Publications

Publications

Monographs:

  1. European directive law transforms German administrative law. A contribution to the Europeanisation of German law, Köster-Verlag, Berlin 1994.
  2. European decision-making. Die Fraktionen im Europaparlament zwischen nationalen Interessen, Parteipolitik und Europäischer Integration, Wochenschau-Verlag Schwalbach, 1997.
  3. Wirtschaftsrecht - Basisbuch für Studium und Praxis, Oldenbourg Munich, 2nd edition 2005 (together with other authors).
  4. CyberLaw - Textbook on the Law of the Internet, Beck Munich, 2001.
  5. Internetrecht.com - Das Wirtschaftsrecht des Electronic Commerce, Beck Rechtsratgeber im dtv, 2001.
  6. Von der innovativen Wertschöpfungskette zum Lead Market - Die öffentliche Hand als Innovationsnachfrager, Berlin 2006 (with Sandra Hildebrandt and Klaus Semlinger).
  7. Blurred Law. Reflections on the relativisation of law in the digitalised world. Duncker & Humblot Berlin 2008.
  8. ImagesRight. The power of images and the powerlessness of law. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2009.
  9. Pictorial Law. Modern Law and the Power of Pictures. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2011.
  10. The end of democracy? Effects of digitalisation from a legal, political and psychological perspective. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2018.
  11. Digitising Democracy: On Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - A Legal, Political and Psychological Perspective. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2020.

Published writings:

  1. The public as judge? Opportunities and risks of litigation PR. Nomos Baden-Baden 2010
  2. Big data and law. Stämpfli Bern 2017 (together with Manfred Rehbinder)

Contributions in monographs:

  1. Political Culture: Citizens and Politics, in: Raban von Westphalen (ed.), German System of Government, Munich 2001, p. 633 ff.

  2. The Federal Constitutional Court, in: Raban von Westphalen (ed.), German System of Government, Munich 2001, p. 363 ff.

  3. The Law of Internet Marketing, in: Uwe Manschwetus/Andrea Rumler (eds.): Strategisches Internetmarketing. Developments in the Net Economy. Wiesbaden 2002, p. 65 ff.

  4. Visualisation of the law - opportunities and risks. Legal-theoretical comments on the influence of images on the law, in: Eric Hilgendorf (ed.), Contributions to Legal Visualisation. Berlin, 2005, p. 123 ff.

  5. The Position and Function of European Political Parties in the Light of Art. 191 EC Treaty, in: Rudolf Hrbek (ed.), Towards a European Party System? Die Rolle politischer Parteien im EU-System, to be published shortly by Nomos in Baden-Baden.

  6. Opportunities and Risks of Litigation PR - The Perspective of Constitutional Law, in: Volker Boehme-Neßler (ed.), Die Öffentlichkeit als Richter? Opportunities and risks of litigation PR, Baden-Baden 2010, p. 20 ff.

  7. Blurred Basic Law. Notes on constitutional law in the digitalised world, in: Walter Blocher (ed.): 60 Jahre Grundgesetz. Kassel, 2010, p. 157 ff.

  8. Blurred law. Legal-theoretical considerations on the measurement of virtual space, in: Hermann Hill/Utz Schliesky (eds.), Die Vermessung des virtuellen Raums. Baden-Baden, 2012, p. 234 ff.

  9. Jurisprudence in the Court of Public Opinion? Legal sociological considerations on litigation PR, in: Lars Rademacher (ed.), Public Relations and Law. Wiesbaden 2012, p. 75 ff.

  10. Law as a network. Legal-theoretical considerations on reciprocity and networking, in: Manfred Rehbinder (ed.): Reziprozität und Recht. Zurich 2012, p. 75 ff.

  11. The power of images. On the function of images and their relationship to writing, in: Bundesverband der Pressebild-Agenturen und Bildarchive (ed.): Der Bildermarkt 2013, p. 25 ff.

  12. Facebook democracy. How democracy is reinventing itself in the age of the Internet, in: Matthias Knaut (ed.), Zukunft Wirtschaft. Berlin 2013, p. 128 ff.

  13. Litigation and communication: The cooperation between corporate communication and legal affairs in the corporate context, in: Manfred Piwinger/Ansgar Zerfaß (eds.): Handbuch der Unternehmenskommunikation. 2nd edition Wiesbaden. 2014, p. 1321 ff.

