Psalmen und Chronik

The Books of Psalms and Chronicles open and close the ketubim in the TENAK. They share some significant mutual linguistic and thematic threads, which demonstrate their cognate character in the Second Temple literature. ...

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Steffen Lampert

Investitionsschutz im Zulassungsrecht

Private economic activity requires prior state approval. Because administration can have a varied effect on this, how the investment is protected deserves special ...

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Azar Aliyev

Konzessionen in Russland und Kasachstan

The attempts of Russia and Kazakhstan to establish an »island of stability« for complex, long-term infrastructure projects in an unstable legal environment are examined and ...

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John Frederick

The Ethics of the Enactment and Reception of Cruciform Love

In this book, John Frederick critiques the view that Paul was operating from a Hellenistic understanding of moral formation. Rather, the ...

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Ines Zander

Irrtumsanfechtung und Sachmängelgewährleistung beim Kauf von Kunstwerken

Record sums at international auctions on the one hand and scandals over fakes on the other – these are two extremes of ...

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Next-Generation Medicine

The growing volume and complexity of datasets increase the need for sustainable infrastructure and state-of-the-art tools for efficient data management, including analysis and integration. Physicians and other ...

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Markus Gick

Die EMRK und Israel

The European Convention on Human Rights is the most effectual international treaty of its kind, but how much sway does it hold over non-member states? Markus Gick seeks and finds evidence of the ECHR's ...

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Regelsetzung im Privatrecht

In times of Europeanisation and globalization, private law is subject to fundamental changes. Legal relationships between private individuals are increasingly of a transnational nature. They are also based on ...

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Jonathan Miles Robker

Balaam in Text and Tradition

How much did the figure of Balaam change from the oldest available source to the youngest? In this work, Jonathan Miles Robker examines Balaam, a kind of prophet who appears in ...

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Gustav Ollinger

Nachvollziehende Verfahrenskontrolle im EU-Beihilferecht

How can the EU courts exercise judicial review without seeking expert evidence when the European Commission's criteria for decision-making are ...

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Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices

This conference volume explores various aspects of magic in antiquity, focusing especially on Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri and questions of cultural plurality and ...

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Das Ärgernis der Philosophie

The essays in this volume address the various facets of Adornos engagement with metaphysics. Not limiting themselves to metaphysical issues in a narrower sense, they branch out into subjects that Adorno ...

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Organisationsverfassungsrecht

One of the objectives of legal studies in the Berlin Republic is to rediscover the law of organisational constitutions. This volume contains interdisciplinary articles which study the constitutional law ...

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Anna Keiling

Muße in mystischer Literatur

In his German sermons and treatises, Meister Eckharts envisions a radical free life of spiritual activity. Anna Keiling analyses his theory as an account of leisure. This allows to ...

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Normative Krisen

The interdisciplinary volume analyses the structure of normative crises and transformation processes. When and why are normative certainties shuttered? How do actors manage to establish new 'ultimate truths', basic values and ...

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Dana von Suffrin

Pflanzen für Palästina

What story does the cultivation of Palestinian plants and other Botanical Zionism crops tell us about the historical and political relations between people, politics, and ideology? Dana von ...

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Klaus Lange

Kommunalrecht

Klaus Lange's in-depth study of German local government law has been thoroughly updated and revised for its second edition, incorporating new case law and literature wherever possible. Mainly, though not ...

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Gangolf Hübinger

Max Weber

Revolutionary upheaval around 1900 shaped Max Weber's realm of experience and provided significant impetus for his way of thinking. He intervened in the great conflicts of his epoch, including controversies ...

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Rebekka Becker

Muße im höfischen Roman

Rebekka Becker focuses on literarily staged spaces of freedom which conflict with the principle of working for honor. She establishes a relationship between temporary escapes from the ...

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Horst Dreier

Kelsen im Kontext

This volume contains the most important of Horst Dreier's articles on the Pure Theory of Law and on legal positivism in general, as well as articles on authors who are also committed to the Modernist ...

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