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Gegründet im Jahr 1859, zählt die Juristische Gesellschaft zu Berlin zu den ältesten ihrer Art in Europa und blickt auf eine lange Tradition zurück.
In der Schriftenreihe der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin erscheinen seit 1959 ausgewählte Beiträge aus dem reichhaltigen Vortrags- und Veranstaltungsprogramm der Gesellschaft mit dem Ziel, der juristischen Wissenschaft und Praxis in der Hauptstadt ein anspruchsvolles Forum zu bieten.
Hansgeorg Bräutigam, seinerzeit Vorsitzender einer Schwurgerichtskammer am Landgericht Berlin, schildert in diesem Band seine persönlichen Erinnerungen an die mühsame strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung des SED-Unrechts nach der Wiedervereinigung.
Ziel der vorliegenden Abhandlung ist es, Reinachs Hauptwerk einem breiteren Publikum vorzustellen und damit einen – nach hier vertretener Ansicht überfälligen – Beitrag zu seiner Wiederentdeckung zu leisten. Dazu führt die Abhandlung zunächst in Reinachs Rechtsphänomenologie ein und weist Wege zu einer Reinach-Rezeption, die von phänomenologischen Denkvoraussetzungen weitgehend unabhängig sind.
Die nachfolgenden Kapitel entfalten drei zentrale Grundbegriffe, auf denen das Gebäude von Reinachs Rechtstheorie aufruht: Versprechen als Grundbegriff des Schuldrechts, Gehören als Grundlage des Sachenrechts sowie Bestimmen als Ausgangspunkt der gesamten positiven Rechtsordnung. Das abschließende Kapitel ordnet diese Erkenntnis in den Kontext alternativer rechtstheoretischer Entwürfe ein und fragt nach der Fruchtbarkeit einer heutigen Beschäftigung mit Reinachs Theorie.
Das Ziel der Abhandlung ist erreicht, wenn es gelingt, die Brauchbarkeit von Reinachs sprachphänomenologischem Ansatz im Zusammenhang aktueller Privatrechtsdebatten zu erweisen. Das Thema der vorliegenden Abhandlung könnte daher kurz zusammengefasst auch lauten: Versprechen, Gehören, Bestimmen – Privatrecht erklärt durch drei performative Verben.
This text addresses the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the general development of international law. It focuses on three questions: What consequences does the Russian breach of the prohibition of violence have for international law as a legal order? Can Putin be held to account before the International Criminal Court? And are the individual EU sanctions being imposed on Russian citizens legal?
Struggles relating to housing policy have come to a head in a number of Germany cities. There are many tools for taking action – from "rent freezes" to the expropriation of private housing associations. Starting with a sketch of the economic characteristics of housing markets, this contribution undertakes a classification of existing measures that have already been discussed in order to reveal their constitutional limits.
The density of regulations in German naming law is constantly increasing. Anatol Dutta not only shows why it is time to reform German naming law but also looks at the potential features of a contemporary naming law that would focus on the a name’s self-representation function and the freedom of the name-bearer.
In this work, Daniel Thym illuminates the central weaknesses of German, European, and international refugee law by linking fundamental political questions with specific legislation. Thym considers disputing definitions of refugees, travel routes, and forms of international collaboration as he analyzes possible solutions for one of today’s most controversial issues.
Bewertungsportale leisten als Informationsquelle für Verbraucher zur Beurteilung der Qualität von Waren und Dienstleistungen grundsätzlich einen sinnvollen Beitrag für den Verbraucherschutz. Zum Problem werden die Portale aber, wenn Kritiker aus dem Schutz der Anonymität heraus existenzvernichtende Kritik äußern. Aufgezeigt werden die rechtlichen Möglichkeiten, wie sich Betroffene gegen unberechtigte Kritik zur Wehr setzen können.
Children are being conceived with growing frequency through in vitro fertilization. Therefore, the law must determine who their parents are. Parenthood has long been based on genetic origin, but what is the governing principle for the legal classification of children conceived by in vitro fertilization? This question and the problem of deciding who should be regarded as the parents of these children is the central concern of this work.
Although it is clear that the trial of Jesus has been extensively discussed and described before, new aspects are revealed by a strict focus on the written text from the perspective of legal history. The author follows this approach and comes to the inexorable conclusion that Jesus’s sentence was fully consistent with the terms of Roman penal and procedural law.
In 2013, § 22, para. 3 of the Civil Status Act (PStG) made clear that the civil status of intersexual persons could be entered in birth records without an indication of gender affiliation. However, German family law is still based on a binary gender hierarchy. The lecture examines whether a third sex should be recognized or if instead, gender should be eliminated altogether as a category in family law.
