Law

Alexander Sajnovits analyzes corporate law paradigms in Germany and the United States. He highlights historical foundations, legal structures, and recent developments, while addressing the potential for paradigm shifts and convergence between the two systems.

As institutions of the state, publicly funded schools are obliged to remain neutral. At the same time, their educational mandate is not limited to the teaching of specialised knowledge. Schools are also places where values are formed. The contributors to this volume undertake an interdisciplinary reflection on this dimension of schools.

By applying post-categorical approaches and transferring civil liberties dogmatics, Luisa Lehning develops a dogmatic framework that identifies multidimensional inequalities that have previously been overlooked in legal terms and makes it possible to determine their specific intensity for members of marginalized groups.

Credit default swaps let investors »bet« on corporate bankruptcies. But what if they influence restructurings to make their »bets« pay off? Julian Franke analyzes this so-called CDS activism, examining the phenomenon and evaluating it from both legal and economic perspectives.