Public Law

Boas Kümper Risikoverteilung im Staatshaftungsrecht

am Beispiel amtshaftungsrechtlicher Gefahrvermeidungspflichten bei fehlerhafter Planung, Genehmigung und Aufsicht

[Diversification of Risks in Government Liability Law. Exemplified by the Obligations to Avoid Risks as Stipulated in Government Liability Law in the Case of Faulty Planning, Authorization and Supervision.]

The decision regarding the government’s liability for damages due to faulty administrative actions often causes considerable difficulties, since it concerns interdependent government and private spheres of responsibility. Making use of civil law structures, Boas Kümper analyzes central cases in government liability law and in this way establishes criteria for an appropriate allocation of damages.   (read more...)

Criminal Law, Procedural Law

Florian Jeßberger Der transnationale Geltungsbereich des deutschen Strafrechts

Grundlagen und Grenzen der Geltung des deutschen Strafrechts für Taten mit Auslandsberührung

[Criminal Jurisdiction and Transnational Crime: The Ambit of German Criminal Law. Revisited.]

Florian Jeßberger explores the principles underlying domestic jurisdiction over crimes with a foreign element, such as extraterritorial jurisdiction, from various perspectives, including legal history, criminal law theory, and international law. He presents a reassessment of the fundamentals and boundaries of transnational applicability of domestic criminal law.   (read more...)


Criminal Law, Procedural Law

Grundfragen des Strafzumessungsrechts aus deutscher und japanischer Sicht

Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Frisch

[Basic Issues in Sentencing Law from a German and Japanese Perspective.]

Sentencing law has been neglected by legal science for a long time, although it is of great importance for legal practice. This volume deals with basic issues of sentencing. It is based on the lectures given at an international symposium on sentencing law and the reality of punishment in Kyoto in September 2009. The articles show that there are common ideas of justice as well as differences due to legal culture.   (read more...)

Public Law

Miriam Rose Schleiermachers Staatslehre

[Schleiermacher’s Lectures on the Theory of the State.]

Miriam Rose provides the first comprehensive and systematic interpretation of Schleiermacher’s theory of the state referring to the state discourses after the French Revolution. Schleiermacher’s liberal, freedom-oriented attitude is shown in thematic cross-sections of the problems of war and peace as well as the state and the church. Using the issue of individual freedom as an example, the author describes the specific characteristics of this concept. She proves that in spite of its liberal orientation this is not a liberal concept.   (read more...)