englischIslamic theological studies in Germany are regularly asked about the contribution of ‘Islamic ethics’ to the present. This raises the question of how contemporary ethical questions can be answered with respect to Islamic theological tradition. This book first presents four conceptions of [...]

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 [...]

englischThis volume presents major lines of analysis in Law and Literature/Law and Humanities research for both legal and literary scholars. The special emphasis in the volume is on narrative and narration in the law and the law in narrative, a focus due to the context of the series based in the [...]

englischThe relationship of Sharia to secular law, human rights, gender roles and ethical issues of thought and action has been the focus of media, social and political attention for decades. By combining an in-depth understanding of pre-modern Islamic jurisprudence with modern legal and social [...]

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 [...]

englischThe debate about exclusion, hate crime and racism has become increasingly heated in recent years, not only in Germany but also in other countries of the West, especially the USA, where the "Black Lives Matter movement" has drawn attention to the almost omnipresent racism in the American [...]

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 [...]

englischCan resistance to state power continue to be punished less than general coercion? In 2017 the legislature passed the 52nd StÄG to improve the protection of law enforcement officers and rescue workers, which essentially changed Sections 113, 114, 115, 323c of the Criminal Code. From a [...]

englischData is the core of Internet-based business models. Ever since Facebook took over WhatsApp, European antitrust law has been faced with the question of how to deal with mergers, especially those involving the well-known Internet giants ("FANG").

Under what circumstances can market power be [...]

englischThe objective of the shareholder’s rights directive (2007/36/EC) is to allow shareholders to effectively safeguard their interests in the company across the borders of the entire European internal market. The directive therefore establishes minimum standards for shareholders’ meetings. The [...]