Governance-Token

Governance tokens grant tradable participation and control rights in the governance of decentralized autonomous organizations. Philipp Bauer examines this token category from a corporate- and securities law perspective.

Offentliches Digitalwirtschaftsrecht

Die digitale Wirtschaft stellt das Recht vor fundamentale Herausforderungen: Sie operiert in digitalen Plattform- und Netzwerkstrukturen, ersetzt menschliche durch kunstliche Intelligenz und uberwindet muhelos staatliche Grenzen. Christoph Kronke arbeitet heraus, wie sich diese Herausforderungen ...

Constructing a New Covenant

Thomas R. Blanton, IV seeks to reconstruct the social contexts in which two discourses that involve the new covenant were written, and to which they responded. He first examines the Damascus Document from among the Dead Sea scrolls, arguing that this discourse was crafted in order to delegitimate...

Deus ex machina?

This work examines the implications of digitization for selected fundamental rights and their concretizations in sub-constitutional law - especially in data protection law as a central regulatory matter regarding digitization - as well as conversely the controllability of digitization through fun...

Der Musterprozessvertrag

English summary: Florian Jacoby presents a thorough examination of the standard procedural agreement, making a distinction among the three parts of the agreement. In the agreement to a commitment, the parties concerned make the decision in the test case legally binding for their dispute. In the s...

Gesammelte Schriften

Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfGE)

Freiheitsdistribution und Verantwortungsbegriff

Torah, Temple, Land

The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in diffe...

Verantwortlichkeit in komplexen Daten-Okosystemen

Today's ubiquitous processing of data is played out by numerous actors on mighty platforms for a plethora of purposes. Against this backdrop, Florian Wittner examines the General Data Protection Regulation and its effectiveness in safeguarding private data. Setting out its regulatory concept and ...

German and Nordic Perspectives on Company Law and Capital Markets Law

Elemente einer Evidenzmetaphysik

Traditionell wird die Metaphysik thematisch zweigeteilt: Einerseits wird sie als jene Disziplin bezeichnet, die das Seiende als solches behandelt (Ontologie), andererseits als jene, die sich mit dem Wirklich-Seienden und damit mit der fundamentalen Realitat befasst (Theologie). Wie verhalten sich...

Anhang und Lagebericht im Spannungsfeld zwischen Unternehmens- und Bilanzrecht

English summary: The German accounting instruments notes (Anhang) and management report (Lagebericht) are subject to continuous reforms. Lately, corporate-related contents found their way to these two reporting instruments. Bettina Sauter systematizes the reporting obligations of these and develo...

Aramis

Based on numerous interviews, technical reports and documentation, Bruno Latour traces the collapse of a large public transportation system project - the Personal Rapid Transit system named Aramis - in Paris. Latour's analysis of Aramis' history merges science and technology studies with the narr...

Glaubigerschutz in der Liquidation einer GmbH

Benedikt Berthold setzt sich mit dem Schutz der Glaubiger in der Liquidation einer GmbH und insbesondere mit 73 GmbHG auseinander. Damit schliesst er eine Lucke zwischen dem gesellschaftsrechtlichen Schrifttum, das sich vornehmlich mit dem Glaubigerschutz in der werdenden und werbenden GmbH besc...

Annexverfahren bei Internationalen Insolvenzen

English summary: Verena Lorenz begins by explaining importantbasic principles of the European Insolvency Regulation and then deals with international jurisdiction for that litigation which can become necessary in the course of insolvency proceedings. These so-called secondary proceedings include ...

Leo Baeck Institute New York

Schriftgelehrtes Murren

Das elektronische Konnossement

Der Welthandel ist noch immer durch den Einsatz von Papier gepragt. Bis heute werden im Rahmen der Exportfinanzierung Dokumente der Seefracht als Sicherungsmittel verwendet. Besonders sticht dabei das Konnossement hervor. Als Wertpapier mit Traditionsfunktion verbrieft es den Herausgabeanspruch g...

"Hellenisten" in der Apostelgeschichte

English summary: In Acts, Hellenists are mentioned three times: a group of the Jerusalem church (6:1), Jewish opponents of Paul (9:29) and the pagan audience of Christian missionary preaching (11:20). The analysis of the verb hellenizein shows that hellenistes meant non-Greeks who spoke Greek. Th...

Der Grundsatz der Verhaltnismassigkeit im Schuldvertragsrecht

Agyptische Rituale der griechisch-romischen Zeit

English summary: Evidence of rituals has a prominent place among the legacies of the Egyptian culture. This evidence can be immortalized monumentally on the walls of temples and tombs, or it can appear on papyri and ostraca as an indication of its actual use. There is an abundance of preserved Eg...

Kommunalrecht

English summary: Thorsten Ingo Schmidt presents German community law in a transnational setting by including its referents in European law. For the new edition, he had revised and improved some parts of the work. New passages consider the impact of debt limits on communities, alternative forms of...

