Local Coordinator:
Prof. Pierre Garello
Tel: + 33 (0) 4 42 96 81 52
Email: pierre.garello@univ-amu.fr
Website
| Office: Pascale Marrazzo Tel: + 33 (0) 4 42 96 12 31 Email: pascale.marrazzo@univ-amu.fr |
| Thesis Coordinator: Prof. Pierre Garello Email: pierre.garello@univ-amu.fr |
| Postal Address: Aix-Marseille Université 15-19 allée Claude Forbin 13627 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 France |
| Teaching Staff:
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| Related Links: The University The Institute The Economic Department Explore the city |
| Thesis Areas:
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Prof. Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Aix-Marseille Université. He teaches the course ‘Legal Framework for the Digital Economy’. His fields of interest include decision theory, public economics, contract and competition law and, more generally, the development of an approach of law and economics based on the tools developed by the so-called Austrian School of Economics. |
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Ass. Prof. Pierre Bentata is Research Professor at ESC Troyes since 2015. He holds a LLM (EMLE Program) and a Ph D. in Economics. He teaches microeconomics, econometrics and contemporary economic problems. His research focuses on economic analysis of law, especially on issues of environmental liability and the training of judges’ decisions in civil liability trials. Outside his academic activity, he regularly appears in the national economic press and he is the author of three books. |
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Paul Belleflamme graduated in economics at the University of Namur (1991), where he received his doctoral degree in economics (1997). He also holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Columbia University (1992). In 1998, he became lecturer in economics at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2002, he joined Université catholique de Louvain, where he was attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM). Since 2017, Paul is Professor at AMSE (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) and a member of GREQAM.Paul’s main research area is theoretical industrial organization, with a special focus on innovation in the digital economy (which is also the main topic of his blog, www.IPdigIT.eu). Paul has published widely in leading economics journals and, with Martin Peitz, is the author of Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 2010 and 2015). Paul is a fellow of the CESifo Research Network. He is co-editor of E-conomics and managing editor of Regards Economiques. He also served as associate editor of Information Economics and Policy, and of Review of Network Economics. Paul will be teaching the course ‘Competition Law for New Business Models’.
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Local Coordinator:
Dr. Carlos Gómez Ligüerre
Email: carlos.gomez@upf.edu
Website
| Office: Ms. Antonia Llull Email: antonia.llull@upf.edu Tel: +34 935 421 434 |
Thesis Coordinator:
Dr. Carlos Gómez Ligüerre
Email: carlos.gomez@upf.edu
| Postal Address: Carlos Gómez Ligüerre Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27 08005 Barcelona (Spain) |
| Teaching Staff: Dr. Carlos Gómez Ligüerre Dr. Benito Arruñada Dr. Fernando Gómez Pomar Dr. Antoni Rubí-Puig Dr. Mireia Artigot-Golobardes |
| Thesis Areas: Competition Law Contract law Tort Law Intellectual Property Environmental Law Corporate Law and Governance Property LawInstitutional Economy |
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Professor Carlos Gómez Ligüerre is Profesor titular de universidad (tenured professor) at the Department of Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 2008. He holds a degree in Law and a degree in Business Administration. His main areas of teaching and research include Torts and Contracts. He has been visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and visiting professor, among other, at the University of Illinois College of Law, the IDC-Radzyner School of Law at Herzliya, the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville and the East China University of Political Sciences and the Law in Shanghai. |
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Professor Benito Arruñada is Professor of Business Organization at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Prior to joining Pompeu Fabra and after graduating from the Universities of Oviedo and Rochester, he held positions at the Universities of Oviedo and León, and was John M. Olin Visiting Scholar in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. He has also taught at the Universities of Paris (I and X), Frankfurt, Autónoma de Madrid and Pablo de Olavide in Seville. Most of Arruñada’s current research analyzes the institutional bases that make firms and markets possible: from the most concrete, such as property titling and business regulation, to some of the most abstract, such as moral systems. Using various methods, from case analysis to mathematical and econometric models, this research aims to discover the organizational conditions that facilitate impersonal exchange, the best means for specializing resources and speeding up economic growth. |
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Professor Fernando Gómez Pomar is a professor of civil law and of Law and Economics (Catedrático de Derecho Civil) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra School of Law in Barcelona. His research focuses on Contract Law, Tort law and Consumer law from an economics perspective. He has lectured at New York University School of Law, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the University of Wales, Hamburg Universität, the George Mason University School of Law and the Radzyner School of Law (IDC-Herzliya) in Israel. He is coeditor of InDret and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Review of Law and Economics, the Review of Law and Economics, the European Review of Contract law. He was part of the Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law created by the European Commission. He practices law and has served as expert witness on aspects of Spanish law in corporate matters before courts in various jurisdictions, such as Delaware Chancery Court, the US Federal Court and the High Court of England and Wales (Queen’s Bench Division), as well as arbitration institutions such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), where he has also acted as arbitrator, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre and the American Arbitration Association (AAA). |
