The rights of minority shareholders in French and German public companies

Article by Dr Frank Wooldridge looking at the salient features involved in the rights of minority shareholders in French and German public companies. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

GIGA Annual Report 2013

The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies is an independent social-science research institute based in Hamburg. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and combines this analysis with innovative comparative research on international relations, development and globalisation, violence and security, and political systems. On the basis of this research, the GIGA advises political, economic and social decision-makers. The GIGA operates the largest non-university information centre for area and comparative area studies in Germany. Through its Berlin office, the institute is also represented in the German capital. The GIGA has 160 staff members and belongs to the Leibniz Association. It is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research, and the other German states. It also receives a substantial amount of third-party funding, primarily from academic funding agencies

Introduction to Sources of German law: German Collections at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

This article, written by Katherine Read, gives an introduction to printed and electronic German legal resources available at the Library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and on the Web. Particular attention is given to English language sources where available

GIGA Annual Report 2012

The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies is the largest German research institute for area studies and comparative area studies and is also among the largest in Europe. It is publicly funded and is a foundation under the civil law of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The GIGA’s main priority is research on political, economic and social circumstances and developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. It produces high-quality work related to regional, interregional and global issues. In addition, the institute supports the advancement of junior researchers, provides expert advice to politicians and the business sector, and promotes the transfer of knowledge to the media and civil society. It makes information available through international research discussions, open forums and publications

OCCIDENT & ORIENT: Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Volume 4, No. 1 & 2, December 1999)

German Archaeology in Jordan Beyond 2000. By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (Amman) Gadara-Umm Qais: Studies on the Urbanization process, including a New Chronology for the Major Public Building at the Ancient Decapolis City. By: Wolfgang Thiel, Institute of Archaeology, University of Cologne (Germany) A Radiometric Examination of Plastered Skulls from Jericho and Tell Ramad. By: Michele Bonogofsky, University of California, Berkeley (USA). Museum Without Frontiers: Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. By: Lubna Hashem, Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Amman (Jordan) and Fawzi Zayadine, Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Amman (Jordan) The Discovery of a Church East of the Jordan River. By: Dr. Mohammad Waheeb, Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Amman (Jordan), Yara Doleh, Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Amman (Jordan) “Men of Dikes and Canals” – An International Symposium on the Archaeology of Water in the Middle East. By: Dieter Vieweger, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (Germany) Archaeological Survey of the Khanasiri Region / Northern Jordan, Preliminary Results. By: Karin Bartl, German Institute of Archaeology – Orient Section, Berlin / Free University Berlin (Germany), Ricardo Eichmann, German Institute of Archaeology – Orient Section, Berlin (Germany) and Fawwaz al-Khraysheh, Yarmouk University, Irbid (Jordan) Palaeoenvironmental and Archaeological Studies in the Khanasiri Region: Preliminary Results of the Archaeological Investigation of Tell Khanasiri. By: Susanne Kerner, German Institute of Archaeology – Orient Section, Berlin / Free University Berlin (Germany), Fawwaz al-Khraysheh, Yarmouk University, Irbid (Jordan) and Ricardo Eichmann, German Institute of Archaeology – Orient Section, Berlin (Germany) Ghwair I, An Exceptionally Well Preserved Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Community in Wadi Feinan. By: Alan Simmons, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada at Las Vegas (USA) and Mohammad Najjar, Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Amman (Jordan) Lost Paths of Edom: Climbing Towards an Edomite “Eagle Nest”. By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman, Amman (Jordan) and Jens Eichner, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (Germany). Following in the Footsteps of the Nabataeans: The First International Conference on Nabataean Research Studies. By: The Petra Regional Council, Wadi Musa (Jordan) Scanty Remains of Classical Temple-Townsite Accessible Again el-Kabu By: Rami G. Khouri, Al Kutba Publishers, Amman (Jordan) Report on the 1998 Excavations by the Madaba Plains Project: Tell al-‘Umayri and Tell Hisban. By: Douglas R. Clark, Walla Walla College (USA), Larry G. Herr, Canadian University College (Canada), Øystein S. LaBianca, Andrews University (USA) and Lawrence T. Geraty, LaSierra University (USA) Iraq al-Amir: New Research. By: Jean-Pierre Braun, IFAPO-Amman Branch The Petra North Ridge Project. By: Patricia M. Bikai, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman (Jordan) and Megan Perry, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman (Jordan) Church of Saint Elijah discovered at Tell Mar Elias By: Rami G. Khouri (text and photos), Al Kutba Publishers, Amman (Jordan) Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeology in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan By: E. B. Banning, University of Toronto (Canada) The Decumanus in Gadara: New Archaeological Discoveries. By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan) and Claudia Bührig, Technical University of Cottbus (Germany) Late Neolithic Esh-Shallaf 1999: Second Campaign of Excavations. By: Katrin Bastert, Dresden (Germany), Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan), and Dieter Vieweger, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (Germany) The 7th International Symposium on Historical Geography in Antiquity. By: Jochen Mayer, Institute of History, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Keep up with New Discoveries in Jordanian Archaeology via Weekly E-mail Articles from Amman. Al-Kutba, Publishers (Amman) Words of Appreciation and Welcome to Dr. Ghazi Bisheh and Dr. Fawwaz Khraysheh. Visit of German Church Leaders to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The New Pella Bronze Age Temple: The Largest ‘Migdol’ Ever Found. By: Stephen Bourke, Sydney University (Australia) Searching for Medieval Hormuz: The Lost Crusader Fortress of Petra. By: Manfred Lindner, Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Germany) Ba’ja – The Archaeology of a Landscape: 9000 Years of Human Occupation. By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan), Roland Lamprichs, Dresden (Germany), and Dieter Vieweger, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (Germany) Urban Archaeology in the Highlands of Central Jordan: The Tell Madaba Excavations, 1998-99 Seasons. By: Timothy P. Harrison, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto (Canada). Contact and Change in the Near East: Studies in Ancient Economy and Infrastructure at the Department of Special Projects in the Humanities (University of Mainz / Germany) By: Theodor Kissel, Sonderforschungsbereich 295, Mainz (Germany), Jeorjios M. Beyer, Sonderforschungsbereich 295, Mainz (Germany) Ba’ja V: A Newly Discovered Neolithic Site in the Ba’ja Region. By: Dieter Vieweger, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (Germany), Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Jordan), and Roland Lamprichs, Dresden (Germany

