englischIn an era where digitalization is revolutionizing the legal industry, this book offers practical solutions for strategic project portfolio management in law firms. The focus is on the question of how strategic evaluation criteria for legal tech projects increase efficiency and effectiveness [...]

englischThe managing director entered in the company register is not always responsible for the practical handling and decision-making within a company. The actual masterminds can also be shareholders or completely external persons. The term "de facto managing director" has become established for [...]

englischWhile some forms of Catholic religious life are granted far-reaching individuality, members of Catholic religious institutes and societies of apostolic life are obliged to live in community. Therefore, the absence of a member outside the canonical boundaries is an illegitimate act which the [...]

englischAnna Katharina Bahramian analyses the CS3D initiative and the resulting challenges for the EU's Africa strategy. The author provides a basic understanding of human rights, the European Africa strategy and the solutions adopted to date (including compliance and due diligence) and outlines the [...]

englischIn 2022, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising commissioned the Munich law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl to prepare a report on sexual abuse in their diocese. Dr. Matthias Losert has dealt in detail with the 1,893-page expert opinion. With precise reasoning and great legal expertise, he [...]

englischWhistleblowers continue to cause difficulties for German jurisprudence since, despite the entry into force of the HinSchG, important legal policy questions remain unresolved. These relate, among other things, to the breaches of duty covered, anonymous tips, the relationship between internal [...]

englischAnalysing European investment protection law, Matthias Leeb focuses on the resulting legal protection deficits for investors and provides concrete recommendations for dealing with them. In particular, he examines recent decisions of the ECJ on intra-EU investment protection agreements - [...]

englischToday, it seems almost impossible to distinguish creative creations such as music, pictures, paintings or designs by an AI from works by a human being. This raises an urgent question: Can an AI be the creator of a creative work and thus also an author? Facing this question, Florian Wallner [...]

englischThe Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) requires companies to carry out extensive due diligence in their supply chains in order to prevent human rights violations and environmental damage. The implementation of the law presents companies with legal and organizational challenges.

In her [...]

englischWhen making difficult decisions, we tend to follow limited rational rules of thumb, so-called heuristics. For example, when we have to make estimates on topics that are unknown to us, we are guided by environmental information, even if it is incoherent.

Dorian Schmelz examines the effects of [...]