Law

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.

What role does background play in an academic career? The autobiographical accounts of 35 legal scholars with migration backgrounds offer personal perspectives on this question. At the same time, they paint a vivid picture of the diversity and transformation of legal academia in the German-speaking world.

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.

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.