Parallelverfahren vor staatlichen Gerichten und Schiedsgerichten sind ein prozessualer Dauerbrenner und insbesondere im Rahmen des Kompetenzkonflikts hochbrisant. Im Kompetenzkonflikt sind Parallelverfahren aufgrund der vielfaltigen gesetzlichen Moeglichkeiten, eine Klarung der Kompetenzfrage vor unterschiedlichen Gerichten zu erreichen, geradezu exemplarisch. Sie stellen das Prozessrecht vor die Herausforderung, diese effektiv zu koordinieren und divergierende Zustandigkeitsentscheidungen zu vermeiden. Neben dem klassischen Kompetenzkonflikt zwischen Staatsgerichten und Schiedsgerichten widmet sich die Autorin auch etwaigen Verfahrenskonflikten an der Schnittstelle von Kompetenzklarung und parallelen staatlichen Verfahren.

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls' Law of Peoples. This is the possibility of disobedience justified by appeal to standards of decency that are shared by peoples who do not otherwise share commitments to the same principles of justice, and whose societies are organized according to very different basic social institutions. Justified by appeal to shared decency standards, disobedience by diverse state and non-state actors indeed challenge injustices in the international system of states. The book considers three case studies: disobedience by the undocumented, disobedient challenges to global economic inequities, and the disobedient disclosure of government secrets. It proposes a substantial analytical redefinition of civil disobedience in a global perspective, identifying the creation of global solidarity relations as its goal. Michael Allen breaks new ground in our understanding of global justice. Traditional views, such as those of Rawls, see justice as a matter of recognizing the moral status of all free and equal person as citizens in a state. Allen argues that this fails to see things from the global perspective. From this perspective disobedience is not merely a matter of social cooperation. Rather, it is a matter of self determination that guarantees the invulnerability of different types of persons and peoples to domination. This makes the disobedience by the undocumented justified, based on the idea that all persons are moral equals, so that all sovereign peoples need to reject dominating forms of social organization for all persons, and not just their own citizens. In an age of mass movements of people, Allen gives us a strong reason to change our practices in treating the undocumented. James Bohman, St Louis University, Danforth Chair in the Humanities This monograph is an important contribution to our thinking on civil disobedience and practices of dissent in a globalized world. This is an era where non-violent social movements have had a significant role in challenging the abuse of power in contexts as diverse, yet interrelated as the Arab Spring protests and the Occupy protests. Moreover, while protests such as these speak to a local political horizon, they also have a global footprint, catalyzing a transnational dialogue about global justice, political strategy and cosmopolitan solidarity. Speaking directly to such complexities, Allen makes a compelling case for a global perspective regarding civil disobedience. Anyone interested in how the dynamics of non-violent protest have shaped and reshaped the landscape for democratic engagement in a globalized world will find this book rewarding and insightful. Vasuki Nesiah, New York University

The book surveys the enforcement of EU law through the lens of damages claims for violations of EU public procurement rules. The first part clarifies the requirements on damages claims under both public procurement and general EU law, notably the public procurement remedies directives and doctrines such as procedural autonomy, effective judicial protection and Member State liability. The second part focuses on comparative law, covering England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and provides an overview of national regulation and case law of damages litigation in the area of public procurement. A third part discusses the constitutive and quantification criteria of the damages remedy from a comparative and EU law perspective. It explores the lost chance, which functionally emerges as a compromise capable of mitigating the typically problematic nature of causation and uncertainty in public procurement constellations. The book concludes with a proposal for legislative intervention regarding damages in public procurement.

This book studies the fundamental conflicts between the protections on the legal rights and interests of victims and the freedom of infringers to act first. It is divided into four parts, the first of which explores the relevant legal methodology in order to provide possible solutions to difficult problems in Chinese tort liability law. Secondly, it puts forward a range of suggestions on how to resolve key issues in China's torts liability law, including the general provisions; the provisions concerning the fault principle; the provisions of the non-fault principle; the special liability relation; damages; and defenses and related issues. Thirdly, the book addresses major institutional issues, including: the theory of consensus force; joint infringements; and operators' duty of care; as well as several key relations: between the right to claim insurance compensation and the right to claim compensation for personal injury; between the right to claim tort liability and the right to exercise property rights; and between the right to claim tort liability and the right to reject unjust enrichment. Further aspects in this section include compensation for death; mental damages; pure economic loss and compensation; punitive compensation; and compensation for road traffic accidents. Lastly, the book explores special issues in tort liability law, e.g. the infringement of media rights, and the specific tort liability in various administrative laws and regulations.

