Grundlagen und Grundstrukturen eines Klimawandelanpassungsrechts

Der englische Deismus in Deutschland

English summary: The impact of English deism in Germany is usually seen as the starting point of the transformation of German orthodox Protestant theology into enlightened Protestant theology. Christopher Voigt comes to a different conclusion by analyzing the reception of English deism in reviews...

Geistiges Eigentum und Wettbewerb

English summary: Intellectual property rights restrict competition by imitation while at the same time creating incentives for innovation. The task of finding the right balance between exclusive rights and free competition is a challenge for both legal and economic research. The contributions to ...

Aktionarsrechte und Aktionarsklage in Japan

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Texts, Contexts and Readings in Postexilic Literature

Periods of socio-historical change often prompt renewed interest in history-writing. Interest in the past is then driven by processes of identity negotiation which facilitate a new orientation in changed circumstances. The Hebrew Bible is an excellent example, containing historiographical writing...

Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des Internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre 2001

Studien zur Christologie

English summary: This volume contains 13 studies written by Martin Hengel between 1967 and 2004 on the subject of New Testament theology. In these studies, the author deals mainly with the origins of Christology in the early Christian community. His subjects are the meaning of Jesus' death for sa...

Verwertungsgesellschaften, Kartellverbot und Neue Medien

Are collecting societies anachronistic relics of an analogue past? Or are they still, even in the digital age, an essential institution in the control of copyright and intellectual property laws? Moritz Lichtenegger examines which role dynamic cartel rights is accorded with in regard to the forma...

Der Verwaltungsvertrag im EU-Recht

Eschatologie im agyptischen Monchtum

English summary: Different approaches have been taken towards the emergence of early monasticism in Egypt. One of its distinctive features is its variety of organizational forms, its theology, spirituality and social functions. Was this variety the result of social needs or merely a development o...

Semantiken der Musse aus interdisziplinaren Perspektiven

Das deutsche Wort Musse ist nicht ohne weiteres ubersetzbar. Umso schwieriger gestaltet sich die Erforschung der Musse in anderen kulturellen Kontexten. Der Sammelband illustriert die semantischen Probleme des Mussebegriffs innerhalb der gegebenen Wortfelder im Deutschen, Griechischen, Lateinisch...

Mehrheit/Minderheit

With majority rule as the key feature of modern democracy, majority and minority are essential variables of any democratic institutional and electoral framework. Yet no matter how well established the democratic complementarity of majority and minority may be, its functionality still needs to be ...

Die Rede von "Wiedergeburt" im Neuen Testament

Ursula Ulrike Kaiser zeigt erstmals auf, dass die Erforschung der Rede von "Wiedergeburt" im Neuen Testament von grosser Unklarheit uber den Forschungsgegenstand gepragt ist. Ursachlich dafur ist die unkritische Vermischung von "Wiedergeburt" als "Begriff" und als "Sache", die, metapherntheoretis...

Das Prinzip Menschenwurde

Briefe / Hermann Gunkel - Eine Biographie

English summary: Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918), initially a Professor of Old Testament Studies at the Faculty of Theology in Greifswald and then a Professor of Semitic Studies at the Faculties of Philosophy in Halle, Marburg and Gottingen, formulated the modern view of the history of ancient Isra...

Juristische Methodenlehre in China und Ostasien

English summary: This book provides an in-depth introduction to Chinese and East Asian legal methodology set against the backdrop of diverse social, culture and political structures. The author aims to lay foundations for a more intensive German-East Asian dialogue and provide new perspectives fo...

enuma elis - Weg zu einer globalen Weltordnung

English summary: The Marduk epic (Enuma Eli) is probably the most significant mythical text of Babylonian culture and tells of the elevation of the god Marduk to absolute ruler over all the gods and the world. Gosta Gabriel provides the first complete and comprehensive interpretation of the text,...

Protestantische Theologie der Neuzeit

Reading Dionysus

Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae. As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the "foreign" god Dionysus and his ecstatic cult, audiences and readers found resonances with th...

Christentum in der Moderne

Falk Wagner (1939-1998) war eine herausragende Gestalt innerhalb der deutschsprachigen evangelischen Theologie im 20. Jahrhundert. Sein Werk steht in der Tradition der spekulativen Theologie und verbindet den Entwurf einer Theorie des Absoluten im Gefolge Hegels mit einer neuzeittheoretischen Umf...

Transsubjektive Deliktsverantwortlichkeit

The discourse on corporate liability for human rights violations reveals the complexity of defining the subjective scope of tortious liability. However, it is possible to specify the scope precisely by applying a pluralistic methodological approach. At the same time, this makes it possible to pro...

Anwachsungsprinzip 2.0

Partnership law is evolving. Maximilian Pechtl examines how the latest dogmatic developments impact the significance of one of the basic principles of partnership law: the so-called principle of accrual. He shows how, from this, it is possible to formulate a general principle of corporate law whi...

Geschichtszeichen der Freiheit

35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany’s Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is today either largely ignored, lamented, or partially denied. Could remembrance of it not help guard against the current political resignation and pessimism ? This was the question posed by an interdisciplinary se...

