During the last decade fitness has become the most popular sport in Germany and many other countries. Whereas sport was traditionally organised within the public sector, people today willingly exchange their sovereignty as a voter, tax payer, or club member for sovereignty as a consumer of...

Commerce always requires an institutional embedment. Basically, private Institutions as well as state institutions can provide the normative good of legal certainty understood as the enforceability of contractual commitments. While for domestic commerce, the balance between the importance of...

This paper explores the theory of transnational law. It is proposed that transnational civil regimes transcend the public-private distinction both in the substantive (private vs public law) and the procedural (public vs private regulators) dimensions. A toolbox of twelve generic governance...

Commerce always requires an institutional embedment. Basically, private Institutions as well as state institutions can provide the normative good of legal certainty understood as the enforceability of contractual commitments. While for domestic commerce, the balance between the importance of...

Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and new institutional...

Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and new institutional...

While the globalization of commerce brings up new challenges to legal theory, most legal scholars persist in having abstract discussions about antiquated positivistic and pluralistic concepts of law. In the meantime, scholars from other social sciences, such as economics, political science or...

Preisalgorithmen sind aus dem heutigen Online-Handel nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die Nutzung von Preisalgorithmen wirft dabei grundlegende Fragen danach auf, wie wir Wettbewerb verstehen und schützen. Diese Arbeit analysiert die Auswirkungen der Nutzung von Preisalgorithmen in...