  14. The will, psychology and the law - farewell to homo iuris?, in: Jakob/ von Orelli (eds.): Der Stifterwille. Bern 2014, p. 153 ff.
  15. The power of algorithms. Notes on the influence of big data on democracy, in: Manfred Rehbinder/ Volker Boehme-Neßler (eds.): Big Data und Recht, Bern 2017, p. 111 ff.
  16. Shady sides. Why smart cams are a problem for democracy, in: Jürgen-Taeger (ed.), Chancen und Risiken von Smart Cams im öffentlichen Raum. Baden-Baden 2017, p. 235 ff.
  17. Litigation and communication: The cooperation between corporate communication and legal departments, in: Manfred Piwinger/Ansgar Zerfaß (eds.): Handbuch der Unternehmenskommunikation. 3rd edition Wiesbaden. i.E.
  18. Law 4.0? Reflections on the future of law in the digital age, in: Walter Frenz (ed.), Handbuch Industrie 4.0: Recht, Technik, Gesellschaft. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2020, p. 451 ff.

Encyclopaedia article:

  1. European Community, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 291 f.

  2. Globalisation, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 412 ff.

  3. Commercial law, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 1034 et seq.

  4. Cultural constitutional law, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 511 ff.

  5. Human rights, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 564 ff.

  6. Natural law, in: Raban von Westphalen/Gerlinde Sommer (eds.), Staatsbürgerlexikon, Munich 1998, p. 601 ff.

  7. Data protection, in: Thomas Schildhauer (ed.), Lexikon des Electronic Business, Munich 2003, p. 64 ff.

Journal articles:

