englischThe work deals with the confiscation of the proceeds of crime within the framework of asset recovery law, in particular non-conviction-based confiscation. It provides a comparative analysis of international and EU legislation as well as the national confiscation models in Germany, Italy and [...]
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englischPublic hearings provide a glimpse behind the, often, closed doors of the Bundestag’s committees. At the same time, their usefulness is viewed quite critically in parts of political science research literature as well as in practice itself. This study shows which functions public hearings [...]
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englischLegitimacy is the basis of any exercise of authority. However, legitimacy has received relatively little attention in legal scholarship. This book explores the legitimacy discourse in an interdisciplinary and comparative manner to identify contemporary patterns of legitimacy and their [...]
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englischAchieving ambitious expansion targets for onshore wind energy is a key component of Germany’s energy transition. Effective steering is to be achieved using a variety of instruments. The failure to achieve the expansion targets illustrates the complexity of this project.
Based on political [...]
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englischThe treatise reveals a legal protection gap in German foundation law: if the foundation board acts incorrectly and the state supervisory authority does not intervene, de lege lata no one can ensure that the founder's will is observed. The legal situation in Switzerland is different: there, [...]
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englischLiterature produces textual bodies in (at least) two ways: it creates textual corpora as well as linguistic representations of bodies and body images. This volume is devoted to negotiations of bodies and text in literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present: bodies in texts, [...]
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englischWhen appraising art, the idealistic ideas of heirs, art buyers or art lovers often do not coincide with legal and economic facts. At the same time, demand is increasing due to the investment quality of art. The area of conflict in art appraisal requires a flexible value system that makes the [...]
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englischHeinrich von Morungen is one of the central figures of German-language minnesong. His work, which is committed to the so-called "Minneparadox", proves to be extremely virtuoso and intricately crafted, permeated by the metaphor of light and borne by the pain of the unattainability of the [...]
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englischThe author deals with the changes in German insolvency law as a result of the implementation of the EU Stabilisation Directive by the StaRUG. The duties of the managing director in the run-up to insolvency are also examined. Art. 19 lit. a) of the Restructuring Directive stipulates that the [...]
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In Folge von Corona und Ukrainekrieg wird das Insolvenzrecht in seiner Funktion als volkswirtschaftlicher „Marktaustrittsmechanismus“ derzeit einem umfangreichen Praxistest unterzogen. Die deutsche Übersetzung des neuen italienischen Codice della crisi d’impresa e dell’insolvenza soll Praktikern und [...]
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