From Gods to God

The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Gree...

Max Weber und die Staatsrechtslehre

English summary: In February 1919, Max Weber was offered a professorship at the Faculty of Law in Bonn, but he chose instead an offer of a social science professorship in Munich. Would we think of him any differently today if he had accepted the Bonn appointment? Weber had completed an academic ...

Max Weber-Studienausgabe

English summary: The Max Weber-Studienausgabe (MWS) renders Max Weber's works and speeches accessible to a large audience, using the complete and reliable Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG) as its basis while deliberately dispensing with its editional apparatus. It has howecer been laid out in such a ...

Wanderungen und Wandlungen des Rechts

Dieser Band enthalt die Vortrage, die anlasslich des Kolloquiums zum 80. Geburtstag von Christian Starck von Schulern des Jubilars gehalten wurden. Das Recht und seine Auslegung sind nicht frei von Wandel. Dies gilt auch fur die Institutionen des freiheitlichen Staates, deren Stabilitat aus der B...

Responsible Trading in Raw Materials

Solveig Gasche provides a conceptual analysis of responsible trade in commodities. Taking into account human rights and environmental standards, she defines the crucial determinants of commodity trade, factoring in the most important historical, economic and regulatory approaches.

Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie bei G.W. Leibniz

Der Band beleuchtet Leibniz' Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie im Kontext seiner Metaphysik, Logik, Erkenntnistheorie und Moralphilosophie. Auch die Rezeption seiner Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie wird in den Beitragen reflektiert. Gerade im Hinblick auf die aktuelle Diskussion um die politische Gesta...

Atypischer Einzelfall und allgemeines Gesetz

In atypical cases, laws can lead to grossly unfair results. Max Weber studies the constitutional law challenges which such atypical cases present to lawmakers and shows the extent to which unfair harshness can be avoided or at least compensated within the framework of applicable law.

Doppelte Korper im Recht

English summary: The idea of the 'double body' was something that Roman jurists were already familiar with and which found its footing on the premise that between the whole and the sum of its parts there lies a fundamental difference. The relation of unity and diversity has started attracting int...

Familiennamensrecht in Deutschland und Frankreich

English summary: The differences between German and French surname law regularly lead to conflicts such as the limping name change. How can these conflicts be avoided? Would it be sensible and realistic to have a uniform European surname law, or is the recognition of names by all of Europe as cal...

Strukturierter Parteivortrag im Zivilprozess

This book asks whether the written communication between the parties and the court in civil proceedings is still contemporary in its current form. The study examines the idea of structured written pleadings, according to which the parties must set out their statements about the circumstances rele...

Individual and Community in Paul's Letter to the Romans

Ben C. Dunson explores the relationship between individuals and community in Paul's letters. He begins with a treatment of scholarly views on the issue, paying special attention to the influential twentieth-century debate over the role of anthropology in Pauline thought that took place between Ru...

Monastische Theologie und Protestantismus

Die monastische Theologie ist eine selbststandige und gleichwertige Gestalt der mittelalterlichen Theologie neben der ganz andersartigen Scholastik. Ihre Wurzeln reichen in das fruhe Monchtum der Alten Kirche zuruck; doch ihren Hohepunkt hatte sie im umfangreichen Werk des grossen Zisterziensers ...

Re-Reading the Scriptures

This volume contains 15 papers written by Christoph Levin between 2001 and 2011, four of them unpublished. One main focus is on the Pentateuch, mainly on the oldest comprehensive narrative source, the Yahwist, which was written at the beginning of the Jewish diaspora. A second focus is on the boo...

Fundamentalismus als patriarchalische Protestbewegung

Enteignung ohne Entschadigung nach der EMRK?

English summary: In its decision Jahn vs. Germany, the European Court of Human Rights found that a taking of property without compensation may under exceptional circumstances be in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights. While presenting a vivid analysis of the Court's jurisdicti...

Die Entstehungsgeschichte des Konzernrechts im Aktiengesetz von 1965

Osiris-Hymnen

English summary: Osiris, a god of the dead and a dead god, was praised and characterized in numerous hymns by the ancient Egyptians. These hymns, however, are always functional texts, created with the goal of usage, preserved due to intentional recording. In this study, Daniela C. Luft traces the...

Das Christentum

The British theologian and church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch is an internationally respected expert on the Reformation period. In his research shows how changeable Christianity proved to be through the millennia; he understands the history of the Reformation as a polycentric, cross-denominatio...

Collectorium circa quattuor libros Sententiarium

Glaube und Lehre im modernen Protestantismus

Vertragsfreiheit und Vertragsgerechtigkeit

Die Grundsatze der Vertragsfreiheit und der Vertragsgerechtigkeit gehoren zu den tragenden Rechtsprinzipien der Privatrechtsordnung. Die Bestimmung ihres Verhaltnisses zueinander zahlt seit jeher zu jenen Grundfragen des Vertragsrechts, deren Beantwortung jeder Generation aufs Neue aufgetragen is...

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...

Umwelt und Energie

English summary: This series, edited by the Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics, publishes those papers which are given at the seminars in Ottobeuren. The purpose of these seminars is to present new theoretical approaches as well as new empirical findings to a group of experts and to discuss the poli...

Grundlagen der Rechtssoziologie

Konsens im Allgemeinen Verwaltungsrecht und in der Demokratietheorie

Thomas Holzner untersucht konsensuale Handlungs- und Organisationsformen sowie den Einbezug Privater in diese auf ihre Gemeinsamkeiten. Dabei werden nicht nur das Sozialrecht, sondern auch andere Rechtsgebiete, wie z.B. das Hochschul-, Wirtschafts-, Lebensmittel- und Medienrecht als Referenzgebie...

