englischCommon ownership has attracted much attention and criticism from antitrust lawyers and competition economists in recent years. This book addresses this criticism. The plausibility of the discussed mechanisms of influence is examined from the perspective of corporate law. In addition, the [...]

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, [...]

englischGerman family law is characterized by a rigid dualism of custody rights as the German family law legislator assigns custody rights to a maximum of two parents of a joint child. With this restriction, however, German law denies an assignment of custody to "social parents" such as step-parents [...]

englischThe question of whether or under what conditions municipalities may publish articles on current events in the local community has been a matter of controversy for some time. The aim of this study is to systematically examine municipal communication in the light of various decisions and to [...]

englischThis work examines the tension between German civil procedural law, which traditionally focuses on individual proceedings, and the collective model declaratory action. In particular, the binding effect of the model declaratory action and the existing mechanisms to coordinate dissimilar [...]

englischThe thesis provides a fully comprehensive and practice-oriented insight into liability risks of board members in the context of cyber attacks. Its goal is to reduce the existing legal uncertainty in this field by setting out the statutory framework, deriving legally required prevention as [...]

englisch§ 184j StGB is one of the most criticized provisions of the German Criminal Code. The criticism refers in particular to the lack of compatibility with the principle of personal liability. The authour succeeds – with recourse to social psychology – in refuting the criticism. The attribution [...]

englischThe activation of unused voting rights potential by means of organized solicitation of proxies, flanked by advertising for a certain voting behavior, can represent an effective way to create majorities at the Annual General Meeting. This work examines the permissibility, means and limits of [...]

englischThe author deals with the formation, validity and legal effects of nullifiable resolutions in the law of stock corporations, cooperatives, limited liability companies, residential property companies and commercial partnerships, and elaborates a theory that applies to all forms of [...]

englischLand registration is a part of both English and German land law. The security provided by a land register depends upon the extent to which parties to a property transaction can rely on its content. The German grundbuch offers a very high level of purchaser protection. English land law, [...]