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Janina Glaser

Diskriminierungsverbote im deutschen und US-amerikanischen Versicherungsvertragsrecht

Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung

Schriften zum Versicherungs-, Haftungs- und Schadensrecht

Die Grenzen einer zulässigen Ungleichbehandlung bzw. einer unzulässigen Diskriminierung aufgrund von persönlichen Merkmalen wie Geschlecht, Alter, Behinderung, Rasse oder ethnische Herkunft werden vor allem im Arbeitsrecht seit langem sehr intensiv diskutiert. Im Versicherungsvertragsrecht ist die Problematik dagegen erst durch die sogenannte „Gender-Richtlinie“ der EG sowie das in Umsetzung dieser Richtlinie erlassene Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) in den…

Alina Alexandra Bot

International Leverage on Minority Rights and Protection

The Case of Romania Within Integration into International and European Organisations

Chemnitzer Schriften zur europäischen und internationalen Politik

Nach dem Sturz des diktatorischen Regimes in Rumänien strebte das Land nach der Angleichung seiner Grundsätze und Rechtsvorschriften an internationale und europäische Normen, auf der Suche nach dem, was das populäre Verständnis unter dem Slogan „Zurück nach Europa“ umfasste. Für dieses Ziel sollte Rumänien nicht nur seine Position in den internationalen Organisationen, denen es bereits als Mitglied angehörte, festigen, sondern vor allem musste das Land die…

RADIZ Radon-Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum Schlema e. V. (Ed.)

Radon as a Medicine

Therapeutic Effectiveness, Biological Mechanism and Comparative Risk Assessment

HIPPOKRATES – Schriftenreihe Medizinische Forschungsergebnisse

Proofs of the therapeutic efficiency of balneological radon applications administered to patients suffering from rheumatic diseases, investigations into the biological action mechanism associated with the alpha particles emitted by radon and its radioactive daughter products, and the comparative risk assessment of radon treatment and medicinal pain therapy have been the research projects whose results are summarized in this book. Controlled clinical studies, if possible…

Martina Timmermann (Hrsg.)

Wirken in Wendezeiten – 40 Jahre Mid-Atlantic Clubs

Festschrift gewidmet den MAC Gründern und Lenkern H. W. Lessing und Dr. F. Krüger-Sprengel

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

Sicherheitspolitische Wendezeiten in den beginnenden 1970er Jahren waren Auslöser für die Gründung von Mid-Atlantic Clubs (MACs) in Großbritannien und den USA. In der Bundesrepublik hob eine Gruppe überzeugter Transatlantiker 1977 den ersten Mid-Atlantik Club in Bonn aus der Taufe. Sein Ziel seit 40 Jahren: Transatlantische Vertrauensbildung durch persönlichen, informellen Expertenaustausch.

2017, in den politischen Wendezeiten durch BREXIT, eine veränderte…

Pawel Sobczyk (ed.)

Security and Globalization in the Context of European Integration

Legal Aspects

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

The three notions making up the title – security, globalization and European integration – constitute the pivotal point of the academic discourse presented in this publication. Various legal aspects of the issues in question are indicated by the subtitle as the point of departure. A legal approach to the said issues is not the only possible perspective to view the subject due to their interdisciplinary character and, consequently, interest exhibited by researchers of…

Andreas Bletschacher

The Future of SPS Dispute Settlement at the World Trade Organization

EC-Biotech and US-Continued Suspension as Examples for the Proceduralization of SPS Issues

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

First, the book aims to develop a theory of what the status of the WTO is and how it has developed so far.

Starting with a short description of the old GATT system, the first chapter introduces the reader to the multilateral trading system. The chapter provides an overview of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism and explain the new Dispute Settlement Understanding, established in the Uruguay Round.

Chapter II examines the health-related provisions…

Héctor Augusto Misael Anaya Mondragon

Investment Arbitration with a Special Focus on ICSID and Latin America

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

This work focuses on investment disputes between foreign investors and host states in Latin America that were primarily resolved under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the ICSID Additional Facility Rules.

By performing a case-by-case analysis on selected arbitral awards and decisions rendered by ICSID tribunals and ad hoc committees, this work examines the decision making process of investment…

Michael-Alexander Volks

The Applicability of a US-Type Rule of Reason under Article 101 (1) TFEU

A Comparison of EU with US Law

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

This work deals with the applicability of a US-type rule of reason under Art. 101 (1) TFEU. It compares EU with US competition law, in particular § 1 of the Sherman Act and Art. 101 TFEU. The analysis essentially deals with the question whether the rule of reason assessment as developed in US antitrust law under § 1 of the Sherman Act could be applied under Art. 101 (1) TFEU. It is based on the assumption that an efficient competition law regime…

Maria Luisa Aranda Sales

The Role of Intellectual Property for Clean Technology Innovation in the Context of EU Environmental Policies

Studien zum Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und zum Urheberrecht

This book revises the role of IP law, in the context of EU environmental protection, with a view to promote clean energy technologies. Specifically, the project carries out three main lines of analysis. First, from the perspective of EU primary law, it analyses the implications, if any, of the principle of environmental integration for IP law (particularly, patent law). Second, it examines the role that IP law § on its own and in combination with other elements § may play…

Irmela Gorges (Ed.)

Global Perspectives on Sustainable Regional Development

Probleme und Chancen der Globalisierung

The present volume is interdisciplinary in scope, written for economists, social scientists, civil servants, environmental protectionists, and individuals alike who are interested and working in the field of sustainable development. The volume is a compilation of mainly research results from economics covering seven areas of sustainable development: the political impact on sustainable societal and economic development, the relevance of an organized service sector,…