Geschäftsraummiete oder Unternehmenspacht: Aktuelle Tendenzen in der höchstgerichtlichen Judikatur

Nachdem zuletzt die Problematik der Abgrenzung von Gesch?ftsraummiete und Unternehmenspacht vor allem für den Fall der Inbestandgabe von R?umlichkeiten in Einkaufszentren im rechtswissenschaftlichen Schrifttum gleichsam Hochkonjunktur hatte, liegen nunmehr zwei aktuelle h?chstgerichtliche Entscheidungen zu diesem Themenkomplex vor. Im folgenden Beitrag wird anhand dieser beiden Entscheidungen analysiert, ob und wenn ja, in welchem Umfang, der (ausufernde und zT hochkomplexe) literarische Diskurs bislang in der Lage war, die Entscheidungspraxis des H?chstgerichts zur Abgrenzung von Gesch?ftsraummiete und Unternehmenspacht dogmatisch zu beeinflussen.     

Die Konstitutionalisierung Europas zwischen Konvent,Regierungskonferenz und Verfassungsvertrag

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An experimental study of sentencing by magistrates

A pilot study was carried out with 23 magistrates to develop a sentencing severity scale. An experiment was then conducted with 168 magistrates deciding sentences for simulated cases in 56 groups of three. The results showed that sentences were more severe when offenses were more serious, when offenders had a more serious criminal record, when offenders were male, and when offenders were of higher social status. The age of the offender, the race of the offender and victim, the plea, the prevalence of the offense, and whether breack of trust was involved, did not have significant effects on sentence severity. A comparison between real and simulated sentencing decisions showed that they were similar, and a comparison between individual and group decisions showed that the group decisions were more likely to be relatively severe than relatively lenient.This research was completed while Mr. Kapardis was supported by a Social Science Research Council studentship.     

The Silence of the Sirens

Risk is a projection of a specific temporality performed by the observer. However, this projection is doomed to impossibility because of the prohibiting problems of time, causality, subjectivity and relativity of risk. The observer is left only with a castrated projection that defies the role of science as a pedestal for the projection and institutes negation as its driving force. This projection is materialised within the Law in the form of the Precautionary Principle. Risk evokes undesired dualisms, especially the one between Idealism and Operationalism. The essay attempts to bring the two together by extrapolating the hard appearance of the legal system as seen through Luhmann’s autopoiesis and the need for critical openness of a contextualised environmental law. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.