2 Corinthians - a Letter about Reconciliation

Ivar Vegge shows that the ancient Mediterranean world was especially sensitive to idealized praise and blame or threats as hortative means. This is reflected in the pedagogy of the moral philosophers (psychagogy) and in the letter-writing tradition (epistolography), and to some extent also in the...

Die Freiheit der Idee und der Schutz von Schriftwerken

Die Freiheit der Idee gehort zu den Grundpfeilern des deutschen Urheberrechts. Die Bedeutung frei verwendbaren Materials fur nachfolgende Schopfungen und Kreativitat ist nicht zu unterschatzen. Zugleich stellen neue, ungewohnliche Ideen haufig einen wichtigen Teil schopferischer Arbeit dar. Obwoh...

Chance und Schaden

English summary: The victim of professional malpractice may recover damages only if the link of causation between the breach of duty and the damages suffered is established to the actual certainty of the court. Yet, in many cases, this is not easy - Would the attorney's client have won the law su...

Rationalitat und Kritik

Women, Men, and Angels

Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

The present volume reexamines both ancient Christian and Jewish portrayals of outsiders. In what ways, both positive and negative, do ancient writers interact with and relate to those outside of their ethnicity or religious tradition? This volume devotes itself to the methodological questions sur...

Chinesische Outbound-Investitionen in Deutschland

Germany is China's favourite European destination when it comes to direct foreign investment. The second volume on the subject continues where the first left off in its thorough analysis of the legal challenges of Chinese FDI in Germany. Dealing with questions of structure, organisation, and nati...

Staatliche Gemeinschaft und Staatengemeinschaft

Regulierung im Telekommunikationssektor

English summary: Government intervention or free competition? Based on articles written from the perspective of law, economics, the history of law and the history of economics, the authors of this volume deal with the question of how much market and how much regulation are necessary in the teleco...

Einfuhrung in die Rechtsphilosophie

Die Verwandlung Jesu Christi

Die gegenwartige orthodoxe Exegese ist noch immer fast ausschliesslich von der Wiedergabe patristischer Bibelauslegungen und ihrer Hermeneutik gepragt, wahrend die westliche Exegese seit der Aufklarung einen tiefgreifenden hermeneutischen Reflexionsprozess durchlaufen und ein entsprechendes metho...

Ungeschriebener Parlamentsvorbehalt und akademische Selbstverwaltungsgarantie

Zwischen dem Anspruch der Hochschulen, den Zugang zur Promotion exklusiv regeln zu wollen und der vom Bundesverfassungsgericht im Lichte der Lehre vom ungeschriebenen Parlamentsvorbehalt gezogenen Autonomiegrenze besteht eine Diskrepanz. Diese bildet fur Gerrit Hellmuth Stumpf nicht nur den Ausga...

Die religiose Dimension der Gesellschaft

Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece and Rome

In this work, Jan N. Bremmer brings together articles on Greek and Roman myths and rituals of male initiation, which have all been updated and, where necessary, revised and translated into English. The preface sketches the rise of the initiatory paradigm within a wider anthropological and Indo-Eu...

Massekhet Menahot

Der Rechtsstatus der evangelischen Kirchen in der DDR und die neue Einheit der EKD

Die Haftung privater Internetanschlussinhaber

Christ as the Telos of Life

Bradley Arnold examines the argumentative logic and central aim in Paul's letter to the Philippians. A historical context is mapped out that is useful for these purposes, examining the broad structure of thought in ancient moral philosophy (namely, Aristotle, Epicureanism, and Stoicism), ancient ...

Literaturokonomik

Die angemessene Vergutung des Urhebers

English summary: The author's fair remuneration has constituted the centrepiece of two legislative reforms in the past fifteen years. Amit Datta analyses their legal and economic implications for the prevalent contractual practice in the film sector, and elaborates on alternative models by taking...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

English summary: This volume is a collection of texts written by Max Weber from 1900 to 1913 which focus on his structural analysis of agrarian and industrial capitalism as well as on his social policy located between state socialism and laissez-faire liberalism. In addition, the volume provides ...

Kernstrukturen des Sachenrechts

Elke Herrmann untersucht vier elementare Bereiche des Sachenrechts. Die zentrale und uberzeitliche Einrichtung des Eigentums ist pragend fur das Privatrecht und die Rechtsordnung im Ganzen und wie wenige andere Rechtsinstitute Gegenstand auch ausserrechtlicher Betrachtungen. Die Autorin stellt di...

Jon Elsters Theorie rationaler Bindungen

English summary: The authors of this volume present central parts of Jon Elster's complete works, giving the reader an overall view of their direction, scope of application and their reception history. They provide a critical analysis of problems pertaining to local justice, behavior and time-inc...

Die Dimension des Unternehmens

English summary: The growth of enterprises is generally regarded as a natural procedure, which means that it is seldom given special attention. However when a company becomes so big that the terms 'industrial giant', 'giant group' or 'global player' can be applied to it, it has often already gain...