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Dr. Antoni Rubí-Puig is an Associate Professor of Civil Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Antoni Rubí has been an Invited Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School and U.C. Berkeley School of Law. His main interests of research lie in the fields of copyright, commercial speech, and art law. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is the author of the book Advertising and Freedom of Speech (Publicidad y libertad de expresión, Thomson-Reuters, 2008) and several book chapters and law review articles on copyright, privacy torts and civil liability of ISPs, as well as on general tort law and products liability. He has provided legal consultancy services to Spanish and Catalan public authorities, as well as to companies and individual authors on topics related with intellectual property law and other areas of his expertise. |
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Dr. Mireia Artigot-Golobardes is an interim lecturer at Pompeu Fabra Law School, affiliated Professor at the Economics Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra and at the Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She holds a JSD and LLM (Cornell Law School) and a B.A. in Law and a B.A. in Economics by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is admitted to the NY BAR and the Barcelona BAR. She has been a visiting professor of Brooklyn Law School, the Institut für Wirtschaftsrecht at Kassel Universität, the Montenegro University Economics Department and Law School, the University of Trento Law School, Center for South African studies of the University of Western Cape and the IDC- Radzyner School of Law at Herzliya. Her research combines the study of legal issues, particularly in private law, from an economics perspective. She focuses on consumer law, contracts, torts – especially product liability -, European law and European Economic integration. She further studies the legal implications of new economic structures such as digital network markets and the transactions entered in them. |
Local Coordinator:
Prof. Ben Depoorter
Tel: +32-9-264.68.07
Email: ben.depoorter@ugent.be
Website
| Office: Mrs. N. Van Nuffel Tel: +32-9-264.68.07 Email: Nancy.VanNuffel@UGent.be |
| Teaching Staff:
Prof. Boudewijn Bouckaert |
| Postal Address: Ghent University Department of Jurisprudence and History of Law (EMLE) Universiteitstraat 4 B-9000 Ghent |
| Related Links: The University The Institute Explore the city |
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Prof. Ben Depoorter is the Max Radin Distinguished Professor University of California, Hastings College of the Law, EMLE coordinator at CASLE Ghent University, and Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet at Society. He is a frequent visiting professor at Berkeley Law, teaching in the LL.M.’s Professional Track. Professor Ben Depoorter completed his studies at Yale Law School (2003, 2009) on a full scholarship from the BAEF. As an Oscar Cox and Olin Fellow at Yale, Depoorter served as an editor of the Yale J. Reg. He was a Santander Research Fellow at U.C. Berkeley and a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship.
Copyright law is one of his major areas of expertise, where Depoorter has investigated a variety of questions relating to enforcement of intellectual property law in the digital era, including whether and how fees-shifting can be used to align incentives between authors in way that promote creativity, how punitive approaches to copyright law adversely impact copyright social norms, and how automated enforcement measures create false positives. Recent publications include “When the Remedy is the Wrong: Statutory Damages in the Digital Age”, UCLA Law Review (2019); “The Upside of Losing”, “Fair Trespass”, Columbia Law Review (2014, 2011); “Using Fee Shifting to Promote Fair Use and Fair Licensing”, California Law Review (2015); “Copyright Backlash”, Southern California Law Review (2011); “Law in the Shadow Bargaining: The Feedback Effect of Civil Settlements”, Cornell Law Review (2010); “Technology & Uncertainty: The Shaping Effect on Copyright Law”, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2010), and “Liquidated Damages and Moral Hazard: An Experiment”, JITE (2016). His interdisciplinary work on anticommons property is widely cited in American law reviews and international peer-reviewed journals and was featured in a 2010 issue of the New Yorker. |
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Prof. Boudewijn Bouckaert is a Professor at the Law School of Ghent University. He is the Director of the Department of Legal Theory and President of the European School for Law and Economics. He has been Visiting professor in Law and Economics at the universities of Paris IX, Aix-Marseille and Montpellier. He lectured for the Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His main fields of interest are the economic analysis and the history of property law, the theory of sources of law and zoning law. Moreover, he was the Director of the ERASMUS-Programme in Law and Economics from 1989 until 1994. He is also co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. |
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Prof. Christoph Van der Elst is Professor of commercial contracts and corporate governance at Ghent University since 2001. He combines this position with a professorhip at the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands). He is also research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He has a master in Economics, a master in Law and a Ph.D. in Economics. |
