Department of Law and Global Responsibility

The department deals with legal issues of the role and responsibility of non-state, especially corporate, actors in the conditions of a globalized economy from the perspective of commercial law, civil law, business and human rights law, and international private and public law. In general, the department focuses on how law responds to the structural shift in the global order, in which corporations, investors and other private entities have significant normative and de facto power, while states face the pressure of energy transformation, regulatory extraterritoriality and fragmentation of international law with limited mechanisms for resolving disputes. The strategic line is to systematically connect national private law expertise with global regulatory impulses (European rules on sustainability, due diligence, ESG litigation) and to place them within the framework of responsibility in private law and international law.