Gerhard Dannemann - Böcker

This book traces the life and legacy of a German Jewish lawyer, F A Mann, who moved to the UK in 1933 fleeing racial persecution from Germany, and later became one of the best-known legal minds of his age, equally versed and experienced in legal practice and legal scholarship. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, legal practitioners, and members of the judiciary from around the world, F A Mann: The Lawyer and His Legacy is split into three parts. Part I sets out a legal biography of F A Mann, with a particular emphasis on his background, network, and the insights afforded by previously unstudied archival materials. Part II covers the broad range of sub-disciplines and practice areas in which Mann was active and explores the way in which he helped to form them. Part III, on monetary law, reflects both Mann's outstanding influence and the current topicality of monetary law issues. Drawing on some 12,500 letters of Mann's personal correspondence with judges, academics, and legal practitioners, this book explores how Mann's biography, his equal familiarity with German and English law and with academia and legal practice, and his wide range of legal interests have contributed to his lasting influence on law and legal scholarship.

This book provides the most comprehensive description of the German law of unjustified enrichment in the English language. It explains to common law readers how German law generally allows restitution for transfers made without legal ground (rather than on the basis of individual unjust factors), an approach which the late Peter Birks proposed for English law to adopt, and which the House of Lords was careful not to rule out for the future in Deutsche Morgan Grenfell v Inland Revenue. Part I explains the workings of German unjustified enrichment law within the particular context of German contract, tort and property law. It shows how the German general unjust enrichment clause is controlled by limiting its scope to intentional transfers, and complemented by specific grounds of unjust enrichment. This part also explains defences against and measure of enrichment claims. Part II places German law in the comparative context of three different fundamental approaches towards unjustified enrichment, shows some unexpected similarities between English and German law, and discusses whether English law could and should adopt the German approach. The book gives equal prominence to structural issues and legal doctrine on the one hand, and practical application of the law on the other. It provides leading German cases and relevant statutory provisions in English translation.

European Contract Law unification projects have recently advanced from the Draft Common Frame of Reference (2009) to a European Commission proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law (2011) which is to facilitate cross-border marketing. This book investigates for the first time how CESL and DCFR rules would interact with various aspects of domestic law, represented by English and German law. Nineteen chapters, co-authored by British and German scholars, examine such interface issues for eg pre-contractual relationships, notions of contract, formation, interpretation, and remedies, extending to non-discrimination, third parties, transfers or rights, aspects of property law, and collective proceedings. They go beyond a critical analysis of CESL and DCFR rules by demonstrating where and how CESL rules would interact with neighbouring areas of English and German law before English and German courts, how domestic traditions might influence the application, which aspects might motivate sellers and buyers to choose or reject CESL, and which might serve as model for national legislators. The findings are summarized in the final two chapters.

Internationale Rechtsfälle verfangen sich leicht zwischen schlecht aufeinander abgestimmten Regeln aus unterschiedlichen Rechtsordnungen. Zusammen produzieren sie Ergebnisse, die keine beteiligte Rechtsordnung will - Fälle von unterversorgten Arbeitslosen, übervorteilten Erben, zu schwer bestraften Kriminellen, unscheidbaren Ehen, Streitigkeiten ohne zuständiges Gericht. Der Gleichheitssatz in Art. 3 Grundgesetz verbietet, solche ungewollten Diskriminierungen hinzunehmen und befugt zugleich Richter und Behörden, sich dafür über niederrangigere Rechtsnormen hinwegzusetzen. Eine solche 'Anpassung' von Rechtsnormen ist entgegen gängiger Praxis aber kein Allheilmittel bei der Überwindung sonstiger komplexer Probleme in internationalen Fällen. Hier bleiben auch Richter an das Gesetz gebunden. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Problematik gelangt Gerhard Dannemann zu einem neuen Verständnis zur Anwendung ausländischen Rechts und ihrer Abgrenzung zur bloßen Berücksichtigung nicht anwendbarer Rechtsnormen. Er befaßt sich mit Grundfragen des Internationalen Privatrechts und bezieht völkerrechtliche und verfassungsrechtliche Gesichtspunkte ausführlich mit ein.