Das Buch zeichnet die rechtshistorische Entwicklung eines der problematischsten Bereiche des heutigen Betreuungsrechts nach. In zeitlicher Hinsicht erstreckt sich die Darstellung vom Ausgang der fruhen Neuzeit (1794) uber das 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Dabei liegt der Fokus zunachst auf den preussischen Regelungen des Allgemeinen Landrechts und der Vormundschaftsordnung, erweitert sich aber spater mit Geltung des Burgerlichen Gesetzbuches auch auf die ubrigen deutschen Lander. Wiederkehrende Fragestellungen, wie etwa der Stellenwert des fursorgerechtlichen Unterbringungsbegriffs, die Rolle der Gutachter im Verfahren oder aber die Abgrenzung zu anderen Formen der Unterbringung werden jeweils epochenweise beleuchtet. Daruber hinaus leistet der Autor durch die Darstellung der Behandlung psychisch kranker Menschen einen sozialgeschichtlichen Beitrag und stellt somit eine Verbindung zwischen der Disziplin des Rechts und der Sozialwissenschaft her.

This book offers the analysis of the relationship between the Cape Town Convention and national laws on secured transactions. The first part of the book considers why national implementation is so important in the case of the Cape Town Convention and identifies how innovative the Convention is as a uniform law instrument. The second part includes chapters on those states that are Parties to the Cape Town Convention, which analyse how the Convention is implemented under the domestic law. The third part includes chapters on those states that are not Parties to the Convention, which compare their national laws and the Convention to find unique features of the Cape Town Convention's rules. The fourth part discusses the meaning of Protocols on aircraft, railway rolling stock and space assets from the practitioner's point of view. As a whole, the book offers insights into the new stage of uniform private law and shows the need for further examination of the subject, which will be essential for international and national legislators, academics of comparative and international private law as well as practitioners who are the users of the uniform law regime.

This volume serves to provide an international overview of personal injury compensation in different geographical areas (15 countries already included), with a special focus on the methods used to ascertain the injury and the related damages. It also goes on to clarify the logical and methodological steps required for a sequential, in-depth ascertainment of any traumatic event and the related personal damage, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary. Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind or emotions suffered by the plaintiff under tort and/or civil law regulations. Damages related to the injury can be pecuniary or non-pecuniary in nature. Although several comparative studies and research projects on tort and civil law and personal injury claims aimed at developing new tools for promoting harmonization of private law have been performed at an international level, heterogeneity and divergences still exist in the definition and compensation of personal injury and damage across different national legislative systems. The starting point for any awarding procedure should be a medical, or rather a medico-legal, assessment to gain evidence on the trauma or event causing the injury, the mechanism of injury, the pre-existing health status of the injured party, and the health consequences of the injury (temporary and permanent impairment, work incapacity, etc.). In order to pursue the ultimate goal of an international harmonization of personal injury compensation, it is of upmost importance to define the quality requirements for the medico-legal ascertainment methodology, which are essential for guaranteeing the objectivity, rigor, and reproducibility of the data and the evidence collection procedure. Currently, there are no supra-national medico-legal guidelines dealing with the ascertainment methodology of personal injury and damage under tort and civil law.

Gutachten zu Fragen des Zivilrechts und des Offentlichen Rechts haben in der Praxis der forensischen Psychiatrie eine erhebliche Bedeutung. Sie erfordern einerseits Spezialwissen zu dem jeweiligen Fall" und andererseits die enge Zusammenarbeit von Psychiatern und Juristen. Das Buch behandelt Fragen des Zivilrechts und des Offentlichen Rechts deshalb sowohl aus juristischer wie psychiatrischer Perspektive. Erortert wird auch die Stellung des psychiatrischen Sachverstandigen im Zivilprozess und im Verfahren der freiwilligen Gerichtsbarkeit."

This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law. Until forty years ago marriage was the only union considered legitimate to form a family. Today more than 30 countries have granted rights to same sex couples, including several that have opened up marriage to couples of the same sex. Every day there is a new bill being discussed or a new claim being brought to courts seeking formal recognition of same sex couples. Not all countries are open to changing their legal structures to accommodate same-sex couples, but even those with no visible changes are witnessing new voices in their communities challenging the status quo and envisioning more flexible legal systems.

This book deals with the implementation of the rights of the child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 21 countries from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA. It gives an overview of the legal status of children regarding their most salient rights, such as the implementation of the best interest principle, the right of the child to know about of his/her origin, the right to be heard, to give medical consent, the right of the child in the field of employment, religious education of children, prohibition of physical punishment, protection of the child through deprivation of parental rights and in the case of inter-country adoption. In the last 25 years since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, many States Parties to the Convention have made great efforts to pass legislation regulating the rights of the child, in their commitment to the improvement of the legal status of the child. However, is that enough for any child to live better, safer, and healthier? What are the practical effects of this international as well as many national instruments in the everyday life of children? Have there been any outcomes in terms of improvement of their status around the world, and improvement of the conditions under which they live, since the Convention entered into force? In tackling these questions, this work presents a comparative overview of the implementation of the Convention, and evaluates the results achieved.

