englischThe events surrounding the GameStop stock have highlighted the role of finfluencers in social media for the capital markets. Inspired by Drew McLellan's analogy of a lively cocktail party, the work analyzes the impact of social media usage on information exchange in the capital market. [...]

englischWe are living in a time of transition and therefore in a time of planning: the energy transition and the need to provide security of supply require greater diversification of gas deliveries, the build-up of infrastructure for the landing of LNG, the expansion of electricity grids for the [...]

englischThe volume is committed to the reconstruction of Plato's relationship with the past in literary, socio-economic, and political contexts. The past is analysed as a real “resource” from which content can be drawn for reinterpretation and resemantisation. The analysis shows how Plato develops a [...]

englischThis book aims to establish a foundational understanding of the prohibition of self-favouring by digital gatekeepers as stipulated in Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It elineates current concerns while offering guidance for effective compliance.

Until now, little attention [...]

englisch"Settler Colonialism" is the first volume to be published in German on the historical and social science paradigm of settler colonialism, which has been ignored in Germany so far. This internationally widely discussed perspective opens up a new perspective on Western modernity and its [...]

englischWhat is the topicality of Pascal's pensées? He gives the answer himself: "One must (...) know how to doubt where it is necessary, to assure where it is necessary, by submitting where it is necessary. He who does not do so does not understand the power of reason. (...)" Doubt, knowledge and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]