Der Band der auf dem X. Kieler Insolvenzrechtlichen Symposium gehaltenen Vortrage deckt das Feld des gesamten Insolvenzrechts ab: Von praktisch hoechst bedeutsamen Zustandigkeitsfragen internationalen europaischen Insolvenzrechts bei grenzuberschreitenden Insolvenzen, dem bislang noch nicht ausgeleuchteten Recht der Genussrechte in der Insolvenz uber insolvenzstraf- und insolvenzsteuerrechtliche Probleme, das insolvenzrechtliche Vergutungsrecht, das Gegenstand heftiger Diskussionen ist, nur scheinbar ausdiskutierte Fragen der Aus- und Absonderungsrechte bis hin zu Fragen des Verhaltnisses von Insolvenzrecht und Gesellschaftsrecht reicht der Bogen der Themen, die verhandelt worden sind.

Originally introduced as a form of social welfare with near-universal eligibility, legal aid in the UK is now framed as a benefit external to the legal system and understood in primarily economic terms. This book is the first to evaluate the recent reforms of UK legal aid from a social policy perspective and assess their impact on family law courts and advocacy. Written by experts in the field, it focuses on the rise in people representing their own legal case and argues that the reforms effectively 'delawyerise' disputes, producing a more inquisitorial justice system and impacting the litigants, court system, staff and process. Arguing for a more holistic concept of the reforms, the book will be of relevance to students, academics, policy-makers, judges, campaigners and social workers, not just in England and Wales, but in other jurisdictions instituting cuts to their legal aid budgets, such as Australia, Scotland, France, and the Netherlands.

While the right to have one's day in court is a cherished feature of the American democratic system, alarms that the United States is hopelessly litigious and awash in frivolous claims have become so commonplace that they are now a fixture in the popular imagination. According to this view, litigation wastes precious resources, stifles innovation and productivity, and corrodes our social fabric and the national character. Calls for reform have sought, often successfully, to limit people's access to the court system, most often by imposing technical barriers to bringing suit. Alexandra Lahav's In Praise of Litigation provides a much needed corrective to this flawed perspective, reminding us of the irreplaceable role of litigation in a well-functioning democracy and debunking many of the myths that cloud our understanding of this role. For example, the vast majority of lawsuits in the United States are based on contract claims, the median value of lawsuits is on a downward trend, and, on a per capita basis, many fewer lawsuits are filed today than were filed in the 19th century. Exploring cases involving freedom of speech, foodborne illness, defective cars, business competition, and more, the book shows that despite its inevitable limitations, litigation empowers citizens to challenge the most powerful public and private interests and hold them accountable for their actions. Lawsuits change behavior, provide information to consumers and citizens, promote deliberation, and express society's views on equality and its most treasured values. In Praise of Litigation shows how our court system protects our liberties and enables civil society to flourish, and serves as a powerful reminder of why we need to protect people's ability to use it.

Past research and literature suggest that legal institutions drive economic development. Yet China has grown for decades without the fundamental legal infrastructure that was once considered necessary. This is called the 'China puzzle' or the 'China myth'. By carefully comparing the four key branches of private law in China and Taiwan - a jurisdiction that grew with modest legal institutions and shares similar legal and non-legal culture - this collaborative and novel book demystifies the 'China puzzle'. Top scholars in the field use an economics-focused analytical approach to explain how and why the laws have taken such paths over the past four decades. Comparing property, contract, tort, and corporate laws in China and Taiwan, these authors delve deeply into key doctrines to provide a meaningful account of the evolution of private law in these two jurisdictions.

Seit einiger Zeit polarisieren die Diskussionen um den Nutzen des Wissens und des Nichtwissens im Zusammenhang mit Zufallsbefunden mit Relevanz fur die Gesundheit Betroffener und Verwandter. Die Autorin befasst sich mit der Frage, ob Umgang und Folgen der Generierung eines Zufallsbefundes im Kontext der Diagnostik und Forschung rechtlich geregelt sind. Dabei erlautert sie die rechtlichen Grundlagen des Rechts auf Nichtwissen und der arztlichen Fursorge und analysiert medizinethische Empfehlungen und spezialgesetzliche Regelungen zu Zufallsbefunden. Aufgrund notwendiger rechtlicher Regelungen prasentiert sie Gesetzesentwurfe zur Loesung des Spannungsfeldes zwischen Recht auf Nichtwissen des Betroffenen, arztlicher Fursorgepflicht und Interessen Verwandter bei Generierung eines Zufallsbefundes.

