Law

Jörg Spörl examines Erik Wolf's significant narrative of the Great Legal Thinkers of German Intellectual History using an innovative analytical framework and situates it within contemporary political, sociological, literary-historical, pedagogical, philosophical, and legal discourses.

Since August 2026, law enforcement authorities in the EU Member States have been empowered to issue cross-border orders requiring digital companies to disclose data. Peter Meißner contextualizes this mechanism and subjects it to an analysis under EU constitutional law.

Corporate liability in supply chains is a key aspect of the current sustainability debate. Christiana Bradshaw examines how its application in private international law can be secured through overriding mandatory provisions and, in doing so, also highlights the opportunities and limitations of this legal instrument.

Drawing on a comparative analysis of U.S. law, Anna-Katharina Klus examines the limits of single-axis approaches to discrimination and develops a doctrinal approach to recognizing intersectional discrimination within German anti-discrimination law.