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Sven Hoeppner is research associate at the Center of Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASLE) at Ghent University Law School and Affiliate Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. Previously Sven Hoeppner has been research associate at Humboldt University Berlin Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Ghent University. He graduated from Humboldt University Berlin in both legal science (German 1st legal state exam) and business economics (M.Sc.). Afterwards he advanced his education in law and economics on a full scholarship of the European Commission and since Sven Hoeppner holds master degrees in law and economics (M.L.E., E.M.L.E.) from the University of Bologna, Ghent University and in law (LL.M.) from Haifa University. |
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Mitja Kovac was born in 1976, graduated law with “cum laude” at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia). He gained his LL.M. and PhD in the field of comparative contract law and economics at Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance (The Netherlands). In 2006 he became also a member of the Economic Impact Group within the CoPECL Network of Excellence (European DCFR project). He was a visiting professor at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius (Lithuania) and a research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London (UK) and at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (USA). Currently he is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, Department of economic theory and policy (Slovenia), a visiting lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands), at University of Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Turin (Italy)and at University of Vienna (Austria). Besides, he is also a visiting researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Law (The Netherlands) and at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (USA). He publishes in the fields of comparative contract law and economics, new institutional economics, consumer protection, contract theory and competition law and economics. |
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Prof. Andrea Giannaccari (LLM, PHD) is Associate Professor of Comparative Law and collaborates with the Research Department of the Italian Constitutional Court. Andrea is constantly involved in teaching activities (at undergraduate, graduate, master courses and doctorate levels) in several universities including, among the others, LUISS Guido Carli – Rome, Ghent University, Università di Siena and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has also collaborated with many other institutions (as IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, the Polytechnic University of Turin and the Giovanni Agnelli foundation). Andrea is also co-editor of the Italian law and economics review Mercato Concorrenza Regole. His main fields of interest are competition law and economics, comparative law, intellectual property and privacy. On these topics Andrea has published roughly one hundred research items (books, book’ chapters, articles and case commentaries). He has recently authored: Comparative Competition Law and Economics (with R. Van den Bergh and P. Camesasca), Edward Elgar, 2017; and Standard Setting and the Law, LUISS University Press, 2018. |
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Bruno Merlevede is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Ghent University in Belgium. His field of interest is Applied Economics, especially topics concerning Firm Performance, Foreign Direct Investment, and Regional Economics. Drafts of his current research papers are here. Publications here. Personal website is here. |
Local Coordinator:
Prof. Omer Kimhi
Tel: +972-4-8242005
Email: okimhi@law.haifa.ac.il
Website
| Office: Ms. Yulia Lischinsky Tel: +972-4-8288486 Email: ylischin1@univ.haifa.ac.il |
| Thesis Coordinator: Prof. Omer Kimhi Email: okimhi@law.haifa.ac.il |
| Postal Address: 199 Aba Hushi Ave. University of Haifa Mount Carmel Haifa 3498838 Israel |
| Teaching Staff: Prof. Eli M. Salzberger Prof. Avishalom Tor Prof. Oren Gazal-Ayal Prof. Omer Kimhi Dr. Alan D. Miller |
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Prof. Omer Kimhi serves a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Haifa University Faculty of Law. He holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, in economics from Tel-Aviv university, an MBA (specializing in accounting & finance), magna cum laude, also from Tel-Aviv university and a JSD (Juridical Science Doctorate) from New York University. His research areas include bankruptcy laws, local government laws, corporate laws and economic analysis of the law, and he has published articles in these fields in leading law journals. He serves as the local coordinator in Economic Master in Law & Economics (EMLE) for Haifa, and is also the head of the LLM program in business law. |
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Dr. Alan D. Miller teaches and supervises papers on property law, administrative and public law, and the analysis of legal institutions through the application of social choice and game theoretic models. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology and his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. Before studying for his doctorate he also practiced law as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He has published in the leading game theory journal, Games and Economic Behavior. |
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Prof. Oren Gazal Ayal is the dean of the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law, supervises papers on the economics of the criminal justice system, implementing behavioural, experimental and other empirical methodologies. Prof. Gazal-Ayal is A Member of the Israel Young Academy, an alumni of the Global Young Academy and a former director of the Center for the Study of Crime, Law and Society. His scholarship has been published in numerous law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including Duke Law Journal, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and all of the leading Israeli legal journal. published in several prestigious venues including the Journal of Law and Economics and Cardozo Law Review. In 2004-2005 he was a Fulbright Post Doctoral Scholar and a Humphrey Faculty Fellow at the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at University of Michigan Law School. His papers are frequently cited in decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court. He won several prizes for his research including the Minister of Public Security Prize (twice: 2002, 2008), the Dusty and Ettie Miller Prize for Outstanding Young Scholar (2008) and the Cegla Prize (2008). He also won several prestigious and competitive research grants from, among others, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF, three times) and the German Israeli Foundation (GIF). Gazal-Ayal has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor in numerous universities around the globe including NYU law school (1999) Connecticut law school (2004), Michigan Law School (with Fulbright, 2004-5), the Max Planck institute in Freiburg (2007) and Aix-Marseilles (with Erasmus Mundus Grant, 2008). In 2009-2010 he served as the president of the Israeli Law and Economics Association. |
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Prof. Eli M. Salzberger (former dean) took his doctorate at Oxford. He has been the President of the Israeli Association of Law and Economics and he is currently the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. His field of expertise include economic analysis of public law and public choice, constitutional law, IP and Cyberspace. He has many publications in leading law and economics journals including the Journal of Law and Economics and the International Review of Law and Economics. He also published two books (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) on Law, Economic and Cyberspace (2004) and Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming). |
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Prof. Avishalom Tor is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and a Co-Director of the Forum for Law and Markets, teacher and supervisor for papers on Behavioral Law and Economics, Experimental Law and Economics, Competition Law and Economics, and Economics of Corporate Law. Dr. Tor came to Haifa in 2004 after receiving his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, visiting as a Research Professor at George Mason University School of Law, and advising Commissioner Harbour of the FTC on antitrust law and economics. At Haifa, Dr. Tor teaches in the areas of antitrust, corporate law and governance, and behavioral law and economics. His research uses a behavioral and experimental approach to study competitive behavior generally and its legal regulation in market settings more specifically. Dr. Tor’s interdisciplinary work has been published in legal, decision making, psychological, and economic journals, such as the Michigan Law Review, Antitrust Law Journal, The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. |
Local Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Georg Ringe
Tel: +49-40-42838-5776
Contact: melanie.lange-1@uni-hamburg.de
Website
| Office: Ms. Melanie Lange Tel: +49-40-42838-5776 Email: melanie.lange-1@uni-hamburg.de |
| Faculty: Prof. Anne van Aaken Prof. Thomas Eger Prof. Georg Ringe Prof. Stefan Voigt Jun.-Prof. Jerg Gutmann Jun.-Prof. Eva van der Zee Dr. Roee Sarel Dr. Stephan Wittig Marek Endrich |
| Postal Address: Universität Hamburg Institut für Recht und Ökonomik Johnsallee 35 20148 Hamburg Germany |
| Thesis Areas: Contract Law Tort Law Competition Law Corporate Law and Governance Financial Regulation European and International Law Public Law Constitutional Law Public Choice New Institutional Economics Commercial Law Law and Transition |
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Prof. Georg Ringe is Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg and Director at the Institute of Law & Economics. He also teaches at the University of Oxford where he is Visiting Professor on a continuous basis, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has held visiting positions at various institutions in Europe and North America, including Columbia Law School and Vanderbilt University. He is a co-founder and editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, which has been published by Oxford University Press since 2015. Professor Ringe has been involved in policy work with the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Financial Stability Board. His current research interests are in the general areas of Law & Finance, comparative corporate governance, capital and financial markets, insolvency law and conflict of laws. More information can be found here. |
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Prof. Anne van Aaken is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, and Director of the Institute of Law and Economics. She was a Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland from 2006-2018. Until 2017, she was the Vice-President of the European Society of International Law. At present, she is a member of the EUI Research Council and a member of several editorial boards i.a. of the American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, and International Theory. Her research focuses i.a. on Public International Law with a focus on International Economic Law and Behavioral Law and Economics. She currently works in behavioral economics/psychology of International Law. Prof. Anne van Aaken teaches Economic Analysis of International Law in the second term, and Law and Economics of International Trade and Investment in the third term in Hamburg. More information about her can be found here. |
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Prof. Thomas Eger is emeritus professor of the University of Hamburg. He studied economics in Marburg and Zagreb and received his doctorate at the University of Paderborn. He completed his habilitation “An economic analysis of long-term contracts” at the University of Kassel. After becoming associate professor in Kassel he has been professor at the University of Hamburg and director of the Institute of Law and Economics. His main research areas are the economic analysis of law, institutional economics and European integration. More information can be found here. |