What influences decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. "Supreme Court Decision Making" moves beyond this focus by exploring how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system.
Drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, a group of leading scholars consider such factors as the influence of jurisprudence, the unique characteristics of supreme courts, the dynamics of coalition building, and the effects of social movements. The volume's distinguished contributors and broad range make it essential reading for those interested either in the Supreme Court or the nature of institutional politics.
Original essays contributed by Lawrence Baum, Paul Brace, Elizabeth Bussiere, Cornell Clayton, Sue Davis, Charles Epp, Lee Epstein, Howard Gillman, Melinda Gann Hall, Ronald Kahn, Jack Knight, Forrest Maltzman, David O'Brien, Jeffrey Segal, Charles Sheldon, James Spriggs II, and Paul Wahlbeck.

Dieses Buch widmet sich Rechtsfragen der Unternehmensbewertung. Hierzu gibt die Autorin zunachst einen UEberblick uber die diversen Unternehmensbewertungsanlasse und Bewertungsverfahren. Ferner stellt sie die Entwicklung der Unternehmensbewertung in der Rechtsprechung dar. Schliesslich untersucht sie anhand von zwei Bewertungsanlassen, ob es eine allgemeingultige, fur alle Bewertungsanlasse geeignete Bewertungsmethode gibt. Die Autorin kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es eine solche Bewertungsmethode nicht gibt. Stattdessen lasse sich fur jeden Bewertungsanlass eine "richtige" Bewertungsmethode festlegen, die dem jeweiligen Normzweck am besten gerecht werde.

Wenn eine Klage auf eine Geldleistung zielt, dann muss ihr Rechtsbegehren auch beziffert werden, was allerdings nicht immer moeglich ist. Die unbezifferte Forderungsklage ermoeglicht es unter bestimmten Bedingungen, das Rechtsbegehren ohne Angabe der genauen Bezifferung einzuklagen. Damit werden das Rechtsschutzinteresse und die Rechtssicherheit des Klagers abgesichert. Als eine Ausnahme des Bestimmtheitsgebotes wird sie im turkischen, deutschen und schweizerischen Recht anerkannt. Trotz der gesetzlichen Regelungen im turkischen und schweizerischen Recht und trotz der Anerkennung der Lehre und der Rechtsprechung im deutschen Recht gibt es Unklarheiten zu ihrer Ausubung. Die Autorin zeigt Probleme und Fragen, die sich aus diesen Unklarheiten ergeben, auf, diskutiert diese und entwickelt Loesungsmoeglichkeiten.

Der Autor setzt sich mit dem Streitgegenstandsbegriff in Wettbewerbs- und Kennzeichenverfahren auseinander. Er zeigt einen Loesungsansatz fur die Folgeprobleme auf, die hervorgerufen wurden, als der BGH unter Abkehr von der vorherigen Praxis mit seinem "TUEV I"-Beschluss im Jahr 2011 die alternative Klagehaufung auch in wettbewerbs- und kennzeichenrechtlichen Prozessen fur unzulassig erklarte. Er erlautert eine alternative Streitgegenstandsabgrenzung, welche sich an den Lehren von Georgiades und Henckel orientiert. Dabei stellt er - anders als derzeit uberwiegend vertreten - nicht auf sachverhaltliche Kriterien, sondern auf die Konkurrenzverhaltnisse der zur Begrundung des Unterlassungsbegehrens vorgebrachten materiell-rechtlichen Anspruche ab.

