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 [...]

Der Kommentar für die BeratungspraxisDer „Heidel/Schall“ bietet Beratungswissen mit hohem Praxisbezug. Er setzt die Schwerpunkte dort, wo die Praxis fundierte Informationen für die Lösung rechtlicher Probleme benötigt, die zu rechtssicheren und wirtschaftlichen Ergebnissen führen.Die ReformauflageDi [...]

englischWhereas early modern cathedral chapters have mostly been studied as electoral bodies of prince-bishops and noble corporations, this study examines the administrative and governmental practices of the Bamberg cathedral chapter from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Its active [...]

englischWhile the tradition of public opera was being established in Venice, the young singer and composer BARBARA entered the private stage of her adoptive father Giulio Strozzi's Accademia degli Unisoni to raise her voice with advanced, highly expressive vocal music. Barbara Strozzi's female [...]

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 [...]

englischHigh expectations are associated with 'artificial intelligence'. This is due to the fact that it does not appear as a limited technology but penetrates all areas of social and operational activity (science, business, production, technology, administration, education, etc.) or achieves [...]

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 [...]