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Prof. Stefan Voigt is director at the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich) and has been affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, Italy. Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel, Ruhr-University Bochum, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a research fellow position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Research Into Economic Systems. His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions. More specifically, current research focuses on values and norms of refugees and informal institutions in general. Voigt is one of the editors of Constitutional Political Economy and a member of various boards including those of Public Choice and International Review of Law and Economics. Voigt has consulting experience with both the public and the private sector. He has worked with the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). Additional information can be found here. |
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Jun.-Prof. Jerg Gutmann is Juniorprofessor for Behavioral Law and Economics. He teaches the Introduction to Microeconomics in the first term and Empirical Legal Studies in the second term in Hamburg. He does research in public law and economics, political economy, and empirical economics. More information is available on his website. |
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Jun.-Prof. Eva van der Zee is Juniorprofessor for International Law with a focus on behavioral Law & Economics. She was a Postdoctoral researcher in International/EU Economic Law and behavioural Science at the Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Her research focuses i.a. on Behavioural Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Sustainable Development and Human Rights. She teaches Introduction to Law in the first term in Hamburg. More information about her can be found here. |
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Dr. Roee Sarel is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Law & Economics in Hamburg. He is both a lawyer and an economist. His dual-background includes a doctorate in Economics from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and degrees in law and business (LL.B & M.B.A) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previous positions include a lecturer & lab manager post-doc at the Economics department of the Frankfurt School of Finance; an associate lawyer at a Litigation & Banking department of Yigal Arnon & Co. law firm; and various research and teaching assistant positions in law, economics, and finance. His research combines empirical, experimental, and theoretical methodologies and focuses on topics such as crime, pro-social behavior, trust & cooperation, and judicial incentives. Roee has published in the Journal of Legal Studies and his work has been presented in leading international conferences, such as the American Law & Economics Association, European Association of Law & Economics, and American Economic Association. More information can be found on his website. |
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Dr. Stephan Wittig is currently a Brandon Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He studied Economics and Finance in Bonn, Zurich and Vancouver, and acquired his Master in Economics from the University of Bonn. During his Ph.D. in Law and Economics, he was a member of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Graduate School for Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg. Since 2006, he is a Lecturer at the EMLE programme. He spent a year as Visiting Researcher and Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, and researched at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as at the European Commission Directorate-General for Trade. His research focuses on Public International Law, Trade and Finance. He obtained his Master of Law (LL.M.) from the University of Cambridge and became a Brandon Fellow in 2012. This fall, he teaches the courses “Formal Methods” and “Foundations of Law and Economics I: Microeconomics”. Additional information can be found here. |
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Marek Endrich is a Research Associate at the Institute of Law & Economics. He is a member of the Graduate School in Law and Economics funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and has conducted research visits at the University of Texas in Austin and at Haifa University. His research deals with topics in political economy, migration and empirical economics. He teaches the Introduction to Microeconomics in the first term in Hamburg. More information can be found here. |
Local Coordinator:
Prof. P.G. Babu, Ph.D.
Tel: +91-22-28416521
Email: babu@igidr.ac.in
Website
| Office: Ms. Fabina D’Mello Tel: +91-22-28416576 Email: soffice@igidr.ac.in |
| Teaching Staff: Prof. P.G. Babu Prof. Vikas Kumar Associate Prof. Jayati Sarkar |
| Postal Address: Student Office IGIDR Film City Road Santoshnagar Goregaon (East) Mumbai 400 065 INDIA |
| Thesis Areas: Law and Economics of Institutions Law and Economics of Development |
| Related Links: The University Explore the city |
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Prof. P.G. Babu is a Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and has held Adam Smith Chair Guest Professorship in Philosophy and Economics at University of Bayreuth, Germany. He visits the Institutes of Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg and the Erasmus University at Rotterdam, and coordinates the Law and Economics Program at IGIDR, which is a part of the Erasmus Mundus Consortium on European Masters and Doctoral Programs in Law and Economics. His Ph.D. is from Indian Institute of Science and has taught as visiting faculty at several institutions including IIM Ahmedabad and Madras School of Economics. His research interests include Microeconomic Theory with applications to Environment, Natural Resources and Law, Non-cooperative Game theory with applications to market design protocols such as bargaining, auctions, matching, and Information Economics. At IGIDR, he has organized several capacity building workshops in Law and Economics, apart from various specialized conferences and workshops on topics such as Social Norms and Institutional Structures, Peace Science and Game Theory. |
