October 2009: Welcome to the Bucerius Law Journal website. The new issue of the BLJ (3/2009) has just been published and can be downloaded by clicking on the cover page image to the right. (To open the pdf file in your web browser, please left-click on the issue’s cover next to this text. You can download the file by right-clicking on the cover and then selecting “Save Target As…”). 

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(Please note that with the exception of the Lieblich paper on mercenaries in international armed conflicts, all other papers are in German. We strive to increase the number of English papers in future issues and welcome submissions under beitrag(at)law-journal.de.) 

  • Thomas Eger, Patrick C. Leyens, Stefan Voigt: Ökonomik der Internationalisierung des Rechts: Neue Forschungsfelder zwischen Recht und Ökonomik
  • Jan Lieder: Regulating Hedge Funds: Investor Protection and Systemic Risk
  • Henning Wienstroth: Internetregulierung im Lichte des Zensurverbots
  • Ulrich Wilke: Tax deductibility of first-degree study expenses – constitution-based construction of § 12 Nr. 5 German Income Tax Act (EStG) – Annotation on a decision by the German Federal Fiscal Court (BFH) of 18 June 2009 – VI R 14/07 –
  • Karsten Gaede: Court's rigths of denying motions to take evidence under German criminal law
  • Nils Schramm: Anforderungen an die arbeitsvertragliche Gestaltung von Freiwilligkeitsvorbehalten (Besprechung von BAG, Urt. v. 18.03.2009, Az. 10 AZR 289/08)
  • Eliav Lieblich: The Status of mercenaries in International Armed Conflict as a case of politicization of International Humanitarian Law
  • Streitgespräch: Matthias Hartwig, Uwe Jenisch, Michael Stehr, Hauke Friederichs: Rechtsprobleme der Seepiraterie
  • Rezensionen: Tonio Walter: Kleine Stilkunde für Juristen, Kleine Rhetorikschule für Juristen (Johannes Gerberding); Klassiker der juristischen Literatur; Jean Jacques Rousseau: Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Grundsätze des Staatsrechts (Anna Bodemann)