  1. The analogue application of Section 2 (2) No. 2 of the German Residential Property Brokerage Act, in: Wohnungswirtschaft und Mietrecht 1991, p. 373 ff.
  2. Judicial law transforms EC directives, in: Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 1993, p. 206 ff.
  3. European Community law before German courts, in: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt 1993, p.1240 ff.
  4. The new "Länder participation" after Maastricht, in: Europarecht 1994, p. 216 ff.
  5. Art. 56 para. 3 of the Brandenburg State Constitution. A contribution to the information relationship between government and parliament, in: Landes- und Kommunalverwaltung 1995, p. 12 ff.
  6. The transnational administrative act, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 1995, p.863 ff.
  7. A learning process at European level - From the Vredeling Directive to the European Works Council, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung, Internationales Privatrecht und Europarecht 1996, p. 229 ff.
  8. Temporary management positions, in: Recht im Amt 1997, p. 157 ff.
  9. The parliamentary group in the European Parliament, in: Europarecht 1997, p. 281 ff.
  10. German and European Political Parties - Relations and Interactions in the Process of Democratisation of the European Union, in: Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift 1998, p. 191 ff.
  11. Consensus and dissent in the German Bundestag, in: Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung 1998, p. 84 ff.
  12. The formation of will in the European Parliament - MEPs and parliamentary groups between consensus and dissent, in: Zeitschrift für europarechtliche Studien 1999, p. 157ff.
  13. The new public procurement law - an example of the Europeanisation of German law, in: Europäisches Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht 1999, p. 89 ff.
  14. The principle of neutrality in public procurement law, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 1999, p. 1081 ff.
  15. Politicised procurement? On the admissibility under European law of political criteria in the award of public contracts, in: Die Öffentliche Verwaltung 2000, p. 145 ff.
  16. Competition between legal systems or Europeanisation? - Status and Perspectives of European Company Law, in: Journal of Comparative Law, Private International Law and European Law, 2000, 1 ff.
  17. European Internet Law, in: European Business and Tax Law, 2001, p. 149 ff.
  18. Cybermoney - Money on the Internet, in: Der Finanz Betrieb, 2001, p. 383 ff.
  19. Internet as a tax haven? - An introduction to tax law problems of electronic commerce, in: Multimedia und Recht, 2001, p. 203 ff.
  20. Legal problems of Internet advertising - legal bases, problems, perspectives, Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht, 2001, p. 547 ff.
  21. Income Taxes in Electronic Commerce, Finanzrundschau 2001, p. 1089 ff.
  22. Electronic Government - Internet and Administration, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht, 2001, p. 374 ff.
  23. Data protection in the information society - From data protection law to information economy law, in: Kommunikation & Recht 2002, p. 217 ff.
  24. Law as theatre - the impact of television culture on the law, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik 2003, p. 125 ff.
  25. Multimedia and law - Effects of image culture on the law, in: Kommunikation und Recht 2003, p.530 ff.
  26. Hypertext and law. Legal-theoretical comments on the relationship between language and law in the Internet age, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 2005, p. 161 ff.
  27. Public procurement in public-private innovation networks. On problems under European law of promoting innovation through state procurement, in: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt 2006, p. 1257 ff.
  28. On the way to "fuzzy" administrative law? The digitalisation of administration and administrative law, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2007, p. 650 ff.
  29. Law and reciprocity, in: Rechtstheorie, Heft 4/2008, p. 521 ff.
  30. Who writes the digital code? Reflections on law-making in the digitalised world, in: Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung 2009, p. 74 ff.
  31. The end of the state? Effects of digitalisation on the state, in: Journal of Public Law 2009, p. 145 ff.
  32. Law and television. Reflections on how television is changing the law, in: UFITA - Archive for Copyright and Media Law 2009/I, p. 9 ff.
  33. Trust on the Internet - The role of law, in: Multimedia und Recht 2009, p. 439 ff.
  34. Relativisation of the law. Notes on the theory of law in the digital world, in: Journal für Rechtspolitik 2009, p. 1 ff.
  35. The public as judge? Litigation PR as a challenge for the law, in: Journal für Rechtspolitik 2009, p. 228 ff.
  36. Litigation PR as a ground for appeal? Procedural consequences of unconstitutional information policy of the public prosecutor's office, in: Strafverteidiger-Forum 2010, p. 363 ff.
  37. Independent judges in the media society? Reflections on the influence of the media on the courts, in: Archiv für Presserecht 2010, p. 539 ff.
  38. Staged law? Reflections on the (necessary) renaissance of rituals in the law of the modern media society, in: Rechtstheorie 42/2, 2011, p. 167 ff.
  39. Law as a comic? Reflections on law in the image society, in: UFITA - Archive for Copyright and Media Law, Vol. 2011/2, p. 447 ff.
  40. Enemy brothers? The relationship between justice and the public in the media society, in: UFITA 2012, p. 337 ff.
  41. From the euro crisis to global democracy. The European sovereign debt crisis as a catalyst for the further development of transnational democracy, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik 2012, p. 237 ff.
  42. Privacy by Design - EU data protection as a model for modern legislation, in: Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung 2013, p. 242 ff.
  43. Brakes on privatisation in the constitution? Constitutional aspects of mandatory referendums on privatisation and company sales by the state, in: Landes- und Kommunalverwaltung 2013, p. 481 ff.
  44. Car tolls for EU foreigners? European legal limits and room for manoeuvre of a road toll for EU foreigners, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2014, p. 97 ff.
  45. The right to be forgotten - A new fundamental internet right in European law, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2014, p. 825 ff.
  46. Precarious balance: Legal policy considerations on the delicate relationship between judges and experts, in: Law 2/2014, p. 189 ff.
  47. Two worlds? Big data and data protection. Lines of development of data protection in the digital society, in: UFITA 2015, p. 19 ff.
  48. Fracking decisions by expert commissions? Constitutional considerations on decision design in the new fracking regulatory package, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2015, p. 1249 ff.
  49. Big data and democracy - Why democracy does not work without data protection, in: Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt 2015, p. 1282 ff.
  50. Facebook democracy? Reflections on democracy in the digital age, in: UFITA 2015, p. 655 ff.
  51. The end of anonymity. How big data is changing data protection law, in: Datenschutz und Datensicherheit 2016, 419 ff.
  52. Privacy: A Matter of Democracy. Why democracy needs privacy and data protection, in: International Data Protection Law, 2016, Vol. 6/3, p. 222 ff.
  53. Law in a vacuum? Why regulating data retention is so difficult, in:Kommunikation & Recht, 2016, Supplement 1, p. 35ff.
  54. The rating of people. Constitutional aspects of online rating portals, in: Kommunikation & Recht 2016, p. 637 ff.
  55. Purchased attention? Constitutional and party law considerations on the sponsorship of political parties, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2017, p. 528 ff.
  56. The power of algorithms. How digitalisation relativises the law, in: NJW 2017, p. 3033 ff.
  57. Compulsory registration for prostitutes - state stigma? Comments on constitutional law, in: ZRP 2019, p. 13 ff.
  58. Transparent prostitutes? The Prostitution Protection Act and data protection, in: DuD 2019, p. 342 ff.
  59. Algorithms and democracy: Notes on the digitalisation of constitutional law, in: GewArch 2019, p. 129 ff.
  60. Algorithms in democracy - constitutional law as a benchmark for software, in: K&R 2019, p. 767 ff.
  61. The fundamental right to suicide, in: NVwZ 2020, p. 1012 ff.
  62. Corona passport and Basic Law. Human dignity and the principle of democracy as a constitutional standard for an immunity pass, in: NVwZ 2020, p. 1570 ff.
  63. Parliament in the pandemic - On the principle of democracy using the example of Section 28a InfSchG, in: DÖV 2021, p. 243 ff.
  64. Curfews to combat the pandemic? Constitutional comments on proportionality in times of Corona, in: NVwZ 2021, p. 640 ff.

