German Abstract: Eine der Herausforderungen im Antidiskriminierungsrecht ist die Schwierigkeit, zu beweisen, dass tatsächlich eine Diskriminierung stattgefunden hat. Diskriminierungserfahrungen werden oft als Einzelfälle abgetan oder der besonderen Empfindlichkeit der betroffenen Person...

This chapter asks the fundamental question of whether the concept of a market-oriented (economic) order can be reconciled with the idea of democracy from the perspective of rational choice approaches to the law. Europe has been facing great economic challenges for the past years — sovereign...

This Article asks the fundamental question of whether the concept of a market-oriented (economic) order can be reconciled with the idea of democracy from the perspective of rational choice approaches to the law. Europe has been facing great economic challenges for the past years — sovereign...

Are direct-democratic decisions more acceptable to voters than decisions arrived at through representative procedures? We conduct an experimental online vignette study with a German sample to investigate how voters' acceptance of a political decision depends on the process through which it is...

The paper, based on a historic account of the theory of representation in German legal thought, seeks to understand what effect particracy has on democratic representation and thereby links a discourse dating back to the days of the Weimar Republic to the analytical approach to the political...

Religious communities require a legal constitution if they wish to accomplish the worldly mission connected to their spiritually-oriented program. It is in this context that they are subject to two legal orders: state law and a binding internal religious system. In view of this fact, Emanuel...

Responding to the growing importance of economic reasoning in legal scholarship, this innovative work provides an essential introduction to the economic tools which can usefully be employed in legal reasoning. It is geared specifically towards those without a great deal of exposure to economic...