Verschmelzungen, Spaltungen und Formwechsel ermoeglichen eine gesellschaftsrechtliche Restrukturierung von Unternehmen. Sie koennen daher im Einzelfall effektive Sanierungsinstrumente darstellen. Seit Inkrafttreten des Gesetzes zur weiteren Erleichterung der Sanierung von Unternehmen (ESUG) koennen Umwandlungen auch in einen Insolvenzplan aufgenommen werden. Der Autor untersucht, unter welchen Voraussetzungen Umwandlungen im Insolvenzplanverfahren umgesetzt werden koennen und mit welchen Rechtsfolgen sie verbunden sind. Er kommt hierbei unter anderem zu dem Ergebnis, dass bei der Aufnahme von Umwandlungen in einen Insolvenzplan das im UmwG vorgesehene Verfahren erheblich modifiziert wird und dass die dort normierten Glaubigerschutzvorschriften in diesem Fall teilweise keine Anwendung finden.

Dieses Buch untersucht den Entherrschungsvertrag. Dieser zielt darauf ab, eine Beherrschung durch das herrschende Unternehmen aufgrund von Stimmrechts- und/oder Anteilsmehrheit zu beseitigen. Die Motivation zur Beseitigung der Beherrschung liegt darin, die weitreichenden Folgen der Beherrschung (Ausgleich von veranlassten Nachteilen durch das herrschende Unternehmen, Pflicht zur Aufstellung und Prufung eines Abhangigkeitsberichts auf Ebene des beherrschten Unternehmens u.a.) zu beseitigen. Der Autor arbeitet im Detail die inhaltlichen Anforderungen an einen Entherrschungsvertrag sowie die Frage der Mitwirkung der Gesellschafter der beteiligten Unternehmen heraus und stellt dem Leser abschliessend noch ein Vertragsmuster eines Entherrschungsvertrages zur Verfugung.

John Sorabji examines the theoretical underpinnings of the Woolf and Jackson reforms to the English and Welsh civil justice system. He discusses how the Woolf reforms attempted, and failed, to effect a revolutionary change to the theory of justice that informed how the system operated. It elucidates the nature of those reforms, which through introducing proportionality via an explicit overriding objective into the Civil Procedure Rules, downgraded the court's historic commitment to achieving substantive justice or justice on the merits. In doing so, Woolf's new theory is compared with one developed by Bentham, while also exploring why a similarly fundamental reform carried out in the 1870s succeeded where Woolf's failed. It finally proposes an approach that could be taken by the courts following implementation of the Jackson reforms to ensure that they succeed in their aim of reducing litigation cost through properly implementing Woolf's new theory of justice.

Disclosure of Information: Norwich Pharmacal and Related Principles offers clear and concise procedural guidance and comprehensive legal analysis of the key ingredients of the jurisdiction dealing with: * Wrongdoing * Involvement * Necessity * Discretion and scope of relief It is the only book available that deals solely with this important and distinctive power of disclosure developed (and continuing to develop) in the English Courts. This invaluable resource: * considers Norwich Pharmacal orders in depth as well as examining the Bankers Trust jurisdiction and other species of relief such as third-party disclosure, pre-action disclosure and the use of subject access request * addresses developments in the field of third party disclosure in proceedings issued against persons unknown * includes practical examples illustrating how the jurisdiction is relevant in different scenarios that can be faced * explores specific topics such as the use of Norwich Pharmacal against internet service providers and social media operators * includes a chapter on the extra-territorial scope of the Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction - of particular interest to litigators dealing with cross-border fraud issues The book combines detailed legal commentary with sound practical guidance and is essential reading for litigation practitioners and practitioners involved in commercial disputes.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure. Drawing on comparative law and empirically oriented methodologies, in this book the author provides a thorough analysis of how procedural due process is understood both in national jurisdictions and in the field of international human rights law. The book offers a suitable due process theory for civil matters in general, assessing the different roles that this basic international human right plays in comparison with criminal justice. In this regard, it argues that the civil justice conception of due process has grown under the shadow of criminal justice for too long. Moreover, the theory answers the question of what the basic requirements are concerning the right to a fair trial on civil matters, i.e., the question of what we can and cannot sacrifice when designing a civil procedure that correctly distributes the risk of moral harm while remaining accessible to people with complex and simple legal needs, in order to reconcile the requirements of procedural fairness with social demands for justice. This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of civil justice, legal design, and access to justice by providing an empirically based normative theory regarding the right to a fair trial. As such, it will be of interest to a broad audience: policymakers, practitioners and judges, but also researchers and scholars interested in theoretical questions in jurisprudence, and those familiar with empirical legal studies, comparative law, and other socio-legal studies.