Die Anleiheglaubigermehrheit

Theories of Poverty in the World of the New Testament

David J. Armitage explores interpretations of poverty in the Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts of the New Testament, and, in the light of this, considers how approaches to poverty in the New Testament texts may be regarded as distinctive. Explanations for the plight of the poor and supposed solutio...

Translating Empire

In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to translation practice in the Iron Age. The authors build on and reinforce Crouch's conclusions in her former work about Deuteronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employing Hutton's "Optimal Translation" theory t...

Apollonios von Tyana in der neutestamentlichen Exegese

Nationale Besteuerung und wirtschaftliche Integration

English summary: The past two decades were characterized by a rapid increase in international capital mobility that raised concerns worldwide about the sustainability of capital income taxation. Distortions of economic activities caused by fiscal competition have led to numerous calls for interna...

Herrschaft als Auftrag

There is increasing uncertainty concerning the integration of the European States under the umbrella of the European Union. This study investigates the fundamental constitutional structures of sovereignty in a united Europe, focusing on determining the relationship between the Basic Law for the F...

Teilnehmende Zeitgenossenschaft

Holdinggesellschaften in Japan

English summary: Die Bildung von Holdinggesellschaften ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem zentralen Instrument der Umstrukturierung japanischer Gesellschaften geworden. Den rechtliche Rahmen hierfur bilden tiefgreifende Reformen des Antimonopol- und Gesellschaftsrechts. Ursula Shibumi Eisele unte...

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...

Der Streit- und Gegenstandswert bei Unterlassungsanspruchen im Urheberrecht

In den letzten Jahren hat der fur die Bemessung der Gerichtskosten entscheidende Gebuhrenstreitwert eine hohe offentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. So zum Beispiel in den Fallen, in denen verhaltnismassig hohe Anwaltsgebuhren fur die Abmahnungen von Urheberrechtsverletzungen im Internet, insbesond...

Jesus' Death and the Gathering of True Israel

Taking seriously the Gospel as a unified narrative and the Gospel's late first-century Jewish setting, John Dennis investigates the Fourth Gospel's appropriation of Jewish restoration theology. Employing John 11.47-52 as the starting point, the author argues that one of the primary functions of r...

Qumran-Messianism

Quintilians Rhetorik und die Disziplinen

In eighteen studies by renowned scholars, this volume addresses Quintilian's Institutio oratoria from various disciplinary perspectives. Based on Quintilian's claim that the orator must possess comprehensive erudition, it examines the relationship between rhetoric and other fields of knowledge. ...

'Okonomischer Patriotismus' in Zeiten regionaler und internationaler Integration

English summary: Today, the importance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is recognized nearly universally. But when it comes to inbound FDI in the form of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, states see their interests affected. Whereas in some countries the preference of domestic over foreign...

In Praise of Asclepius

Burgerprivatversicherung

English summary: The authors of this volume propose an innovative long-term health insurance system with intense competition. Premium calculation would resemble that of German private health insurance, which means that at a younger age the premiums would exceed the average expected expenses and a...

Festschrift fur Jan Schroder zum 70. Geburtstag

Mit der Festschrift fur Jan Schroder ehren Freunde, Schuler und Kollegen aus dem In- und Ausland anlasslich seines 70. Geburtstages einen der international herausragenden Rechtshistoriker unserer Zeit, langjahrigen Ordinarius fur Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte und Burgerliches Recht an der Universitat...

Erwerbsgrundrechte im Unionsrecht

Die Geschichte der Europaischen Union ist eine Geschichte okonomischer Integration. Es verwundert daher nicht, dass auch die europaische Grundrechtsentwicklung durch Wirtschaftsgrundrechte gepragt wurde. Der Freiheit des Erwerbs widmet die Charta nunmehr gleich zwei Artikel, deren Verhaltnis zuei...

Rereading the Mishnah

The Interpretation of the New Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism

Recent New Testament scholarship has raised the question of the effect of the New Testament on readers including an 'implied' reader. How did the New Testament affect ancient readers who rejected it? John Granger Cook contributes to the ongoing investigation of the relationship between Christiani...

Bioethik

Moderne Gesellschaften zeichnen sich durch einen hochgradigen Pluralismus aus. Mit besonderer Heftigkeit sind in den letzten Jahren die unterschiedlichen Positionen zu bioethischen Fragestellungen aufeinander geprallt. Horst Dreier wagt nicht allein die Argumente, sondern rekonstruiert zunachst d...

Wandel im Staatsangehorigkeitsrecht vor den Herausforderungen moderner Migration

English summary: Where is the law pertaining to nationality leading? Johannes Masing analyzes the revised version of this law and shows what this has achieved and also its limitations as far as the integration of immigrants is concerned. Taking a look at further steps toward reform, he outlines a...