exchange of information is essential for effective administration in the European Union. Thus, the authorities responsible in the Community Member States are provided with the information they require in order to carry out administrative measures which are indicated by ...

Memory in the Bible and Antiquity

The volume brings together essays that explore the topic of memory and remembrance in the ancient world, taking into account the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Kings), ancient Judaism (1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Dead Sea Scrolls), the classical world, the New Testament (Jesus, Syno...

Religion und Aufklarung

Im Zeitalter der Aufklarung vollzog sich ein umfassender geistesgeschichtlicher Modernisierungsprozess. Auch fur die Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte ruckt mit dem 18. Jahrhundert die entscheidende neuzeitliche Umbruchs- und Ubergangszeit in den Blick, in der die Konfigurationen der fruhneuzeitli...

Der Europaische Erfullungsgerichtsstand fur Dienstleistungsvertrage

Der europaische Erfullungsgerichtsstand nach Art. 5 Nr. 1 EuGVO gehort zu den wichtigsten Gerichtsstanden dieser Verordnung. Hannes Wais beleuchtet die Sondervorschrift des Erfullungsgerichtsstands fur Dienstleistungsvertrage in Art. 5 Nr. 1 lit. b 2. Spiegelstrich EuGVO. Dabei entwickelt er zuna...

The Mithras Liturgy

Hans Dieter Betz provides the first complete English commentary on one of the most important texts of the history of religions in late antiquity: the so-called Mithras Liturgy, a magic Graeco-Egyptian papyrus from the 4th century AD, written from the inner perspective by an initiated devotee of t...

Regulierung in Zeiten der Digitalwirtschaft

Digitalisierung wird vorwiegend durch Unternehmen der Digitalwirtschaft vorangetrieben. Schon langst sind viele Angebote digitaler Unternehmen - man denke an Google, Amazon und Facebook/Instagram - aus dem Alltag kaum mehr wegzudenken, und auch vermeintlich digitalisierungsfeste "analoge" Branche...

Ubersetzung des Talmud Yerushalmi

English summary: The first critical and complete translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi Tractates Makkot and Shevuot. The tractates treat the laws conceming punishment by lashes and the laws conceming oaths. German description: Der vorliegende Band ist die erste vollstandige Ubersetzung der beiden ...

Preusse, Protestant, Pragmatiker

English summary: Friedemann Utz examines the contributions made by the jurist Walter Strauss (1900-1976) to the legal development of the early Federal Republic of Germany against the backdrop of his personal career. Born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Strauss was dismissed from his position in the ...

Christlicher Religionsunterricht (CRU)

In today's society the significance of religious affiliations continues to decline. Lower Saxony is responding to this challenge with a model of Christian RE for which both churches are jointly responsible. It raises specific legal and theological-pedagogical questions, which this volume explores.

Institutionen und menschliches Wohlergehen

English summary: People do not only care about material outcomes, but also value the processes and conditions which lead to these outcomes. Matthias Benz shows that this procedural utility is an empirically relevant phenomenon in many areas of the economy, politics and society. The concept can ex...

Subsumtion

English summary: Subsumption is a term which enjoys a long tradition in jurisprudence and which can be traced back to an established use in logic. Unlike in logic however the subsumption process is a contentious issue in legal methodology, since there is not even an agreement on the meaning of th...

Schwabisches Handworterbuch

English summary: The Schwabisches Handworterbuch consists of two parts. In the first part, the user is provided with a Swabian-German dictionary, and the second part facilitates the reader's access from standard German to Swabian. Anyone who is not at all or just barely familiar with the Swabian ...

Polis - Freundschaft - Jenseitsstrafen

English summary: Synesius of Cyrene (approx. 370-413 AD) was one of the most remarkable personalities of his time. Born into the local elite of the Cyrenaica, he became not only a philosopher-writer with a very personal perspective on Neoplatonism, but also defended his home town as a military co...

Will Substitutes im Europaischen IPR

Will substitutes, such as deathbed gifts and contracts to the benefit of a third party upon death, exist in many European legal systems. This book analyses the different options using a comparative analysis of the substantial law, possible effects on the rules governing jurisdiction and recent ju...

Kreditwesengesetz und Strafverfahren

English summary: Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare - nowadays, the privilege against self-incrimination plays its major role in administrative procedures rather than in criminal proceedings. Daniela Kleinheisterkamp analyzes if and to what extent requirements of constitutional law are undermined if ...

Die Grundrechtsberechtigung ausländischer juristischer Personen

Foreign legal entities engage in various activities in Germany. To what extent they can invoke the protection of fundamental rights is examined by Hendrik Philip Ehlers de lege lata as well as de lege ferenda. In doing so, he establishes numerous references to basic law and particularly takes int...

Diskursive Vernunft und formelle Gleichheit

English summary: Tobias Lieber examines Jurgen Habermas' discourse theory of law and democracy from a lawyer's perspective. In his critique, he takes into account the large amount of secondary literature, including many American authors. Tobias Lieber takes a critical approach towards Habermas' u...

Transformation durch Recht

Die Zeit zwischen 1985 und 1992 steht fur einen grundlegenden Wandel im europaischen Einigungsprozess. Der Amtsantritt von Jacques Delors als Prasident der Europaischen Kommission 1985, die Einheitliche Europaische Akte 1987 und der Vertrag von Maastricht 1992 bilden die Wegmarken dieser Entwickl...

Hans Kelsen Werke

English summary: Volume 1 of the Hans Kelsen Werke (HKW) contains Kelsen's publications during his 'pre-critical phase' between 1905 and 1910, ranging from the monograph on Die Staatslehre des Dante Alighieri (1905) and the Kommentar zur osterreichischen Reichsratswahlordnung (1907), which was in...

Judaica Minora

English summary: The essays in this volume deal with three areas: One part focuses on the pre-Islamic history of the Jews, the development of the rabbinate and the relationship between Jews and Christians. This is followed by texts on methodological issues, the historical value of rabbinic texts ...

An Philemon. An die Kolosser. An die Epheser

Corporate Governance in Deutschland und Frankreich

Die protestantische Theologie des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Deutsche Idealismus

Which aspects of German Idealism's discussions on Protestant theology in the C20th should be pursued in systematic theology's current debates? This volume's essays add their voices to dealing with this question by tackling the reception, critique and transformation of Troeltsch, Otto, Barth, Till...

Urteilswirkungen gegenuber Dritten im US-amerikanischen Zivilprozessrecht