englischIn German company law, the duty of confidentiality of supervisory board members is established as a basic principle and has been continuously tightened by the legislator. A violation is a criminal offence. At the same time, members of supervisory boards are now also to fall within the scope [...]

englischSituations in which the citizen who is willing to act turns to a respondent, receives legal information that denies the wrongfulness of the act, acts in reliance on this information and the court later considers the act to be unlawful cause considerable difficulties. A particular challenge [...]

englischThe regulation of cookies and comparable technologies was recently amended in Germany by the Telecommunications-Telemedia-Data Protection Act (TTDSG). Milena Tyl uses a case study which data protection changes have resulted from the entry into force of the TTDSG. Her investigation focuses on [...]

englischIn Germany, associations (Vereine) and non-profit (gemeinnützige) organisations must, in principle, not engage in economic activities for the benefit of their members. However, they may obtain funds for their purposes through economic activity. Within certain limits, it is even permissible [...]

englischThis work is a study in medical criminal law that deals with medical malpractice in the narrower sense and, in particular, with medical diagnostic errors. The author starts from a conceptual definition of diagnostic error under medical criminal law and examines its relevance for the [...]

englischParticipation systems in co-determination grant representatives of a certain interest group participation in the co-determined bodies through procedural guarantees. The requirements for the legislator in implementing such regulations have not been fundamentally clarified.

The author [...]