Mit zwei Urteilen vom 04. Juli 2017 erklarte der Bundesgerichtshof eine zwischen Kreditinstituten und Unternehmen vereinbarte Vertragsklausel uber ein "Bearbeitungsentgelt fur Vertragsschluss" fur unwirksam. Aufgrund der verbreiteten Verwendung solcher Klauseln in der Unternehmensfinanzierung und deren langjahriger Billigung durch die Rechtsprechung hat diese Entscheidung weitreichende Konsequenzen. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt der Autor, dass weiterhin ein praktisches Bedurfnis fur die rechtssichere Vereinbarung von Bankentgelten besteht. Am Beispiel von Entgeltklauseln stellt er dar, dass die AGB-Kontrolle im unternehmerischen Geschaftsverkehr auf flexible Gestaltungen und einen differenzierten Auslegungsmassstab angewiesen ist.

Lawyers, judges, and scholars have long debated whether incentives in tort, contract, and restitution law effectively promote the welfare of society. If these incentives were ideal, tort law would reduce the cost and frequency of accidents, contract law would lubricate transactions, and restitution law would encourage people to benefit others. Unfortunately, the incentives in these laws lead to too many injuries, too little contractual cooperation, and too few unrequested benefits. "Getting Incentives Right" explains how law might better serve the social good.

In tort law, Robert Cooter and Ariel Porat propose that all foreseeable risks should be included when setting standards of care and awarding damages. Failure to do so causes accidents that better legal incentives would avoid. In contract law, they show that making a promise often causes the person who receives it to change behavior and undermine the cooperation between the parties. They recommend several solutions, including a novel contract called "anti-insurance." In restitution law, people who convey unrequested benefits to others are seldom entitled to compensation. Restitution law should compensate them more than it currently does, so that they will provide more unrequested benefits. In these three areas of law, "Getting Incentives Right" demonstrates that better law can promote the well-being of people by providing better incentives for the private regulation of conduct.

This authoritative and practical guide provides a thorough account of the law and practice of professional indemnity insurance. Topics examined include the basis of cover, entering the contract, block notification of claims, aggregation, and the exclusion of cover for fraud and dishonesty. The book also considers the standard terms and policy wordings involved in claims policies and the associated issues that can arise in practice. In addition to providing analysis of English case law, the book also includes authorities from other major Commonwealth jurisdictions to give the most complete interpretation of the law on this specialist area. All key recent cases relating to professional indemnity insurance are covered, for example Omega Proteins Ltd v. Aspen Insurance UK Ltd [2010] EWHC 2280 (Comm) and ACE European Group v. Standard Life Assurance Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1713. Additionally, the new edition considers statutory developments since the last edition, most notably the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 and the Insurance Act 2015, and topical issues such as aggregation of claims.

"A definitive history of the case...notable alike for its clarity and its fairness...Professors Joughin and Morgan conclude that Sacco and Vanzetti were the victims of a sick society, in which prejudice, chauvinism, hysteria, and malice were endemic. Few who will read this moving work will doubt that they have proved their point."--The New York Times "This was not merely a trial in court nor even a sociological phenomenon in the history of the United States. It was a spiritual experience and setback which only a fundamentally healthy America could have endured...What influence was it that brought such world figures as Clarence Darrow, William Borah, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Brisbane, William Allen White, Fritz Kreisler, Albert Einstein and others to plead for men entirely unknown to them? Joughin and Morgan tell you why with the clarity and thoroughness of scholars and with the authority which their long study, impartiality, and sincerity assure and guarantee. It is a book that will excite and anger you."--The New Republic Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This book analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively, a topic that is not covered coherently in any other book. At a time of rapid and wide-ranging change in the delivery of legal services, the current edition involves a complete reworking of the last edition to take into account the implications of the implementation of the Jackson Review, and to see effective litigation clearly in the context of concerns about funding, case management by the court, costs, and the growing use of alternative dispute resolution. The book has a strong focus on the needs of the legal practitioner, the decisions to be taken at each stage of a case, and the criteria to apply in making those decisions. This is all securely based in references to relevant Civil Procedure Rules and decided cases, with checklists and commentary to assist in the project management of a case. The book also focuses on the skills a lawyer needs to work effectively. This includes skills in dealing with a client, drafting legal documents, and presenting a case in court. Throughout the work the emphasis is on demonstrating how to use law effectively, how to develop a case, and how to present persuasive arguments. Lawyers operate in an increasingly complex environment, faced with challenges in funding a case, in managing a case to avoid sanctions, and in using complex rules to best effect. The author addresses the use of legal knowledge and skills within this rapidly changing context, bearing in mind not least that the pace of change is likely to continue with the developing use of IT, and the widening use of alternative business structures. In putting together skills and law in a fully up-to-date context, A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation brings together the sound knowledge of the law and the legal skills an experienced litigator will use to get the best results for clients in a real-world context. It will be of use to anyone in the early years of legal practice, experienced solicitors who have had limited involvement with civil litigation, and those training to be a barrister or solicitor.

