Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, language: English, abstract: This article examines the legality of tactical nuclear weapons under International Humanitarian Law. Additionally, the ideas behind the development of tactical nuclear weapons as well as their historical background during the Cold War and after 9/11 are examined. Tactical (or 'small') nuclear weapons have been developed during the Cold War and had been deployed e.g. to West Germany for possible use on the battlefield in the event of a Soviet invasion...

With an aging demographic all over the European Union, the European pharmaceutical sector is set to grow in the coming decades. Al-ready today the pharmaceutical industry is a key employer in Europe. At the same time, the pharmaceutical industry is marked by a very ex-pensive research and development phase, which makes strong intellectual property rights crucial to ensure that research for new pharmaceuticals remains commercially interesting. But not only direct threats to intellectual property rights, such as the production of generic phar-maceuticals or the sale of counterfeit...

Obschon der Tatbestand der Aussetzung als "sperrig" gilt, gehort er zum Pflichtstoff in den Prufungsordnungen nahezu aller Bundeslander. Tatsachlich ist die (Kindes-)Aussetzung eines der klassischen Delikte des StGB. Im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung steht der Aussetzungstatbestand, insbesondere die Anderungen, welche derselbe erfahren hat. Dies soll dem Leser auch ein besseres Verstandnis der einschlagigen Literatur und Rechtsprechung aus der Zeit vor dem Inkrafttreten des 6. StRG ermoglichen. Gerade da der Aussetzungstatbestand in der rechtswissenschaftlichen Literatur, von der...