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Prof. Jayati Sarkar is Associate Professor in Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, USA. Her field of specialization is Institutional Economics and her current research interests are in corporate ownership and governance in emerging economies, business groups, public sector enterprise reforms and performance. She has published in several international journals among which are Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Economics of Transition, Pacific Basic Finance Journal, and International Review of Finance. She has also published several book chapters on banking and corporate governance. |
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Vikas Kumar is an Assistant Professor at Azim Premji University (APU), Bengaluru and Visiting Faculty at IGIDR where he teaches part of the Law and Economics of Development course. His research explores the interfaces between politics and statistics, economics and religion, law and economics in pre-modern India, and the Kauṭiliya Arthaśāstra and other pre-modern texts. He studied metallurgy at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (B. Tech., 2001) and economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (Ph.D., 2010). He was a doctoral fellow (2007-08) at the Institute of SocioEconomics and the Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg under the Asia Link Project on Law and Economics funded by the European Union. He worked with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, New Delhi and Trichy and the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru before joining APU. |
Local Coordinator:
Prof. Matteo Rizzolli
Email: m.rizzolli@lumsa.it
Website
| Office: Prof. Matteo Rizzolli Email: m.rizzolli@lumsa.it |
Thesis Coordinator:
Prof. Matteo Rizzolli
Email: m.rizzolli@lumsa.it
| Postal Address: LUMSA – Matteo Rizzolli Department of Law, Economics and Political Science Via Pompeo Magno 22 00919 Roma (Italy) |
| Teaching Staff: Prof. Matteo Rizzolli Prof. Nicoletta Rangone Prof. Antonio Nicita |
Thesis Supervisors:
Prof. Nicoletta Rangone,
Prof. Matteo Rizzolli
Prof. Antonio Nicita
Prof. Giovanni Ferri
Prof. Antonello Maruotti
Thesis Areas and Topics:
Better regulation
Cognitive-based rule-making and regulation
Regulation of media and telecommunication markets
Regulation of financial markets
Corruption prevention
Competition law
Administrative law
Environmental law & economics
Behavioural law & economics
Experimental law & economics
Field experiments for public policy
Regulation of big data
Property law
Law and economics of crime and deterrence
Family law and economics
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Prof. Matteo Rizzolli – He is Associate Professor at LUMSA where he teaches Public Economics, Economic Policy and key member staff in the the Jean Monnet Chair on Better Regulation. He also teaches Family Economics at the John Paul II Institute of the Lateran Univeristy. He has been secretary of the European Association of Law & Economics and he is currently the general secretary of the Italian Society of Law & Economics. He is co-editor of the International Review of Economics. He has previously worked for the University of Milan – Bicocca, the Free University of Bozen and the Italian Telecommunications Authority (AGCOM). His research interests concern deterrence theory and law and economics of property, behavioural public policy and regulation, experimental economics, family economics, microeconomics, economic policy and public economics. |
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Prof. Nicoletta Rangone – She is Full Professor of Administrative Law, Jean Monnet Chair on EU Approach to Better Regulation (2019-; Jean Monnet Module 2016-2019). She has been associate professor at the Politecnico of Milan, qualified lawyer, Doctoral fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and she holds a PhD in Public Law (University of Bologna). She worked for national and international institution on better regulation: the OECD, the World Bank, the Italian Competition Authority, the Italian Authority for Energy, the Corruption Prevention Authority, the Ministry for Public Administration, the Presidency of the Council of Ministries, the Ministry for Justice, the National School of Administration, the Formez PA. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Osservatorio AIR (a think tank specialized on better regulation) and of the Center for Research and International Relations of the LUMSA University. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal “Studi parlamentari e di politica costituzionale”. Her research interests are in simplification policies, effective law and regulation, cognitive-based regulation, corruption prevention, big data and public administrations, competition advocacy, public utilities regulation. |
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Prof. Antonio Nicita – He currently is Full Professor of Economic Policy at LUMSA University. He has been until 2019 Commissioner of the Italian Regulatory Authority AGCOM and Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Law at Sapienza University of Rome, has been Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Siena, he was Visiting Fulbright Professor at Yale University. In 2005-06 he was a Non Governmental Adviser of International Competition Network (ICN) for the report on telecommunications sector. He is on the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, and has been on the board of the European Association of Law and Economics and of the International Society for New Istitutional Economics (ISNIE). In 2006-07 he was an economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Communications and member of the Governamental Unit for the Improvement of Regulation. He was Economic Adviser for the 2009 OECD Regulatory Report on Italy. He holds a Ph.D in Economics form the University of Siena, Italy. His research interests cover Industrial organization, Law and Economics, Competition Economics and Regulation. He is author of numerous publications. |
Local Coordinator:
Drs. Wicher Schreuders
Tel: +31-10-408.2188
Tel: +31-10-408.1606
Email: schreuders@law.eur.nl
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| Office: Dr. Ilva Putzier Tel: +31 10 408 2188 Email: info@emle.org |
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Roger Van den Bergh
Prof. Louis Visscher, LL.M.
Prof. Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
Dr. Peter Camesasca
Sharon Oded, LL.M.