Essays and journalistic publications (selection):

  1. Power has priority, in: DIE ZEIT of 25 June 1998.

  2. Dubious stab in the back, in: DIE ZEIT of 8 October 1998.

  3. Public procurement law is now subject to EU law, in: Handelsblatt No. 3 1999, p. 7.

  4. The centre of power lies elsewhere, in: Das Parlament, No. 26, 25.6.1999,
    p. 13.

  5. Paul Heyse - The forgotten Nobel Prize winner, in: Weimarer Beiträge 45 (1999), p. 317 ff.

  6. A general ban on party donations? in: Das Parlament, No. 52-53, 31 December 1999, p. 13.

  7. Europeanisation of German law, in: Europäisches Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht, Heft 11/2000, p. I.

  8. The end of copyright law?, in: telepolis, 4 April 2002.

  9. Multimedia instead of law?, in: telepolis from 10.12.2002.

  10. Upswing from the office. How the public sector as a demanding customer can promote innovation and economic growth in Berlin, in: FHTW Berlin (ed.): Impulse für die Region. 2006, p. 12 ff. (together with Sandra Hildebrandt and Klaus Semlinger).

  11. On the way to comic law? How the law is changing in the age of images, in: Legal Tribune Online 2010 ( www.lto.de).

  12. The public as judge? How the media influence the courts - and what can be done about it, in: Legal Tribune Online 2010 ( www.lto.de ).

  13. The prosecutors and the Kachelmann case - The cavalry of justice, in: Legal Tribune Online 2010(www.lto.de).

  14. Kachelmann trial: Only losers in the end, in: Legal Tribune Online 2011(www.lto.de).

  15. Juvenile sentence for Torben P. : The offender on YouTube and in court, in: Legal Tribune Online 2011(www.lto.de)

  16. Lawsuit against the state treaty. ZDF and politics, in: Legal Tribune Online 2010 (www.lto.de).

  17. This acquittal is not the end of the story, in: Sächsische Zeitung, 11/12 June 2011, p. 5.

  18. A template for the tabloids, in: taz, 3 June 2011, p. 13.

  19. Daring new forms of democracy, in: Handelsblatt No. 177, 12 September 2012, p. 8

  20. No decommissioning of systemically relevant power plants: The energy transition will be expensive, in: Legal Tribune Online 2012(www.lto.de).

  21. Facebook democracy. How democracy must reinvent itself in the age of social media, in: telepolis, 3 March 2013 (http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/38/38611/1.html).

  22. NSU trial: A bureaucratic tragedy, in: Legal Tribune Online, 3 April 2013(www.lto.de).

  23. Shutdown of unprofitable power plants: Self-defence of energy suppliers?, in: Legal Tribune Online, 27.1.2014(www.lto.de)

  24. Stress test for the judiciary, in: Handelsblatt, 5 March 2014, p. 27.

  25. The Federal Constitutional Court and broadcasting: showdown with politics, in: Legal Tribune Online, 25 March 2014(www.lto.)