The EU Market Abuse Directive came into effect on 2 July 2014. In addition to the ban on market abuse that gives the directive its name, it includes a ban on insider trading in European capital markets. In critical respects, key provisions of earlier ECJ rulings were adopted when formulating the Directive, and thus represent a major element of the new European insider trading law.
The Baden Administrative Court was the first administrative court to be established in Germany and began its work in October 1863 in Karlsruhe. In 2013, the anniversary of its founding provided the occasion to reflect on the 150-years history of administrative justice in Germany. The essay is based on a lecture delivered by the then President of the Federal Administrative Court to mark the anniversary.
Protection of fundamental rights in Europe takes place in a tense balance between EU law, the Convention on Human Rights, and national constitutions. The author draws potential parallels to the relationship between the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice, and proposes a dogmatic model for the complimentary protection of fundamental rights.
The subject of government debt and laws designed to limit it has received intensive scrutiny since the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the enactment of the German Federalism Reform II in July 2009. This new law, which has essentially been in effect since budgetary year 2011, is awaiting juridical interpretation and trial in practice.
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
The aim of the presentation is to critically evaluate the importance of German insolvency law as an instrument for overcoming the financial and economic crisis and to develop reasonable reform suggestions. Following a description of the economic and legal points of origin, which must be taken into account as the basis of the evaluation of the decisions and actions already made or planned, thoughts on the goals and instruments of reform policy are presented. The focus of the presentation then turns to extra-judicial (pre-insolvency law) recapitalization, the insolvency statute as an instrument of recapitalization as well as the question of whether there should be a special act on the recapitalization of system relevant financial institutions. In closing, the most important results are summarized.
A spirit of optimism flowed through Germany after the reunification: the investment programs laid out for the newly-formed German states promised big tax advantages: you just need to invest in real estate and everything will take care of itself: renting out will finance the interest payments. If a residual financial debt remains, the Internal Revenue Office will help. This lecture demonstrates the distortions encountered when legislation does not understand how to balance the consequences of structural imbalances.
The question of whether the German constitutional system is capable of reform leads the author to an initial analysis of the German Constitution in respect to its amendments. The author takes a more precise look at the procedures of the Federalism Reform, specifies the consequences of the procedures, and presents the key results of the Reform in light of these observations. In conclusion, perspectives on an acceptable form of the Constitution are presented.
Before the reform of law of contract the law on protection from inequitable standard business conditions was not applicable to contracts of employment. One objective of the modernization of contract law was to raise the protective level of employment law to the level of general civil law. Contracts of employment are now subject to a check of the contents in terms of the law on standard business conditions. However, suitable account must be taken of the special features that apply in employment law when the provisions governing standard business conditions are applied to contracts of employment.
This historically comparative search for evidence reverses the standard statements of Art. 101 subsection 1 sentence 2 of the German Basic Law (“GG”): Lawful judges without a state governed by the rule of law? The objective of the arguments is to prove that the idea of the lawful judge initially developed in Europe independently of the modern idea of a state governed by the rule of law. The evidence is shown by means of a historical comparison of the binding of the court organization to the law in England, France and Germany.
After over fifty years of activity by the constitutional courts in Germany it was time to recall the essence of the pure constitutional complaint. Procedural and substantive law are discussed and fundamental principles are mixed with detailed observations. The paper concludes with proposals for a reform of the constitutional complaint.
The relationship of the EuGH and the EuG to the national courts is a practically inexhaustible subject. It provides an opportunity to make certain about the arrangement of the European constitutional confederation in view of increasingly newer developments. The way in which European and national jurisdictions relate to one another permits conclusion to be drawn on the level of integration that has been achieved, the relationship of national to European (constitutional) law and on the nature of the European Union itself.
Lecture held before the Judicial Society in Berlin on June 15, 2005, on the subject of the Europization of private law as a function of and challenge for comparative law.
Revised and expanded version of a lecture, held before the Judicial Society in Berlin on January 12, 2005, on the question of the meaning of a history of development of the applicable constitutional and administrative law.
This volume is a written version of a lecture given to the Berlin Legal Society. The text deals with the relationship between Company law and Consumer Protection law in the field of capital investments. Several questions concerning this matter have recently been highly controversial before German courts. The main issue is whether an investor who exercises the right to revoke his accession to an investment company is thus able to withdraw his initial share independent of the present value of his holding.
["The principle of the religious-ideological neutrality of the State - content and limits"]The call for governmental neutrality in religious-ideological issues, firmly enshrined in our political idea of order since the creation of the modern state from the outcome of the confessional civil wars of the early modern age, is currently experiencing a surprising renaissance. However, the term "neutrality" invokes a large variety of interpretations of neutrality. A reflection on the content of the call for neutrality is therefore required.
