Die Autorin untersucht aus juristischer und soziologischer Perspektive, wie das Antidiskriminierungsrecht in der Praxis angewendet wird.

englischLaw is a means to fight discrimination – more than ever since the enactment of the Federal German Equal Treatment Act (AGG) in 2006. State agencies and civil society organizations are struggling to improve the protection against discrimination. But how can they assess the effects of the law [...]

englischThe study examines the current state of implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilites (CRPD) with regard to the inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream schools in the German states. It provides a comprehensive structural analysis of this area.

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englischThe book offers a renewed approach to the debate on antitrust goals. Based on a legal-sociological perspective, it conceives competition as a form with social functions. Thus, competition is not a mere derivation of efficiency or consumer welfare, but an autonomous goal of antitrust which [...]

englischHow are political and legal actions interrelated? The author explores this topic empirically, looking at conflicts over Basic Security Benefits for Jobseekers (SGB II/“Hartz IV”). Via qualitative interviews with claimants, unemployed people’s action groups and unions’ legal service offices, [...]

englischThe charged relationship between the need for state repression against right-wing extremism and the guarantee of fundamental rights, especially freedom of speech, coined the controversial debate about § 130 IV StGB [German Criminal Code]. The volume works out how legislative encroachments [...]

englischIn principle – owing to its monopoly on the legitimate use of coercive force – it is the state that guarantees contract enforcement. Nevertheless, enforcement deficits in cross-border trading have led to private enforcement mechanisms, such as nonlegal sanctions, taking on an important role. [...]

englischWhat are chances and challenges of referring to human rights law in defining crimes under international law? Under what circumstances is a reference to human rights law dogmatically appropriate and practically likely? The answers to these questions are explored through a look at the [...]

englischAlthough approximately one third of world trade takes place within enterprises, we know only little about the institutional organisation of intra-firm trade. Using large multinational corporations as an example, the present book investigates the question which institutions are employed to [...]

englischJustice in transnational business relations happens before arbitral panels, not state judges. Even though international commercial arbitration is an equal alternative to state courts in terms of procedural quality, it is still perceived as being elitist and hardly accessible. Indeed, [...]