Prof. dr. Jonathan Klick
Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
| Postal Address: Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE) Dr. Ilva Putzier, L7-033 P.O. Box 1738 NL 3000 DR Rotterdam |
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Drs. Wicher Schreuders studied economics and graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Erasmus University in 1980. For a short time he worked at the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER). Since 1982 he has been a member of the Department of Economics in the Law Faculty at the Erasmus University. From February 2000 until February 2005 he was Assistant Director of the EMLE Programme. Since 2004 he was the Erasmus Mundus Assistant Coordinator of the EMLE programme and was elected Erasmus Mundus Coordinator of the EMLE Programme in September 2018. |
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Prof. Van den Bergh is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His main fields of interest are the economic analysis of competition law, harmonisation of private law, and safety and security in society. From 1987 until 2001 he was President of the European Association of Law and Economics. From February 2000 until February 2005 he was Director of the EMLE Programme. He has been the Erasmus Mundus Coordinator of the EMLE Programme from 2004 to 2012. |
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Prof. Louis Visscher, LL.M. holds an economics degree (international economics, 1993) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a law degree (civil law, cum laude, 1994) from the same university. He has written his Ph.D. dissertation in Rotterdam on the economic analysis of Dutch tort law (2005). He currently is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics. Louis has taught the course ‘Game Theory for Lawyers’ in the Competition Law and Economics LL.M. programme, and the course ‘Law and Economics’ in the Rotterdam LL.M. He teaches the course ‘Economic Analysis of Torts and Insurance’ in the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) as well as the course ‘Law and Economics’ in the Rotterdam bachelor (this course has replaced the masters course in Rotterdam). Furthermore, he lectures in the course ‘Financial Markets and Monitoring’, ‘Law and Economics in the Courts’ and in the minor ‘Death and Injuries’. He also provides lectures on Law and Economics for the Dutch Academy for Legislation. Louis has published on the topics of international trade, tort law, contract law, insurance law, the law of damages, civil procedural law, law enforcement, consumer law, criminal law, labour law and harmonisation of law. |
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Prof. Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe is Associate Professor of Law and Economics. She holds a law degree (Ghent University, Belgium, 1996), an educational degree (Ghent University, Belgium, 1996), a degree of European Master in Law and Economics (1997) and a Ph.D. (Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2004). She was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (New York, USA, fall 2007) and a visiting professor at National Law School of India University (Bangalore,summer 2008). She is a member of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law. She specializes in the field of comparative and behavioural law and economics of contracts, especially employment and consumer contracts. |
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Prof. dr. Jonathan Klick Jonathan Klick (1975), Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is part-time appointed at the Erasmus Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus School of Law. Jonathan Klick is both a lawyer and an economist, and he specialises in empirical Law and Economics. He will develop new focus areas of empirical research and has a special interest in areas such as corporate governance and tort law. |
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Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko holds two bachelor degrees in law and psychology from the University of Haifa; two master degrees: LL.M. from the University of Haifa and the degree of European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE, cum laude) from the University of Hamburg, University of Ghent and University of Vienna. She obtained her PhD degree from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Hamburg (summa cum laude) and the University of Bologna. Elena is also a qualified attorney in Israel and has worked in the past as a criminal prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office in Israel. She taught Introduction to Law in the EMLE programme at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2013) and is a lecturer of the course Public Law and Economics and Introduction to Law (tutorials) in the EMLE program since 2015-2016. Elena’s main research interests are criminal law and economics and behavioral law and economics. |
Local Coordinator:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christine Zulehner
Tel: +43 1 4277 374 42
Email: christine.zulehner@univie.ac.at
| Office:
Katharine Haslinger |
| Teaching Staff: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Lewisch Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Schuhmacher Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weigel Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christine Zulehner |
| Postal Address: Universität Wien Department of Economics Room 05.502 Oskar Morgenstern Square 1 1090 Vienna |
| Thesis Areas:
Competition Economics |
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Christine Zulehner is Professor for Economic Policy at University of Vienna. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin. Prior to joining University of Vienna, she held positions at Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Kepler University Linz. Christine is interested industrial organization, competition policy and applied microeconomics. She is currently working on the effect of bidding groups on procurement outcomes and the effect of competition, investment and regulation on mobile telecommunication prices. Her research has been published in international journals like the American Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. She has also been a consultant on antitrust cases to various firms and government agencies. |
