Strategic legal presentation of commercial real estate rental law from the landlord s perspective, including all the tricks and tips. Thorough but free of any extra verbiage, easily understandable through checklists, sample formulations, general instructions, and sample contracts."

Mit dieser Festschrift wird ein Gelehrter geehrt, dessen uberragendes juristisches Fachwissen sich immer mit einer weitgespannten Allgemeinbildung, insbesondere auf den Gebieten der Kunst, der Musik, der Literatur und vor allem auch der Theologie, verbunden hat. Zu seinem 70. Geburtstag am 19. September 2009 uberreichen Freunde, Kollegen und Wegbegleiter Achim Kramer damit einen spatsommerlichen Strauss unterschiedlicher fachlicher und literarischer Provenienz

Civil Procedure Rules at 20 is a collection of presentations and papers to mark the 20th anniversary of the CPR coming into force, many of which were delivered orally at the CPR at 20 Conference at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 2019. The presentations and papers have been edited and extended to provide a permanent record available to a wider audience. The book is dedicated to examining key challenges and changes facing the civil justice system, marking the 20th anniversary of the current civil procedures governing civil litigation in England and Wales. It addresses a range of technical, political, and controversial subjects on access to justice and the rules governing civil litigation, including the digitization of the justice system and the future role of artificial intelligence; the emergence of class actions; disclosure rules and reform; restrictions on Judicial Review challenges to Government decisions; closed material proceedings; and efforts to make the costs of civil litigation more affordable and proportional, including the availability of legal aid. With a Foreword by Lord Briggs, the contributions come from those best qualified to tell this story, from senior judges, practitioners, and leading academic scholars each with their own unique perspective.

The revision of the introduction to inheritance law offers among other things up-to-date information on the forthcoming legislative reform of the inheritance law, the law of limitation of claims, decisions from the constitutional court on testamentary freedom ("Hohenzollern") and on the right to a compulsory portion and provides information on inheritance law developments in European law. The commentary on A1922 focuses on the interfaces between inheritance law and company law and legal succession in public law positions. Succession in accordance with the law of life partnerships is also shown under statutory succession. The latest case law on transitional social security regulations is also taken into account in the context of rights to disclaim an estate. The new fees law for the curators of estates is also explained.

In a largely previously untold story, Melissa Milewski explores how, when the financial futures of their families were on the line, black litigants throughout the South took on white southerners in civil suits. Between 1865 and 1950, in almost a thousand civil cases across eight southern states, former slaves took their former masters to court, black sharecroppers litigated against white landowners, and African Americans with little formal education brought disputes against wealthy white members of their communities. As black southerners negotiated a legal system with almost all white gatekeepers, they displayed pragmatism and a savvy understanding of how to get whites on their side. They found that certain kinds of cases were much easier to gain whites' support for than others. But they also found that, in the kinds of civil cases that they could litigate in the highest courts of eight states, they were also surprisingly successful. In a tremendously restricted environment in which they were often shut out of other government institutions, seen as racially inferior, and segregated, African Americans found a way to fight for their rights in one of the only ways they could. This book examines how African Americans adapted and at times made a biased system work for them under enormous constraints. At the same time, it considers the limitations of working within a white-dominated system at a time of great racial discrimination, and the choices black litigants had to make to have their cases heard.

Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden rechtlichen Uberblick uber den Vertrieb von Waren und Dienstleistungen im Internet. Behandelt werden zentrale Bereiche des elektronischen Geschaftsverkehrs. Dazu zahlen beispielsweise das Vertragsrecht, Prozessrecht sowie das Fernabsatzrecht im Internet. Eine Reihe potentieller Rechtsprobleme werden dargestellt, die es zu wissen gilt, wenn man selbst Waren- und Dienstleistungsvertrage uber das Internet abschliesst oder sich anderweitig mit diesem Bereich beschaftigt. Dieses Buch dient als zuverlassiger und verstandlicher Rechtsberater, um sich in dem sehr komplexen Bereich des Vertriebs- und Fernabsatzrechts im Internet orientieren zu konnen. Es richtet sich sowohl an Praktiker aus Wirtschaft, Justiz und Anwaltschaft, als auch an Verbraucherschutzverbande und Wissenschaftler."