The 'global rise of judicial powe' has been called one of the most significant developments in late twentieth and early twenty-first century politics. In this book, Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke examine the political consequences of the growing reliance on courts and litigation in public policy by analyzing the field of injury compensation, in which judicialized and bureaucratized programs operate side-by-side. Their study mixes quantitative data on a wide range of injury compensation policies with three in-depth case historical studies in which they trace political struggles over Social Security Disability Insurance, asbestos injury litigation, and the obscure but fascinating controversy over injuries purportedly caused by vaccines. They conclude that while social insurance programs that compensate for injury tend to bring social interests together, the use of litigation divides interests between victims and villains, winners and losers and so creates a comparatively fractious, chaotic politics.

Clinical Negligence claims currently cost the NHS over GBP2 billion every year. Litigation is time-consuming, expensive and stressful for all involved. For those whose lives have been changed dramatically as a result of negligent medical treatment, bringing a claim may be the only means of obtaining redress for the harm done to them. But the process of litigation can be a bewildering and sometimes hostile experience. For many healthcare professionals the fear of litigation is a real concern and there is deep anxiety that litigation contributes to an unhealthy, even dangerous culture of blame. Clinical Negligence Made Clear: A Guide for Patients and Professionals is an attempt by one the country's leading clinical negligence practitioners to help all those who might be affected by such cases to understand what is involved and thereby to reduce the cost and emotional impact of clinical negligence litigation. In concise, accessible language Nigel Poole QC: charts how clinical negligence has evolved, its place within the justice system and how compensation is assessed, explains ten core legal principles of clinical negligence such as the doctor's duty of care and the standards expected of healthcare professionals, sets out how a claim proceeds and what happens before and during a trial, focuses on specific common areas of clinical negligence claims such as wrongful birth, delays in cancer treatment and cosmetic surgery and looks to the future and asks whether the current system is sustainable The aim is to provide an intelligent but accessible guide for patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, expert witnesses, and healthcare managers so that those caught up in legal proceedings have a realistic view of the impact they will have and a clearer understanding of when a dispute might be best resolved early. No doubt it will also provide a lively introduction to the subject for students, trainees and lawyers looking to move into clinical negligence work.

Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather's will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense of another. And, in each, the law of restitution provides a way to undo the enrichment and transfer the defendant's gains to a party with better rights to them. Tort law focuses on the harm, or costs, that one party wrongfully imposes on another. Restitution is the mirror image; it corrects gains that one party wrongfully receives at another's expense. It is an important topic for every lawyer and for anyone else interested in how the legal system responds to injustice.
In "Restitution, " Ward Farnsworth presents a guide to this body of law that is compact, lively, and insightful--the first treatment of its kind that the American law of restitution has received. The book explains restitution doctrines, remedies, and defenses with unprecedented clarity and illustrates them with vivid examples. Farnsworth demonstrates that the law of restitution is guided by a manageable and coherent set of principles that have remarkable versatility and power. "Restitution "makes a complex and important area of law accessible, understandable, and interesting to any reader.