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.

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.

A controversial argument for reconsidering the limits of free speech Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say virtually anything without legal repercussions. But, in the case of white supremacy, does the First Amendment demand that we defend Nazis? In Must We Defend Nazis?, legal experts Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic argue that it should not. Updated to consider the white supremacy demonstrations and counter-protests in Charlottesville and debates about hate speech on campus and on the internet, the book offers a concise argument against total, unchecked freedom of speech. Delgado and Stefancic instead call for a system of free speech that takes into account the harms that hate speech can inflict upon disempowered, marginalized people. They examine the prevailing arguments against regulating speech, and show that they all have answers. They also show how limiting free speech would work in a legal framework and offer suggestions for activist lawyers and judges interested in approaching the hate speech controversy intelligently. As citizens are confronting free speech in contention with equal dignity, access, and respect, Must We Defend Nazis? puts aside cliches that clutter First Amendment thinking, and presents a nuanced position that recognizes the needs of our increasingly diverse society.

In "Rhetoric, Irony, and Law in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture," Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland examine how, over the roughly 400-year period since the encounter of First Peoples with Europeans in North America, rhetorical or discursive fields took form in politics and constitution-making, in the formation of a public sphere, and in education and language. The study looks at how these fields changed over time within the French regime, the British regime, and in Canada since 1867, and how they converged through trial and error into a Canadian civil culture.

The authors establish a triangulation of fields of discourse formed by law (as a technical discourse system), rhetoric (as a public discourse system), and irony (as a means of accessing the public realm as the key pillars upon which a civil culture in Canada took form) in order to scrutinize the process of creating a civil culture. By presenting case studies ranging from the legal implications of the transition from French to English law to the continued importance of the Louis Riel case and trial, the authors provide detailed analyses of how communication practices form a common institutional culture.

As scholars of communication and rhetoric, Dorland and Charland have written a challenging examination of the history of Canadian governance and the central role played by legal and other discourses in the formation of civil culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Identifies and evaluates the psychological choices implicit in the rules of evidence Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees have had to perform as amateur applied psychologists. Their task has required them to employ what they think they know about the ability and motivations of witnesses to perceive, store, and retrieve information; about the effects of the litigation process on testimony and other evidence; and about our capacity to comprehend and evaluate evidence. These are the same phenomena that cognitive and social psychologists systematically study. The rules of evidence have evolved to restrain lawyers from using the most robust weapons of influence, and to direct judges to exclude certain categories of information, limit it, or instruct juries on how to think about it. Evidence law regulates the form of questions lawyers may ask, filters expert testimony, requires witnesses to take oaths, and aims to give lawyers and factfinders the tools they need to assess witnesses' reliability. But without a thorough grounding in psychology, is the "common sense" of the rulemakers as they create these rules always, or even usually, correct? And when it is not, how can the rules be fixed? Addressed to those in both law and psychology, The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law draws on the best current psychological research-based knowledge to identify and evaluate the choices implicit in the rules of evidence, and to suggest alternatives that psychology reveals as better for accomplishing the law's goals.

"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.

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.

Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice investigates the veracity of memories of sexual misconduct and the factors that may influence accurate recall, and fundamentally assesses whether psychological science can help the criminal justice system in determining which accusations are likely to be accurate, and which are not. In recent years, the public has been inundated with announcements of sexual assault allegations, in particular against public figures like politicians, businessmen, movie moguls, and professional athletes. Many of these accusations concern events that occurred several years prior to their announcements and trials. Drawing upon a compilation of real-life sexual assault cases and psychological science on recall and sexual trauma, this book provides an analysis of memory reports of sexual misconduct, including inappropriate comments, behaviors, harassment, and assault. It compares these memories with other types of memory, such as flashbulb memories, co-witness conformity memory, and autobiographical memory. Memory and Sexual Misconduct helps readers interpret the role of emotion, the level of detail, and the possible distinction between someone remembering a past event and believing the past event occurred. By providing a thorough evaluation of the likelihood that misconduct memories are accurate and investigating factors that affect this accuracy, Memory and Sexual Misconduct is an invaluable text to both the criminal justice system and the general public, particularly as sexual misconduct allegations of past events continue to come to light.

The recent financial crisis has questioned whether existing contracts may be adapted, terminated or renegotiated as a result of unexpected circumstances. The question is not a new one. In medieval times the notion of clausula rebus sic stantibus was developed to cope with such situations, and Germany introduced the theory of Wegfall der Geschaftsgrundlage. In England, the Coronation cases provided one possible answer. This comparative study explores the possibility of classifying jurisdictions as 'open' or 'closed' in this regard."

Non-contractual liability, stemming from damage accountably caused to another, has been the subject of the PETL and DCFR VI European reform initiatives. Gert Bruggemeier, however, proposes alternative reforms which, instead of trying to overcome the differences between civil law (delict) and common law (torts), are restricted to civil liability. The focus is on the grounds of accountability, and stricter forms of liability are at the fore. Quasi-strict enterprise liability is introduced to fill the lacuna between personal fault and forms of strict liability. A commentary is included on recent legislation on civil liability in China, Brazil and Russia to demonstrate how these large countries try to come to grips with the challenges of 'risk society'.

Die Autorin beantwortet die in der Praxis relevantesten und umstrittensten Fragestellungen bei der Anwendung des Haager Zustellungsubereinkommens. Sie definiert die Voraussetzungen fur die Anwendbarkeit des UEbereinkommens und leistet eine grundlegende Analyse des ordre public-Vorbehaltes in Art. 13 Abs. 1 HZUE. Die Ergebnisse wendet sie auf Praxisfalle an, vor allem im Rechtsverkehr mit den USA. Methodisch zeichnet sich die Untersuchung durch den verfassungs- und voelkerrechtlichen Blick auf die Leistung internationaler Rechtshilfe sowie durch umfassende Vergleiche mit anderen nationalen Rechtsordnungen, Rechtshilfeubereinkommen im Zivil-, Straf- und Verwaltungsrecht und Regelungen des Internationalen Zivilverfahrensrechts aus.