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Martin Mittermeier, Christoph Kumpan, Risikoentleerte Stimmrechte – Auswirkungen von Wertpapierdarlehen im Gesellschaftsrecht, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht 2009, 404–411.

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Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia

April 25, 2025

In his doctoral dissertation, former Institute research fellow Dominik Krell examines the workings of the Saudi judiciary. Against the background of recent reforms, he offers new insights on the legal reasoning of Saudi judges and considers how their approach is reflected in Saudi Arabia’s laws, legal institutions, and court practice.

Expert opinions on foreign law in 21st-century litigation

April 22, 2025

In June of 2023, legal scholars and practitioners met at the Institute to discuss the process by which foreign law enters German court proceedings. The conference proceedings have now been assembled into a volume co-edited by Ralf Michaels, director at the Institute, and Jan Peter Schmidt, head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law.

RabelsZ issue devoted to family law topics

April 08, 2025

How has family law changed as a result of its encounters with transnational fact patterns, civil status registration systems, the digital age, and war? The first issue of the Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law of 2025 is dedicated to addressing several examples of these transformations.

Legally Recognised Gender

April 04, 2025

In her doctoral dissertation, Susanna Roßbach, senior research fellow at the Institute, examines the past, present and future of gender entries in civil registries.

A Historical-Comparative Perspective on the Administration of Estates

March 11, 2025

Estate administration covers the entire process from the time of death until the final distribution of the assets, including the satisfaction of the deceased’s creditors. Reinhard Zimmermann, director emeritus, and Jan Peter Schmidt have co-edited, together with Kenneth Reid, a new standard reference work that provides a global overview of this core component of succession law.

Corporate Governance by Management and Supervisory Boards

February 24, 2025

Individuals at the helm of a German company are bound by a large number of rules that are prescribed in various legal instruments. A handbook co-edited by Klaus J. Hopt, Director Emeritus at the Institute, presents this complex network of standards as an integrated corporate governance framework regulating stock corporation law, capital market law and accounting law.

Transatlantic perspectives on corporate purpose, CSR and ESG

February 07, 2025

For some time now, listed firms have been giving greater attention to the issues of environmental protection, climate change, corporate responsibility, and economic sustainability, this occurring in respect of both decision-making processes as well as the setting of corporate goals. A recently published volume co-edited by Klaus J. Hopt presents the views of legal scholars from both sides of the Atlantic as regards economic, comparative, historical, and conceptual aspects of the topic.

Legal pluralism enables inclusive finance

January 07, 2025

Many in developing countries have limited or no access to the services of regular financial institutions and are thus forced to rely on informal credit markets. Gebreyesus Yimer, a former senior research fellow at the Institute, has studied the role of legal pluralism in enabling inclusive finance.

Bodily Self-Determination: A Graduated Right

December 16, 2024

In her new book, director at the Institute Anne Röthel traces the development of the right to bodily self-determination into a more generalized body of law over the course of the 20th century, only to observe its current state of incompletion. Her analysis addresses the situation of three categories of persons whose right to bodily…

Legal Responses to Globalization

December 02, 2024

Our world of open borders, growing migration, and cross-border movement of goods and services poses challenges for the law. One answer to these challenges is legal harmonization. Today, internationally uniform rules and principles can be found in many areas of private law. In the posthumously published work “Uniform Law”, Jürgen Basedow undertakes…

Great Debates in Company Law

October 15, 2024

Great debates have spurred the development of company law in essential ways in the past, and they continue to do so today. Holger Fleischer, director at the Institute, with Jens Koch of the University of Cologne and Klaus Ulrich Schmolke of the University of Mainz, gathered accounts of these debates into an edited volume of 21 insightful chapters…

New edition of business valuation law handbook

August 19, 2024

The law of business valuation is highly fluid, and its involvement with approaches and terminology from microeconomics and business administration can pose a difficulty for lawyers. The Rechtshandbuch Unternehmensbewertung (Handbook of business valuation law), edited by Institute director Holger Fleischer with Rainer Hüttemann, teases out the…

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