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.

Lena Carla Weber examines the scope and dimension of the established legal doctrine of estoppel for claims for injunctive relief under unfair competition law. The impetus for this is a paradigm shift in German case law on the handling of such claims as a central instrument of the law on fair trading practices.

The factual effect of administrative acts means that all state authorities applying the law must generally accept a legally effective administrative act and base further decisions on it as a given fact without reviewing its legality. Matthias Ziegler takes this brief definition from case law and literature as an opportunity to give the legal institution sharper contours. He examines to what extent transnational administrative acts and Commission decisions have a comparable effect in European administrative law.

Luisa Wendel examines the linguistic structure of around 10,000 decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court. With the help of computer-aided methods, she reveals conventions, developments and differences. Her findings provide new insights into the court's jurisprudence beyond individual decisions and contribute to digital legal linguistics.