The law sets a framework for market transactions and competition. However, in recent years, the law itself has become a commodity in many regions of the world and in various fields: especially corporate, bankruptcy and contract law, not to mention the settlement of disputes. Individuals and companies search for the most attractive rules of law and states compete for the favour of demanders through their offers. Since legal competition has been the object of preliminary empirical explorations in the past years, the CAS research focus now aims to focus on its normative implications. How should one assess the fact that law can be "traded" on markets – just like any other good? Besides jurisprudence, various disciplines – such as economics, philosophy, political science and sociology – will apply different evaluation criteria and provide different answers to this question.

Latest episodes of the podcast Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Law as a Product

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• The Measure of Law and Economics
• Jurisdictional Competition for Dispute Resolution: Courts versus Arbitration
• The English vs. the American Rule on Attorneys' Fees: An Empirical Study of Attorney Fee Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies' Contracts
• Dispute Resolution as a Product: Competition between Civil Justice Systems
• Characteristics of Contract Laws and the European Optional Instrument
• The Choice of Law Framework for Efficient Regulatory Competition in Contract Law
• Choice of Law and Choice of Forum in Europe
• Can Living Will Regulations Revive Contractual Approaches to Bankruptcy?
• Contracting Employee Involvement: An Analysis of Bargaining over Employee Involvement Rules for a Societas Europaea
• Private Production of Transnational Regulation through Standard Form Contracts
• Global Law's Toolbox: How Standards Form Contracts
• Law as a Byproduct: Theories of Private Law Production
• Make it or buy it - a new look at legal transplants
• Welcome and Introduction; Legal Rules and Economic Growth: Clearings and Thickets
• Regulating European Capital Markets after the Crisis
• Regulatory Competition in Bankruptcy Law
• Regulatory Competition in Contract Law