{"id":1014,"date":"2026-09-30T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/?page_id=1014"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:35:50","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en","title":{"rendered":"Acting together binds us."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-rounded wp-duotone-000000-rgb255255255-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/illustration\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-11-16.21.43-global-digital-cooperation-by-august-macke-e1668184073414.png\" alt=\"Illustration: people in different places, connected by acting together\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-11-16.21.43-global-digital-cooperation-by-august-macke-e1668184073414.png 400w, https:\/\/cooperation.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-11-16.21.43-global-digital-cooperation-by-august-macke-e1668184073414-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cooperation.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DALL\u00b7E-2022-11-11-16.21.43-global-digital-cooperation-by-august-macke-e1668184073414-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">cooperation.law explores how acting together succeeds and how the law sustains it. The focus is on cooperation online, but the general questions are answered for every kind of cooperation: projects and networks, agreements between businesses, and the working relationships inside companies, between shareholders as well as within management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who act together create a shared place. Why this shows so clearly online is explained on the page <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/online-and-on-site\">Online and on site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Law as a constitution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law does not arrive after cooperation has begun. It enables acting together by offering forms: contracts, companies, associations, procedures for taking decisions. It protects those involved and third parties, it resolves conflicts, and it sets limits on what a cooperation may do. German law is the starting point. Every page on law has its own section on online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Four ways in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/phases\">Phases<\/a><\/strong> \u00b7 Where does your cooperation stand? Twelve phases, from the first need to the ending, offer guidance for the situation you are in now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/online\">Online<\/a><\/strong> \u00b7 How to work well together online, synchronously and asynchronously, with cases and with plain answers to common misconceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/law\">Law<\/a><\/strong> \u00b7 Contracts, legal forms, cooperation within companies, data, borders and conflicts, each with statutory references and a date of currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/understanding\">Understanding<\/a><\/strong> \u00b7 Why acting together binds us, and what part recognition, play and conflict have in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Also<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/glossary\">glossary<\/a> explains key terms. Who publishes the site and how it is written is set out under <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperation.law\/en\/about\">About cooperation.law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cooperation.law explores how acting together succeeds and how the law sustains it. The focus is on cooperation online, but the general questions are answered for every kind of cooperation: projects and networks, agreements between businesses, and the working relationships inside companies, between shareholders as well as within management. 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