englischInternational conflicts threaten our economies, our states and our societies. The conflict over Taiwan and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine have significant implications for other countries. In this book, German, Austrian, and Taiwanese legal scholars argue how we can react to [...]

englischThe Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains (Supply Chain Act) represents a new type of human rights protection that makes German companies responsible for production conditions worldwide through national requirements. Due to its novelty, numerous questions arise, and [...]

englischThe dissertation shows innovative and interdisciplinary levers for more effective supervisory systems. Banking and state supervision are reorganized in a compliance-based and subject-oriented way. One focus of the analysis is the critique of the currently overstretched system of supervision. [...]

englischIn order to prevent negative effects of privatisations, public authorities often impose specific obligations on their private contractual partners, e.g. social and ecological duties. However, this approach limits the attraction of a bargain. It can thus reduce the proceeds and favour the [...]

englischIt can by no means be taken for granted that companies – even those in which the public sector has a stake – always comply with “law and order”.

In particular, the principle of the rule of law and the ­principle of democracy require that the state not only acts “itself” in accordance with [...]

englischThe increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI for short) is bringing about revolutionary changes – including in public commercial law. In this conference volume, many possible applications of artificial intelligence and the associated legal issues are addressed from Taiwanese, Austrian [...]

englischPublic corporate governance of municipal enterprises is a concept of corporate management and control that is already being applied in municipal practice, but has not yet become comprehensively established as a management concept in municipalities. The work presents the legal basis of this [...]

englischThe worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is of extraordinary importance for public commercial law. In a very short time, restrictions to the freedom of commerce were made that would have been unimaginable before the beginning of the pandemic. In this compilation, authors from Taiwan, [...]

englischLike all sectors of society, the process of digitalization means severe challenges for the public commercial law, too. How can this field of law, which once used to be a pioneer of social progress, be transformed into the digital age? This compilation fields essays from academics from three [...]

englischThe relation of market and the government concerning the EU legal system is regulated by Art. 106 paragraph 2 TFEU, which establishes a possibility of dispensation from the rules of the Treaties concerning services of general economic interest. Previously, the member states benefitted from a [...]