Publications
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Freedom of the Press
(2010)
Since antiquity it has been known that without the freedom to speak, and later to publish, the road to fanaticism and totalitarianism lies wide open. This book focuses on how the 'press' reacted, when press freedom was ...
Handlungsoptionen auf dem Weg in die Gigabit-Gesellschaft
(2021)
As a matter of fact, the expansion of very high capacity networks is a central challenge of the present. However, political goals and the reality of expansion are far apart. In answer to the question of feasibility, this ...
Digitale Wissensorganisation
(2021)
Die Arbeit untersucht die Wissenszurechnung beim Einsatz autonomer Systeme in Unternehmen. Sie analysiert die Herausforderungen für die Wissenszurechnung im vertraglichen und außervertraglichen Bereich aufgrund der ...
Europe - Against the Tide
(2019)
Was sind die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen der Europäischen Union? Wie reagiert sie auf internationale Veränderungen und Krisen? Und wie antwortet sie auf ihre Kritiker in den Mitgliedsstaaten? 16 Beiträge von internationalen ...
Amicus Curiae before International Courts and Tribunals
(2018)
Amicus curiae participation in international courts is steadily growing since the late 1990 despite lack of clarity on the concept’s nature, function and utility in international dispute settlement. Does amicus curiae ...
Constitutional Issues of EU External Relations Law
(2018)
The present book invites the reader to rethink some questions raised in EU external relations law in the light of recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice, from the perspective of the constitutional ...
Digitization and the Law
(2018)
Neue Technologien bedeuten neue Herausforderungen für das Recht. Das Internet ist kein Neuland mehr, kritische Themen wie Cyberattacken, Privatsphäre, der Schutz Minderjähriger oder auch das Cloud Computing sind jedoch ...
Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization
(2019)
This volume addresses the ‘question of power’ in current constructivist securitisation studies. How can power relations that affect security and insecurity be analysed from both a transdisciplinary and historical point of ...
IT Laws in the Era of Cloud-Computing
(2018)
This book documents the findings and recommendations of research into the question of how IT laws should develop on the understanding that today’s information and communication technology is shaped by cloud computing, which ...
Necessity or Nuisance?
(2018)
What are chances and challenges of referring to human rights law in defining crimes under international law? Under what circumstances is a reference to human rights law dogmatically appropriate and practically likely? The ...
International Humanitarian Law in Areas of Limited Statehood
(2018)
Areas of limited statehood, in which the territorial State lacks effective control, either completely or in part, challenge International Humanitarian Law in various ways. This volume explores if and how the law adapts to ...
The legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union with lessons from the American model
(2023)
This book elucidates the international and EU legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union. It identifies the international legal obligations of states applicable to resettlement and sets out the relevant ...
Political parties and the challenge of disintermediation: Rhetoric and practices of organizational change in Italy
(2022)
Political parties and party platforms
Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev
(2016-04-29)
The book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called ‘Eastern Europe’. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
Disintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe
(2014-05-20)
In this volume, based on a colloquium at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, the integration of former member states of the Soviet bloc into the European Union is discussed in its broad ...
Islamic Peace Ethics
(2017-11-30)
Proceedings of the International Workshop “Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought”, organized 15-17 October 2015 by the Institute for Theology and Peace (ithf), Hamburg. ...
European Union - The Second Founding
(2008-08-12)
The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, ...
Widerspenstige Hände
(2022)
In literary texts of the early 20th century, the use of hands becomes a problem. The study traces the topicality of stubborn, idiosyncratic and dysfunctional hands and locates them in the media-, technology- and ...
Ein regulatives Vertragsrecht für die Datenwirtschaft
(2022)
The Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth
accepted the present work as a dissertation in March 2022.
Case law and literature are up to date as of October 2021.
For the printed version, the recently ...
Verbandsautonomie im Sport
(2022)
Sports associations regularly enact or amend the associations’ statutes and, in doing so, establish regulations which can have a restrictive effect on association members, furthermore on third parties. Through this, sports ...
Der Vertrag von Sèvres
(2023)
The Peace Treaty with Turkey, concluded in 1920 in Sèvres near Paris in 1920 is, although it never came into force, one of the most important international law treaties of our time. Aimed at reshaping the Middle East, it ...
Perspectives on Platform Regulation
(2021)
Online social media platforms set the agenda and structure for public and private communication in our age. Their influence and power is beyond any traditional media empire. Their legal regulation is a pressing challenge, ...
Werbeblocker im Internet
(2021)
Werbeblocker berühren zahlreiche, bislang ungeklärte Rechtsfragen. Während Werbeblocker bisher vor allem anhand des Lauterkeitsrechts beurteilt worden sind, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass vielmehr urheberrechtliche Wertungen ...
Daten als Rohstoffe und Entwicklungstreiber für selbstlernende Systeme
(2021)
Datenzugangsrechte sind nach geltendem Recht nur unter engen Voraussetzungen gegeben. Mit der steigenden Verbreitung „datenhungriger“ KI-Systeme gehen Forderungen nach Datenteilungspflichten in weiteren Konstellationen ...
Staatlicher Schutz vor Meinungsrobotern
(2021)
Seit langem wird über die staatliche (Regulierungs-)Verantwortung u.a. hinsichtlich sozialer Netzwerkalgorithmen diskutiert. Doch was, wenn die Netzwerke zur politischen Agitation durch Dritte ausgenutzt werden, indem ...
Gesamtrechtsnachfolge, Datenschutzrecht und Vertragsgestaltung
(2021)
Die Arbeit befasst sich vor dem Hintergrund der Leitentscheidung des BGH zur Vererbbarkeit eines Facebook-Nutzerkontos damit, ob und inwieweit sich verallgemeinerbare Parameter zur Abwicklung des digitalen Nachlasses ...
Cybersecurity als Unternehmensleitungsaufgabe (Volume 2)
(2021)
Cybersecurity is a central challenge for many companies. On the one hand, companies have to protect themselves against cyberattacks; on the other hand, they have special obligations towards third parties and the state in ...
Lobbyierende Kantone
(2024)
The Christian Body at Work
(2021)
A large part of the global workforce is said to be Christians, but what does it mean to be a Christian at work? This study offers a review of relevant research from management and organisation studies as well as from ...
Facts Before the European Court of Human Rights
(2022)
Legal decision-making is not a ‘one way street’. Any legal analysis is based on a factual context. Before any legal analysis can commence, the facts of a given case have to be detangled and a decision is reached as to which ...
Teleologie und politische Vernunft
(2002)
This book describes stages of development of the conception of an ideal republic that is fundamentally based on practical reason. It is widely understood that this conception is paradigmatically represented in the political ...
Imperial Overstretch
(2016)
The book is an analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet empire in what, during the Cold War, was called ‘Eastern Europe'. Its central focus is the role played by the German problem in that process.
Auf der Jagd nach der Sonne
(2019)
State Martyr
(2019)
Politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organization Red Brigades. The media then stylized Moro as a «state martyr». The volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity ...
