Introduction to German Law: Edition 3

Joachim Zekoll · Gerhard Wagner

nov. 2018 · Kluwer Law International B.V.

Om denne e-boken

It is thirteen years since the appearance of the successful second edition of this convenient English-language introduction to the law of Germany. This new edition covers all the significant changes and innovations that have occurred during that period, encompassing the pervasive impacts of European Union law and of globalization, as well as the greatly increased activity of the German legislature in every area addressed in this volume.

With fifteen lucid chapters written by academic experts in their respective fields of law, as well as detailed bibliographies, this is the ideal starting point for research whenever a question of German law must be answered. The authors clearly explain the legal concepts, customs, and rules arising from such basic elements as the following:

– characteristic problems of German legal unity; – principles and practices of constitutional law; – administrative law and procedure; – the German Commercial Code; – formation and conduct of corporations and partnerships; – contracts; – tort liability; – property rights; – family law; – succession and inheritance; – labor and employment; – issues of private international law; – courts and civil procedure; – the penal code and criminal procedure.

Introduction to German Law, Third Edition provides an authoritative description of all issues likely to emerge in the course of normal application of German law in any context.

Om forfatteren

Joachim Zekoll holds the chair of Private Law, Civil Procedure, and Comparative Law at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since 2001. From 1992 until 2001, he was on the faculty of the Tulane University School of Law (New Orleans, USA), serving as the John Minor Wisdom Professor of Law from 1999 until 2001. From 2003 to 2007, concurrently with his appointment in Frankfurt, he was the A.D. Freeman Professor of Law at Tulane University. Gerhard Wagner holds the chair of Private Law, Commercial Law, and Law and Economics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany, since 2013. From 1999 to 2013, he was the director of the Institute of Civil Procedure and Conflict Management at the University of Bonn, Germany. During the academic year 2010-2011, he was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Illinois, USA. From 2009 through 2014, he also served as Professor of Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands