englischFor the first time, this work presents a specific study of the relationship between justifiable necessity and criminally punishable norms of medical law. In this area in particular, situations of necessity occur regularly and are caused by these norms themselves, because limited resources [...]

englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]

englischData transfer in public administration is a key factor in the modernization of public services. Uncertainties about the lawfulness of data transfers, however, prevent citizens from being effectively relieved of their burdens. Based on a legal comparison between German and Brazilian data [...]

englischClose-out netting is a key risk management technique for financial market players whose privileged status under insolvency law, the markets for over-the-counter derivatives and securities financing transactions would not be possible in their current form.

Over time, the European legislator [...]

englischThis study integrates the topic of water reuse into an interdisciplinary framework and offers a comprehensive interpretation guide. The author analyses the EU regulation on (agricultural) water reuse and classifies it in European, German, and Swedish law – regions where this topic has been [...]

englischThe book analyses and systematises the discrimination risks of algorithmic decision-making processes in artificial intelligence. It develops a phase model that makes various algorithmic processes accessible to legal analyses. The model illustrates the diverse discrimination risks posed by [...]

englischPublic law and its scholarship interact in many ways with other areas of law - be they norms of other origins or those typically assigned to other areas domestically - as well as insights from other disciplines. It is only by looking at these interactions that public law and its scholarship [...]

englischThe development of EU policies from the Treaties of Rome in the 1950s to the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, which led to an "ever closer union" and ultimately to Brexit, are made comprehensible. This process shows that primarily political considerations led to Treaty changes. Both the political and [...]

englischThe tax effectiveness of profit distribution agreements in partnerships is of high academic interest and practical relevance. This publication examines the largely unresolved question of whether special allocations of individual tax items is possible under German tax law.

In particular, [...]