  26. Who controls the ZDF?, in: PUBLICUS. The online mirror for public law, 7 May 2014(www.publicus-boorberg.de)

  27. The car toll between European law and domestic policy. The election campaign is over!, in: Legal Tribune Online, 4 August 2014(www.lto.de)
  28. Tragedy or criminal trial? How the Edathy trial can succeed - or not, in: Legal Tribune Online, 23 February 2015(www.lto.de)
  29. "Goat fucking" as art? Böhmermann between criminal law, foreign policy and the constitution, in: Legal Tribune Online, 11 April 2016(www.lto.de)
  30. Culture of compromise, in: FAZ of 20 January 2018, p. 13.
  31. No democracy without compromise, in: ZEIT (http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2018-02/koalitionsvertrag-union-spd-kompromiss-demokratie, 2.3.2018).
  32. Echo and anti-Semitism: This scandal was important, in: WELT from 25 April 2018
  33. Kollegah and Farid Bang: Holocaust trivialisation with a state certificate, in: WELT from 18.6.2018
  34. NSU trial: Can criminal trials change the world, in: ZEIT from 10 July 2018(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2018-07/strafprozesse-nsu-prozess-historie-gesellschaft-veraenderungen)
  35. Deportation: The perceived constitutional state, in: ZEIT from 16 August 2018(www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2018-08/abschiebung-sami-a-gefaehrder-rechtsstaat-verfassung-verfahren)
  36. Kandel and the consequences: The speechless constitutional state no longer has a chance, in: WELT from 13 September 2018
  37. Why party donations are necessary - but dangerous, in: WELT from 18 November 2018(www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article184007014/AfD-Affaere-Warum-Parteispenden-zwar-noetig-sind-aber-gefaehrlich).
  38. Data protection: You really have nothing to hide?, in: ZEIT from 31 December 2018(www.zeit.de/politik/2018-12/datenschutz-sicherheit-ueberwachung-privatsphaere-voraussetzungen-demokratie).
  39. Big Data: Digitalisation is eroding our democracy, in: WELT from 10.1.2019(www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article186843448/Big-Data-Die-Digitalisierung-hoehlt-unsere-Demokratie-aus.html).
  40. Cameras in squares are changing democracy, in: WELT from 6 March 2019(www.welt.de/print/die_welt/debatte/article189835567/Gastkommentar-Kameras-auf-Plaetzen-veraendern-die-Demokratie.html).
  41. Moral taxes for the climate?, ZEIT from 15 August 2019(www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-08/politik-moral-trennung-klimapolitik-fleischsteuer).
  42. Hate comments: Disgusting and violating dignity, in: ZEIT from 23 September 2019(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2019-09/hasskommentare-renate-kuenast-facebook-urteil-landgericht-berlin).
  43. Climate protests: "Extinction Rebellion" shows that freedom of expression can hurt, in: WELT from 12 October 2019(www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article201740666/Extinction-Rebellion-Politische-Entscheidungen-fallen-nicht-auf-der-Strasse.html).
  44. "Judensau" relief. How to make anti-Semitism socially acceptable, in: ZEIT, 4 February 2020(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2020-02/antisemitismus-judensau-schmaehplastik-wittenberg-klage-urteil-kommentar)
  45. Corona crisis. Curfew only in times of greatest need, in: ZEIT of 19 March 2020(www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-03/coronavirus-krise-ausgangssperre-demokratie-verfassung)
  46. School openings. Danger to life and limb, in: ZEIT from 27 April 2020(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/schule/2020-04/schuloeffnungen-verfassungswidrig-corona-massnahmen-social-distancing)
  47. Immunity pass. The corona passport is inhumane and unconstitutional, in: ZEIT of 5 May 2020(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2020-05/immunitaetsausweis-coronavirus-antikoerpertest-grundrechte-verfassungsrechtler-volker-boehme-nessler)
  48. The end justifies all means? The constitution sees it differently, in: ZEIT, 13 October 2020(www.zeit.de/politik/2020-10/grundrechte-coronavirus-einschraenkungen-regeln-verhaeltnismaessigkeit-verfassung)
  49. Equal rights can also be smarter, in: ZEIT from 23 October 2020(www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-10/brandenburg-paritaetsgesetz-verfassungsgericht-frauenquote-gleichberechtigung)
  50. Curfews: Not covered by the constitution, in: ZEIT from 2 April 2021(www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-04/ausgangssperren-deutschland-verfassung-corona-neuinkfektionen-demokratie
  51. Relaxations for vaccinated people: Vaccinated people also have to make sacrifices, in: ZEIT from 30 April 2021(www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2021-04/corona-impfung-lockerungen-geimpfte-solidaritaet-gleichberechtigung-gerechtigkeit)
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