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Ao. Prof. Wolfgang Weigel is an Associated Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Vienna. His main areas of research are Law and Economics of the Public Sector, New Institutional Economics with Emphasis on Transaction Cost Economics. He teaches Economic Policy, Economics of Public Administration and Economic Analysis of Law both for under- and post-graduate students. He was a visiting professor at Masaryk University Brno, ERASMUS Exchange Professor at the University of Hamburg and Lecturer at the Austrian Federal Academy of Public Administration. His publications cover books on Public Economics, Law and Economics as well as numerous articles in both fields. |
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Peter Lewisch holds a chair in criminal law at the University of Vienna and he is the director of the Academic Center for the Economic Analysis of the Law. His research interests cover Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Regulatory & Competition Law, Criminal Law, Litigation & Procedure, and Experimental Law & Economics. He is a frequent academic visitor to Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, and George Mason University and shortlisted for the position of the Austrian Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. |
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Florian Schuhmacher holds a chair in commercial and business law at the University of Vienna. His research interests cover national and international competition law and antitrust as well as IP with a strong link to economic foundations. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer both nationally and internationally. Before joining the University of Vienna he was professor of law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. |
Local Coordinator:
Dr. Jaroslaw Beldowski
Email: jbeldo@sgh.waw.pl
Website
| Office: Ms. Michalina Wacław (Programme Management Officer) Email: waclawmichalina@gmail.com Tel: +48 22 564 9345 |
| Thesis Coordinator: Dr. Jaroslaw Beldowski Email: jbeldo@sgh.waw.pl |
| Postal Address: Warsaw School of Economics Department of International Comparative Studies Al. Niepodleglosci 162 office 228, building G 02-554 Warsaw Poland |
| Teaching Staff: Dr. hab. Leszek Balcerowicz Dr. hab. Agnieszka Slomka-Golebiowska Dr. Wiktor Wojciechowski Dr. Jaroslaw Beldowski |
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| Thesis Areas: Transformation of Law Contract Law Labour Law Environmental Law European and International Law Constitutional Law Public Choice New Institutional Economics Banking and Monetary Law Commercial Law Corporate Governance Securities Regulation Law and Transition Economics of Regulation Law and Finance Bankruptcy Law Intellectual Property Law |
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Dr. Jaroslaw Beldowski has a doctoral degree from the University of Silesia and an LL.M in European Union Law from the Catholic University of Leuven. He is the recipient of several scholarships abroad � the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Open Society Institute (Chevening Scholar) at the University of Oxford as well as the Flemish Community and the Robert Schuman Foundation in Luxembourg. Prior to becoming the board president of the Civil Development Forum (FOR Foundation) in March 2007, Mr. Beldowski held a five-year tenure at the National Bank of Poland. Currently, Mr. Beldowski is also a member of the Polish Association of Law and Economics (PSEAP) Board, which he helped found in 2005. His research in law and economics focuses on contract law and legal transformation. He is the author and co-author of many articles and research papers on these topics. In 2009, he was co-editor and co-translator of the Polish language version of the R. Cooter and T. Ulen Law & Economics handbook. |
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Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz is the Head of the International Comparative Studies Department at the Warsaw School of Economics. He has previously served as the Minister of Finance (1989-1990, 1997-2000) and as Governor of the Polish National Bank (2001-2007). Prof. Balcerowicz was a fellow at the University of Sussex (1985) and the University of Marburg (1988) as well as a visiting lecturer at universities in Austria, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Japan, India, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania and the USA. Between 1992 and 2000, he was the Chairman of the Council in the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). Prof. Balcerowicz is a member of the European Economic Association and the Polish Society of Economists. Nowadays, Prof. Balcerowicz is board chairman of the Civil Development Forum. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University in Aix-en-Provence, the University of Sussex, De Paul University of Chicago, the University in Bratislava, Viadrina European University, the University in Lima, George Mercator University in Duisburg and several Polish universities. He has authored several books and numerous journal publications. His research interests are institutional economics (impact of property rights, political systems, monetary policy, financial systems and taxes on economic development) and economics of transition. |
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Dr. Agnieszka Slomka-Golebiowska is an Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. Previously, Director in the Industrial Development Agency responsible for corporate governance, restructuring and privatization (2006-2009), Professor Assistant at the University of Muenster (2003-2004) and consultant in Arthur Andersen (2000-2002). Since 2006, she sits on the supervisory boards. She holds Ph.D. in Economics and M.Sc. in Finance and Banking from Warsaw School of Economics, as well as MBA from the French Institute of Management. She received prestigious awards including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and Polish-American Fulbright Fellowship as well as was visiting scholar at universities in Berkeley (Haas), Cambridge (MIT), Tucson (UOA), Munster, Copenhagen (CBS), Birmingham (BBS), Berlin (HSoG) and Vienna (WU). The author of numerous articles in professional journal and books on corporate governance. |
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Dr. Wiktor Wojciechowski is a senior lecturer at the International Comparative Studies Department at the Warsaw School of Economics. Between 2005-2008, Dr. Wojciechowski headed the Department of Labour Market Macroeconomic and Structural Analysis research team at the National Bank of Poland. Currently, he is a member of the management board and director of the Analitical Team at the Civil Development Forum Foundation. His research interests include institutional determinants of labour market performance, economic analysis of market deregulation, labour market reforms and labour relations. Dr. Wojciechowski is the author of several articles about the labour market in Poland and other EU countries. |