Partner Universities
Prof. Dr. Luigi A. Franzoni
Erasmus Mundus Coordinator and Bologna Director
Luigi Alberto Franzoni (D.Phil. Nuffield College, Oxford) is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna. He is a leading European academic scholars in the field of Law and Economics. His main fields of specialization are the economics of...
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
Hamburg Director
Stefan Voigt is professor at the University of Hamburg and the director of its Institute of Law & Economics. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich). Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Ruhr-University Bochum. Voigt...
Prof. Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
Managing director
Prof. Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko has an interdisciplinary background, having obtained degrees in law, psychology and law and economics. Her research focuses on empirical legal studies where she employs empirical methods to investigate questions of law in different areas such as...
Prof. Dr. Fabio Padovano
Rennes Director
Fabio Padovano is Professor of Economics and Director of the Condorcet Center for Political Economy at the University of Rennes. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George mason University, where he was research assistant to prof. James Buchanan, Nobel...
Prof. Dr. Luigi A. Franzoni
Erasmus Mundus Coordinator and Bologna Director
Luigi Alberto Franzoni (D.Phil. Nuffield College, Oxford) is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna. He is a leading European academic scholars in the field of Law and Economics. His main fields of specialization are the economics of...
Dr. Elena Argentesi
Elena Argentesi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute in 2005 with her thesis on an empirical analysis of two-sided...
Prof. Dr. Maria Bigoni
Maria Bigoni is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics, Markets and Institutions from the IMT in Lucca in 2008. She was a visiting student at the Stockholm School...
Prof. Dr. Emanuela Carbonara
Emanuela Carbonara is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna. She obtained a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1999. Moreover, she was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and the...
Prof. Dr. Marco Casari
Marco Casari is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bologna. He earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, USA, in 2002. His main areas of interest are institutional economics, experimental economics, and environmental economics. He has...
Dr. Alberto De Pra
Alberto De Pra is an Associate Professor at the Padua University, where he teaches Commercial Law, Restructuring, Insolvency Law, and Competition Law . He also teaches European Competition Law at theEuropean Doctorate in Law&Economics (EDLE). After graduating from the University...
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Denicolò
Vincenzo Denicolò is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna and research fellow at CEPR. His main field of research is the theory of industrial organization, with a special focus on competition policy and the economics of innovation and...
Prof. Dr. Francesco Parisi
Francesco Parisi is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota School of Law. He is Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (Chicago University Press) and Co-Director of the...
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Pomelli
Alessandro Pomelli is professor at the University of Bologna Faculty of Economics, where he teaches business law. After graduating with honours from the University of Bologna Faculty of Law in 2000, he earned a Ph.D. degree in corporate law from...
Prof. Dr. Enrico Santarelli
Enrico Santarelli is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. From 2003 to 2009 he was Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group) in Jena and in 2010 served as Senior...
Prof. Dr. Paolo Vanin
Paolo Vanin is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University in 2007, worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Padova until 2008 and was Visiting Professor at...
Dr. Carmine Guerriero
Carmine Guerriero is "Rita Levi-Montalcini" Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. His chair has been established thanks to a three million Euros 2016 "Rita Levi-Montalcini" grant from the "Italian ministry of University and Research." His main...
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Tavoni
Alessandro Tavoni holds a PhD in Economics from Universita’ Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (2011). Prior to joining the Economics department at the University of Bologna, he was Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He has published in generalist journals...
Dr. Alice Guerra
Alice Guerra is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna and Managing Director of the European Association of Law and Economics. From 2016 to 2019 she worked as assistant professor and Marie Curie fellow at...
Dr. Stefania Bortolotti
Stefania Bortolotti is a senior assistant professor (RtD-b) at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. She obtained a PhD in Economics and Management form the University of Trento. She was a research fellow at the University of...
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bork
Prof. Dr Reinhard Bork holds a chair for civil procedure Law at Hamburg University. He served as a judge at the Court of Appeal in Hamburg and has published extensively on civil and civil procedural law (including arbitration), insolvency law,...
