Revised and expanded version of a lecture, held before the Judicial Society in Berlin on January 12, 2005, on the question of the meaning of a history of development of the applicable…

This work offers for the first time a coherent and at the same time condensed representation of parental care and custody, which takes into account the current amendments of law. It thus…

Hegel’s criticism of Kant’s practical philosophy has been discussed in the history of reception mostly by means of the terms “morality and morals.” In contrast, what kind…

Julius Africanus (3rd cent.) has been called the “Father of Christian Chronography” – the exact calculation of dates and ages (such as the date of the Incarnation, and…

A critical edition of the fourth text from Codex II of the collection of manuscripts from the mid-4th century AD found at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt; complete with German translation, grammatical…

The German Government intends to enact a fundamental reform of the insolvency code. Effected are stipulations regarding bankruptcy and reorganization of companies, as well as such regarding…

Conflict-of-laws rules that serve as application-of-law rules are necessary everywhere where legally relevant facts and circumstances of life have points of contact with different legal systems.…

Schleiermacher delivered lecture courses on church history in Halle and Berlin in 1806, 1821/22 and 1825/26. For Schleiermacher, church history describes how a living faith community was formed…

Many classical authors and theories occur in Kant’s work. In this first complete treatment of the topic, the author shows that, contrary to the opinion held by scholars for many years, it is…

Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die auf dem Festkolloquium der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aus Anlass des 150. Geburtstages von Hermann Staub im Frü…

In this handbook questions regarding the method behind European law, particularly European private law, are represented for the first time comprehensively and systematically for instruction and…

The aim of the present work is an examination of the current liability situation against the background of the past years on the topic of issued decisions as well as the latest developments in…

Clothing and outward appearance as a means of expressing individual and collective identity were of great importance in Late Antiquity. This publication is the first interdisciplinary overview of…

The present work compares the current control systems of shareholders' voting rights in the laws governing the German Aktiengesellschaft (stock corporation), the French société anonyme (…

The Banking Law Day 2006 in Zurich was devoted to the subjects investment management and the right to take over in the wake of the EU-acquisition directive.

The volume enquires into the relationship between philosophy and aesthetics in Late Antiquity. Is the sensuous beauty of art a medium for the highest thinkable truth? And if this can be called…

The anthology examines the historical and systematic dimensions of Luther's concentration of Christology on language-philosophically conceptualized communication through the use of idioms.…

Nachdem kollisionsrechtlichen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit internationalen Wertpapiertransaktionen lange Zeit keine besondere Beachtung geschenkt worden war, haben sich in jüngster Zeit sowohl…

The subject of this volume is the far-reaching phonological change which the German language has gone through during its history and which has led to a fundamental typological reorientation of…

Within the system for regulating competition, banks assume a special legal position. Since the beginning of the1930's, the German legislator has assumed that the competition among banks exhibits…

The subject of this volume is the history of the interpretation of the Book of Daniel, with topics ranging from the Book of Daniel itself, its reception in Hellenic Judaism, in St Mark's Gospel,…

The more company law with choice of law is backed in Europe, the more important information becomes as a function precondition for efficient decisions. The objective of this work is to sketch a…

On 9 November 2005 a symposium took place on the realisation of the Takeover Directive in Europe which was attended by experts on takeover law from six Member States. Their papers are compiled in…

The justification and commensurability of punishments is a central problem of all state and social philosophies. This essay is concerned with theories of retribution and theories of general…

What criteria have to be met to consider using humans as subjects for biomedical experiments as ethically justifiable? Bert Heinrichs provides a systematic reasoning for the ethics of research on…

This is the second volume of the two-volume work Handbook of German Communication Verbs, edited by the renowned Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Institute for German Language]. Whereas…

The three collected volumes of this study of language and linguistic action present the first compendium of the foundations of a functional-pragmatic theory of language, and using exemplars of…

This is the translation of  the first part of a well-known French textbook, introducing students of physics to the field of quantum mechanics. The work is available in its third edition…

A central concern in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the philosophical justification of the possibility of experience.  Imagination and Experience in Kant's Philosophy shows that the…

In the modern age, the relationship between academic theology and the Church has become a fundamental problem. Theologians’ attempts to tackle this issue come to widely differing conclusions…

This study in the history of ideas consults a wide range of sources both known and less familiar to trace the development in the 18th century of an anthropological historiography, which aims to…

This thesis presented to the University of Munich uses early theological, legal and political writings by Hugo Grotius to determine his political position and the argumentative strategies he…

The present work examines different models and proposals on the insolvency of states and regional corporations. Friedrich L. Cranshaw, Rechtsanwalt, Mannheim, Syndikus/Direktor bei der…

The orientation of the EC accounting directives and (in practice) the IAS/IFRS to corporations on the one hand and their extension to the limited liability company…

With the increase in company bankruptcies directors and general managers of troubled companies have come into the sights of prosecuting authorities. It is already practically impossible in fact to…

This ready-reference commentary on tenancies shows the complete up-to-date law of tenancy systematically and reliably and is conceived for everyday use. Statutes, case law, in particular from the…

E-Commerce is a phenomenon that threads through the whole economy. Its rapid development and the increasing importance of the Internet have led to fundamental changes in the whole services sector…

The German verbs verwerfen, nicht implantieren or abtöten have the same denotations when used in reference to dealing with artificially-inseminated embryos; however, the meanings of these…

One can justify moral rules on the basis of their advantageousness without equating morality and advantage. In order to substantiate this thesis, the author shows how grounding moral rules through…

The search for explanations is involved in every aspect of our lives. Through explaining the world around us, we seek to understand it. Striving to explain as many different phenomena as possible…

Analytical Introduction to Ethics is the second volume in the series of “analytical introductions” to the disciplines of philosophy. It gives an overview of the problems in moral…

From 1909 to 1912 Paul Tillich devoted himself to an intensive study of Friedrich Schelling’s idealistic philosophy; this process of engagement led to the foundations of his early…

This historically comparative search for evidence reverses the standard statements of Art. 101 subsection 1 sentence 2 of the German Basic Law (“GG”): Lawful judges without a state…

The principle of the equal treatment of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings has always been regarded as the paramount principle of bankruptcy law. In spite of this, it was never realized without…