Law

The rise of blockchain-based systems has shattered the once simple link between an asset and legal ownership. This volume examines how common law and civil law systems reconceive control of digital assets amid multi-signature, multi-party computation, and account abstraction, balancing legal certainty with market needs.

Ever since the Panama Papers were leaked, the extraterritorial impacts of tax systems have become a topic of growing regulatory debate at the international level. Silke Weller explores whether international tax policy can be analysed through a human rights lens and considers the potential for a future »humanisation« of this policy area.

The protection of pre-contractual freedom of choice and the decision-making process is implemented in civil law through a variety of regulatory instruments. Daniel Friedrich examines whether and to what extent the new tort law concept of the so-called requirement of fair negotiation can be of advantage to the traditional system of protection for general civil law and the law of obligations.

Uterus transplantation offers new paths to motherhood for infertile women-yet its legal admissibility remains contested. Dorothée-Christine Heyn's study explores key legal challenges, revealing regulatory gaps and proposing legislative reforms to strengthen legal certainty and (reproductive) autonomy.