Bindung durch Versprechen oder Vertrag

»Binding Effect Created through Promise or Contract«

What insights can be gained from an interdisciplinary approach in modern legal scholarship? The thesis contrasts a traditional dogmatic perspective enriched by historical and philosophical influences with an efficiency-centered economic analysis with regard to the legal construction and evolving problems of rewards under German and English law. As to this legal question, which mirrors the fundamental problem of justifying a one-sidedly created obligation against the concept of contract, the analysis illustrates the paradigm importance of the perspective taken for the results achieved. Hereby, it seeks to highlight the viable joint potential of combining different national as well as methodological approaches to reach a more differentiated and profound understanding of legal problems.