Law

The success of European integration depends on an application and development of law which is guided by specific underlying assumptions. In this book, the author examines those assumptions, how they are translated into legal method and doctrinal constructs, and how they unfold, evolve, and pose challenges for the interconnected democratic orders.

Great debates have long shaped company law and continue to do so, yet the subject remains under-explored. This volume maps the key scholarly debates in German and Italian company law, demonstrating that these debates form the core of the field and examining how ideas, concepts and knowledge have developed and continue to evolve.

The relationship between state law and religious law is one of the central points of tension in modern legal systems within religiously pluralistic societies. The author gives a comparative analysis of the treatment of inter-religious marriages in Israel, Lebanon, and Tunisia and investigates the reception of a religion-based ban on marriage by German courts.