Vor Gericht die Welt verändern – darum geht es bei strategischer Prozessführung. Unter welchen Bedingungen dies gelingen kann und welche Bedeutung dabei der Zusammenschluss von Menschen in einem Klagekollektiv hat, zeigt Lisa Hahn rechtssoziologisch auf. Strategische Prozessführung ist...

Das Kündigungsschutzrecht ist sowohl für die Durchführung des Arbeitsvertrags und den Schutz der Interessen von abhängig Beschäftigten als auch für die Regulierung von Arbeitsmärkten von großer Wichtigkeit. Seine Praxisrelevanz ist enorm: Viele Arbeitsrechtsstreitigkeiten drehen sich um...

Der Fokus dieses Buchs liegt auf Entstehung und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts in der Schweiz von der Währungsordnung bis zu den Finanzdienstleistungen, von der Geld-, Kredit- und Währungspolitik bis zur Konjunkturbeobachtung und -statistik, von der Landwirtschaftspolitik bis...

Welche Bedeutung haben die Rechts- und Geschichtswissenschaft füreinander? Diese Frage stellte sich Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, der Staatsrechtler und Historiker, in seinem juristischen, verfassungshistorischen und rechtsphilosophischen Werk. Böckenförde zielte darauf, zwei Disziplinen, die...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

Der Alltag in einer spätmittelalterlichen Stadt wie Basel war von Schulden geprägt: Kleinkredite und Borgkäufe hielten die Wirtschaft in Schwung, Rentenkäufe ermöglichten langfristige Geldanlagen. Schuldverhältnisse verbanden Menschen aus der Stadt, aus dem Umland und auch aus größerer...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc was anything but an attractive ideology or a...

"Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal...

"This is a book for people who practice antitrust law and for people who want to learn antitrust. For practitioners, the book supplements a treatise. For students, the book complements a casebook. It goes beyond what courts have said and done to probe the ethos, logos, and pathos of antitrust;...

Building on systems theory and the economics of law, this paper argues that evolutionary models can explain certain features of common law reasoning, in particular the way that the doctrine of precedent operates to combine stability with change. The common law can be modeled as an adaptive...

This modest manifesto — or minifesto — portrays legal history as a mode of critical analysis of law, using the historical analysis of American penality as an illustration and the full-fledged manifestos by Piketty and Guldi & Armitage as points of reference. Historical analysis of law, in...

This essay surveys economic analyses of legal history. In order to make sense of the field and to provide examples that might guide and inspire future research, it identifies and discusses five genres of scholarship. 1) Law as the dependent variable. This genre tries to explain why societies...

The use of inheritance contracts is one of the most controversial issues about the Roman Law. It is not unanimous to whether the Romans knew them, and if so, whether they have practised disposing of one’s assets in the event of death by means of an agreement. It appears that the question...

The legitimacy of slavery, deeply rooted in classical and Christian culture, was called into question starting from the 18th century. It was a slow process, that had to relate to the peculiar forms the slavery institution got with the European colonisation of America in the Modern Age, that is...

Dr. Antonio Sánchez-Bayón untersucht in seiner neuartigen Studie das Beziehungsmodell zwischen Staat und Religion in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Aufgrund seines außerordenlich logischen Denkens und seiner interdiszpilinären Ausbildung in Rechtsgeschichte, Rechtsphilosohpie,...

In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations. Property is often articulated through...

Gerichte treffen politische Entscheidungen. Folglich kann Rechtsprechung als politischer Prozess untersucht werden, in dem Interessen, Ideen und Machtressourcen eine Rolle spielen. Britta Rehder untersucht den Beitrag des Bundesarbeitsgerichts zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des deutschen...

How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...

In most areas, economists look to competition to align incentives, but not so with courts. Many believe that competition enables plaintiff forum shopping, but Adam Smith praised rivalry among courts. This article describes the courts when the common law developed. In many areas of law, courts...