Law

Uterus transplantation offers new paths to motherhood for infertile women-yet its legal admissibility remains contested. Dorothée-Christine Heyn's study explores key legal challenges, revealing regulatory gaps and proposing legislative reforms to strengthen legal certainty and (reproductive) autonomy.

Ever since the Panama Papers were leaked, the extraterritorial impacts of tax systems have become a topic of growing regulatory debate at the international level. Silke Weller explores whether international tax policy can be analysed through a human rights lens and considers the potential for a future »humanisation« of this policy area.

The protection of pre-contractual freedom of choice and the decision-making process is implemented in civil law through a variety of regulatory instruments. Daniel Friedrich examines whether and to what extent the new tort law concept of the so-called requirement of fair negotiation can be of advantage to the traditional system of protection for general civil law and the law of obligations.

Johannes Persch explores how EU competition law treats online sales restrictions in vertical agreements, assessing their legal and economic impact while examining whether consumer autonomy offers a meaningful framework for understanding and evaluating such practices.