English summary: Oliver Pilnei examines the main question in fundamental theology, which is the creation of faith and how it was dealt with by three authors who are central to hermeneutic theology. He begins by examining the origins of the hermeneut…
English summary: Where is the law pertaining to nationality leading? Johannes Masing analyzes the revised version of this law and shows what this has achieved and also its limitations as far as the integration of immigrants is concerned. Taking a lo…
English summary: Imre Peres examines about 1,000 Greek epitaphs from the age of Hellenism and the early Roman empire which give information about the Greeks' concept of life after death. A large number of these epitaphs are printed in the original a…
English summary: In what way do works of art, inventions and other subject matter of intellectual property rights exist? Alexander Peukert shows that the notion of such an abstract intellectual property object is a linguistic construct, which only e…
Fehlinformierungen der Kapitalmarkte durch Emittenten von Wertpapieren stellen ein andauerndes Problem dar, wie etwa der VW-Abgasskandal belegt. Richard Wichmann zeigt effiziente und de lege lata umsetzbare zivilprozessuale und materiell-rechtliche…
In 2005, a French doctoral student discovered Galen's long-lost treatise, De indolentia or On the Avoidance of Distress in a monastic library in Thessalonica. De indolentia is a letter to an unspecified addressee in which Galen describes how he resp…
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat sich seit den Anfangen der europaischen Integration in einer Vielzahl von Entscheidungen mit moglichen verfassungsrechtlichen Grenzen des europaischen Integrationsprozesses auseinandergesetzt und mit dem Solange-Vorb…
Within the Torah's cultic texts, the instructions to carry out communal ritual acts are of major importance. Matthias Ederer's minute examination of these 'Tamid texts' shows that though they appear to be set out as regulations, they barely address…
Charles E. Carlston and Craig A. Evans examine in detail five major motifs in the theology of Matthew: Christology, Law, Church, Scripture and Tradition, as well as History and Eschatology. In this study, they reveal a Jewish-Christian author who at…
English summary: This textbook is an inventory of Martin Luther's most important theological terms, compiled using citations from the Weimar Edition of his writings. The lexicon seeks to present Luther's theology using the terms as a guide, allowing…
Der Staat und seine Untergliederungen beteiligen sich haufig durch Aktiengesellschaften oder Gesellschaften mit beschrankter Haftung am Privatrechtsverkehr. Dies fuhrt immer wieder zu Konflikten mit offentlich-rechtlichen Vorgaben aus dem Verfassung…
English summary: The rail reform of 1994 fundamentally reorganized the roles of the market and the state in the railway sector. The reform takes its place in the 180 year history of the railway, which has seen various forms of organization between m…
English summary: Josiah's cult reform has been called the main event in the history of literature and religion in ancient Israel. The reform of the system of religious symbols, expressed in Josiah's measures related to cult policies, marked a turnin…
Subjektive Rechte stehen sowohl fur die Potentiale als auch die Selbstuberschatzungen des Rechts. In der transnationalen Konstellation werden die Grenzen subjektiver Rechte bei Themen wie Klima- und Umweltgerechtigkeit oder dem Schutz von Privatheit…
The volume is based on a symposium that took place in the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. It has to be seen in the context of the international renaissance of the concept of codification. When the State of…
English summary: The supervisory relationships between participants in the health system are complicated. Those who pay the benefits, health insurance companies and those who are insured are all supervised. Supervision can be carried out by the gove…
English summary: The essay which gave this volume its name is the expanded version of a work which caused quite a sensation when it was published in English for the first time. F.A. von Hayek developed a theory that for political and economic reason…
Ist die Hinterziehung verfassungswidriger Steuern strafbar? Die Frage gehort zu dem klassischen Themenkanon der wirtschaftsstrafrechtlichen Literatur. Tony Rostalski widmet sich ihr aus grundlagenorientierter und ganz neuer Perspektive. Auf verfassu…
Das Europaische Wirtschaftsrecht und die nationalen Wirtschaftsrechte haben wahrend der Wirtschafts- und Wahrungskrise in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europaischen Wahrungsunion eine Bewahrungsprobe durchlaufen. Diese haben sie teilweise nur unter erhebl…
