Law

J. Amadeus Waltz' s examines offshore foundations and trusts in the jurisdictions Vanuatu, the Cook Islands, and Nevis. It explores the legal frameworks and resulting misuse potential with a comparison to German foundation law. The study provides insights, methods and materials regarding offshore jurisdictions.

In recent years, clawback clauses have gained significant importance in German listed stock corporations. Christian Stemberg examines the rapid spread of these clauses from empirical, comparative law, law and economics, and legal doctrinal perspectives.

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.