For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks whether policy-making or regulation by litigation is more or less socially...

This paper traces the shifts in treatments of intermediate groups among some liberal and democratic political theorists in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decades of the late 18th and early 19th centuries are traditionally understood to encompass the emergence of fully liberal political and...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Begrüßungsansprache. Von Georg Jahn -- Geselligkeit. Von Leopold von Wiese -- Ansprache des Präsidenten der Gesellschaft, Helmuth Plessner -- Begrüßung durch den Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin Willy Brandt -- Begrüßung durch den Rektor der Freien Universität...