This article deals with the impact of Equal Treatment Law on the insurance of risks related to an HIV positive person from a European and German perspective. As will be shown, the infection is to be qualified as a disability but differentiations in insurance contracts are usually justifiable. In...

This entry for the forthcoming The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition) surveys the economic analysis of five primary fields of law: property law; liability for accidents; contract law; litigation; and public enforcement and criminal law. It also briefly considers some...

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the She oil company, through investment and crude oil exploration, benefits socio-economic growth in Nigeria in general and in the Niger Delta of Nigeria in particular. In 1998, the United Nations Special Rapporteur's report on Nigeria accused...

[paper in French] Compensation measures require a developer to offset the negative effects of the project. Two types of approaches are possible. The first one is based on the compensation claim: in this case the developer looks for surfaces on which he can offset its grip. The second focuses on...

Mit der aktuellen fünften Version (COBIT 5) wurden grundlegende Erweiterungen und Änderungen des COBIT-Frameworks vorgenommen. Inwieweit sich dies auf das IT-Compliance-Verständnis und das Management von IT-Compliance ausgewirkt hat, wird in diesem Arbeitspapier untersucht. Hierzu werden die...