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. [...]

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 [...]

Georges Sorel (1847–1922) ist vor allem bekannt als Theoretiker des in der Form des Mythos konzipierten gewaltsamen Generalstreiks: Um die Arbeiter zum Kampf zu motivieren, müssen sie ihre oft kleinen, lokalen Kämpfe stets vor dem als Horizont gedachten Generalstreik denken. Mit diesem Generalstreik [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischUsing the example of state party financing, the financing of parliamentary groups, the employees of members of the Bundestag and political foundations, the study shows that state political financing suffers from structural constitutional deficits. Not only does the increasing level of [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

englischWhere does the public sector in Germany include representatives of the religious and non-denominational spectrum in its advisory and decision-making bodies – and what are the purposes behind the participation of these civil society organisations in state decision-making? This book provides a [...]

englischThe urgently needed transformation of the energy and transport sector calls on legislators to reform established planning and authorisation procedures for infrastructure projects. At first glance, infrastructure project authorisation by law as an instrument for acceleration and to boost [...]

englischIn Higher Education fun can have a supportive effect on learning. This book reveals how students playful learning can be accomplished. Within the concept of Narrative Gamification presented, learning is designed as a playful experience. Narratives play a pivotal role here, intertwining [...]