This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.

Das Recht der Personengesellschaft wird von der deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts nach der Systematik des Grundrisses von Georg Arnold Heise (1. Aufl. 1807) nicht dem Personenrecht des Allgemeinen Teils des burgerlichen Rechts zugeordnet, und das BGB ist dem gefolgt. Zum BGB behandelt die Literatur in UEbereinstimmung mit der Legalordnung die Perso- nengesellschaft im Schuldrecht. Dem folgt selbst Gierkes Deutsches Privat- recht, wenn Gierke auch im Personenrecht des Allgemeinen Teils in dem Ka- pitel "Personenrechtliche Gemeinschaften" allgemein von den "Gemein- schaften zur gesamten Hand" und damit auch von der Gesellschaft handelt. Die Legalordnung des BGB ist in der Einordnung des Rechts der Perso- nengesellschaft dadurch bestimmt, dass dem Ersten Entwurf des BGB, wie es in den Motiven heisst, die "gemeinrechtliche Auffassung vom Begriffe und Wesen der Sozietat" zugrunde lag, dass der Gesellschaftsvertrag "nur ein obli- gatorisches Rechtsverhaltnis unter den Kontrahenten" begrundet. Die Perso- nengesellschaft als Gesamthandsgesellschaft gehoert jedoch ebenso wie die ju- ristische Person dem Personenrecht an. Man koennte sogar der Ansicht sein, dass die Personengesellschaft als Personengruppe oder Personenverband noch eher als die juristische Person in das Personenrecht gehoert.

Kapitel 1: Grundlagen der Verhaltenslenkung, - Kapitel 2: Allgemeine Legitimitat der Verhaltenslenkung durch Recht, - Kapitel 3: Besondere Legitimitat der Lenkung privatautonomen Verhaltens, - Kapitel 4: Instrumente zur Lenkung privatautonomen Verhaltens, - Kapitel 5: Folgen der Lenkung privatautonomen Verhaltens, - Kapitel 6: Gesamtbewertung und Gesamtergebnisse.

Der Band versammelt die Ergebnisse des DAAD-Heidelberg-Programms, welches seit 2010 junge Dozenten der Rechtswissenschaft aus aller Welt zu freier Forschung zusammenfuhrte. Aktuelles Thema ist das UEberschneidungsfeld von Zivilprozessrecht und Rechtsgeschichte. Die Beitrage dokumentieren zugleich die Lebendigkeit des Wissenschaftsaustauschs zwischen Italien, Chile und Deutschland.

Die Diskussion der Behandlung von Lizenzen in der Insolvenz berucksichtigt nur vereinzelt, dass Patentlizenzen im Technologietransfer des zusammenwachsenden Europa verstarkt grenzuberschreitend erteilt werden. Diese Arbeit stellt die Auswirkungen der Insolvenz eines Vertragspartners auf eine grenzuberschreitende ausschliessliche Patentlizenz und damit die Anwendung der Europaischen Insolvenzverordnung in den Mittelpunkt. Die Basis hierfur bildet ein franzoesisch-deutscher Rechtsvergleich, der eine unterschiedliche Behandlung in den nationalen Patent- und Insolvenzrechten aufzeigt. Zur Abrundung wurde die Behandlung von Lizenzen an Europaischen Patenten und dem neuen Einheitspatent im Europaischen Insolvenzrecht untersucht.

Terrorismus ist nicht nur eine sicherheitspolitische Fragestellung, sondern hat auch eine privatrechtliche Dimension, der dieses Werk nachgeht. Bei einem terroristischen Anschlag ruckt eine Haftung der Attentater und ihres unterstutzenden Umfeldes, aber des Weiteren auch die Verantwortung fahrlassiger Mitverursacher, wie beispielsweise Flugunternehmen und Sicherheitsfirmen in den Blick. Eine oekonomische Analyse des Haftungsregimes sowie konkurrierender Loesungen zur Schadensabnahme und -verteilung zeigt: Jenseits des berechtigten Interesses, katastrophale Schaden durch eine Entschadigung nach Art des September 11th Victim Compensation Fund zu vergemeinschaften, ist es wichtig, die verhaltenssteuernde Wirkung des Deliktsrechts zu erhalten, um terroristische Anschlage zu vermeiden.

This book addresses an experiment in funding money damage claims in England from 2000 to 2013. The model - recoverable conditional fees - was unique and has remained so. It covers the development, amendment and effective abolition of the model, as well as the process of policy development and the motivation and objectives of the policy makers.

