Wissenschaftliche Literatur Germany

Nikolas Westphal

Fairness Opinions in Germany

An Empirical Investigation of Their Determinants, Disclosure Characteristics and Wealth Implications

Finanzmanagement

In the recent past, fairness opinions have become an increasingly popular phenomenon on German capital markets. Regulatory standards still pending, the rendering, disclosure, content and publication of fairness opinions are subject to a broad scope of practices with varying desirability. The aim of this thesis is to describe the current state of fairness opinion disclosure and quality; its development over time; its linkages to transaction characteristics, management…

Xueyuan Han

Educational Borrowing: Sino-German Exchange in Higher Technical Education (1921–1941)

Schriften zur Kulturgeschichte

The essence of the Sino-German higher technical education exchange from 1921 to 1941 was that, in the absence of qualitatively sufficient higher technical education, China “borrowed” German educational institutions to train high-level specialists for its industrialization. In the “educational borrowing”, the “home country” usually takes the initiative to learn from the “target country”. However, under certain circumstances, the “target country” would also actively export…

Mehmet E. Altin

Internationalization Through Localization: Gülen Inspired Schools

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

For this study, Dr. Altin conducted an empirical study and visited Gülen inspired schools in Europe, Africa and the US. He focuses on three important issues about the Gülen Inspired schools, namely: the educational concept of the Gülen inspired schools, their global expansion, and the current situation of these schools, especially under the political pressure of the Erdogan regime after the failed coup attempt in July 2016 in Turkey. [...]

Hanna Pułaczewska

Adolescence with Polish in a German Town

The Case of Regensburg

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Already in the first generation of children born abroad to migrant parents, a language shift to the language of the host country and a loss of the heritage language frequently occurs. While some migrant parents talk to their children in their own mother tongues, a contrary scenario is no exception. In families including a Polish speaking parent or parents living in Germany, German frequently becomes the only language used for communication by members of the second…

Anita Hökelmann, Notger Müller, Kerstin Witte, Thomas Wolbers (Eds.)

Active Healthy Aging

Proceedings of the International Conference of Sports and Neuroscience „Active Healthy Aging, AHA 2015“, 2nd–5th September, Magdeburg, Germany

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

This question has been of interest to mankind for a long time. The average lifetime has grown constantly across the last 150 years; however, what really matters is a long healthy life span.

But what is to do?

Normal aging is associated with the decline of physical and cognitive abilities along with structural and neurophysiological changes in the brain and the remainder of the body.

Lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education…

Josephine Ndagire

National Redress for ‘Gendered’ International Crimes

Uganda, Germany and the International Criminal System

Strafrecht in Forschung und Praxis

On the premise that the duty of states to prosecute international crimes is a fairly new development, this book assesses the extent to which Uganda is meeting this obligation, using the international criminal justice system as a benchmark and the German criminal justice system as a ’best practices’ case study.

The viability of law and justice structures to redress these crimes is evaluated through a comparative lens restricted to ’gendered’ international crimes,…

Eike Albrecht / Dmitry Palekhov / Steven Kramm / Toni Mileski (Eds.)

Transposition of the Acquis Communautaire: Environment and Migration

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

This volume is the result of two conferences that have been organised by two departments of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Cottbus, Germany – Department of Public Law, with Focus on Environmental and Planning Law at the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, and the Department of Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Sciences.

The conferences were carried out in 2019 in the framework of two…

Ermando Shuku

Arbitration in Albania

Current State of Law and Reform in the Perspective of UNCITRAL Model Law

Schriftenreihe zum internationalen Einheitsrecht und zur Rechtsvergleichung

This work is a detailed analysis of commercial arbitration´s process. It focuses on a comparative examination between the Albanian legislation on arbitration and the UNCITRAL Model Law.

The latter is a reference point in the international arena which has been adopted by several legal systems. The planned reform of arbitration in Albania aims to completely implement this Model Law system, as already occurred in Germany. Consequently, the analysis of single…

Fabian Bünnemann

The Compatibility of the Prohibition of Political Strikes with International and EU Labour Law

Germany‘s Handling of the Right to Strike

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

Seit dem Beginn der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise in Europa sind insbesondere die Bürger der krisengeplagten Mitgliedsstaaten mit tiefen Einschnitten in die Sozialsysteme und Budgetkürzungen durch ihre nationalen Regierungen konfrontiert. Dies führte zu einem neuerlichen Anstieg politischer Streiks in Europa. Solche politischen Streiks sind in Deutschland noch verboten. Aufgrund vielerlei Entwicklungen im europäischen und internationalen Recht und dem weitergehenden…

Gerald G. Sander, Bernard Wiśniewski & Paweł Kobes (eds.)

Internal Security and Public Security

Law and Organization

Schriften zu Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Europäischen Integration

The threats to national security, and thus to the security of the citizens, form an open catalogue. Therefore, new factors keep emerging that challenge internal and public security. This volatility and evolution of threats makes it increasingly difficult to prevent and counteract them.

The situation described above makes the authors of the book view the problem of security from a broader perspective, not only from the position of security sciences but also…