Das Spannungsverhältnis von Freiwilligkeit und Zwang

'The Tension Between Consent and Compulsion. A Cross-Border Examination of Mandatory Arbitration Proceedings': The thesis examines the legality of arbitration proceedings in which parties are subject to factual or sovereign coercion. It was prompted by the Federal Constitutional Court's ¿Pechstein¿ decision in 2022 and the German Packaging Act (¿VerpackG¿), which came into force in 2019 and contains a legally mandated arbitration procedure. The thesis further undertakes a comparative analysis of mandatory arbitration proceedings in other jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the United States.