englischBased on an analysis of the most important international law journals and textbooks, the book compares the discourses on business and human rights in the US and Germany. The comparison shows that many aspects of the topic – such as the question whether corporations do have international [...]

englischWhere does the public sector in Germany include representatives of the religious and non-denominational spectrum in its advisory and decision-making bodies – and what are the purposes behind the participation of these civil society organisations in state decision-making? This book provides a [...]

englischThe urgently needed transformation of the energy and transport sector calls on legislators to reform established planning and authorisation procedures for infrastructure projects. At first glance, infrastructure project authorisation by law as an instrument for acceleration and to boost [...]

englischIn his inaugural lecture "Demokratie als Bauherrin" ("Democracy as Builder") at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1994, Ulrich Battis programmatically outlines the urban and at the same time the democratic development of the Federal Republic after German unification up to the present day. [...]

englischClimate protection with climate change litigation: Horizontal climate lawsuits have become an integral part of the German litigation landscape. The central problem of these actions is the attribution of climate impacts to individual emitters who – from a global perspective – have only [...]

Mit gleich fünf neuen „Migrationspaketen“ sind bzw. werden zahllose Eckpfeiler im Aufenthalts-, Asyl- und Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht neu gefasst. Hier den Überblick zu behalten, ist für die migrationsrechtliche Praxis ebenso notwendig wie schwierig. Der Band bietet Sicherheit im Umgang mit den neuen [...]