englischWhen it comes to the question of the legal significance of the so called bellum iustum doctrine, i.e. the idea of a just war, international lawyers start to feel uneasy. A large part of contemporary legal scholarship maintains the opinion that this doctrine was never part of international [...]

englischIn the third millennium, the world is witnessing a growing gap between the development of technology – which has an exponential trend – and the development of legal and political structures – which has a linear trend. This gap, then, intertwines with the gap between Westernization and global [...]

englischThe study is dedicated to the question of the importance of the international standards of the European Social Charter in EU primary law and whether the EU institutions take these standards sufficiently into account. It identifies points of rupture where EU institutions contribute to member [...]

englischAgainst the background of the interconnection between the Union legal order and the legal orders of the Member States, the temporal effect of ECJ judgments is one of the central elements of Union law. Following a careful analysis of the parameters of Union law that shape it, the book deals [...]

englischThis work examines how to determine whether a particular family status fulfils the legal requirements for family reunification in Germany, and thereby addresses the field at which public and private law overlap. With reference to three case study groups, the author examines whether and how [...]

englischUN Women – a successful reform with regard to the issue of gender equality within the United Nations or another missed opportunity? An initial assessment after seven years shows where initial successes could be achieved and which challenges will perhaps fatally contribute to the failure of [...]

englischThe margin of appreciation doctrine is one of the central characteristics of ECHR case law. The book examines the hitherto little-discussed issue of transferability to the case law of the ECJ on internal market freedoms. Essentially, it provides a positivistic analysis of the case law of the [...]

englischThis book covers the subject of inter-state dispute settlement in free trade agreements from a global perspective. Those agreements contain an increasing number of more and more elaborate dispute settlement provisions.

The provisions are compared and a basic scheme is deduced. Additionally, [...]