Frauenfragen

The speeches, essays and newspaper articles of Marianne Weber (1870-1954) gathered here allow her to step out from her famous husband Max's shadow to reveal a campaigner who fought tirelessly for the education of women and their equal rights and pay during the transition from the German Empire to...

Geist

This compendium examines how the Spirit is depicted and functions in biblical texts and their historical and religious contexts, while also tracing the Spirit's discursive history from antiquity to today.

Haftung für Greenwashing auf dem Finanzmarkt

The EU relies significantly on a sustainable capital market to achieve its goals on climate change. With various information disclosures, investors are now supposed to invest their capital sustainably. Jonas Gnauert examines the instruments under private law to enforce sustainability-related disc...

Die menschenwürdige Existenz von Geflüchteten

What rights do refugees have regarding their physical subsistence? And how do refugees achieve a dignified subsistence level? Annalena Mayr explores these questions by examining international, European and national law and tracing the process of legal mobilization of refugees using interviews wit...

Christusbeziehung und Christuserkenntnis im Johannesevangelium

When and how do the disciples in the narrative development in the Gospel of John get into a relationship with and attain knowledge of Christ? Stefan Zorn develops a model of a multi-stage process of relationship and knowledge that includes crises and reaches its climax in encountering the Risen C...

Die Tatbestandswirkung von Verwaltungsakten und Beschlüssen

The factual effect of administrative acts means that all state authorities applying the law must accept a legally effective administrative act and base further decisions on it as a given fact without reviewing its legality. This book takes this brief definition from case law as an opportunity to ...

Budgetrecht und repräsentative Demokratie im Mehrebenensystem

There is an area of conflict between democracy and the multi-level system. This is particularly evident in financial constitutional law. Ruth Weber examines the relationship between budgetary powers and representative democracy in the multi-level system from the perspective of constitutional hist...

Die Verfassungspräambel als Spiegel des Verfassungsverständnisses

Constitutional preambles reveal more than one might expect: They reflect political self-understanding, disclose constitutional aspirations, and expose differences between political regimes. Using the example of preambles, the author demonstrates how closely law, politics, and ideology can be inte...

Geschäftsanteilsübertragungen deutscher GmbHs im Ausland

This book deals with the implementation of the transfer of shares of German limited liability companies abroad, particularly in the context of cross-border transactions. The paper explicitly takes into account the changes introduced by the 2008 reform of limited liability company law as well as t...

Modernes Personengesellschaftsrecht

German partnership law reinvented itself with the Partnership Law Modernization Act (MoPeG) - the most significant reform since 1900. This comprehensive volume examines both traditional and emerging structures of partnership law, from crypto companies to venture capital.

Die tatsächliche Vermutung

What the factual presumption really is remains unclear in many cases, despite the great popularity of this form of evidence in case law. Felix Uebel examines this question based on the long dogmatic history of the doctrine of presumption and a legal comparison with the French law of evidence.

The Calling Metaphor in Paul's Epistles

Drawing on cognitive metaphor theory, Fiva Savkovi? examines Paul's use of calling terminology and demonstrates how Paul integrated the Israelite understanding of divine calling, redefining it as God's action to bring humans into the ???????? - a community that shapes its identity in relation to ...

Absolute Wirkung obligatorischer Rechte

The contractual right to use another person's property is more than just a relative right, which in essence would limit it to the contracting parties. Rather, such an obligatory right does affect any third party because it constitutes an element of property rights and is derived from the property...

The Literary History of the Pentateuch

Joel Baden explores the history of the Pentateuch's literary composition, offering both detailed analyses of specific passages and broad theoretical and methodological reflections. His essays also serve as a record of the recent growth of the neo-documentary hypothesis in Pentateuchal scholarship.

Nachrichtendienste und bewaffnete Konflikte

German intelligence services are integrated into military reconnaissance in a variety of ways and as such are placed alongside the Bundeswehr's own structures. The Bundesnachrichtendienst, for example, also acts as the military foreign intelligence service. The contributions collected here shed l...

Memory Also Gives a Right'

Oscar Weller looks at the life of Norman Bentwich, the first Attorney General in the British League of Nations Mandate of Palestine. Bentwich was a committed Zionist and at the same time the highest legal official in the British Mandate administration. This conflict of interests renders Bentwich ...

Biblia Americana Volume 8

Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728) is colonial America's first commentary on the whole Bible. Perhaps best remembered for his writings on Salem witchcraft, the hugely prolific Mather was undeniably one of New England's leading Enlightenment thinkers.

Counternarratives in the Exodus Plague Cycle

In this study, Lenin Prado explores how the Priestly version of the plagues in Egypt revises the Yahwistic account. He shows how the Priestly narrative uses literary techniques to create a counternarrative that aims to replace the Yahwistic version, revealing key differences and tensions between ...

Die Lehre von der Rechtskraft entwickelt aus dem Rechtsbegriff

Adolf Julius Merkl's Lehre von der Rechtskraft is an undiscovered classic of legal theory and a vital text of the Vienna School of Jurisprudence, founded by Hans Kelsen. At its core is the dynamic conception of legal orders, describing the legal-theoretical foundations of how legal norms are cre...

