Das Burgerliche Recht bildet als Grundlage fur den Abschluss und die Abwicklung von Vertragen die Basis des heutigen Geschafts- und Wirtschaftslebens. Auch Schadenersatzanspruche werden danach erfullt. Ein grundlegendes Verstandnis dieses Rechtsgebietes ist fur viele - auch nicht juristisch ausgelegte - Studiengange unabdingbar. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine leicht verstandliche und praxisnahe Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen. Es behandelt die an Hochschulen ausbildungsrelevanten ersten drei Bucher des Burgerlichen Gesetzbuchs: den "Allgemeinen Teil", das "Schuld-" und das "Sachenrecht". Durch Beispiele und Hinweise werden dem Leser Zusammenhange vermittelt, die ihn dazu befahigen, eigenstandig rechtliche Probleme zu erkennen und zu loesen.

Die aktienrechtliche Anfechtungsklage ist ein effektives Instrument zur Kontrolle von Hauptversammlungsbeschlussen, sie ist jedoch sehr missbrauchsanfallig. Anhand einer okonomischen Analyse weist Helfried Labrenz die negativen Effekte blockierter Verschmelzungen detailliert nach und entwickelt Reformvorschlage basierend auf einer empirischen Studie."

Das Handbuch ermoglicht eine Risikoeinschatzung geplanter Fusionen und dient als Argumentationshilfe und Anleitung fur Fusionskontrollverfahren in China. Es orientiert sich an den fur die Praxis massgeblichen Gesichtspunkten und geht dabei auf die chinesische Fallpraxis und die Diskussion in der chinesischen Rechtsliteratur ein. Berucksichtigung finden auch die politischen und kulturellen Besonderheiten Chinas. Der Anhang enthalt Ubersetzungen der wichtigsten Rechtsvorschriften, juristischer Entscheidungen sowie Formulare.

The international dimensions of competition law and policy are most often examined at the level of substantive law. In this legal area both intentional and spontaneous assimilation and harmonization trends can be recognized, which manifest themselves e.g. in comparable approaches to combating particularly harmful restraints (so-called "hardcore cartels"). However, the complex terrain of enforcement law has been mainly ignored up to date. Are there common approaches in this field as well? How are the various competition laws linked with each other in respect to procedural norms? This book conceptualizes "International Competition Enforcement Law" against the backdrop of these issues and at the level of comparative law. The ciphers "cooperation" and "convergence" will serve as the two principle ideas for this book.

Gregor Voeltz betrachtet das Web 2.0 aus technischer, kultureller und oekonomischer Sicht und unterzieht die hier spezifisch auftretenden Nutzungshandlungen einer urheberrechtlichen Analyse nach deutschem und US-amerikanischem Recht.

The Economics of Brexit - Revisited builds upon and extends the analysis contained within the authors' previous book, The Economics of Brexit: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the UK's Economic Relationship with the EU, which arguably represented the most comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the UK's economic relationship with the EU. The Economics of Brexit - Revisited continues where the previous volume left off, given that the UK has now formally withdrawn from the EU, and therefore the focus of the evidence presented concerns the potential economic implications arising from Brexit and considering the options available to those negotiating the UK's future economic relationship both regionally and globally. The Economics of Brexit - Revisited seeks to provide greater clarity to a range of issues that have been hotly debated over the past few years, ranging from the trade and fiscal implications of Brexit, to the economic impact of regulation and migration. The significance of different Brexit options are discussed in detail, including the significance of demands for regulatory harmonisation (the 'level playing field'), along with their implications for UK trade with the EU and the rest of the world. A wide range of economic analyses are evaluated to determine their relative methodological strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately whether their conclusions are sufficiently robust to engender confidence. Finally, noting that a key determinant of the effectiveness of any post-Brexit economic strategy depends upon the degree of flexibility created for economic policy, the book provides an extended examination of the potential relating to different economic policy options available to the UK government, depending upon the form of final trade settlement that is agreed with the EU. These policy options include more active forms of macroeconomic management, combined with industrial and procurement policy. The Economics of Brexit - Revisited therefore seeks to combine evaluation of the available evidence indicating the economic impact of Brexit, together with consideration of policy trade-offs that lie at the heart of the choices surrounding Brexit, and how these might be resolved. The Economics of Brexit - Revisited therefore maintains its position as the most comprehensive analysis of the economics of Brexit in the market today.

The WTO Agreement on Agriculture subjects different groups of developed and developing countries to different limits on domestic support and allows various exemptions from these limits. Offering a comprehensive assessment of the Agreement's rules and implementation, this book develops guidance toward socially desirable support policies. Although dispute settlement has clarified interpretation of the Agriculture and SCM Agreements, gaps remain between the legal disciplines and the economic effects of support. Considering the Agriculture Agreement also in the context of today's priorities of sustainability and climate change mitigation, Lars Brink and David Orden build a strategy that aligns the rules and members' commitments with the economic impacts of agricultural support measures. While providing in-depth analysis of the existing rules, their shortcomings and the limited scope of ongoing negotiations, the authors take a long-term view, where policies directed toward evolving priorities in agriculture are compatible with strengthened rules that reduce trade and production distortions.

