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.

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.

Even though the administrative act is the central instrument of state action, its legal nature is still unclear. Alexander Feuerstein classifies it in a cross-legal system of declaration of intent, legal act and verdict, exploring its legal nature in an attempt to resolve outstanding dogmatic problems.

The correspondence between Eugen Huber and Max von Rümelin provides insights into the legal methodological discourse at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It combines private exchanges between friends with the history of codification in Germany and Switzerland from a comparative perspective.