englischDigital platforms like Amazon routinely provide their users with conflict resolution mechanisms for transactions mediated by the platforms. Through these proprietary mechanisms, platforms influence contractual relationships they are not part of. Using specific examples like the Amazon A-to-Z [...]

englischThe thesis examines questions of liability under contract and tort law for physical autonomous systems and focuses on the liability of the user of these systems. The specific risks of autonomous systems push traditional liability regimes to their limits. Whether new regulations are necessary [...]

englischAdministrative operations heavily rely on information management. In modern times, databases serve as the primary source of information for fulfilling administrative tasks. With a history spanning over half a century, this research delves into the evolution of databases. It offers insights [...]

englischRegarding the German and the Italian Civil Codes, which are characterized by the doctrine of person, the adoption of voluntative contractual elements by software agents and the resulting possibility of M2M contract conclusions raise fundamental questions about the attribution of such [...]

englischThe attention of money laundering prevention is to be directed in particular to technological innovations whose possible forms are immanent to an increased money laundering affinity. One of these technological innovations is the crypto token system. This not only offers technology-savvy [...]

englischDoes the ZPO withstand the digital age? Blockchain technology enables the creation of a large number of tokens, which can achieve enormous economic value due to market developments. Therefore, it is not surprising if tokens are potential objects of enforcement. However, the enforcement [...]

englischDigitalization is reshaping the world of law; this also necessitates changes in legal education. The volume is dedicated to central questions of this change: transformations in the law and its professions, essential competencies as well as teaching concepts and their curricular anchoring. It [...]

englischTo establish a Capital Markets Union that improves the access to financing for innovative, non-listed companies, the European legislator has harmonized the law on platform-based project financing (Crowdfunding) to a large extent. The adopted Crowdfunding Regulation entails for Crowdfunding [...]

englischThis interdisciplinary work deals with automated application of the law and its limits using the example of automated/autonomous driving. It examines whether the regulatory content of the behavioural traffic regulations of the StVG/StVO is sufficient for automated/autonomous driving. Legal [...]

englischAlready today, numerous activities that were once reserved for humans are being performed by AI systems. Because the German Civil Code in its original conception links legal consequences to human actions, numerous problems arise from the use of AI systems. In this paper, the effects of the [...]