There is a common perception of reciprocity as a concept that is opposed to the communitarian interests that characterise contemporary international law, or merely a way of denoting reactions to unfriendly or wrongful conduct. This book disputes this approach, and highlights how reciprocity is instead linked to the structural characteristic of sovereign equality of States in international law. This book carries out an in-depth analysis of the concept of reciprocity and the elements that characterise it, before examining the various roles and articulations of reciprocity in a number of fields of public international law: the law of treaties, the treatment of individuals, the execution of international law, and the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals. In all these areas, it analyses both more traditional and more contemporary examples, to demonstrate how reciprocity is closely linked to the very structure of public international law.

This is a fresh and stimulating book on new challenges for civil justice. It brings together leading experts from across the world to discuss relevant topics of civil justice from regional, cross-border, international and comparative perspectives. Inter alia, this book will focus on multinational rules and systems of dispute resolution in the era of a global economy, while also exploring accountability and transparency in the course of civil justice. Transnational cooperation in cross-border insolvency, regionalism in the process of recognition and enforcement of foreign titles, and the application of electronic technologies in judicial proceedings, including new types of evidence also play a major role.Technology, the Global Economy and other New Challenges for Civil Justice is a compact and accessible overview of new developments in the field from across the world and written for those with an interest in civil justice.

Far from regarding the law as supreme, corporations approach law as an element of executive thought and action aimed at optimizing competitiveness.

The objective of this book is to identify, explore and define corporate legal strategies that seek advantage in the opportunities revealed when the Law is perceived as a resource to be mobilized and aligned with the firm s business and economic agendas."

In this book, senior judges and academics at the forefront of transnational commercial law in Asia, Australia, Europe, the US, and elsewhere, reflect on the implications of anti-globalism and the COVID-19 pandemic on international commercial dispute resolution (ICDR). The chapters consider: (1) What types of cross-border commercial disputes will arise in the future and what resources will be needed to respond to them in a cost-effective, time-efficient, and equitable manner? (2) Is there still merit in a multilateral approach to transnational commercial law and ICDR, despite the closing of borders, the rise of protectionism, and the disruption of global supply chains? (3) What reforms and innovations should courts, arbitrators, and mediators contemplate when navigating the post-pandemic landscape? (4) Can the accelerated use of remote technology in ICDR (as prompted by the pandemic) be leveraged to enhance access to justice for all? With a focus on the current crisis in globalism, as well as the associated problems of ensuring justice and fairness in the resolution of cross-border commercial and investment-state disputes along the Belt-and-Road and elsewhere, the book will be an invaluable resource for academics, judges and practitioners alike.

This book provides comprehensive, in depth analysis of the different sets of rules of origin adopted by major trading partners, namely EU, US, China and Japan and all trading regions - Asia, Africa and Latin America. It discusses the current status of non-preferential as well as preferential rules of origin in international trade, their evolution over last decades and tendencies for the future. With its multidisciplinary approach, the book's contents provide legal and economic comparative analysis of different sets of rules origin, reviewing their drafting differences and their implications and impact on industrial and investment environments. Drawing from the thirty years' experience of the Author, the book provides insights from trade negotiations along with practical tools for policy makers and practitioners, orientation for the private sector and analytical tools for researchers. A new methodology to draft product specific rules of origin based on an input-output table elaborated by the Author is a distinctive feature of this new edition as well as a new chapter dealing with administrative aspects of rules of origin.

Virtually no research is targeted at developing medicines for tropical diseases as the expected market returns from R&D into these diseases in the private pharmaceuticals sector are too low. Frank Muller-Langer addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of short-term access to affordable medicines in poor countries. The author analyzes additional push and pull mechanisms to stimulate R&D for pharmaceutical products alongside patent protection which may help mitigate the problem of those consumers in poor countries who lack access to affordable medicines. Furthermore, he reasons that a global regime of banning parallel trade from low-income countries to high-income countries is desirable from a developing country's perspective.

Das Lehrbuch vermittelt fundierte Grundkenntnisse im Offentlichen Recht. Dabei geht der Autor von greifbaren gesellschaftlichen, zumeist wirtschaftlichen Problemen aus, die er anhand der Gesetzestexte erlautert. Das Buch richtet sich an Jurastudenten, die einen Einstieg in das Offentliche Recht suchen, und ist wegen des Schwerpunkts Wirtschaftsrecht auch fur Studenten der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften geeignet."

This insightful and accessible introduction provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important discipline of international investment law. Focusing primarily on the legal principles contained in the growing body of international investment agreements, this book covers the core concepts of the discipline, with attention given to their relation to each other and to the manner which they have developed through arbitration case law. The context of each legal principle is explored, along with a consideration of some of the major debates and emerging criticisms. Avoiding extensive case extracts, this book adopts an engaging and succinct narrative style which allows readers to advance their understanding of the topic while examining the legal principles with academic rigour and discerning commentary.

The knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. The world faces threats of war, pandemics, growing domestic political discord, climate change, disruption of international trade and investment, immigration, and the pollution of cyberspace, just as international law increasingly falls short as a tool for managing these challenges. Prosperity dependent on meritocracy, open borders, international economic freedom, and a wide-open Internet has met its limits, with international law one of the first casualties. Any effective response to these threats must reflect the pathway by which these perils arrive. Part of the answer to these challenges, Paul B. Stephan argues, must include a re-conception of international law as arising out of pragmatic and limited experiments by states, rather than as grand projects to remake and redeem the world.

This book explores the allocation of risk and liability of dangerous goods between the seller and the buyer under CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) and FOB (Free on Board) contracts, providing an in-depth study of the issue of carriage of dangerous goods in the context of international trade law. In addition to offering specific solutions to issues arising in the context of the contract of sale, the book provides a non-contractual angle, putting forward suggestions under non-contractual mechanisms. Importantly, the book incorporates case law examples from the Commonwealth and the US. Dangerous goods that are carried by sea can cause potential risks of losses and damages to the vessel, other cargoes and lives on board. The allocation of liability arising out of the carriage of dangerous goods has recently attracted unwelcome attention because of mis-declared cargoes leading to fires on board ships. Thus the book fills a gap in the literature by addressing the issue in detail with examples from multiple jurisdictions, and proposing solutions. In particular, the book analyses whether and to what extent the law of international sale of goods can provide any assistance in the re-allocation of liability between the buyer and the seller. This book will be of great interest to all those involved in the research as well as legal practice of international trade law and the law of carriage of goods by sea.

Johannes Kriegel analysiert die vernetzten Strukturen und Prozesse in Universitatskrankenhausern mit ihren unterschiedlichen Funktionen als Akutversorger sowie als universitare Forschungs- und Lehrstatte im Gesundheitswesen. Er entwickelt eine Methode, die das Kosten- und Finanzmanagement eines universitaren Krankenhauses transparent macht.

Anhand von standardisierten Befragungen zeigt Verena Reichl, dass die Sparmassnahmen bei Arzten zu einem veranderten Verordnungsverhalten und bei den Patienten zu hohen Zuzahlungen fuhren. Insgesamt sind die befragten Personen bereit, erhebliche Summen beizutragen. Die Autorin zeigt die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Kosteneinsparung auf und gibt wichtige Einblicke in das vorherrschende Patientenbild der pharmazeutischen und medizintechnischen Unternehmen.

The Institute of International Law's 2019 Resolution on the Equality of Parties before International Investment Tribunals represents a major step forward in codification of this essential principle as it applies to investor-state dispute settlement: a principle whose application in this context has attracted increasing controversy in recent years. In this commentary, Campbell McLachlan, who served as the Institute's Rapporteur on the topic, explains the context for the Resolution and sets forth an article-by-article analysis of its provisions, drawing upon a wealth of prior case-law as well as the discussions within the Institute that led to the Resolution. The resulting text is designed to assist counsel and tribunals in investment cases, as well as contribute to the wider debate on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement.

Julia Schmidt-Wilke fuhrt eine umfassende und systematische Bewertung der Instrumente der Nutzenmessung durch. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse, die Nutzwertanalyse und die Kostenwirksamkeitsanalyse.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the new framework of relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) applicable since 1st January 2021, following the end of the Brexit transition period and the entry into force of the EU-UK Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA), concluded on Christmas Eve 2020. The book contextualizes the new framework of EU-UK relations, including the ongoing challenges of implementing the Withdrawal Agreement (WA), and sheds light on the new mechanisms for EU-UK cooperation both in the economic domain including free movement of goods, financial services, and mobility of persons, and in the security domain including law enforcement, defence, and data protection. The work underlines the profound differences between the new status quo compared to the legal framework applicable when the UK was still an EU member state including end of free movement of persons, financial passporting, and cooperation in foreign affairs and defence, and reflects on what the latest stage in the Brexit process means for governance, sovereignty, and the future of European integration.

Cultural assets such as paintings, sculptures and archaeological objects are commodities - merchandise if you will. The trade with cultural assets is not free; indeed, it is governed by numerous national and supranational provisions. The work intends to clarify the relationship of such trade restrictions and the constitutionally stipulated ownership guarantee. For this purpose the author scrutinizes the legal systems as well as the practice of European countries.

Dennis Kraft untersucht die sozialversicherungs- und datenschutzrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen des Einsatzes von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im deutschen Gesundheitswesen. Er weist auf die datenschutzrechtlichen Bedenken hin und zeigt die Notwendigkeit einer telematikspezifischen Datenschutzregelung auf.

Antje Musil verdeutlicht den engen Zusammenhang zwischen der Eigenverantwortung des Patienten und der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung. Sie entwickelt ein Vergutungssystem, das die Entlohnung des Arztes starker an das Leistungsergebnis knupft und so fur eine starkere Patientenorientierung des Leistungserbringers sorgt.