Law

The concept of service for data forms the basis of many »free« digital services and content. This exchange raises fundamental questions of data protection and contract law in the legal relationship between users and providers. Jonas Baumann analyses the interdependences between consent under data protection law and the contractual relationship.

This handbook brings together both classic and cutting-edge methods for interpreting the New Testament. Chapters on historical-critical, literary, and reader-response approaches showcase the wide methodological range through which the text's original setting and its contemporary significance can be explored.

Oscar Weller looks at the life of Norman Bentwich, the first Attorney General in the British League of Nations Mandate of Palestine. Bentwich was a committed Zionist and at the same time the highest legal official in the British Mandate administration. This conflict of interests renders Bentwich a fascinating figure in legal history.

If the principle of equality before the law actually meant that equals were to be treated equally without exception, then - to give just one example - everyone in need of help in certain triage situations would have to die because there were not enough resources to save everyone. Lucas Erxleben's study reveals the conditions under which the German state may treat equals unequally.