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 [...]
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englisch‘Liberating counter-experiences’: to what does that phrase refer and what is its immediate relevance? Where might it take our thoughts? There are experiences with which, for whatever reason, people cannot come to terms; they challenge us to ask: What, in such difficult, even threatening, [...]
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englisch‘Liberating counter-experiences’: to what does that phrase refer and what is its immediate relevance? Where might it take our thoughts? There are experiences with which, for whatever reason, people cannot come to terms; they challenge us to ask: What, in such difficult, even threatening, [...]
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englischFrom a dogmatic point of view, only the award of the contract by the organizer of the tender is convincing as the point of time at which the limitation period under Section 298 StGB begins. The work justifies the final impairment of the legal interest as the beginning of the limitation [...]
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englischThe contributions contained in this book try to illuminate some aspects of Sorel’s thinking, focusing on his criticism of several tendencies of his time. According to Sorel, workers’ struggles should not be limited to obtaining small material advantages but must be considered against the [...]
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englischHistorically and to the present day, social work has been closely intertwined with social movements, both as allies and in opposition to them. This engagement finds its expression in conventions (human rights), cooperation (world conferences) and coalitions (NGOs).
This textbook offers an [...]
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englischClimate protection with climate change litigation: Horizontal climate lawsuits have become an integral part of the German litigation landscape. The central problem of these actions is the attribution of climate impacts to individual emitters who – from a global perspective – have only [...]
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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, [...]
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englischBoth international choice of court agreements and arbitration agreements allow contracting parties to regulate in advance where and how potentially arising disputes are to be settled. The fact that both types of agreements fulfill the same function is not reflected in statutory framework. [...]
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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 [...]
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