Law

The contributors explore how contractual freedom in company law can be reconciled with legal certainty, ethics, and governance. Their analyses shed light on the evolving relationship between private autonomy and corporate structure in a global legal context.

With the power held by fiduciaries comes a wide range of possibilities for abuse. Robert Lamersdorf examines how the law can enable trust and loyalty in light of this risk and explores the doctrinal implications arising from the role of social norms and other extralegal regulatory mechanisms.

Carla Elisabeth Hack examines the interplay between international and national constitutional law at the interface of Article 25 of the German Basic Law. She explores its practical implications for the individual legal protection available to natural persons through an expansion of the circle of addressees in domestic administrative proceedings.

To what extent can legal doctrine benefit from the theory of science? On the basis of three influential currents of the 20th century - logical empiricism, falsificationism and historical epistemology - Johannes Herb analyzes how legal knowledge moves in the conflicting fields of normativity and context.