Product Description: Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht eine der grossten Skultpuren der Gegenwartskunst: die zwischen 1982 und 1987 im Stadtgebiet von Kassel realisierten "7000 Eichen" von Joseph Beuys.Im ersten Hauptteil unternimmt der Autor eine eingehende kunsthistorische Analyse der Skulptur...read more

Product Description: English summary: This commentary on the German Civil Code makes available to the modern reader the rich store of historical experiences on which present day German legal doctrine and case law are based. Each analysis starts with the presentation of the given legal issue, shows different solutions practised before the BGB, explains the choices made by the draftsmen of the code in the late 19th century and then presents main developments in legislation, jurisdiction and jurisprudence in Germany as well as abroad...read more

Product Description: English summary: Two contributions on enrichment by transfer and restitution for wrongs form the central part of this work. Both focus, in particular, on German and English law as two main exponents of the civil law and common law jurisdictions in Europe...read more

Product Description: English summary: This volume contains twenty essays by Hein Kotz which were published in different, and partly remote places. In their totality they give an impression of Kotz' scholarly style and the subjects in which he was interested...read more

Product Description: By comparison with other areas of private law, the law of succession has been neglected by modern scholars. This volume contributes to its rehabilitation by examining key issues in succession law from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative...read more

Product Description: English summary: This volume contains the contributions to a symposium held to celebrate Hein Kotz's 70th birthday. The authors of the first four essays deal with the well-known triad of defects of contractual intent, i.e. mistake, fraud and duress...read more

Product Description: The volume is based on a symposium that took place in the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. It has to be seen in the context of the international renaissance of the concept of codification...read more

Product Description: English summary: The denationalization of the law is one of the great challenges for legal scholarship today: the government as a traditional law-maker is being replaced, in an increasing number of fields, by private law-making agencies...read more

Product Description: English summary: Against the background of continuous but fragmentary legislation of the European Community in the field of private law, this work pursues an integrative approach. In a comprehensive collection of around 460 entries, it treats the various aspects of European private law in light of their historical and comparative law dimensions as well as of the harmonization of European law...read more

Product Description: In order to contribute to a better understanding of natural causation, which is a central concept in civil law, the present book offers a large collection of leading cases from 25 European countries and from the Court of Justice of the European Community...read more

Product Description: The emergence of a European private law is a key legal issue today. Set-off and "extinctive" prescription are neglected topics in comparative literature. Reinhard Zimmermann maps out a model for a common European approach, providing practical examples of the arguments that may be employed in the process of harmonizing European private law...read more

Product Description: English summary: This conference volume, edited by Reinhard Zimmermann, deals with service contracts. It analyzes the experiences of various national legal systems with this type of contract which has always been overshadowed, in comparative legal discourse, by the sales contract...read more

Product Description: With an emerging ius commune in the field of tort law, the extensive range of experiences derived from national court practice on the basis of prior laws will in certain respects be of comparatively less importance. A major lacuna is thus apparent: While publications of court decisions and databases exist, none provide access to a comparative selection of recurring issues in the various European legal systems...read more

Product Description: English summary: Against the background of continuous but fragmentary legislation of the European Community in the field of private law, this work pursues an integrative approach. In a comprehensive collection of more than 470 entries, it treats the various aspects of European private law in light of their historical and comparative law dimensions as well as of the harmonization of European law...read more

Product Description: English summary: Freedom of testation is a fundamental principle of all succession laws in Europe and elsewhere. It is however subject to limitations, the main one being the so-called right to a compulsory portion. In this volume, the authors discuss freedom of testation from a comparative perspective...read more

Product Description: English summary: This book discusses the influence of religious ideas on the law of succession, i.e. one of the areas of private law which are, according to general opinion, particularly strongly shaped by cultural factors. It deals with four of the seven major legal traditions in the world (continental civil law, the English common law, Jewish law, and Islamic law) as well as with a manifestation of a fifth, the chthonic legal tradition (the law of the Germanic tribes)...read more

Product Description: Das heute praktizierte Zivilrecht hat sich vom Text des BGB bisweilen weit entfernt. Es wurde auf der Grundlage und im Rahmen des BGB gestaltet, steht aber auch in einem daruber hinausreichenden Traditionszusammenhang. Es ist ein zentrales Anliegen des hier vorgelegten Kommentars, diesen Zusammenhang sichtbar zu machen...read more

Product Description: Die Sammlung ""Europäisches Privatrecht"" beschränkt sich auf die Kernbereiche des Privatrechts. Sie umfasst das zugehörige Richtlinienrecht der EU, das internationale Einheitsrecht und bereits vorliegende gemeinsame Rechtsprinzipien...read more