Law

The new edition offers numerous innovations, including the distinction between media law and related areas of law, journalistic protection zones, the protection of press products, and current issues in commercial law. Digital services such as social networks and search engines are also examined in selected contexts.

The Festschrift brings together 33 articles on fundamental issues in commercial law. The articles focus on the main areas of the honoree's academic work and cover topics from the entire spectrum of national and international corporate and capital market law, as well as issues relating to group law, compliance, and corporate acquisitions.

Sexual violence leaves deep scars, yet the damages awarded are often shamefully low. Elena März analyses and identifies the legal foundations and weaknesses in current practice as well as procedural hurdles before going on to develop concrete proposals for a more just system of compensating long-term pain and suffering.

Maximilian Möstl deals with the implementation of the transfer of shares of German limited liability companies abroad. This is an everyday problem, particularly in the context of cross-border transactions. The paper explicitly takes into account the changes introduced by the 2008 reform of limited liability company law as well as the implications under European law.