Authority

Pei Zhang

Has China’s National Park Policy Achieved Ecological Justice?

The Competition and Convergence of Authoritarian Environmentalism and Experimentalism

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

China’s national park policy is a landmark institutional reform in nature conservation effort. Yet, this study identifies significant tensions between top-down ecological mandates and bottom-up community development demands, as well as considerable variation in policy outcomes across local national parks. [...]

Tahar Benmaghnia

EU External Action and the CFSP – Well-Equipped for the Fast-Pacing Geo-Economic World?

Schriften zum Internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht

Across all continents, the EU operates in a wide range of fields. As a unique player on the global stage, the EU, as a supranational organisation, acts in many respects on a par with other states. Particularly in the area of international trade, the EU has developed a strong and recognisable profile. Within the framework of the Common Foreign […]

Johanna Sand

Third Parties in Negotiations

Schriftenreihe zum Verhandlungsmanagement

Since negotiators do not always manage to achieve mutually accepted agreements, they seek for better techniques to manage their oftentimes high-impact conflicts. Third-party intervention has been in the focus of alternative dispute resolution especially due to its advantages. However, giving up decision-making power to transfer it to people who […]

Sirinya Somching

Liability of the European Union for Lawful Acts

An Analysis of the Impact of the General Principles on EU Liability Regime

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

The question of whether European Union law should recognise the liability of the Union in the absence of unlawfulness has been the subject of a significant dispute since the European Economic Community was founded in 1957.

Since the action for damages against the Union was enshrined in the law and parties were able to bring a case […]

Tjadina Grabowski

Die EZB als Aufsichtsbehörde

Stellung und Funktion der EZB im ESFS und SSM

Schriften zum Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht

Die Finanz- und Eurokrise hat neben gravierenden Regulierungsdefiziten auch erhebliche Mängel im Bereich der Finanzaufsichtsstrukturen offenbart. An erster Stelle stand dabei die Erkenntnis, dass die bisher auf das einzelne Institut ausgerichtete Mikroaufsicht schlicht nicht in der Lage war, systemische Risiken angemessen zu erkennen, […]

Stephan M. Ebner

Unternehmensbezogener Geheimnisschutz im internationalen Steuerverfahren

Zur Frage der Modifikation deutscher Rechtsstaatsstandards im zwischenstaatlichen steuerlichen Informationsaustausch

Steuerrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Nach seiner Grundkonzeption soll der steuerliche Auskunftsverkehr den Finanzbehörden weltweit eine gleichmäßige Besteuerung unter Wahrung der maßgeblichen Steuergesetze sichern. Dabei dürfen Steuerinformationen seitens der deutschen Verwaltung anerkanntermaßen nur dann in das Ausland übermittelt werden, wenn dadurch insbesondere keine […]

Richard Marter

Die abstrakte Klauselkontrolle in Deutschland, England und Frankreich

Eine Untersuchung unter Einbeziehung des Wettbewerbsrechts

Schriftenreihe zum internationalen Einheitsrecht und zur Rechtsvergleichung

Gemäß Artikel 7 Absatz 1 der Richtlinie über missbräuchliche Klauseln in Verbraucherverträgen sorgen die Mitgliedsstaaten dafür, dass „im Interesse der Verbraucher und gewerbetreibenden Wettbewerber, angemessene und wirksame Mittel vorhanden sind, damit der Verwendung missbräuchlicher Klauseln durch einen Gewerbetreibenden in Verträgen, die er […]

Livingstone Sewanyana

Comparative Experiences of NGO Regulatory Frameworks

Eastern and Southern Africa

Verfassungsrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The growth of NGOs in sub-Saharan countries beginning in the 1990s, can be attributed to the ’new wave of democracy’ that led to the rebirth of associational life thus creating new spaces for people to organise. Hitherto many countries amended their constitutions to allow for political reforms. In countries such as Côte d‘Ivoire, Cameroon, […]

Ioana Andreea Tiriteu

The EU Member States` Iraq Policy of 2002-3 at the United Nations Security Council

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

To what extent was the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy affected by the member states’ approaches to the Iraq disarmament at the United Nations Security Council, and how have the EU states’ positions on the matter impacted on the authority enjoyed by the UNSC? This research topic opens the door to an in-depth analysis of the […]

Atia Hussain

Protection of Legitimate Expectations in Customs Procedures

Steuerrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The concept of protection of legitimate expectations in EU administrative law theoretically exists almost in all European Member States in one form or other. At broader level, European Court of Justice has theoretically emphasized the significance of this concept. However, discrepancy arises where the practical decisions of the disputed case […]