Das Deutsch-Niederländische Institut in Köln 1931–1945 und die Neubegründung der Niederlandistik in der Bundesrepublik

The article is based on an oral history interview with the longtime chairwoman of the “Work Group for Dutch-German Cultural Exchange” (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsch-Niederländische Kulturarbeit), Marta Baerlecken, née Hechtle (*1906), who accompanied and contributed to the development of Dutch Studies as academic discipline in 20th century Germany nearly from the beginning onwards. The first part of the article focuses on the history of the Dutch-German Institute at Cologne University, founded in 1931 with financial and moral support from the Dutch Government, with which she was affiliated since 1935. Originally set up as modern bi-national area studies institute, it soon got under pressure from völkisch and national-socialist groups and became entangled into the aggressive German policy towards the West. Her report brings the internal scholarly and political debates and disputes to the fore, as well as the essential questions of resistance, accommodation or collaboration in an academic context in this time. The second part of the article deals with the development of Dutch Studies as academic discipline in early Post-War Germany and the Federal Republic

Africana collections online : serving African studies in Germany

The Frankfurt University Library possesses one of the outstanding Africana Collections in continental Europe; its regional anddisciplinary scope is unique in Germany. Today about 5,000 new acquisitions a year have accumulated over 200,000 items on Africa south of the Sahara. Some 50,000 historical and rare photographs are fully digitized and freely accessible. Together with a collection of around 18,000 books stemming from the collections of the German Colonial Society at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century they constitute the historical foundations of the collection. Recently the University Library Frankfurt and the library of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg, started the project ilissAfrica (internet library sub-Saharan Africa), a central subject gateway for online resources and a powerful tool for bibliographic research. These new services will be indispensable for researchers and librarians of African Studies and will promote African studies worldwide

EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force Meeting on 'Quark Matter in Compact Star'

The recent measurement of two solar mass pulsars has initiated an intense discussion on its impact on our understanding of the high-density matter in the cores of neutron stars. A task force meeting was held from October 7-10, 2013 at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies to address the presence of quark matter in these massive stars. During this meeting, the recent oservational astrophysical data and heavy-ion data was reviewed. The possibility of pure quark stars, hybrid stars and the nature of the QCD phase transition were discussed and their observational signals delineated.Comment: 31 pages, summary of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on "Quark Matter in Compact Stars", October 7-10, 2013, FIAS, Goethe University, Frankfurt, German

Das Deutsch-Niederländische Forschungsinstitut an der Universität Köln 1931–1945 und der Aufbau des Faches Niederlandistik in der frühen Bundesrepublik

The article is based on an oral history interview with the longtime chairwoman of the “Work Group for Dutch-German Cultural Exchange” (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsch-Niederländische Kulturarbeit), Marta Baerlecken, née Hechtle (*1906), who accompanied and contributed to the development of Dutch Studies as academic discipline in 20th century Germany nearly from the beginning onwards. The first part of the article focuses on the history of the “German-Dutch (Research-)Institute” at Cologne University, founded in 1931 with financial and moral support from the Dutch Government, with which she was affiliated since 1935. Originally set up as modern bi-national area studies institute, it soon got under pressure from völkisch and national-socialist groups and became entangled into the aggressive German policy towards the West. Her report brings the internal scholarly and political debates and disputes to the fore, as well as the essential questions of resistance, accommodation or collaboration in an academic context in this time. In the second part of the article, the development of Dutch Studies as academic discipline in early Post-War Germany and the Federal Republic is sketched from a personal point of view. This development was characterised by continuity on the institutional and personal levels as well as by heartening examples of a new beginning

Etablierte Fachzeitschriften in hybrider Publikation : Die GIGA Journal Family in Open Access

With the transition of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies four established journals into Open Access format and the ongoing publication of the traditional print editions, the GIGA has reached a new frontier within the German social sciences. This hybrid publication model is intended to equally serve conservative readers and new target groups, particularly those in the regions under study, who would otherwise be difficult to access. This article discusses the original motivation for this project — funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) — as well as the practical implementation process and the challenges faced along the way