Publications
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The legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union with lessons from the American model
(2023)
This book elucidates the international and EU legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union. It identifies the international legal obligations of states applicable to resettlement and sets out the relevant ...
Islamic Peace Ethics
(2017-11-30)
Proceedings of the International Workshop “Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought”, organized 15-17 October 2015 by the Institute for Theology and Peace (ithf), Hamburg. ...
Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
(2016-04-29)
The book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called ‘Eastern Europe’. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
Disintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe
(2014-05-20)
In this volume, based on a colloquium at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, the integration of former member states of the Soviet bloc into the European Union is discussed in its broad ...
European Union - The Second Founding
(2008-08-12)
The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, ...
Teleologie und politische Vernunft
(2002)
This book describes stages of development of the conception of an ideal republic that is fundamentally based on practical reason. It is widely understood that this conception is paradigmatically represented in the political ...
Digitale Wissensorganisation
(2021)
Die Arbeit untersucht die Wissenszurechnung beim Einsatz autonomer Systeme in Unternehmen. Sie analysiert die Herausforderungen für die Wissenszurechnung im vertraglichen und außervertraglichen Bereich aufgrund der ...
Auf der Jagd nach der Sonne
(2019)
Imperial Overstretch
(2016)
The book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called ‘Eastern Europe'. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
Constitutional Issues of EU External Relations Law
(2018)
The present book invites the reader to rethink some questions raised in EU external relations law in the light of recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice, from the perspective of the constitutional ...
Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization
(2019)
This volume addresses the ‘question of power’ in current constructivist securitisation studies. How can power relations that affect security and insecurity be analysed from both a transdisciplinary and historical point of ...
IT Laws in the Era of Cloud-Computing
(2018)
This book documents the findings and recommendations of research into the question of how IT laws should develop on the understanding that today’s information and communication technology is shaped by cloud computing, which ...
Necessity or Nuisance?
(2018)
What are chances and challenges of referring to human rights law in defining crimes under international law? Under what circumstances is a reference to human rights law dogmatically appropriate and practically likely? The ...
International Humanitarian Law in Areas of Limited Statehood
(2018)
Areas of limited statehood, in which the territorial State lacks effective control, either completely or in part, challenge International Humanitarian Law in various ways. This volume explores if and how the law adapts to ...
Digitization and the Law
(2018)
Neue Technologien bedeuten neue Herausforderungen für das Recht. Das Internet ist kein Neuland mehr, kritische Themen wie Cyberattacken, Privatsphäre, der Schutz Minderjähriger oder auch das Cloud Computing sind jedoch ...
Europe - Against the Tide
(2019)
Was sind die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Europäischen Union? Wie reagiert sie auf internationale Veränderungen und Krisen? Und wie antwortet sie auf ihre Kritiker in den Mitgliedsstaaten? 16 Beiträge von internationalen ...
Academia in Transformation
(2018)
Popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have had a deep impact, not only on the societies and political structures in the respective countries there, but also on different academic disciplines. The ...
Armed Conflict and Environment
(2018)
This study is the first to analyse the manifold interrelations between armed conflicts and the human and natural environments both historically and sociologically. While most research to date has dealt with this topic ...
Cyber Public Sphere and Social Movements
(2018)
The diversification and politicisation of the mass media within itself and also societal pressure created by the mass media at a social level have caused changes to our social structure. The first change began with the ...
Amicus Curiae before International Courts and Tribunals
(2018)
Amicus curiae participation in international courts is steadily growing since the late 1990 despite lack of clarity on the concept’s nature, function and utility in international dispute settlement. Does amicus curiae ...
Suchmaschinenoptimierung und Wettbewerbsrecht (Volume 49)
(2020)
Die vorliegende Betrachtung aus Sicht des UWG zeigt auf, welche Maßnahmen der Suchmaschinenoptimierung (SEO) wettbewerbsrechtlich zulässig oder unzulässig sind.
Die Untersuchung widmet sich zunächst einer Darstellung ...
