Law

German manufacturers depend on both foreign and domestic natural resources. At the same time, these also need to be secured for future generations to enjoy. Robert Frau analyses conflicting priorities and public law instruments in the field of sustainable use of nature's wealth.

The need for planning is steadily increasing in light of growing interconnectedness, future orientation, and dependence on common goods. Fundamental transformation tasks - such as the path to climate neutrality - cannot be accomplished without planning. Anika Klafki systematizes planning law with regard to societal spheres of influence and develops three basic types of planning law as reference points for the evaluation, reform, and unification of planning law.

Transaction avoidance law is essential to the functioning of insolvency proceedings. Enforcing it in cross-border proceedings poses major challenges. Jonas Schwarting examines the potential for enforcing transaction avoidance under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency.

Deadlines are tricky. They determine the duration of our employment, the urgency of our tasks. In short, they define our lives. But as a »necessary evil,« they easily escape critical scrutiny. This book puts the focus on them, taking the reader to the very foundations of the constitution, into the engine rooms of the law, and onto opera stages.