Wikipedia:School and university projects/University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany - LLM English Project

Introduction
This is a project involving advanced Legal English courses in the MA program Commercial Law at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz taught by Prof. Stephanie Swartz-Janat Makan in the Summer Semester 2011. It will be carried out both with full-time LLM students as well as with professionals doing a part-time LLM study course at our university. While learning more about the common law system and expanding their English legal vocabulary, they will be asked to contribute to Wikipedia, first by editing an article of their choice and then by creating a new article or expanding on an existing one. There will be individual as well as group contributions, and the final grade is based on a portfolio handed in at the end of the semester with proof of both off-line as well as on-line contributions. The project will take place over the course of 12 and 15 weeks and each assignment must be fulfilled within the given time period in order to receive credit.

Limited liability company (Poland)
This article gives a legal overview about the (polish) limited liability company (sp. z o.o.). Its theme is the formation of a “sp. z o.o.” (overview, content of the articles of incorporation, costs of formation), financial condition of the “sp. z o.o.” (capital raising and capital maintenance, change in the share capital amount), constitutional organ of the "sp. z o.o. " (the Board of Directors, other bodies at a glance), rights and obligations of shareholders and finally the liquidation and insolvency of “sp. z o.o.”.

The Maltese Private Limited Company
The article summarizes the most important issues concerning the company formation, constitutional documents, share capital requirements and bodies of a Maltese Private Limited Company. Furthermore it explains a special form predominantly used for tax saving purposes. User:Llm86/Maltese private limited company

Legal Professions
The article Legal Professions deals with different kind of careers in legal circles. It describes the educational way, the organisations and the areas of practise. Additional the duties and obligations of judges are explained.

Arsenal Football Club vs. Matthew Reed
This article is about a legal case about trade mark infringement. Arsenal FC is a football club, which owns registered trademarks. Matthew Reed had sold souvenirs bearing the registered trademarks of the Arsenal FC. It was determind by the European Court of Justice. It pointed out that the important requirements are the specific interests and as a consequence of that the essential function.

Agreements on objectives
The article is about an agreement between employer and employee concerning the goals to be achieved by the employee. It is a motivational technique and standardly used in field service and in project work, but also in other areas. Among other things the article discloses advantages and disadvantages of the agreement system, its inclusion in the compensation system and describes the goal setting process.

Shelf Ready Packaging
This article is about a very current topic, called "Shelf Ready Packaging". Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) refers to a product that comes in a ready merchandised unit. Products which come in a SRP can be placed easily into the shelf, without unpacking or repacking.

SRP covers all types of packaging, which are designed for the retail outlet. SRP is not limited to packaging which goes in the shelf; it also includes sales support mechanisms in all major distribution channels.

Retention Management
This article shows the importance of Retention Mangement in a time of demographic change. The article gives a clear definition of retention management, its objctives and principles. Besides, it describes the procedure and gives an example of the firm which is the founder of retention management.

Mobile marketing research
This article gives an introduction to the young field of mobile marketing research. Since it has become more difficult to nowadays reach people via traditional marketing research methods, new ways as well as new media are taken into consideration conducting surveys in marketing research. This text tries to give an overview of the development of mobile marketing research, its basic method types and difficulties as well possibilities. (Authors: Thomas Schneider and Alexander Best)

Work-Life-Balance in Germany
This article deals with the actual topic of the work-life-balance discussion in Germany. It refers to the demographic change and why it is therefore very important for companies to react. Also the combination of work-life-balance and family is mentioned in the article. Moreover the motives of companies to integrate work-life-balance measures were discussed as well as the benefits of companies which support work-life-balance measures.

German public banks
This article describes the three-pillar structure of the banking industry in Germany. In daily discussions, especially after the financial crisis, typically the Landesbanken are supposed to be the only public banks in Germany. Aim of the article is to show, that the Landesbanken are just a small part of the public banking system, although they are part of the dominating Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.

Principles of European Contract Law
This article shall comment on the history and meaning of the PECL as a set of rules which were designed by the Commission on European Contract Law in order to influence the future development in legal thinking in the field of contract law in the European Union.

Bill of lading
Added chapters
 * BoL and fraud
 * BoL and electronic data interchange (EDI)

German Renewable Energy Act
This article describes the German Renewable Energy Act (in German: Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG) that was designed to encourage cost reductions based on improved energy efficiency from economies of scale over time. The Act came into force in the year 2000 and was the initial spark of a tremendous boost of Renewable Energies in Germany.

