Law and economics in Germany was dominated by regulation, competition, and 'German Ordnungspolitik' until the early 1970s. Since then, German scholars have published a broad body of work in German and in the English language, covering fields like contract law, environmental law, labor law,...

The Discussion Paper is dedicated Prof. Dr. Georg Derlitzki, founder of the agricultural labor sciences in Germany and Professor of labor sciences at the University Halle (Saale) from 1948. Because he disapproved the fascism and its concept of agricultural development he was removed from...