5 German Law Journal No. 10 (2004)

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Public Law

Why Aren’t German Penal Policies Harsher and Imprisonment Rates Higher?
Michael Tonry

Police and Prosecutions: Vanishing Differences between Practices in England and Germany
Michael Jasch

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Private Law

Management Buy-Out, Cash Pooling, Up-Stream Loans and Guarantees in German Group Companies: Old Concepts – New Developments
Jochen Herbst

Agency Work – from Marginalisation towards Acceptance? Agency work in EU Social and Employment Policy and the “implementation” of the draft Directive on Agency work into German law
Dagmar Schiek

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European & International Law

Risk Assessment in the European Food Safety Regulation: Who is to Decide Whose Science is Better? Commission v. France and Beyond…
Karolina Szawlowska

Recent Developments of Corporate Governance in the European Union and their Impact on the German Legal System
Athanasios Kouloridas and Jens von Lackum

A ‘Common European Home’? The Rule of Law and Contemporary Russia
Michael Frei & Malcolm MacLaren

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Legal Culture

The Role of the Judiciary in Germany
Hans-Ernst Böttcher

Book review: Siegfried Magiera/Karl-Peter Sommermann (eds.), Verwaltung und Governance im Mehrebenensystem der Europäischen Union, Duncker & Humblot, Schriften zum Europäischen Recht
Stephan Bitter