Vorprozessuale Prioritätssicherung

The interface of mandatory pre-action procedures such as mediation and conciliation with the European provisions for the coordination of parallel proceedings is unresolved. Julian Duventäster examines whether initiating such procedures establishes a lis pendens under the Brussels Ibis Regulation ...

Treu und Glauben im Unionsprivatrecht

Gericht bei Lukas

Nimmt man das Lukasevangelium in den Blick, leuchtet zuerst die grosse Heilsperspektive auf, die der dritte Evangelist vor allem in den ersten beiden Kapiteln seines Evangeliums eroffnet. Dass hingegen auch das Gericht Gottes eine nennenswerte Rolle bei Lukas spielt, weist Jens Gillner in der vor...

Max Weber in Japan

Die Psalmen

Milton Friedmans okonomischer Liberalismus

English summary: Milton Friedman is one of the most prominent liberal theorists. His work on deals with monetary and fiscal policy, the privatization of schools by the introduction of vouchers, the ethics of profit seeking and problems of methodology. The papers collected in this book give a crit...

Das Gesetz zur Beschrankung der Haftung Minderjahriger

English summary: Do the regulations that were introduced in the law to limit the liability of minors actually achieve their goal of protecting the minor? Katrin Thiel analyzes in detail the extent to which the law has eliminated the unconstitutional legal situation, looks for gaps in the law and ...

Rituale und Magie in Ugarit

Rituals and magical practices were a central aspect of the everyday life in the Ancient Near East and played a decisive role in all areas of life. They also influenced the history and culture of the Bronze-Age Ugarit, which can be seen through the textual and material evidence. The volume takes t...

The History of Religions School Today

The present volume offers a glimpse at one currently thriving expression of the distinguished history of religions school approach to the New Testament and early Christian literature. Begun circa 1884 at the University of Gottingen and pioneered by scholars such as Albert Eichhorn, Wilhelm Bousse...

Das Johannesevangelium

English summary: In his commentary on the Gospel of John, Hartwig Thyen focuses less on the Gospel's genesis and its supposed sources. Instead he interprets the Fourth Gospel as a highly poetic literary text and examines issues of intertextuality in relation to its three synoptic predecessors. Si...

Organtransplantation und Strafrechtspaternalismus

English summary: German law recognizes well-intended prohibitions which are meant to protect citizens, even from harming themselves. Although German legislators have acted according to this sentiment in the law of organ transplantation, they have not prevented a dramatic shortage of organs, have ...

Die Meinungsfreiheit im System des Grundgesetzes

Profiling - Personlichkeitsschutz durch Datenschutz?

Okonomik: Eine Einfuhrung

English summary: Modern society is aa cooperative venture for mutual advantage (J. Rawls). This book presents and exemplifies the economic method of analyzing institutional incentives in order to improve our understanding and support of this joint venture to realize gains from trade. German descr...

Internetwettbewerbsrecht

Die Bindung der Mitgliedstaaten an die Unionsgrundrechte

English summary: What are the requirements and the restrictions for a commitment of the Member States to the fundamental rights of the European Union? Julian Nusser studies the respective court rulings as well as the literature and Article 51 Paragraph 1 Section 1 of the EU Charter of Fundamental...

Urbane Musse

Das elektronische Mahnverfahren

English summary: Bartosz Sujecik examines the need for an introduction of an electronic order for payment procedure in the Dutch civil procedure. In his study, he compares the German and the Austrian order for payment procedures. In addition, he examines the framework of a future Dutch order for ...

Arbeitslosigkeit und Moglichkeiten ihrer Uberwindung

Ronald Coase' Transaktionskosten-Ansatz

English summary: Ronald Coase has provided the social sciences with the insight that transaction costs are fundamental for understanding the working properties of institutions. This insight is of interdisciplinary importance and refers to organizations as well as to private contracts and public l...

Character Complexity in the Book of Ruth

Kristin Moen Saxegaard demonstrates how character complexity is portrayed in the Old Testament, exemplified by the Book of Ruth. Each character in the story has its specific voice which raises a particular topic; Naomi proclaims her bitterness, Boaz is the merry character, Ruth stresses that she ...

Katharismus im Untergrund

Handbuch Alttestamentliche Anthropologie

This book’s objective is to summarize the current state of research on the portrayal of humans in the Old Testament, to develop this further through new perspectives and interdisciplinary aspects and to make this available in the compact form of a handbook. It contains 15 articles on persons, 150...

Erfüllungswirkung bei Leistungen auf ein vorläufig vollstreckbares Urteil

What are the consequences of the debtor's payment on a provisionally enforceable judgement if an appeal is made against it and the legal dispute is continued? Paul Pommerening argues for the immediate effect of performance and a stronger focus on procedural protection mechanisms in favour of the ...

Demokratie und Republik

Die Legitimitat des modernen Verfassungsstaates speist sich aus der Idee der Demokratie. In historischer Hinsicht stellt er sich in die Tradition der gesellschaftsvertraglichen Theorien der Aufklarung sowie der revolutionaren gesellschaftlichen und staatlichen Umbruche in Nordamerika und in Frank...