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 [...]

englischThis book provides an up-to-date overview of contemporary Central Eurasian politics, identifies key issues, trends and transformation paths in this respect, and analyses the conceptual foundations of security and power in the region. Key topics include autocratic proliferation and regime [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

englischIn view of the current geopolitical threat environment, enhanced Franco-German and European armaments cooperation is urgently required. This thesis shows that neither the bilateral Franco-German nor the European legal frameworks are sufficiently reliable to ensure the consistent realisation [...]

englischWhen do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author's [...]

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 [...]

englischAttempts to write a history of ideas of critical theory often resemble the procedure within a Cartesian coordinate system. Starting from the aim of determining a paradigmatic theoretical core, the philosophies considered essential are distributed along the directional axes and then the [...]

englischThis first volume from the series on modernity and media studies provides an insight into the dimensions and functional potential of a retrospective look at the 1920s. Focusing on Babylon Berlin, the contributions explore the question of how ›society‹, ›culture‹, ›history‹ and ›reality‹ are [...]

englischThe prohibition of alcohol is one of the defining characteristics of Islamic religious practice. In 2012, the Egyptian legal scholar Saʿduddīn al-Hilālī reopened the discourse on the question of the permissibility of alcohol consumption in Islam, referring to well-known Iraqi legal scholars [...]

englischThe entire functional self-administration, in particular the skilled crafts organization, relies on the commitment of volunteers. In practice, however, there is sometimes a need for clarification regarding the rights and obligations of volunteers. The study examines this issue and includes [...]

englischTransitional Justice can be defined as the group of processes and mechanisms that address the problems caused by large-scale human rights violations that were committed during conflicts or by repressive regimes. This book analyses the efforts made in the implementation of the peace accords [...]

englischTime and again, there are short-term legislative changes in the area of VAT, such as the tax rate reduction in 2020. However well-intentioned such tax rate changes may be, from a legal perspective they lead to considerable problems if the parties had already concluded a contract including [...]

englischThe study analyses for the first time in Saxony which cases in adult criminal law are referred to victim-offender mediation (VOM), which challenges arise in the application of the instrument and how the actors involved perceive VOM. This enables a current and differentiated picture of the [...]

Der Parlamentarismus hat eine längere Geschichte, als gemeinhin vermutet wird. Dieser Auftaktband einer vierteiligen "Geschichte des Parlamentarismus" verfolgt diese so weit zurück, wie es die Quellen erlauben. Er handelt von Ältestenräten und Milizversammlungen in Mesopotamien, bei den Hethitern [...]

englischOvertime work is a frequent phenomenon. However, it is compensated in only about half of all cases. The book shows that the legal foundations of the topic of overtime have not been clarified and that the current interpretation therefore leads to inappropriate results. It analyses the legal [...]

englischThe subject of this doctoral thesis is the investigation of the meaning of "economic efficiency", in particular as a guiding principle, as a requirement for administrative action and as a procedural consideration in the process of decision making. By investigating the contours, [...]