While intra-firm trade accounts for at least one third of world exports, we know very little about the institutions which are employed to resolve intra-firm trade conflicts. According to Oliver Williamson, courts are not accessible and conflicts resulting from intra-firm trade are resolved by...

While intra-firm trade accounts for at least one third of world exports, we know very little about the institutions which are employed to resolve intra-firm trade conflicts. According to Oliver Williamson, courts are not accessible and conflicts resulting from intra-firm trade are resolved by...

Lex mercatoria or Law Merchant (‘LM’) is said to be the self-made law of international commerce. According to its proponents, LM is an autonomous legal order that not only supplements state commercial law, but works as a substitute for it. The ‘ancient’ LM, which accompanied the...

Since the golden age of the nation state, the extent to which commerce is conducted across borders has risen substantially. Economic globalization thus has led to a shift in the demand structure for institutions that support commerce. Over the past forty years the need for institutions adapted...

This paper is the introduction essay to an edited collection entitled “Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Theory”, forthcoming with Edward Elgar. The volume brings together work by legal scholars, economists, historians and sociologists and aims at a critical investigation of the parallel and...

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...

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...

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...