Effiziente Verhaltenssteuerung und Kooperation im Zivilrecht

Ponale Elemente im deutschen Privatrecht

English summary: Ina Ebert demonstrates that private penalties are certainly not unheard of in German private law. She shows that the necessity of implementing the standards of the Basic Law and German private law will increase the significance of private penalties in the future and makes a plea ...

Fur Vernunft und Recht

English summary: In these collected studies, previously published in various other works, Gunter Spendel deals with subjects of general significance which are also of historical and political interest. They have been written in a manner which emphasizes the author's trust in reason and his effort...

Personal Data as an Economic Asset

Philipp Jaud examines the economic use of personal data within the framework of European Union law. He delves into the intricate interplay between the fundamental right to data protection and the imperatives of economic interests, providing a roadmap for navigating the intersection of law, fundam...

Die Vorstandshaftung bei Sanierung einer Aktiengesellschaft in Eigenverwaltung

In the reorganisation of an insolvent stock corporation under self-administration, issues relating to the liability of the management board play a central role. An analysis of the situation shows that numerous principles of directors' liability under corporate law also apply in self-administratio...

Die Produzentenhaftung im internationalen Rechtsvergleich

Individualitat im Zivilrecht

English summary: What is the future of the private individual in the context of a society which has become increasingly interested in commercializing personal features, works and expressions? To what extent is there a conflict between the Western belief in individuality as a value and the current...

Klimarisiken im Bankenaufsichtsrecht

The management of climate factors in supervisory law entails specific challenges. This thesis analyses whether and to what extent the micro- and macroprudential instruments of banking supervision law can be used and/or further developed in order to ensure an adequate management of climate risks.

Bitburger Gesprache in Munchen

Personale Differenzierung im Kaufrecht

Die Fahrt des Rabbi Nachman von Brazlaw ins Land Israel (1798-1799)

Martin Heidegger

English summary: Gunter Figal's Phanomenologie der Freiheit (phenomenology of freedom) long ago became a definitive work. As a contribution to research on Heidegger, Figal provides an accurate interpretation of Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), taking into account essential aspects of Heidegger's e...

Schuld und Vergebung

English summary: The theme of guilt and forgiveness runs like a golden thread through the story of Michael Beintker's theological life. In this Festschrift dedicated to him, twenty eight theologians approach the multifarious aspects and problems of this theme from all different directions. The ne...

Vertauschte Keimzellen und Embryonen

Kommt es bei der Durchfuhrung einer reproduktionsmedizinischen Massnahme zu einem Zwischenfall, bei dem Keimzellen oder Embryonen vertauscht werden, sind nicht nur die tatsachlichen, sondern auch die rechtlichen Auswirkungen drastisch. Neben der Frage, ob und wie der Arzt den Vorfall aufklaren ka...

Soziale Dienstleistungen

The authors of this textbook discuss whether and to which extent social services can be and should be offered in market settings.The book presents options on how social service markets can be designed to work in the interest of people seeking help.

Textkritik und Textgeschichte

English summary: At least since the humanist period Christian exegetes have always returned to the Greek version of the Septuagint Bible whenever the Hebrew version proved itself to be either challenging or even cryptic. Over the past 30 years, text-critical research of the bible has increasingly...

Die Teilklage im Zivilprozess

Die Teilklage ist ein bislang unterschatztes Institut des deutschen und europaischen Zivilprozessrechts. Stefan Trommler untersucht zunachst die prozessualen und materiellrechtlichen Vorzuge der Erhebung einer Teilklage anstelle einer Vollklage. Zugleich zeigt er die Grenzen dieses Instruments de...

Wertlose Wahrheit

English summary: The entire world wants values, and basic values are especially in demand. However values have their own logic, to which unworth and the worthless are essential. The increase and decrease in values and the revaluation of all values, at least as an utopian ideal, are part of this l...

Der IWF im Wandel - Ruckkehr zu einem neuen System

Japanische, deutsche und schweizerische Irrtumsregelungen

English summary: Interference with an intention when concluding a contract is a classic problem in contract law, a problem which also arises in current consumer law. Sandra Hotz studies the significance of this fact for the remedying of errors. She begins by showing the development of error remed...

Krankenhausreform und Grundgesetz

A reform of hospital care including remuneration constitutes an urgent concern that is high on the health policy agenda. Ferdinand Wollenschläger analyses the complex framework for reform projects in terms of constitutional law, especially with regard to competence and fundamental rights.

Burokratie und Demokratie in Europa

English summary: The democratic legitimacy of governance in the integrated European administration is insufficient. Enrico Peuker explains this deficiency and compensates for it with a theory of bureaucratic legitimacy based upon Max Weber. German description: An der Verflechtung von nationalen u...

Messing with the Regulator

The area of banking supervision is notorious for its low level of legal action. Sonja Heitzer investigates why seeking legal protection is such a challenge, identifying speed, specialization, secrecy, reputation, and informality as important factors.

Warum Erbrecht?

Die Arbeit behandelt aus rechtsvergleichender und interdisziplinarer Perspektive die Frage nach dem Sinn und Zweck des Erbrechts und seiner Ausgestaltung. Anlass sind Vermogensbindungsmechanismen, die es dem Einzelnen zunehmend gestatten, sein Vermogen dem Erbrecht zu entziehen: Die privatnutzige...