This book has its genesis in materials collected in the Hestern Central Atlantic region in preparation for a regional seminar on the Changing Law of the Sea and its Implications for Fisheries in the Hestern Atlantic. The Seminar, which was organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN and funded by the Norwegian government, was held in Havana, Cuba, 1980. Most of the materials were gathered by the authors as a result of direct contact with the fisheries authorities of the region, and supplemented where possible by information obtained from public sources for the remaining countries not visited. Twenty seven countries in the region were visited, and the authors were able to obtain materials much of which is not readily accessible except in the individual countries. In writing this book, the authors have become indebted to many people for their advice and assistance. He wish to thank in particular the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for permitting use to be made of papers submitted to the Havana seminar, and to the following members of that Organisation: L.

Das Gesundheitswesen leidet an Ressourcenknappheit, die Diskrepanz zwischen dem medizinisch Machbaren und dem tats chlich Finanzierbaren w chst. Der Band behandelt zwei der zentralen rechtlichen Problemfelder, die sich daraus ergeben: die M glichkeiten der Rationierung medizinischer Leistungen sowie die Konfliktlinien zwischen Arzthaftungs- und Sozialversicherungsrecht. Ziel der Studie ist es, einen verfassungskonformen Ansatz f r die Zuteilung knapper Ressourcen zu entwickeln und eine Harmonisierung der verschiedenen Teildisziplinen zu erreichen.

The Col loque of our European Institute for social security to prepare the Conference in the Hague on the social security and the economic crisis was held from the 17th ti 11 the 19th of September in Toledo. Part II of the Yearbook 1980-1981 contains the reports presented in Toledo. The reports are focussed on the over a 1 economic situation (Richard Draperie); the specific problems of Pensions (Bernd Schulte); the cost of medical care (Leo Crijns); unemployment insurance (Joachim Volz); the social minimum (Andre Laurent) and two special reports on the economic crisis and social security. Finally it contains my own synthesis report. Al 1 the participants had the opinion that the colloque created a fruitful 1 basis for a further in depth discussion in the Hague in 1982. The Institute once again wants to express its sincere gratitude to Antonio Chozas and his colleques for the excellent and adequate way in which they organised the colloque."

The conference of our European Institute for social security was held from the 16th till the 19th of October 1980 in Peruggia. As usual the theme of the Conference was the same of that of the preparatory Colloque held in Brussels in 1979: Social security reforms in Europe. The reports of that Colloque were published as Part I I of the Yearbook 1978-1980. Part I of the Yearbook 1980-1981 contains the reports presented in Peruggia. The reports are focussed on three items: The financing of social security (J.P. Launay, Jan B.M. Pierik, Jcentsrn Henrik Petersen and Guy Perrin); The social benefits (Bernd Schulte and Sven Guldburg) and The organization of social security (A.J. Ogus, A. Berenstein and Jef van Langendonck) . The Yearbook contains also two national reports (M. Magrez and Asbj rn Kjcentsnstad), not available to be included in Yearbook I I 1978-1980. Finally the Yearbook contains a report from Guy Perrin on the social security problems of migrant workers and the synthesis report of Pasquale Sandulli. It's a pity that we could not include the report of Lucia Vitali, Le prestazini per inval idita nel sistema ital iano di sicurezza sociale: un anal isi economica, and the report of the Region of Umbria since there was no English or French translation available. The Institute once again wants to express its sincere gratitude to Pasquale Sandull i and his collegues for the adequate way in which they organized the confer

The present volume reproduces with slight changes the course of lectures given at The Hague in 1972 under the title of "The General Principles of Private International Law." The substance of these lec tures has remained unaltered, but a number of insertions serve to cor rected some formal mistakes and misprints, added references to literature, some older, some more recent, without attempting to be exhaustive, and modified and supplemented the former exposition in two respects, where subsequent criticisms called for a review. The first concerns the place of public policy in Public International Law, the second deals with spatially-"

Geistiges Eigentum ist eine Schl sselressource. Im Zeitalter von Digitalisierung und Globalisierung ist sein Schutz gleichwohl in eine Akzeptanzkrise geraten. Die Frage, ob Patentrecht und Urheberrecht einen berechtigen Kern aufweisen oder aber Ausbeutungstitel verschaffen, stellt sich in vielen Bereichen besonders nachhaltig, so etwa im Hinblick auf die Biotechnologie oder auf Software. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse eines Dialogs zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft zu diesen umstrittenen Themen.

