The paper aims to describe the impact of the current financial crisis on the law and the legal profession. The financial crisis has unfolded and become publicly visible in the second half of 2007 with the issues around subprime, has then developed further into a global financial crisis in 2008...

Should transactional lawyers bear responsibility when their competent actions facilitate unlawful activity by their client? Or is a lawyer's only concern to act in the client's interest by providing her with the advice and support she seeks? The high profile failure of Lehman Brothers provides a...

The United States faces three simultaneous crises: a pandemic, a civil-rights reckoning, and a crisis of democracy. The first of these crises has sparked dramatic—though potentially temporary—changes to the practice of law: moving much legal work to remote settings almost overnight, after...

Commentary about the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., has focused on the nexus of patent and administrative law. But this overlooks a seismic and as-yet unappreciated copyright implication of the decision: it renders the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB)...

Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, befürchtet, dass die Erwartungen, die mit der Wahl Barack Obamas zum neuen US-Präsidenten verknüpft sind, zu hoch seien. Obama erbe mit seinem Amtsantritt eine kaum zu bewältigende ökonomische Herausforderung, so dass die...

Die Fehlleistungen der marktbeherrschenden US-amerikanischen Ratingagenturen ließen den Wunsch nach Etablierung einer großen europäischen Ratingagentur laut werden. Erich Harbrecht und Martin Wieland, Deutsche Bundesbank, halten eine Forderung nach einem Gegengewicht zu US-Agenturen nicht...