Law

The concept of attribution is ubiquitous in law, yet its overall contours often appear fragmented. Drawing inspiration from Wittgenstein, André Nunes Conti examines legal language and its historical foundations in order to systematically elucidate and more precisely define this fundamental legal category.

How do the legal frameworks governing electronic securities and digital assets differ across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein? The contributions compare these regulatory approaches and highlight persisting differences, cross-border challenges, and potential pathways toward greater harmonization.

The concept of criminal law for citizens grounds the legitimacy of punishment in the political bond between citizen and state. But can contemporary penal practice really be reduced to this, and is this model viable in pluralistic societies?

In the late 1950s, European law underwent a linguistic shift that made the language of European law more political and less precise. Thorben Klünder systematizes the vocabulary of European law, traces its historical development, and offers a critique of European legal language, metaphor, and theory.