Mensch

Revelation 19-21 in the Exegesis of Early Christian Roman Africa

Martina Vercesi explores the interpretation of chapters 19-21 of the Book of Revelation in the Christian communities of Roman Africa from the second to the fourth century, considering historical, theological, and textual questions.

Arthur T. von Mehren und das internationale Zivilverfahrensrecht im transatlantischen Dialog

Ein weltweites Ubereinkommen auf dem Gebiet des internationalen Zivilverfahrensrechts kann nur Erfolg haben, wenn der transatlantische Dialog verbessert wird. Ina Vedie widmet sich diesem Dialog und ruckt die Lehren des U.S.-Amerikaners Arthur Taylor von Mehren (1922-2006) in den Mittelpunkt der ...

Hebraisches Evangelium und synoptische Uberlieferung

English summary: Guido Baltes argues that the quest for possible Hebrew origins of the gospel tradition might provide a useful methodological tool for work on the synoptic problem. He sets out to paint a picture of a trilingual language milieu for the period of Second Temple Judaism in which spok...

Politischer Existentialismus

English summary: The attitude of amoral self-commitment, which in the current discussion is attributed solely to Islam, must be put into a larger context. In the form of political existentialism, this recent cause of disconcertment and helplessness is part of our own culture, a part which can loo...

Die judischen Feste im Bellum Judaicum des Flavius Josephus

English summary: Birke Siggelkow-Berner provides the first comprehensive study devoted to the literary function of the Jewish festivals within the Bellum Judaicum of Flavius Josephus. She is able to show that the various descriptions of and references to Jewish festivals not only have a specific ...

In dubio pro reo und Wahrscheinlichkeitsurteile

Normally when it comes to a judicial decision, the accused enjoys the benefit of the doubt - "in dubio pro reo". However, the scope of this rule of lenity is still not fully determined, especially where the court applies law that requires predicting future events or making estimates.

Entstehung von Verfassungen

Ivan Baron Adamovich wendet die moderne okonomische Theorie erstmals konsequent auf die Entstehung von Verfassungen in der Realitat an. Dazu entwickelt er zunachst ein analytisches Raster fur die Untersuchung von Verfassungsgebungen. Dieses wird dann auf die seit 1989 entstandenen Verfassungen in...

"Formenmissbrauch" und Kompetenzverstandnis

Die johanneische Eschatologie

English summary: In the third volume of his comprehensive study on Johannine eschatology, Jorg Frey gives a thorough interpretation of the eschatological passages in the Johannine Epistles and in the Fourth Gospel. He analyzes the eschatological traditions of Johannine communities which make up t...

Offentliches Recht als ein Gegenstand okonomischer Forschung

Lehren und Lernen im Zeitalter der Reformation

English summary: This volume is a collection of essays written for the conference on Teaching and Learning in the Reformation Era, which took place in 2009 in the Research Library in Gotha. Based on the period of transition between late medieval teaching and new humanistic approaches up to the co...

Der Europaische Weg

Mit dem Schuman-Plan verdichtete sich der Weg nach Europa zur Integration. 70 Jahre spater bildet die Europaische Union einen einzigartigen Kooperationsrahmen fur Mitgliedstaaten und Burger. Die supranationale Hoheitsgewalt speist sich zusehend aus sich selbst. Welche Gestalt diese jedoch verfass...

Das Sozialstaatsprinzip im Europaischen Verfassungsverbund

English summary: Thorsten Kingreen defines the basic structures and the basic content of the principle of the social state based on the rule of law and examines the influence of European Community law on this principle. In doing so, he uses the law of compulsory health insurance as an example, si...

Rechtsfortbildung im Unionsrecht

English summary: Whenever judges decide, questions as to the limits of interpretation arise. This applies to decisions made by the European Court of Justice in general and especially to those considered to be judge-made law. At the same time, the specifics of EU law give cause for basic reflectio...

Wunder und Wirklichkeit in den Briefen des Apostels Paulus

English summary: In a new methodical approach, Stefan Alkier focuses on the relationship between miracles and reality. He begins by developing a semiotic text concept and then rewords the question of miracles: What do concepts of reality look like in those worlds in which reports of miracles are ...

Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe

Der grundrechtliche Gewahrleistungsgehalt

English summary: Benjamin Rusteberg deals with the current discussion surrounding the scope of protection in fundamental rights and the question of whether this scope should be wide or narrow. In the final analysis, the issue is how the provisions pertaining to fundamental rights in the German Ba...

Monastische Bildung

In his Collationes Patrum , John Cassian acts as intermediary between different theological and monastic traditions. Dorothee Schenk shows how he connects various - both skeptical and positive - estimations about the value of (traditional) education for monastic life. In doing so, he not only di...

Der wettbewerbsrechtliche Schutz von Investitionen vor Marktversagen

English summary: Benedikt Floter analyses legal protection of intellectual property prior to the introduction of statutory protection for such intangible assets. American judiciary-led legislation in particular draws on economic justifications for protection that forms a complex system for balanc...

Greek Hymns

William D. Furley and Jan Maarten Bremer provide the reader with as full a picture as possible of ancient Greek religious hymns which were sung either at religious services or in literary contexts imitating such services. The emphasis is laid on the edition of the Greek texts, both those which ex...