Das technische Phänomen „Künstliche Intelligenz“ im allgemeinen Zivilrecht
(2020)
Das Phänomen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt im Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht zunehmend an Bedeutung. Für die Behandlung der Thematik sind Grundkenntnisse der KI notwendig. Die Autoren beschreiben im notwendigen Maße ...
Asylum Related Organisations in Europe
(2017)
Asylum and refugees in Europe – who can fix a broken system? In times of increasing waves of migration, collective bodies and their cooperation networks are of particular importance to the European asylum system. But who ...
The Visual Worlds of Social Network Sites
(2011)
The central form of communication on social network sites (sns) is the communication with and through images. Accordingly, the present volume highlights images and image-based communication on sns, such as Facebook, and ...
Torture
(2009)
Not so long ago, the only respectable question for philosophical, legal, and political scholars to ask about torture was how to ensure its effective legal prohibition. Recently, however, some leading lawyers and legal ...
Ring-Fencing in Europe
(2019)
This dissertation explores structural reforms for banks that stipulate the separation of deposit-taking and other services considered vital to the real economy from certain investment banking activities deemed particularly ...
State Martyr
(2019)
Politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organization Red Brigades. The media then stylized Moro as a «state martyr». The volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity ...
Handlungsoptionen auf dem Weg in die Gigabit-Gesellschaft
(2021)
As a matter of fact, the expansion of very high capacity networks is a central challenge of the present. However, political goals and the reality of expansion are far apart. In answer to the question of feasibility, this ...
Freedom of the Press
(2010)
Since antiquity it has been known that without the freedom to speak, and later to publish, the road to fanaticism and totalitarianism lies wide open. This book focuses on how the 'press' reacted, when press freedom was ...
Daten als Rohstoffe und Entwicklungstreiber für selbstlernende Systeme
(2021)
Datenzugangsrechte sind nach geltendem Recht nur unter engen Voraussetzungen gegeben. Mit der steigenden Verbreitung „datenhungriger“ KI-Systeme gehen Forderungen nach Datenteilungspflichten in weiteren Konstellationen ...
Staatlicher Schutz vor Meinungsrobotern
(2021)
Seit langem wird über die staatliche (Regulierungs-)Verantwortung u.a. hinsichtlich sozialer Netzwerkalgorithmen diskutiert. Doch was, wenn die Netzwerke zur politischen Agitation durch Dritte ausgenutzt werden, indem ...
The Economic Ethics of World Religions and their Laws
(2015)
Based on analyses of the essays written by Max Weber on China, India, ancient Judaism and also on the dispersed material about Islam, Eastern Christianity and Occidental Christianity, this book examines the economic ethics ...
The Impact of Mass Media on Political Support
(2010)
Why is citizens' support for political actors and institutions declining? Recent research suggests that voter cynicism is fueled by the manner in which mass media covers political events and issues. This dissertation ...
Der Kampf um die Werbung im Internet
(2020)
Online-Werbeblocker haben über Jahre hinweg die deutschen Gerichte und die juristische Literatur beschäftigt. Die Diskussion erreichte ihren Höhepunkt durch das „Werbeblocker II“-Urteil des BGH im Jahr 2018. Während dieses ...
Gesamtrechtsnachfolge, Datenschutzrecht und Vertragsgestaltung
(2021)
Die Arbeit befasst sich vor dem Hintergrund der Leitentscheidung des BGH zur Vererbbarkeit eines Facebook-Nutzerkontos damit, ob und inwieweit sich verallgemeinerbare Parameter zur Abwicklung des digitalen Nachlasses ...
Cybersecurity als Unternehmensleitungsaufgabe (Volume 2)
(2021)
Cybersecurity is a central challenge for many companies. On the one hand, companies have to protect themselves against cyberattacks; on the other hand, they have special obligations towards third parties and the state in ...
Werbeblocker im Internet
(2021)
Werbeblocker berühren zahlreiche, bislang ungeklärte Rechtsfragen. Während Werbeblocker bisher vor allem anhand des Lauterkeitsrechts beurteilt worden sind, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass vielmehr urheberrechtliche Wertungen ...