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
Hamburg Director
Stefan Voigt is professor at the University of Hamburg and the director of its Institute of Law & Economics. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich). Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Ruhr-University Bochum. Voigt...
Prof. Dr. Michael Fehling
Michael Fehling is Professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, where he has held the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law since 2001. Previously he taught public law at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau. His research interests include economic regulation...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Drobetz
Wolfgang Drobetzis professor of corporate finance and ship finance at the University of Hamburg. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of St. Gallen and completed his Habilitation at the University of Basel. Wolfgang taught financial theory at...
Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte
Heribert Hirte is the director of the Seminar of Commercial, Shipping and Business Law at the University of Hamburg since 2000. Previously he taught as Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (1993-2000), the “Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg” (1999-2004), as visiting Professor...
Prof. Dr. Gerd Muehlheusser
holds a chair for "Microeconomics with a special focus on Industrial Organization" at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of Hamburg University.
Prof. Dr. Markus Nöth
Markus Nöth is Professor of Banking and Behavioral Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Hamburg. His main fields of interest are behavioral finance focusing on consumer protection as well as individual investors long-term investments and...
Prof. Dr. Stefan Oeter
Stefan Oeter is Professor of German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Hamburg and Managing Director of the Institute of International Affairs. He is Chairman of the Independent Committee of...
Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Hans-Bernd Schäfer is Professor of Economics at the Law Faculty and at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of interest are the economic analysis of civil law and development economics. Together with Prof. Dr....
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe, M.Jur. (Oxon)
Wolf-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...
Prof. Dr. Eva van der Zee
Eva van der Zee is a Junior Professor (Tenure Track) in International Law with a focus on Behavioural Law and Economics at the Institute of Law and Economics at Hamburg University Faculty of Law since 2019. Eva’s current research focuses...
Prof. Dr. Jerg Gutmann
Jerg Gutmann is an assistant professor at the Institute of Law and Economics of the University of Hamburg and a CESifo affiliate. His research interests lie at the interface between economics, law, and politics. Jerg Gutmann is interested in the...
Prof. Dr. Roee Sarel
Prof. Dr. Roee Sarel is a Junior Professor of Private Law and Law & Economics at the Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg. He is both a lawyer and an economist. His dual-background includes a doctorate in Economics...
Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken
Anne van Aaken (Dr. iur. and MA Economics) is Chair for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of Hamburg (2018-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Professor). Previously, she was professor at St. Gallen University and Senior...
Dr. Benoit Le Maux
Benoît Le Maux is associate professor of economics at the University of Rennes (France). His research and teaching relate to public policy evaluation and democracy, with a special emphasis on public expenditures (microeconomic analysis of collective decision-making, econometrics, quasi-experimental techniques)....
Prof. Dr. Thierry Pénard
Thierry Pénard is professor of Economics and director of the PhD program. His research covers industrial organization, in particular digital economics, competition policy and market regulation. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Paris. Repec: Link
Prof. Dr. Jean-Michel Josselin
Jean-Michel Josselin is professor in economics at the University of Rennes. His research interests include the evaluation of public policies, public finance and public health. He has been an expert with the French National Health Authority (2012-2018). He is currently...
Prof. Dr. Fabio Padovano
Fabio Padovano is Professor of Economics and Director of the Condorcet Center for Political Economy at the University of Rennes. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George mason University, where he was research assistant to prof. James Buchanan, Nobel...
Dr. Véronique Thelen
Véronique Thelen earned her Ph. D in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Paul Azam in 2010. She is associate professor at the University of Rennes. Her research interests are in the domain of...
Prof. Dr. Yvon Rocaboy
Yvon Rocaboy is Professor of Economics at the University of Rennes, France, since 1998 and former Director of the Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM-CNRS). Yvon was a member of the European Public Choice Society (2009-2012) and co-founder...
Dr.mr. (Shu) S Li
Dr. Shu Li is an Assistant Professor in Law and Technology at Erasmus School of Law. His research focuses on the legal, economic and societal implications of the risk and harm of new technologies. He is an expert of European...
Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure
Managing Director of the Programme
Michael G. Faure is Professor of Comparative Private Law & Economics. Michael studied law at the University of Antwerp (1982) and criminology at the University of Gent (1983). He obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law...
Prof.em. Dr. Roger Van den Bergh
Roger Van den Bergh is Emeritus Professor of Law and Economics. Prior to his current position, he was an associate professor at the University of Antwerp and a professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Hamburg. Roger was a visiting...
Prof. Dr. Pieter T.M. Desmet
Since 2011, Pieter Desmet has joined RILE and the BACT research programme. Pieter has a background in Economics (BA, University of Antwerp), in Experimental Psychology (MA, Catholic University of Leuven) and obtained a PhD from Rotterdam School of Management. Pieter...
Prof. Dr. Klaus Heine
Klaus Heine is Professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam. He has ample experience in teaching European economic policy at the bachelor, master, and doctoral level. His research areas are European economic policy, law...
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...
Prof. Dr. Sharon Oded
Sharon is a corporate compliance and enforcement professor at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Rotterdam. He was formerly a research fellow at the Center for Law, Business and the Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. Sharon is also...
Prof. Dr. Niels Philipsen
Niels Philipsen studied Economics (with a specialization in competition policy) at Maastricht University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree on the thesis “Regulation of and by pharmacists in the Netherlands and Belgium: An economic approach” at the UM Faculty of Law....
Dr. Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
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 PhD (Utrecht University,...
Prof. Dr. Louis Visscher, LL.M.
Louis Visscher is Professor of Legal Economic Analysis of Tort & Damages at Erasmus School of Law. He studied both economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1993) and law (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1994, with honours). He holds a PhD (2005) from the...
Prof. Dr. Patrick C. Leyens
Patrick C. Leyens joined the Rotterdam Institute of Law & Economics in 2014 as a Professor (honorary) at the Chair of Empirical Legal Studies. In his main office, he is Professor of Civil Law, Corporate and Commercial Law at the...
Prof. Dr. Franziska Weber, LL.M.
Franziska Weber is Professor of Law and Economics at Erasmus School of Law. Her main fields of interest concern the law and economics of consumer and competition law, same as the challenges of digitalisation. She successfully defended her EDLE PhD...
Prof. Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
Managing director
Prof. Dr. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko has an interdisciplinary background, having obtained degrees in law, psychology and law and economics. Her research focuses on empirical legal studies where she employs empirical methods to investigate questions of law in different areas such as...
Dr. Aylin Aydin-Çakir
Dr. Aylin Çakir is an Assistant Professor of Law, Politics and Quantitative Methods at Erasmus Law School. Prior to joining Erasmus University Rotterdam, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeditepe University, Turkey (2014-2020). In 2017 she...
Bologna
Director:
Prof. Dr. Luigi A. Franzoni
Local coordinator:
Lisa Verniti
Tel: +39 051 208 85 50
Fax: +39 051 209 80 40
Email: dse.edle[at]unibo.it
Postal Address:
Università di Bologna
EDLE – Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Piazza Scaravilli 2
40126 Bologna
Italy
Hamburg
Director:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
Tel: +49-40-42838.5782
Fax: +49-40-42838.6794
Local coordinator:
Betül Simsek
Tel: +49 40 42838-6779
Fax: +49 40 42838-6794
Email: hamburg[at]edle-phd.eu
Postal Address:
University of Hamburg
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Institute of Law & Economics
Johnsallee 35
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Rennes
Director:
Prof. Dr. Fabio Padovano
Local coordinator:
Hélène Jean
Tel: +33 (0)2 23 23 72 29
Email: rennes1[at]edle-phd.eu
Postal Address:
University of Rennes
Faculté de droit et science politique
35000 Rennes
France
Rotterdam
Managing Director a.i.:
Prof. Dr. Louis Visscher
Rotterdam Director a.i.:
Prof. Dr. Louis Visscher
Email: edle[at]law.eur.nl
Academic Coordinator:
Dr. Aylin Aydin Çakir
Email: edle[at]law.eur.nl
Postal Address:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erasmus School of Law
Rotterdam Institute of Law & Economics (RILE)
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands
