englischWho decides what we learn about the sustainability of companies? With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) adopted at the end of 2022, the EU obliges the majority of European companies to publish a sustainability report in accordance with European standards, the European [...]

englischEconomic issues play a central role in many areas of law. All too often, however, judges cannot be convinced by economic evidence. Using the example of administrative court proceedings in antitrust law, this study examines the reasons for this failure and outlines ways to present economic [...]

englischThe observation that we are strongly controlled by what is affective and act in a moralising way is not insignificant, for we therefore do not act according to our best knowledge, but more and more according to our conscience. This habitus also finds it extremely difficult to deal with [...]

englischThe exclusion of the reimbursement of costs is one of the central provisions of labour court proceedings. In deviation from the general principle of reimbursement of costs in the event of victory, Section 12a ArbGG makes a special provision for the parties to the first-instance labour court [...]

englischDue to globalization, new economic powers are developing in Asia and Latin America creating potential risk of displacement of the United States and Europe in the global competition. Given this shift of global power, what role will the United States and the European Union play in facilitating [...]

englischThe book presents six very different source texts on time and progress (four in Ottoman Turkish and two in Arabic). The accompanying commentaries examine in different ways the transformation of concepts and semantics, ideology and rhetoric, which changed significantly in these regions during [...]

englischIn his inaugural lecture "Demokratie als Bauherrin" ("Democracy as Builder") at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1994, Ulrich Battis programmatically outlines the urban and at the same time the democratic development of the Federal Republic after German unification up to the present day. [...]

englischAs a novelty, the procedural elements of substantive criminal law have attracted more and more attention in German and Chinese criminal law in recent years. The reason for this is that, on the one hand, procedural criminal law offers the possibility of impunity for the addressee of the norm [...]