Der Bauvertrag

The construction contract places high demands on the applicable contract law. Sören Segger-Piening's study takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to develop a doctrine of cooperation and modification where the construction contract is categorised as a structure that allows exchange a...

Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira

Charlotte Obeid analyzes the use of metaphorical language for educational purposes in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira, providing interpretative tools that not only contribute to a better understanding of Ben Sira's message but can be applied to the interpretation of metaphors in other writings as well.

BGB I: Einführung und Allgemeiner Teil

With this textbook and workbook, Dieter Leipold enables the reader to acquire a basic knowledge of German civil law. The new edition has been completely revised and updated.

Die Grundrechtswirkung auf das Privatrechtsverhältnis

The questions of how and why the fundamental rights of Germany's Basic Law affect its civil law have long been discussed and recent rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court have added fresh impetus to the debate. In this volume, Henning Schaaf analyses the German constitution, current legal li...

Die Innengesellschaft

Fritz Philemon Rauch explores the evolution of the concealed partnership - the "Innengesellschaft" - in German law, highlighting its roots in Roman law, how it is distinguished from external partnerships, and its reform through the MoPeG.

Commentary on the Pseudonymous Letters of Aeschines

Zilong Guo examines the letters attributed to Aeschines, highlighting their blend of literary traditions. Through analysis and commentary, he reveals their role in Greek literature, from rhetorical exercises to epistolary fiction, and offers insight into their historical and literary significance.

Eine Juristin unter Ökonomen

In memory of Heike Schweitzer, this volume brings together selected writings of the Kronberger Kreis and thus honors the role of the antitrust lawyer as a bridge builder between different academic disciplines and her tireless commitment to a free legal and economic system.

Die Verwirkung von Unterlassungsansprüchen im Lauterkeitsrecht

Lena Carla Weber examines the scope and dimension of the established legal doctrine of estoppel for claims for injunctive relief under unfair competition law. The impetus for this is a paradigm shift in German case law on the handling of such claims as a central instrument of the law on fair trad...

A 'Blended System' of Judicial Review in Germany

Different state actors can reasonably disagree about what guaranteed rights mean. Lisa Rabeneick argues that the German Federal Constitutional Court should, at times, exercise weak-form judicial review and defer in its decision-making to the legislative rights understanding, which may be equally ...

Banished from the City

Mark Jeong examines scenes in the New Testament book of Acts where members of the church are banished or exiled from cities. He argues that the author of Luke-Acts presents the church as a community of political exiles, whose exilic way of life is presented as part of following Jesus.

1 Thessalonians

In this epigraphical commentary, the author examines the apostle Paul's first Epistle to the Thessalonians in the light of ancient inscriptions. He proposes new interpretations to better appreciate the significance of the letter in its socio-historical and epigraphic context.

The City and its Teacher

The studies collected in this volume examine an episode of religious conflict that profoundly impacted the life of Constantinople - the deposition and exile of its bishop, John Chrysostom. Each article takes as its starting point the Oratio funebris . Together they offer a multifaceted explorati...

Bildung und Kirche

The sixth church membership survey in Germany offers current empirical insights into how respondents perceive "church" and how they assess its activities. Alongside an introduction to the study's methodology and interpretive framework, the book focuses primarily on the analysis and interpretation...

Religionsfreiheit im liberalen Rechtsstaat

The promise that each individual shall live freely in accordance with their religion or belief lies at the heart of the human right to freedom of religion. Using classical philosophical texts, Marco Schendel analyses this core promise in the context of the rule of law.

The Gospel of Matthew on the Landscape of Antiquity

The Gospel of Matthew is an oeuvre mouvante (a work in process), and the dynamics of this process are essential to its identity and function. This understanding of the Gospel of Matthew stands in distinction from the long history of research centered on Matthew the author and his design for the g...

Eigenbesitz und Mobiliarerwerb

Die Unterstutzung auslandischer Schiedsverfahren durch staatliche Gerichte

English summary: Effective legal protection in arbitration proceedings may depend on supportive measures taken by state courts, for example in the context of gathering evidence. Unlike many other legal systems, German arbitration law does permit these supportive measures also in aid of foreign ar...

Verteilung und Umverteilung von Wohlstand

English summary: The debates on the inequality of income and wealth were reinvigorated by 2007's economic and financial crisis. Against this backdrop, Jurgen Faik sets out and discusses critically the tendencies of polarization in relation to the corresponding distribution of resources in Germany...

Die Juden der Freien Stadt Danzig unter der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus

Von Ben Sira zu Paulus

English summary: This collection of essays contains exegetic, theological and hermeneutic works by Oda Wischmeyer on early Jewish and New Testament texts. The essays are to be seen as individual studies. The way they have been combined in this collection shows the relationship between exegetic, t...

Gottesbild und Menschwerdung

James Buchanans konstitutionelle Okonomik

Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History

Timothy D. Barnes combines the techniques of critical hagiography and modern historical research to reach important and original results for the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire.