The academic world is wonderful. Like few other professionals, we can choose what we want to do and what questions we think are important, which in our line of work means choosing what topics we want to research. But what influences our choices? This paper examines what drives scholars to select...

3Der Produktrückruf ist als haftungsrechtliches Phänomen seit den 70er Jahren ständig bedeutsamer geworden. Der Grund dafür liegt im Wesentlichen in der zunehmenden Differenzierung der Fertigungsprozesse, also der fortschreitenden Arbeitsteilung im Produktionsprozeß und der damit...

In various European legal acts the Council has delegated power to the Commission to set common policy, conditional on specific procedural requirements, which are commonly known as "comitology". In this paper we analyse whether and how far these implementation procedures help to overcome a...

In this article a simple game is used to develop a concept of trust that takes account of boundedly rational behavior. Even if a first mover in a sequential game is protected against opportunism by legal means or means of private ordering there remains a risk that the second mover does not...

In spite of the great volume of law and economics research carried out in the field of tort law, there exists a gap in the literature concerning the effects of different tort remedies, namely money damages and restitution in natura. Although there is a parallel between the above mentioned...

The right of access to civil justice is a cornerstone of the Belgian legal order. At present time, however, financial barriers prevent about three quarters of the Belgian population from fully asserting their subjective rights. As traditionally, apart from legal aid, private funding is the...

Weak enforcement of contracts leads to inefficient breach of contract and to an overall increase of contract breaches for firms and individuals. Existing literature on contract enforcement has focussed on self-enforcing contracts and contracts within a relationship, family or clan. At the firm...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat gesprochen: Das im Hochschulrahmengesetz enthaltene Verbot, bis zum ersten berufsqualifizierenden Abschluß Studiengebühren zu erheben, ist nichtig. Damit ist in Deutschland die Bahn frei für die Einführung von Studiengebühren. Aber sollten die Bundesländer,...