Law

The author examines the concept of counter-performance in the light of digital remuneration models. She analyses personal data provided as consideration, the contractual and data protection framework, and the limits of counter-performance imposed by mandatory contract law in modern exchange relations.

The Ecological Analysis of Law proposed by Simon Marx examines the ecological consequences of legal decisions, evaluates state action on the basis of the criteria of resource sufficiency and resource consistency, and develops solutions that ensure livable conditions without disproportionately restricting fundamental rights and freedoms.

The categories that protect the individual also limit it. Based on Hegel's concept of freedom, Nils Weinberg develops a concept of legal identity as a »form of freedom« of liberal anti-discrimination law: freedom means self-determination in relation to others and requires dynamic, not arbitrary legal categories.

Global value chains exist in the blind spots of legal doctrine and are hence marked by a diffusion of responsibility. For private law, this entails a methodological challenge that is exemplary for dealing with globalisation - that is, to apprehend global value chains in both their economic and societal dynamics.