englischBased on an analysis of the most important international law journals and textbooks, the book compares the discourses on business and human rights in the US and Germany. The comparison shows that many aspects of the topic – such as the question whether corporations do have international [...]

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 [...]

englischSocialism is often described as a collectivist world view, while liberalism is portrayed as its antithesis as it emphasises the flourishing of the individual. Using John Stuart Mill's thinking—who is considered to be one of the quintessential representatives of liberalism—Florian Maiwald [...]

englischThis biography portrays Olympic rowing champion Horst Meyer as a personality whose life encompassed a wide range of goals, areas of activity and achievements. His sporting career stood out, placing him at the forefront of those who helped write the history of sport. We remember a sportsman [...]

englischThe book enters the debate on the relationship between aesthetics and politics with an original and comprehensive theory. As Fransoni makes clear, a political theory is not a theory of politics, but a theory that deals with things, in this case art, in order to read them in the light of the [...]

englischNonviolent Protest Movements are elementary for the spread of democracy and human rights. Some states have, therefore, established policies to support these movements when they emerge. This practice, however, raises significant doubts from states that see themselves confronted with such [...]

englischFor thousands of years, sport has been a phenomenon in its own right, but at the same time it is closely linked to other areas of society on many levels: social, cultural, political and economic. The fact that economic considerations and the pursuit of profit have always played a significant [...]

englischThe legal practice of associations is characterized by non-profit law, as most recently expressed by the so-called “Kita-Decisions” of the Federal Court of Justice on the delimitation of association classes. In light of the growing awareness of the influence of non-profit law on the [...]

englischThis volume examines the census, which takes place every ten years in Germany, from a variety of perspectives. On the one hand, it deals with the collection of the data, but also with its use in different contexts. The volume also draws a line from the past of the census to its present and [...]

englischThe series ‘Law and Religions’ takes a multidisciplinary approach to addressing the tense relationship between these two basic conditions of social life. This second volume examines interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of law and religions from different perspectives, primarily from the [...]

englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]

englischDisease Interception is based on the idea of stopping the development of diseases before the clinical manifestation by providing a targeted (medical) intervention. The concept is located between the categories of prevention and treatment of illness and addresses a new group of people: those [...]

englischA recommendation system used by the Federal Employment Agency gave young people the following career advice: Choose computer science and nursing as professions! Was this advice always contrary to their vocational interests?

Fairness auditing by the web application ‘BERUFE Entdecker’ [...]

englischMicrological studies in qualitative social research as praxeology generate empirical findings on the ‘how’ of social practices, which, however, can only explain their significance as social problems beyond pure empiricism if they are measured against the normative standards of the juridical [...]