In his article, the author examines the question of what can the constitutional call for neutrality reasonably provide, and what are its limitations and when does politics have to intervene. This issue is discussed by way of three conceptual confrontations affecting the central problems of applicability of the call for neutrality: substantiation neutrality vs. efficiency neutrality, integration vs. separation and acceptance vs. tolerance.
["Legislation without Parliament"]The loss of parliamentary control capability and the increasing preponderance of the government in essential sociopolitical affairs is becoming more and more frequently criticized. The essay analyses and evaluates this development. In the opinion of the author, the "open society of the lawmaker" and the tendency towards "de-institutionalization" of legislation are especially capable of endangering the freedom as well as the equality of the citizenry.
["New Default and Purchasing Law. An Interim Review"]The written version of a lecture given to the Berlin Legal Society. The author makes an initial assessment of the new Default and Purchasing Act two years after the Law of Obligations Modernisation Act came into force. Both the pseudo-problems and the real problems of this area are illustrated here, as are individual questions of the conformity to guidelines of the new Purchasing Act. In particular this advocates a fair interaction with the new law and a discussion free from prejudice. The reform is also evaluated within the context of European Civil Rights Standardisation.
The author deals with the questions of the international jurisdiction of US courts and reasons for the jurisdiction regulations unknown to German law.
Im April hat der Deutsche Bundestag entschieden, Import und Forschung an menschlichen embryonalen Stammzellen nur unter strengsten Auflagen und nur für "hochrangige Forschungsziele" zu erlauben. In Deutschland selbst ist die Gewinnung embryonaler Stammzellen zu Forschungszwecken durch das Embryonenschutzgesetz verboten. Dennoch ist die öffentliche Gesellschaft aufgefordert, den ethischen Fragen zur Präimplantationsdiagnostik, zu Stammzellenforschung sowie des therapeutischen und reproduktiven Klonens im Raum zwischen Wissenschaft und Recht verstärkt nachzugehen.
Bernhard Schlink, an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin lehrender Professor für Öffentliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie, untersucht in nun vorliegender erweiterter Fassung eines im Dezember 2001 gehaltenen Vortrages die verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben für Embryonenschutz im Kontext der bisherigen Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgericht zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch. Gut verständlich geschrieben, formuliert der Autor sich widersprechende Ergebnisse und verdeutlicht damit, dass der Gesetzgeber zurzeit in seiner Haltung zum Lebensschutz uneindeutig regelt. Schlink appelliert sowohl an die rechtswissenschaftliche Dogmatik als auch an den Gesetzgeber, den Widersprüchen klärend zu begegnen.
Vortrag, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 18. April 2001.
Der Text greift unterschiedliche Ausprägungen kollektiver Verantwortung im Strafrecht auf: von der individuellen Zurechnung kollektiven Handelns, insbesondere bei bestimmten Teilnahmeformen, über die unmittelbare Zurechnung zu Kollektiven als einem Problembereich vor allem des Wirtschafts- und Völkerstrafrechts, bis hin zu einer den einzelnen Täter entlastenden sozialen Mitverantwortung Dritter.
Vom öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen ist heute vielfach die Rede - meistens von seinen hohen Kosten, seinen Schwächen und von der Sphäre zwischen medizinisch Machbarem und praktisch Finanzierbarem. Doch es geht keineswegs nur um finanzielle Fragen, um Beitragssätze und Kostendämpfung, sondern überhaupt um die gerechte Verteilung der verfügbaren Ressourcen, um die Ziele öffentlicher Gesundheitsversorgung und um die anzuwendenden Verfahren ihrer Festlegung.
Die Abhandlung befaßt sich mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben für das öffentliche Gesundheitswesen. Hierzu werden vorrangig zwei Schwerpunkte untersucht: die prägenden Grundrechtspositionen und die Verfahrens- und Organisationsstrukturen für notwendige Verteilungsentscheidungen.
Erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrages, gehalten vor der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin am 21. Juni 2000.
Die Veröffentlichung behandelt einen bislang in seiner Bedeutung vielfach unterschätzten Gedanken der Privatautonomie und versucht, mit Hilfe des Funktionsgedankens einige Phänomene zu erklären, die bislang nicht überzeugend eingeordnet werden konnten.
Am Beispiel des Gesellschaftsrechts wird die Bedeutung von Funktionsbedingungen privatrechtlicher Subsysteme untersucht und geprüft, inwieweit und auf welche Weise das Recht auf Störungen der Funktionsbedingungen reagiert. Behandelt werden exemplarisch die Kernbereichslehre, das Mehrheitsprinzip, die eigenkapitalersetzenden Gesellschafterdarlehen.