EU Directive 2004/109/EG (EU Transparency Directive)
This article depicts the history of the development of the EU Directive 2004/109/EG (EU Transparency Directive) and the main regulations of the final version, adopted on 17th December 2004.

Shield Mark BV vs Joost Kist
This article introduces the verdict in the legal case Shield Mark BV versus Joost Kist before the European Court of Justice (ECJ), case number C- 283/01. The case lead to one of the landmark decisions about Directive 89/104/EEC, discussing the question whether sound signs are allowed to be registered in order to get trademark protection. Furthermore, the ECJ laid out which legal prerequisites have to be observed in the registration process.

Inter-municipal cooperation
Decreasing numbers of inhabitants and smaller public budgets force municipalities to search for efficient ways to provide public services. The inter-municipal cooperation is one way or accomplishes that. Whether with free arrangements like coordinated behaviour or by forming separate corporations municipals can benefit from economies of scale. A brief international overview shows that the legal prerequisites are different and so the forms of IMC are.

European Union competition law
Expansion of the subsection regarding the enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU through the European Commission and adding of a new chapter regarding the sector inquiry as additional instrument of the European Commission when investigation potential infringements of EU competition law.

Family mediation in Germany
This article deals with family mediation in Germany. After a short general introduction, the main principles of family mediation are introduced, followed by the process of family mediation, which is divided into 5 phases. Finally, the advantages of family mediation are compared to litigation.

Servant leadership
The article deals with the concept of servant leadership. First, a short general introduction is presented, followed by servant leadership in the context of leadership styles. The characteristics of a servant leader are defined and the history of servant leadership is represented as well as advantages and disadvantages.

Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
This article gives an overview of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG). First is a brief introduction, then a historical overview. After that the purpose and scope of the BDSG are described. In addition, an overview of the principles of data protection is given and the various types of personal data are described. Finally, a glance is made to the European law and to the transfer of data to third countries

The last state of affairs of the jurisprudence in the affair “tariff system for solicitors in Italy“
In Italy exist legally attended fee caps for solicitors. The ECJ has decided in 03/29/2011, that neither freedom of services nor freedom of establishment are limited by the Italian tariff system

2008–2012 Irish financial crisis
This article deals with the Economic Crisis especially in Irland. We show in our article what a economic crise is and which reasons lead to the crisis in Ireland. The essay give an overview about the state Ireland (organisation, country and the population) and about the economy of Ireland. We talk about the history and the Celtic Tiger an of course about the Economic Crisis and the labour market. Concluding we disclose some future perspectives.

Pammer and Alpenhof cases
This article deals with the Pammer and Hotel Alpenhof cases. The judgement of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gives indications whether a website with products or services from a seller in one European state is aligned on a consumer in a other European state or not. The ECJ pointed out, that the national courts have to decide this question.

COEUR
The text is about the COEUR-project by the FH Mainz. It has the goal to get students (from Europe) in touch with entrepreneurship, innovation and business creativity.

Ownership unbundling
This article is about ownership unbundling. Because of the market power of the biggest energy firms in Europe (in Germany there are the big four – RWE, EON, EnBW and Vattenfall). Ownership unbundling is the strongest form to separate energy production from the transmission networks at the energy firms.

Flat rate withholding tax (Abgeltungsteuer)
This article deals with the flat rate withholding tax on private income from capital and capital gains in Germany. It was introduced in the Unternehmensteuerreformgesetz 2008 and came into force in 2009.

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 282/2011
This article presents the Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 282/2011 which was adopted by the Council of the European Union on March 15, 2011. It is shown how the Implementing Regulation is set into context to other European ruling. Furthermore the main subjects of the Regulation are described.

Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 282/2011

End-of-Life Vehicle Directive 2000/53/EC
This article explains the Directive on end-of-life vehicle management. It clarifies the directive's order within the larger EU waste legislation. The article further explains the concept of the directive, its scope, and its elements.

End of Life Vehicles Directive

Interim tax management
This article describes the work as a interim tax manager. It includes also the tasks and the reason for working as a interim tax manager.

Directive on intra-EU-transfers of defence-related products (ICT)
This article gives a general overview about the content of the Directive 2009/43/EC. Especially, it describes the authorisation procedure for the intra-EU-transfer of defence-related products and names all types of licences provided by the Directive. User_talk:Calientetom