Law

Counterspionage is caught between legal requirements, challenging official cooperation and security policy constraints. The authors of this volume analyze powers, regulatory gaps and institutional structures in order to systematically shed light on current challenges and reform approaches.

This study examines the regulation and protection through rules and/or standards and the possibilities of »personalised« rules in the context of German private law from the perspectives of legal theory, law and economics, legal history, legal doctrine and legal policy.

Current anti-discrimination legislation does not fully reflect actual cases of discrimination and where different grounds intersect inseparably, a gap in protection appears. Anna Kristin Biedermann reveals the social power structures underlying the law and illustrates the need to close this gap. Looking to EU law, she comes up with a legally feasible way to anchor such cases of intersectional discrimination in the private employment relationship.

Since its discovery, the question of how to identify the relevant choice of law rule has been one of the fundamental problems of private international law. Leonard Wagner outlines the historical development of the discourse on the problem of qualification and, building on this, addresses current issues.