englischThe political dimension shapes its respective counterpart. It can polarise in the forms of friend–enemy, good–evil and peaceful–threatening, as well as emphatically as a platform for the mediation of knowing–acknowledging–recognition. In ‘recognising’, two people cancel out each other's [...]
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englischEconomic research shows that competitor-based-pricing, promising to match or to beat a competitor’s lower price, can impede competition. By using these types of guarantees a firm could deter its rivals from undercutting its price because the resulting quantity effect is lower than usual. At [...]
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englischSecuring a sustainable nationwide drinking water supply in Germany is being put to the test due to challenges that have already changed and are still changing, above all climate change. The quality and quantity of drinking water are increasingly at risk, which is already triggering conflicts [...]
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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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englischDealing with legacy or perpetual liabilities can lead to significant financial burdens for the public sector if the companies responsible do not ultimately assume them. Following the decision to phase out nuclear power, the legislator has therefore introduced a new form of post-closure [...]
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englischThe conflict over the programmatic unity of youth welfare/youth assistance has run throughout the history of social pedagogy since the Reich Youth Welfare Act of 1922 until today. What is the relationship between youth welfare, youth work and the youth movement and thus between disciplining, [...]
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englischBanks are subject to numerous obligations when providing services relating to securities transactions. The author explains how these business conduct duties implemented in Germany in the wake of MiFID/MiFID II affect liability under private law (in particular relating to Secs. 63 et seqs. [...]
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englischWhich legal criteria can be used as import rules for mathematical modeling of environmental predictions? The author develops criteria to make extra-legal influences in the form of the prediction results of computer-aided modeling on administrative and judicial proceedings judicial decisions [...]
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englischDo general anti-avoidance rules around the world show, despite their different design, more similarities than it seems at first? In order to answer this question, the author examines the law of Hong Kong, Singapore and the People's Republic of China as a counterpart to Western legal systems [...]
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englischThe publication examines methods for dealing with the taking of evidence in mass actions that pursue multiple uniform claims. Such mass actions present a significant challenge for the judiciary. The author discusses the possibilities of sampling in procedural law de lege lata and develops a [...]
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