Spontaneous norms, or simply norms, can be defined as rules of conduct that emerge without intentional design and in the absence of purposeful external coordination. While the law and economics scholarship has formally analyzed spontaneous norms, the analysis has typically been limited to...

Spontaneous norms, or simply norms, can be defined as rules of conduct that emerge without intentional design and in the absence of purposeful external coordination. While the law and economics scholarship has formally analyzed spontaneous norms, the analysis has typically been limited to...

Vor Gericht die Welt verändern – darum geht es bei strategischer Prozessführung. Unter welchen Bedingungen dies gelingen kann und welche Bedeutung dabei der Zusammenschluss von Menschen in einem Klagekollektiv hat, zeigt Lisa Hahn rechtssoziologisch auf. Strategische Prozessführung ist...

Wie wird Raum durch historische und religiöse Ansprüche auf Grundbesitz konzipiert und konstituiert? Wie wird Enteignung in sich verändernden Eigentumsordnungen umgesetzt und theoretisiert? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit postkolonialen Kritiken des Grundbesitzes und bieten eine...

A review and critique of Tommaso Pavone's recent book 'The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Das Kündigungsschutzrecht ist sowohl für die Durchführung des Arbeitsvertrags und den Schutz der Interessen von abhängig Beschäftigten als auch für die Regulierung von Arbeitsmärkten von großer Wichtigkeit. Seine Praxisrelevanz ist enorm: Viele Arbeitsrechtsstreitigkeiten drehen sich um...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

Der Fokus dieses Buchs liegt auf Entstehung und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts in der Schweiz von der Währungsordnung bis zu den Finanzdienstleistungen, von der Geld-, Kredit- und Währungspolitik bis zur Konjunkturbeobachtung und -statistik, von der Landwirtschaftspolitik bis...

Purpose This paper aims to use doctrinal legal investigative methods combined with economic analysis to investigate the efficacy of the Law. Design/methodology/approach The purpose of this paper is to explain the inherent absurdity in the modern law of town and village greens (TVGs). The author...

Robert Lecourt is recognised as one of the European Court of Justice's most influential judges between 1962 and 1976. Previous research has drawn connections between the legal doctrines established by the Court in the early 1960s and the contents of the doctoral dissertation on French property...

This paper draws a distinction between ‘communitarian' and ‘rationalist' legal orders on the basis of the implied political strategy. We argue that the West's solution to the paradox of governance – that a government strong enough to protect rights cannot itself be restrained from...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

Robert Lecourt is recognised as one of the European Court of Justice's most influential judges between 1962 and 1976. Previous research has drawn connections between the legal doctrines established by the Court in the early 1960s and the contents of the doctoral dissertation on French property...

Welche Bedeutung haben die Rechts- und Geschichtswissenschaft füreinander? Diese Frage stellte sich Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, der Staatsrechtler und Historiker, in seinem juristischen, verfassungshistorischen und rechtsphilosophischen Werk. Böckenförde zielte darauf, zwei Disziplinen, die...

Der Alltag in einer spätmittelalterlichen Stadt wie Basel war von Schulden geprägt: Kleinkredite und Borgkäufe hielten die Wirtschaft in Schwung, Rentenkäufe ermöglichten langfristige Geldanlagen. Schuldverhältnisse verbanden Menschen aus der Stadt, aus dem Umland und auch aus größerer...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the flexibility of a partnership combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Authorized in 1892, the...

From the legal point of view, "person" is not co-extensive with "human being." Nor is it synonymous with "rational being" or "responsible subject." Much of the confusion surrounding the issue of the firm’s legal personality is due to the tendency to address the matter with only these, all too...

Legal historians seldom use statistics, but this is a missed opportunity. Quantitative methods are particularly helpful in understand core legal history issues, including the effect of legal change and the influence of multiple factors on legislation, judicial decisionmaking, and citizen...

“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc was anything but an attractive ideology or a...

"Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal...

"This is a book for people who practice antitrust law and for people who want to learn antitrust. For practitioners, the book supplements a treatise. For students, the book complements a casebook. It goes beyond what courts have said and done to probe the ethos, logos, and pathos of antitrust;...

This modest manifesto — or minifesto — portrays legal history as a mode of critical analysis of law, using the historical analysis of American penality as an illustration and the full-fledged manifestos by Piketty and Guldi & Armitage as points of reference. Historical analysis of law, in...

Das Ziel des Aufsatzes ist, auf die wohlbekannten Phänomene von Selbstverwaltung und Selbstregulierung zu blicken; dabei wird die Governanceperspektive in einer recht ungewöhnlichen Weise mit der Perspektive der Rechtsgeschichte verknüpft. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass nahezu jede...