de Gruyter Recht

de Gruyter RechtManaging Director/Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Michael Schremmer
Telephone: 00-49 (0)30 2 60 05 - 155
e-mail michael.schremmer@degruyter.de

The main themes of the tradition-rich publishing program are:

  • Multiple volume large-scale commentaries pertaining to legal practice (StGB [Penal Code], StPO [Code of Criminal Procedure], ZPO [Code of Civil Procedure], HGB [Commercial Code], AktG [Stock Corporation Law], VVG [Insurance Contract Law], UWG [Unfair Competition Act])
  • Single volume pocketbook commentaries and manuals for legal practitioners 
  • de Gruyter textbook program
  • Series of publications
  • Commemorative publications
  • Collections of cases (law reports)
  • Professional journals
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Pre-Publication price until January 31, 2009
Handelsgesetzbuch. Großkommentar
Begr. v. Staub, Hermann
Hrsg. v. Canaris, Claus-Wilhelm / Habersack, Mathias / Schäfer, Carsten
5. völlig neu bearb. Auflage

Band 2: §§ 48-104

[Commercial Law]

Staub, HGB is one of the oldest German language commentaries on commercial law; the first edition was published in 1893. Its reputation is based, above all, on its scientifically grounded yet hands-on commentary that is guaranteed by the accomplished and well-known editors and authors from the fields of legal practice and scientific research that contribute to the commentary. [more ...]

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Pre-Publication price until January 31, 2009

Lang/Weidmüller. Genossenschaftsgesetz

[Cooperative Societies Act]

Begr. v. Lang, Johann / Weidmüller, Ludwig
Bearb. v. Schaffland, Hans-Jürgen / Cario, Daniela / Schulte, Günther / Korte, Otto / Lehnhoff, Dirk
36. neu bearb. Auflage

The new edition explains the Cooperative Societies Act (GenG) and the law regulating the transformation of the German Cooperative Bank.  [more ...]

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Medienrecht

[Media and Industrial Property Law]

Hrsg. v. Wandtke, Artur-Axel

This handbook introduces an overall presentation on an academic basis above all of private law media processes that arise in connection with the production and marketing, or use, of characters, images, sounds and other information (media products). [more ...]

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Schwarze, Roland

Das Recht der Leistungsstörungen

[Law of Irregularity in Performance]

A systematic presentation of the general law of irregularity in performance. [more ...]

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Kirchner. Abkürzungsverzeichnis der Rechtssprache

[List of Legal Abbreviations]

Begr. v. Kirchner, Hildebert, unter Mitarb. v. Pannier, Dietrich

The Kirchner book deciphers more than 9,000 abbreviations of German legal terminology. There is hardly any legal text without abbreviations. And not only lawyers must know what they mean. Every citizen who wants to understand legal texts comes across these word fragments.  [more ...]