Climate change shatters the idea that jurisdictional borders and doctrinal debates about the scope of the ‘legal' are the sole tensions with which a concept of transnational law must contend. Climate change exposes a further fault line underlying legal thought and practice – the problematic,...

Um die Ziele der Pariser Klimakonferenz zu erreichen, plädiert der Autor für ein finanzielles Engagement des Privatsektors bei der Kompensation deutscher CO2-Emissionen durch Klimaschutzmassnahmen in Entwicklungsländern. (2-3)

Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems, we analyse the importance of different styles of expectation (cognitive and normative) for global research and development. In our study, we find that contrary to Luhmann's prediction in 1971, the normative expectation style still plays a...