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Since the majority of network concession contracts in Germany were set to expire some time between 2005 and 2016, a window of opportunity arose in which to rebuild and remunicipalise the local energy supply. As a result, 72 new local power companies were established in Germany within the space of just seven years (between early 2005 and late 2012). This paper provides an introduction to the topic of establishing municipal utilities in Germany. The findings were identified on the basis of the comprehensive screening of all newly established municipal utilities in Germany. Our analysis provides information about regional concentration, the size of municipalities, the legal forms of the newly founded municipal public utilities and the role of strategic partnerships. The key findings are that remunicipalisation is not a question of size and that knowledge gaps may be closed by entering into close strategic partnerships.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Acronyms -- The Rise of Robotics amp AI: Technological Advances amp Normative Dilemmas -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Evolution of Computer Science and Machine Processing -- 3 The Rise of Robots -- 4 The Birth amp Growth of AI -- 5 Mapping the Organizational, Ethical amp Regulatory Dilemmas -- 6 Chapters -- References -- Do We Need New Legal Personhood in the Age of Robots and AI? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Legal Subjects as Responsible Actors -- 3 What About AI and Robots -- 4 The Essence of Legal Personhood -- 5 The Physical Person as a (Natural) Legal Person -- 5.1 Natural and Human-like Behavior as Determination for Legal Personhood -- 5.2 Non-natural (Artificial) Legal Persons -- 6 The Autonomous Artificial Intelligent Robot -- 6.1 The Increasing Use of AI in Robotic Entities -- 7 The Question of Punishment of (Legal) Persons: A Criminal Law for Robots? -- 8 A Different Construction of Personhood -- 8.1 Abstraction of the Robot by the Cheshire Cat, Reasonable Human Creature and Resposible Subject Model -- 8.2 AI Entities and Robots in the Theory of Naffine -- 8.3 Conclusion Concerning the "Naffine" Analysis -- 9 The Artificial Intelligent Entity or Robot as Legal Actor -- 9.1 Legal Subject or Legal Object Specialist? -- 9.2 Liability and Legal Subjectivity -- 9.3 Legal Acts -- 10 Conclusion and Steps into the Future -- References -- The Peculiar Case of the Mushroom Picking Robot: Extra-contractual Liability in Robotics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Delineating Artificial Intelligence and Robotics -- 2.1 Artificial Intelligence Defined -- 2.2 Robots Defined -- 3 Exceptional Robots-Lessons from Cyberlaw -- 3.1 Embodiment -- 3.2 Emergence (Vs. Autonomy) -- 3.3 Social Valence -- 3.4 An Exceptional Trio -- 4 The Extra-contractual Liability of the Robot -- 4.1 Robots and Agents.