On this page, you will find:

1. A collection of short to medium sized articles on German law in English language available on this website.

2. Bibliographies of literature on German law in English language.

Literature

• The German Unternehmergesellschaft: Entering Regulatory Competition, by Marcus Oehlrich

• A Comparison of German Moveable Property Law and English Personal Property Law, by Andreas Rahmatian

• The German order for payment procedure (Mahnverfahren), by Grozdana Šijanski and Jimmy Barber

• Critical remarks on the “Killing Without Obvious Reason” Case (Federal Court of Justice, Decision of 13 July 2005), by Sascha Ziemann

• The New German Act Against Unfair Competition, by Jan Peter Heidenreich

• The New German Law of Obligations: an Introduction, by Hans Schulte-Nölke

• The Treatment of the Voluntarily Intoxicated Offender in England and Germany , by Brian Foley

• The Federal Constitutional Court: an Introduction, by Gotthard Wöhrmann

• Instructions on lodging a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court

• Introduction to the German Federal Election System

• Access to Justice: an Anglo-German Comparison, by Gerhard Dannemann

• Establishing Foreign Law in a German Court, by Gerhard Dannemann

• Local Government Administration, by Dieter Haschke

• Environmental Laws: Introduction, by Peter-Christoph Storm

• Broadcasting Law in Germany

• Media and the protection of young persons

Via link from the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum

• Khalid Ghanayim & Mordechai Kremnitzer: Offences against the Democratic System of Government

• Georgina Dimopoulos, Andrew Mitchell & Tania Voon: The Tobacco Industry’s Strategic Use of Freedom of Information Laws: a comparative analysis

• Peter L Reich: Regime Change and Legal Change — The legacy of Mexico’s Second Empire

• Lorne Neudorf: Judicial Independence: The Judge as a Third Party to the Dispute

• Paul Hughes: Sentencing councils and commissions: an exception to Damaška’s two ideal types?

• Orlan Lee: New Packaging for Left-Over Big Data: “Identity Proofing” and “Equality Monitoring”

• Baroness Hale: The Protection of Human Rights in the United Kingdom

• Christian Kirchner and David Ehmke: Economics of Legal Concepts for Management Compensation Schemes in the Credit Sector and of their Regulation – A Critical Contribution to the European Regulatory Discussion

• Lorena Carvajal-Arenas and A F M Maniruzzaman: Cooperation as Philosophical Foundation of Good Faith in International Business-Contracting – A View Through the Prism of Transnational Law

• Andrea Marco Steingruber: The Mutable and Evolving Concept of ‘Consent’ in International Arbitration

• Christian Kirchner and David Ehmke: Private Ordering in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Reforming the London Club

• Camilo A. Rodriguez-Yong: The Doctrines of Unconscionability and Abusive Clauses: a Common Point Between Civil and Common Law Legal Traditions

• European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group):Draft for a First Chapter (Subject Matter, Application and Scope) of an Optional European Contract Law

• Tobias Schrank:Legal Aid in Times of Economic Turmoil: Current Challenges in England and Germany

• Willem H. van Boom: Juxtaposing BTE and ATE: the Role of the European Insurance Industry in Funding Civil Litigation

• Osita Mba: Judicial Review of the Prosecutorial Powers of the Attorney-General in England and Wales and Nigeria: an Imperative of the Rule of Law

• Anthony Gray: The Regulation of Electoral Financing

• Hwa-Jin Kim: The Case for Market for Corporate Control in Korea

• European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group): Position Paper on the Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights

• Rashmin Khandekar: Is The Legislative Policy on Legitimacy Really Legitimate?

• Junwei Fu: Towards a Social Value Convergence: a Comparative Study of Fundamental Principles of Contract Law in the EU and China

• Chris D. L. Hunt: Unjust Enrichment Understood as Absence of Basis: a Critical Evaluation with Lessons from Canada

• Duncan Sheehan: Unjust Factors or Restitution of Transfers Sine Causa

• Alan Berman: The Experiences of Denying Constitutional Protection to Sodomy Laws in the United States, Australia and Malaysia: you’ve come a long way baby and you still have a long way to go!

• Lord Mance: Britain’s Emerging Constitution?

• Charles Zhen Qu and Björn Ahl: Lowering the Corporate Veil in Germany: A Case Note on BGH 16 July 2007 (Trihotel)

• Andreas Rahmatian: Codification of Private Law in Scotland: Observations by a Civil Lawyer

• Guy E. Carmi: Dignity – The Enemy from Within: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis of Human Dignity as a Free Speech Justification

• Khalid Ghanayim: The Role of Reasonable and Unreasonable Mistake in Justified Defences – A Comparative and Analytical Study

• Reinhard Zimmermann: The German Civil Code and the Development of Private Law in Germany

• Mathias M. Siems: The Adjudication of the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) in the Last 55 Years – A Quantitative and Comparative Approach

• Hwa-Jin Kim: Directors’ Duties and Liabilities in Corporate Control and Restructuring Transactions: Recent Developments in Korea

• Elise Groulx: “Equality of Arms”: Challenges Confronting the Legal Profession in the Emerging International Criminal Justice System

• Mark Freedland: Application of Labour and Employment Law Beyond the Contract of Employment

• Charlotte J. Romano: Comparative Advertising in the United States and in France

• Alan Berman: The Law on Gender Parity in Politics in France and New Caledonia: A Window into the Future or More of the Same?

• Karen Eltis: Society’s Most Vulnerable Under Surveillance: The Ethics of Tagging and Tracking Dementia Patients With GPS Technology: A Comparative View

• David Bradley: A Note on Comparative Family Law: Problems, Perspectives, Issues and Politics

• Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”: Rethinking the “Fruits of the Poisonous Tree” in Israeli Constitutional Law

• John Yukio Gotanda, Compound Interest in International Disputes

• Mohamed El Zeidy, Universal Jurisdiction In Absentia: Is It A Legally Valid Option for Repressing Heinous Crimes?

• Maik Martin, Constitutional Review of Foreign Law in English and GermanCourts

• Michael Bütter, Cross-Border Insolvency under English and German Law

• Peter Schlechtriem, The German Act to Modernize the Law of Obligations in the Context of Common Principles and Structures of the Law of Obligations in Europe

• Armin Hadjiani, Duress and Undue Influence in English and German ContractLaw: a comparative study on vitiating factors in common and civil law

• Jeroen Kortmann, Liability for Nonfeasance; a comparative study

• David Bradley, Convergence in Family Law: Mirrors, Transplants and Political Economy

• Mindy Chen-Wishart, In Defence of Unjust Factors: a study of rescission for duress, fraud and exploitation

• Thomas Krebs, In Defence of Unjust Factors

• Gerhard Dannemann, Illegality as Defence Against Unjust Enrichment Claims

• Ralph Surma, A Comparative Study of the English and German Judicial Approach to the Liability of Public Bodies in Negligence

Bibliography

• German Law Archive Database

• German Law in English. A select bibliography (1993)