‘Law and economics’ as well as ‘organizational science’ are well-established disciplines, which are concerned with the explanation of organizational behaviour. However, both disciplines do not collaborate, in order to get more scientific insight in the functioning of organizations. While...

Can competition law also take into account effects on privacy or should pri-vacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper we are analysing the German Facebook case, in which certain terms of service (that force consumers to give consent for...

Should the EU introduce an Optional European Contract Law Code and what should it look like? By applying economic theories of federalism and regulatory competition (legal federalism), it is shown why an Optional Code would be a very suitable legal instrument within a two-level European System of...