| Summary: | This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the opportunities offered by the promotion of sus-tainable development in German law and the barriers to it. The book covers a full range of current issues on sustainability in both public and private law. Its target audience are primarily lawyers, but also researchers from related disciplines, such as management studies or politics, who are interested in sustainability.Among the topics in the book are the discussion about the introduction of a legal form of social enterprise, sus-tainability reporting, the possible introduction of a new objective for sustainable development in the German constitution, the legal issues surrounding planned obsolescence (i.e. the intended reduction of a product's life cycle) as well as political and legal control instruments for the promotion of sustainable energy consumption.The book is edited by Dr Andreas Rühmkorf, Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Sheffield.With contributions by:Professor Jean du Plessis, Deakin University Melbourne; Dr. Andreas Rühmkorf, University of Sheffield; Dr. Anne-Christin Mittwoch, Philipps-Universität Marburg; Dr. Sebastian Eickenjäger, Universität Bremen; Dr. Andreas Weitzell, Rechtsanwalt, München; Martin Lawall, München; Lena Volles, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Christian Dickenhorst, Universität Lüneburg; Katharina Gapp, Universität Lüneburg und HWR Berlin; Anna Brüning-Pfeiffer, Universität Lüneburg und HWR Berlin; Patrick Merkle, Rechtsanwalt, Berlin; Christoph Mayer, TU Kaiserslautern; Sven Stumpf, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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