Das TRIPS-Abkommen hat das geistige Eigentum in ein Reziprozitatsverhaltnis zur Handelspolitik gestellt, aus dem es die heute in der WIPO verwalteten multilateralen Abkommen ein Jahrhundert zuvor geloest hatten. Muss es die WIPO nun hinnehmen, dass das geistige Eigentum zur Sanktionierung von WTO-Verstoessen in Anspruch genommen wird? Kann der Schutz geistigen Eigentums parallel vor dem IGH und dem Streitschlichtungsverfahren der WTO eingeklagt werden? Und ist die WTO das geeignete Forum, der Weltwirtschaft einen positiven Ordnungsrahmen zu geben? Diesen Fragen widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit, die uber den unmittelbaren Gegenstand hinaus allgemeine Ansatze zum Umgang mit konkurrierenden Vertragsordnungen in der Voelkerrechtsordnung liefert.

Die Ubergabe der Geschafte an einen Nachfolger kann fur Familienunternehmen eine existenzielle Frage sein und sie kann schwierig sein, da Beteiligte die Nachfolge-Frage haufig ausklammern. Die Autoren beschreiben das Spannungsfeld Unternehmen-Familie und stellen die Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten sowie die Realisierung der Nachfolge dar. Dabei gehen sie auf psychologische Probleme ein, behandeln Rechts- und Steuerfragen sowie mogliche Nachfolgemodelle. Die steuerlichen und rechtlichen Regelungen im zweiten Teil des Buchs wurden komplett uberarbeitet. "

prospects of the High Commissioner proposal with careful scholarship and shrewd judgment. Mr. Clark wrote the first draft of this book under my supervision for the degree of Doctor of the Science of Law at Columbia Law School before returning to take up his career as a law teacher in his native New Zealand. I am delighted that his work, in this improved and updated version, is now being published. It fills a real need, since it is the first book on this important subject. On this occasion it might be appropriate to add a few comments on the history of the High Commissioner proposal. As Mr. Clark indicates, I had something to do with its "revival" in the United States Government during the closing months of the Kennedy Administration. A few details as to how this "revival" took place may perhaps be useful to students of international relations and international organization.

This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to Yale University Law School in 1968. I wish to acknowledge my deepest gratitude to my super visor in the writing of the thesis, Professor Ronald M. Dworkin, whose in sights and criticism have conspicuously contributed to the present work. Time and again I have been inspired by the ideas expressed by hirn both in personal discussions and in his Conflict of Laws and Jurisprudence courses. It has been my privilege also to have had Professors Leon S. Lipson and Guido Calabresi as supervisors. I have derived great benefit from their sug gestions. A sincerely feIt appreciation is expressed to all three persons. A special debt of gratitude is owing to the Yale Law School for the gener ous financial support extended to me. I also wish to record my indebtedness to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to Tel-Aviv University for their financial assistance. I am extremely grateful to Mr. Michael Reiss, '68 Yale Law School for his significant editorial assistance. Thanks are also due to my wife Ettie for invaluable help and encouragement. Finally, I wish to thank the publishers for their courtesy and cooperation. A.S."

Many critics seem to consider it inappropriate or unnecessary to ask what Montaigne means by the faculty of judgment. Laumonier speaks of "Ie bon sens, qu'il oppose si souvent a la memoire et qu'il appelle encore 'jugement' et 'entendement', c'est-a-dire la faculte de penser et de reflechir juste. " 1 Our appreciation of what is implied by judgment, that is by Montaigne's notion of judgment, has been delayed perhaps by a too facile acceptance of a so-called synonymity of meaning among the psychological terms used by Montaigne. In a discussion of key concepts in Montaigne, Donald M. Frame has accurately summarized the present situation with regard to our knowledge of Montaigne's notion of judgment and other key concepts: "We all have our hunches, but we need more than that. " 2 For the expression of his interest and concern for the intellectual and moral activities and capabilities of the mind, Montaigne draws upon a broad and elementary semantic field. These primary psychological terms are jugement, entendement, sens, raison, discours, and conscience. Al- though these words may be used synonymously, Montaigne does seem to maintain certain basic distinctions among them; frequent substi- tutions of terms must be the result of semantic and ideational differ- ences. Moreover, the association of several psychological words within a single sentence implies gradations, however slight they may be.

The point of origin for this work is the question: to which extent the a oeuniversal succession by virtue of the transactiona can be made useful for the business transation. The organizational possibilities made possible by the German Reorganization of Companies Act 1994 - and on a legally comparative level, the Swiss Merger Act 2003 and the Austrian Companies Code 2007 - prompted this examination.