TY - GEN A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - The Common European Sales Law: an Empirical Analysis N2 - On October 11th 2011 the European Commission proposed a Common European Sales Law (CESL) for the European Union. One of the main aims of this optional instrument is to help businesses to avoid the complexity associated with dealing with multiple mandatory provisions of their customers’ home jurisdictions. In this study I used one of the datasets published by the European Commission to predict the characteristics of businesses that would have benefited from the introduction of the CESL. I also test whether the CESL would be an effective measure for addressing some of the legal barriers that the Commission intends to overcome. My results provide support for the Commission’s claim that the adoption of a Common European Sales Law would benefit some businesses and that it would allow them to improve their operations on the European internal market. However, the CESL may not be effective as a measure for overcoming all of the legal barriers that the Commission intended to address with its proposal. KW - European Sales Law Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-9210 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - Law as Part of Managerial Skills BT - Reform Proposals for Teaching Law to Business Administration and Economics Students JF - Asian Journal of Legal Education N2 - Law is firmly established as an integral and independent component of most business and economics degree courses. The objective of this article is to examine the contents and teaching methods generally employed in the law courses required for degrees in business and economics. As a rule both the contents and the teaching methods are adopted from degree courses for law students. However, to date there has been little discussion as to whether teaching procedures that have been developed for law students are also suitable for business and economics students. The article shows what problems can arise if course contents and teaching methods are adopted without reflection and without adapting them to the needs of the target group. This overview is then taken as a basis for a proposal as to how the content of law courses can be taught in a practice-oriented way, adapting and further developing the curricula that have proved suitable for law students to the needs of students of business and economics. The use of presentations of the legal life cycle of business organisations and discussions of management case studies on legal problems as didactic models are introduced and practical teaching issues are discussed. The aim is to raise students’ awareness of the legal problems that are important in running a company and to teach them skills that they can later use to deal with problems in their daily work. KW - Teaching and Learning Law KW - Business Administration Degree Courses KW - Law Course Y1 - 2016 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303559260_Law_as_Part_of_Managerial_Skills_Reform_Proposals_for_Teaching_Law_to_Business_Administration_and_Economics_Students VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 16 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - The Contribution of Empirical Research to Law JF - The Journal Jurisprudence N2 - Over the last decade empirical legal studies have become a popular subfield of legal research. Legal scholars have increasingly begun to employ social science research methods in their attempts to provide answers to research questions in the field of law. The goal of empirical legal research is to make a contribution to all subjects and phenomena that are of interest to law and for which no methods have previously been available. The use of empirical methods in legal science can lead to results that cannot be achieved by the methods of traditional law research. The ultimate aim of the approach is to contribute to a systematic understanding of our legal system based on empirical data. In this article I give an overview of the development of empirical legal studies as an independent subfield of legal research, followed by an introduction to two popular studies to illustrate the potential and limitations of this new field of research. I then discuss some controversial topics such as the widespread view that empirical research is objective and value-free, the relevance of methodological problems and the problem of over-simplification of the complexity of legal issues. I conclude with a look at future prospects for empirical legal research. KW - Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) KW - Legal Research Y1 - 2016 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339428524_The_Contribution_of_Empirical_Research_to_Law/link/5e510646299bf1cdb93cf55d/download VL - 29 SP - 29 EP - 49 PB - The Elias Clark Group CY - Melbourne, Australia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - Führungsstile und Innovationsverhalten in Familienunternehmen. Wie rechtliche, soziale und kulturelle Institutionen das Innovationsverhalten von Managern prägen T2 - Herausforderung Management N2 - Keine Angabe - No details KW - Innovationen KW - Entwicklung KW - Innovationswettbewerb Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-942648-15-8 N1 - Buch verfügbar in der Bibliothek der SRH Berlin School of Management and Technology, Signatur AL24000 3. Book available in the library of the SRH Berlin School of Management and Technology, shelf mark AL24000 3. SP - 32 EP - 48 PB - Heidelberger Hochschulverl. CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - Risk-taking and entrepreneurship in India. Implications of social and cultural norms for poverty alleviation policies T2 - Exploring alterity in a globalized world N2 - The aim of this study is to contribute towards developing an in-depth theory of the social and cultural norms that govern risk-taking and innovative behaviour in India, a field in which there has been little research to date. Qualitative data on this aspect of Indian entrepreneurial culture were collected in the Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai industrial regions. The study is mainly based on qualitative expert interviews and participant observation of entrepreneurs. The chapter introduces the whole study and presents first findings from an in-depth analysis of the risk-taking behaviour of two Indian managers. The chapter is part of a larger comparative study whose aim is to compare the social norms that govern risk-taking behaviour in India, Japan and Germany. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Social and cultural Norms KW - Interviews Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-138-99898-8 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Full text due to copyright no available. SP - 441 EP - 453 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Voigt, Stefan A1 - Wulf, Alexander J. T1 - What Makes Prosecutors Independent? - Analyzing the Determinants of the Independence of Prosecutors JF - Journal of Institutional Economics N2 - The prosecution of criminal suspects is an integral part of a country's justice system. While substantial scholarly attention has been devoted to the study of the police and judges and their relevance to the rule of law, surprisingly little is known about prosecutors. The aim of this paper is to contribute towards filling this knowledge gap. We first demonstrate the rising importance of prosecutors for criminal justice systems around the world. We identify the independence of prosecution agencies from the other two branches of government as a centrally important characteristic and then proceed to analyze the determinants of de facto prosecutorial independence from a political economy perspective. We find that press freedom, the immunity of parliamentarians and belonging to the common law tradition are positively associated with higher de facto independence. KW - Public prosecution KW - economics of crime KW - criminal justice systems Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-11402 SP - 1 EP - 30 ER -