Inhalt und Reichweite des deutschen Grundgesetzes sind wesentlich gepragt durch die Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Ziel des Casebooks ist es vor diesem Hintergrund, Studierenden, aber auch allen anderen Interessierten, die Argumentati…
The International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, published in 17 volumes, is written by worldwide recognised leading specialists of comparative law. 16 of these volumes are devoted to one large area of private and commercial law, each of which is…
Das Pietismus Handbuch bietet in einem Band einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die den nachreformatorischen Protestantismus in den westlichen Gesellschaften bis in die Gegenwart pragende Reformbewegung des spaten 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Dive…
English summary: Nanotechnology is all about tiny objects, even single atoms. It is subtly conquering everyday life, is interdisciplinary in nature and poses completely new challenges for patent law. The lawyer and physicist Andre Sabellek examines…
Christoph W. Stenschke examines Luke's portrait of the Gentiles' state prior to their coming to Christian faith. Following the history of research, he commences with Luke's direct references to the Gentiles prior to faith and then draws conclusions…
Ob in der Fiskalunion fur Europa die Losung der durch die Finanzmarktkrise ausgelosten, in ihren Ursachen und Erscheinungsformen aber wohl tieferliegenden gegenwartigen Krise der Europaischen Union liegt, das ist eine kontrovers diskutierte Frage. I…
Nach den "Beitragen zur Geschichte des Wirtschaftsrechts" (2012) und "Corporate Governance und Anlegerschutz" (2013) legen die Herausgeber nunmehr mit den "Beitragen zum Recht der Unternehmensfinanzierung" den letzten Sammelband mit Schriften aus de…
English summary: The newly established Christian communities were perceived as associations by people in the first century and thus were seen as competition for those associations which had already been established in the individual cities. Numerous…
Polen und Deutschland haben neue rechtliche Instrumente eingefuhrt, um Gerichtsverfahren zu beschleunigen und die Betroffenen zu entschadigen: Polen 2004 die Verzogerungsbeschwerde, Deutschland 2011 die Entschadigungsklage, die eine Verzogerungsruge…
Johannes Corrodi Katzenstein offers a contribution to the current debate on Kierkegaard, mostly concerning the rationality of religious belief and the presumed religious neutrality (autonomy) of philosophical and scientific thought. More specificall…
Clarissa Breu liefert mit der vorliegenden Studie einen Diskussionsbeitrag uber die Kategorie des Autors in der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft, indem sie Anwendungsmoglichkeiten postmoderner Autorschaftstheorien im Neuen Testament erforscht, vorwie…
Der Autor beschaftigt sich mit der Auslegung des Jakobusbriefes und orientiert sich dabei an den Umstanden seiner Entstehung. Formal handelt es sich um einen christlichen Diasporabrief. Inhaltlich beschaftigt sich der Brief mit den Versuchungen durc…
English summary: Among the formations of the Christian religion, Protestantism has always had a tendency to reflect on the way it perceives itself in a special manner. This is what has made theology, the rational explanation of faith, into a disting…
Thomas Kirchner studies Aachen as a municipality with adherents of three Christian denominations which created the prerequisites for a peaceful coexistence temporarily between 1555 and 1618. The story of the religious crises in Aachen took place at…
English summary: What was the 1968 movement? A lot has been said and written about the rise and fall of the time's politicized generation. The story of the desire for social revolution, the dashing of utopian hopes followed by retreat into the "priv…
Immer wieder entstehen neue Güter, für die sich die Frage stellt, ob und wem sie zugeordnet werden sollen. Beispiele hierfür sind die elektrische Energie, die Vermarktung von Bildnissen und Namen Prominenter sowie die Internet-Domain.…
English summary: Volume 3 of Hans Kelsen Werke (HKW) contains Kelsen's published works of 1911 to 1917. This is the period of Kelsen's work from his 'Habilitation' up to the last years of the Habsburg empire. The 25 texts contained in this volume de…
After a century of neglect, Johannine ethics has enjoyed a recent surge in interest inspired by new theoretical insights in analysing ethical data in John's Gospel. By closely re-reading the text on the basis of this fresh research, Jan G. van der W…
Marion Moser deals with the references to scripture in John's Gospel, a classical theme in the interpretation of the Evangelist. Through the application of inter-textual and narrative methods, a central and hitherto barely observed aspect of the use…
