englischIn this publication, the author compares four representatives of Western European right-wing populist parties (FPÖ, AfD, PVV, RN) based on their ideologies, histories, organisation, voter bases and their cooperation in Europe. He concludes that they constitute more than an unintended family. [...]
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englischIn German energy law, electricity storage is currently not viewed as an independent activity but rather divided into electricity consumption and production. However, European law prescribes a different understanding, in which a storage is treated as one economic unit with its own respective [...]
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englischThe GDPR and the CCPA, which belong to two separate legal families, are significant examples of modern data protection laws. Data portability, which gives data subjects actual freedom in the flesh with its existence apart from base protection, is a mostly abandoned part of these regulations.
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englischAgainst the background of the persistence of nuclear energy in France and ambitious targets for the expansion of renewable energies, the question arises as to the role of onshore wind energy in the context of the nuclear-based transition énergétique. The work, methodologically conceived as a [...]
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englischChinese state-owned companies are unique players in competition, particularly due to their complex ownership structures and their links to the Chinese party-state. These unique players pose problems for the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office in identifying the economic [...]
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englischCarl Bilfinger was a professor of public law at the universities of Halle, Heidelberg, and Berlin. From 1943 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1954 he was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. A companion and follower of Carl Schmitt [...]
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englischThis political science analysis of the negotiation of the GDPR shows how a coalition of data protection advocates was able to enshrine an unprecedentedly high level of data protection in law thanks to the interaction of numerous factors and despite resistance from industry and some EU member [...]
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englischIs the Islamic State (IS), as Barack Obama claimed, neither Islamic nor a state? This paper strives to un-derstand not only the political, but also the religious motives of IS and its supporters, to take them seri-ously and to examine them critically. Why were tens of thousands of Muslims [...]
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englischDespite ambitious programmes, Germany is only making slow progress in the digitalization of public administration. This special volume examines digitalization practice in the advanced administrative services of vehicle registration, building supervision, tax return and parental benefits. [...]
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englischArtificial intelligence is a technological innovation seemingly associated with new opportunities and risks. Does this technological change require a new – an innovative - law in order to deal with the risks associated with AI? Based on both an analysis of the technical framework of AI and [...]
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