englischUnder sec. 1303 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB) every spouse has to have reached the age of 18 in order to enter into a civil marriage. These rules apply accordingly to both traditional and religious marriages. Despite and contrary to these statutory minimum age [...]

englischThis study discusses the historical and (power-) political backgrounds as well as the legally and theologically questionable justification of the historically unique constitutional amendment with which the Pakistani parliament excommunicated Ahmadi Muslims from Islam—a decision wholly at [...]

englischThe murder of Hatun Sürücü on 7th February 2005 left behind many scars that still affect our society today. A young woman is openly executed in the street by her younger brother with three shots to the head ‘in the name of honour’ because she lived ‘like a German’. The case of Sürücü and the [...]

englischLow-price strategies of undertakings with a dominant market position are often subject to an inadequate abuse-analysis evaluation for the individual case. Thus, a systematic integration of grounds of justification in the examination according to Art. 102 TFEU seems overdue. In an [...]

englischLies constitute one of several variants of non-factual communication. Based on the Interdisciplinary Graduate School on Factual and Fictional Narration, the contributions in this volume are both theoretical and historical and span a wide range of different approaches. While the essays from [...]

englischThe maximum assignment period introduced by the recent reform of the Temporary Employment Act (AÜG), the possibility to deviate from it by collective bargaining agreements and the stipulated fiction of the employment relationship with the hirer in case of exceeding the maximum assignment [...]