German National Reports to the 18th International Congress of Comparative Law

Jürgen Basedow (Herausgegeben von) (1949-2023):was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg; Membre associé de l'Institut de droit international; Titular Member and Secretary General of the International Academy of Comparative Law; member of numerous advisory bodies at the German and EU level, inter alia, Chairman of the German Monopolies Commission; member of the Groupe européen de droit international privé; and member of the Deutscher Rat für Internationales Privatrecht.Uwe Kischel (Herausgegeben von) ist Professor für Öffentliches Recht, Europarecht und Rechtsvergleichung an der Universität Greifswald.Ulrich Sieber (Herausgegeben von) Born 1950; Director,MaxPlanck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg/Germany and Professor of Law; faculty member at the law faculties of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

• Stefan Korioth and Ino Augsberg: Religion and the Secular State - Heribert Hirte and Sebastian Mock: The Role of Practice in Legal Education - Gerhard Wagner: Catastrophic Damages - Liability and Insurance - Andreas Spickhoff: Maternity for Another - Jens M. Scherpe: The Legal Status of Same-sex Relationships - Stefan Leible: Consumer Protection in International Relations - Peter Mankowski: The Codification of Private International Law since the 1960s - Burkhard Hess and Rudolf Hübner: Cost and Fee Allocation in Civil Procedure - Astrid Stadler: Class Actions - Hans-Joachim Koch: Climate Change and the Law - Hanno Merkt: Corporate Governance - Christian Armbrüster: Insurance Law between Business Law and Consumer Law - Thomas Dreier and Louisa Specht: The Balance of Copyright - Axel Metzger: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Matters of Intellectual Property - Wolfgang Wurmnest: The Law Applicable on the Continental Shelf and in the Exclusive Economic Zone - Ralph Alexander Lorz: The Protection of Foreign Investment - Hans-Peter Folz: International Law in the German Legal System - Lothar Michael: Foreign Voters - Ines Härtel: Constitutional Courts as "Positive Legislators" - Matthias Cornils: Plurality of Political Opinions and the Concentration of Media - Norman Weiß: Are Human Rights Universal and Binding? - Jürgen Kühling: Public Private Partnerships - Ulrich Palm: Regulation of Corporate Tax Avoidance - Martin Böse: Corporate Criminal Liability - Sabine Gleß: Truth or Due Process? − The Use of Illegally Gathered Evidence in the Criminal Trial - Phillip W. Brunst and Ulrich Sieber: Cybercrime Legislation