This book details the relationship between private property and government. As private property is important to both individual welfare and the public interest, the book provides an intellectual framework for the analysis and resolution of contemporary property rights disputes.

This book details the relationship between private property and government. As private property is important to both individual welfare and the public interest, the book provides an intellectual framework for the analysis and resolution of contemporary property rights disputes.

Dieses Buch wendet sich an Studierende der Rechtswissenschaft, insbesondere im Schwerpunktstudium Zivilprozessrecht und Familienrecht, sowie an Rechtsreferendare. Die Darstellung will Verstandnis fur die Aufgaben und die Funktionsweise von zivilgerichtlichen Verfahren wecken. Die Grundstrukturen des Zivilprozesses, die Besonderheiten des familiengerichtlichen Verbundverfahrens in Ehescheidungssachen und die Problemstellungen nichtstreitiger Verfahren von Kindschafts- und Nachlassgerichts- bis hin zu Grundbuchverfahren werden angesprochen. Ein wesentliches Augenmerk wird auf verfahrensrechtliche Fragen gelegt, die im Zusammenhang des Insolvenzrechts auftreten. Verfahrensrechtliche Institute werden dabei im Zusammenhang ihres Sinnbezugs auf das materielle Zivilrecht eroertert.

I. OVERVIEW Legal Issues in Mental HeaIth Care is aimed at the mental health clinician who provides services on either an inpatient or an outpatient basis. It is written for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and other therapists to help them understand and manage legal issues in their daily practice. The issues covered apply to therapists who work for an agency or hospital as weil as those who work independently. The book is meant to serve as a handbook, but it also provides a quick resource as legal questions arise which are related to the obligations of the therapist. It ad dresses the legal issues that confront the clinician. It is not aimed at the clinicianwho specializes in forensie mental health issues, because the information provided does not reach that level of detail or sophistication. Nor is it aimed at the scholar, because our goal is to provide practical information in a clear and concise format. Wehave not addressed the wide array of laws protecting the mentally disabled from discrirnina tion-most notably, the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)and the Fair Housing Act. Most states also have laws that prohibit discrimination in employment, services, and housing. These issues are beyond the scope of this book because we are address ing the legal issues that arise in providing care, rather than the rights of mentally disabled persons. 11. ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK The book consists of eleven chapters and a Glossary of Legal Terms.

Diese Arbeit untersucht die in 256 Abs. 2 ZPO normierte Zwischenfeststellungsklage. Das Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, die Prozessvoraussetzungen und den gegenuber der prinzipalen Feststellungsklage eigenstandigen Anwendungsbereich dieses Instituts herauszuarbeiten. Trotz des engen Zusammenhangs mit den - in Literatur und Rechtsprechung haufig umstrittenen - Grenzen der Rechtskraft, widmen sich nur wenige wissenschaftliche Beitrage einer naheren Untersuchung der Zwischenfeststellungsklage. Der Autor will dazu beitragen, diesem Institut des Prozessrechts - nicht zuletzt in seiner forensischen Handhabung - mehr Geltung zu verschaffen und so zu einer Diskussion anregen, die neueren Entwicklungen in der Rechtskraftlehre einer praktikablen Loesung zuzufuhren.

Der europaische ordre public ist seit mehr als einer Dekade Gegenstand der rechtswissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Im Zusammenhang mit der fortschreitenden Europaisierung des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts wird die Frage beantwortet, ob ein Kernbereich des europaischen ordre public ermittelt werden kann und wie sich das Verhaltnis der Vorbehaltsklausel im Hinblick auf den nationalen ordre public der Mitgliedsstaaten darstellt. Die Studie berucksichtigt dabei auch die Veranderungen durch den Vertrag von Lissabon. Am Beispiel eines Landerberichts stellt die Autorin die Perspektive des Rechts von England und Wales auf die europaische Vorbehaltsklausel dar. Im Anschluss eroertert sie die Moeglichkeit der Abschaffung des ordre public im Binnenmarkt.

Am 16. August 2012 trat die neue Europaische Erbrechtsverordnung in Kraft. Gerade im Zustandigkeitsbereich weicht die Verordnung von dem seit dem 1. September 2009 in Deutschland geltenden Prinzip ab, dass sich die internationale Zustandigkeit nach der oertlichen Zustandigkeit richtet. Die Verordnung greift vielmehr auf ein ahnlich paralleles Gebilde wie den Gleichlaufgrundsatz zuruck, der bis zum 1. September 2009 in Deutschland galt: Nach der Erbrechtsverordnung bestimmen sich internationale Zustandigkeit und anzuwendendes Recht grundsatzlich nach dem letzten gewoehnlichen Aufenthalt des Erblassers. Die Arbeit untersucht die Vor- und Nachteile der deutschen Regelungen und des europaischen Systems, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede aufzudecken.