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Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities. By contrast, and despite the fact that almost one third of Germans were still working in agriculture as late as 1914, Germany's rural society remains relatively unexplored. Although historians have begun to correct this imbalance, very few full-length studies of social relations east of the Elba in this period have been published. This book concentrates on social relations in the 1,500 estate villages (Gutsdörfer) of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 'Social relations' include the chains of command and obedience, the relative legal positions of owner and...
A special course adoption price is available for an order of six or more copies from a university bookstore. Contact sales-us@brill.com>sales-us@brill.com or sales-nl@brill.com. International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook, by Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey, now in a second, revised edition, is designed for classes in foreign and international legal research. Following a general section on basic concepts, topics covered in the book range from treaty research to chapters on particular subjects of international law. Coverage also includes chapters on researching foreign and comparative law as well as major international organizations, including the UN and the EU. International and Foreign Legal Research offers a possible roadmap for structuring a class in international and foreign legal research while also serving as a tool for quick look-ups when a researcher requires direction on a topic or information on a source. Developed for use in legal research courses, International and Foreign Legal Research is an invaluable resource for librarians, students, law professors, and other researchers in the research of foreign and international law.
This monograph is the most comprehensive comparative law study of legal responsibility arising from medical care presently available. It is written for doctors as well as health care administrators and legal professionals. Focusing on the problems of civil liability, it presents the development, points of contact with, and differences between the modern law of medical liability stemming from both the Common Law and Civil Law traditions of England, Scotland, Eire, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, South Africa, France, Belgium, West Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. It demonstrates the extent to which both problems of medical law and trends towards their solution are already...
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English summary: How do jurists obtain knowledge over the living environment which they regulate? Experience is an important source of knowledge, but the complex, connected information of society also increasingly requires an empirical study of law, and yet, the methods of empirical investigation are not so easy to manage and their results are not as easy to interpret as one might wish. For this reason, Hanjo Hamann discusses the principles of quantitative-empirical study and connects the critical reflection of empirical cognitive possibilities with specific epistemological interests of jurisprudence. What emerges from this method is a pragmatic theory of reception, which according to the ex...
Die Geschichte des 1950 gegründeten Bundesgerichtshofes in Karlsruhe ist trotz zahlreicher Detailstudien über sein Personal und seine Rechtsprechung bislang weithin unbekannt. Die zweibändige Publikation ermöglicht nun erstmals einen umfassenden, quellenfundierten Einblick in Aufbau, Funktionsweise und Personal dieses höchsten deutschen Gerichts in Zivil- und Strafsachen für die 1950er und die erste Hälfte der 1960er Jahre. Die Last der NS-Vergangenheit wird dabei genauso ins Blickfeld gerückt wie die Frage nach der Weiterentwicklung des Gerichts und seiner Richterinnen und Richter in den bundesdeutschen Rechtsstaat. Band 2 beleuchtet die frühe Rechtsprechung des Gerichts im Überbl...
Dass im Strafprozess nicht um das Recht, sondern primär um Tatsachen gestritten wird, mag den Außenstehenden verwundern, versteht sich für den Praktiker aber von selbst. Der Grund liegt hierfür im Wesen des gerichtlichen Verfahrens: Der Richter soll über eine in der Vergangenheit liegende Tat urteilen, bei der er nicht dabei war. Er muss sich mittelbar im Rahmen der Beweisaufnahme Kenntnis verschaffen. Streitigkeiten um den Sachverhalt und Fehlurteile sind vorprogrammiert. Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit soll auch das bis heute überfällige Modell einer rationalen Tatsachenfeststellung entwickelt werden.