Past Events

The Center for Law & Economics organizes research-related events on a regular basis. Here is a list of past events:

December 14, 2023: Workshop on Empirical Privacy Studies, organized by ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics: Downloadprogram (PDF, 169 KB)
November 23 – 24, 2023: Narratives in Economics Workshop, organized by ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics and University of Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 105 KB)
November 3 – 4, 2023: AI Policy Summit 2023, organized by RegHorizon and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: external pageprogram
September 29 – 30, 2023: Workshop in AI+Economics, organized by ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics and University of Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 90 KB)
September 18 – 19, 2023: 5th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop, organized by Monash University, the University of Warwick, and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics: external pageprogram
September 6 – 8, 2023: Zurich IP Retreat 2023, organized by the Institute for the Protection of Intellectual Property (INGRES) and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics: Downloadprogram (PDF, 236 KB)
September 6 – 8, 2023: Latsis Symposium 2023: Tackling Online Hate Speech and Strengthening Public Discours, organized by the Public Policy Group, the Center for Law & Economics, and the AI Center (all ETH Zurich): program
July 31 – August 1, 2023: Conference on Data Science and Law, organized by ETH Zurich, University of Virginia and Fordham University. Program available upon request.
June 12 – 13, 2023: International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science, organized by the University of Chicago Law School Coase-Sandor Institute and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 1.3 MB)
May 24 – 26, 2023: Munich Summer Institute 2022, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, HEC Lausanne, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Northwestern University: Downloadfinal program (PDF, 216 KB)
April 3 – 4, 2023: 5th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop, organized by Monash University, the University of Warwick, and ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics: external pageprogram
March 17, 2023: Zurich Mini-Workshop in AI+Economics, organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich: external pageprogram
November 18 – 19, 2022: ETH / NYU School of Law Conference "Mapping The Online World", organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the NYU School of Law: Downloadprogram (PDF, 173 KB)
October 14, 2022: Workshop in AI+Economics, organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 42 KB)
October 10 – 13, 2022: AI Policy Summit 2022, organized by RegHorizon and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 114 KB)
September 1 – 2, 2022: 4th Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop, organized by Monash University, the University of Warwick and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: external pageprogram
August 29 – 30, 2022: Digital Transformation & Society (Digits): ETH+ Workshop on IT Security at the Boundaries of Computer Science and Social Sciences, jointly organized by ETH's D-GESS / Center for Law & Economics, D-INFK and D-MTEC: Downloadfinal program (PDF, 113 KB)
June 8 – 10, 2022: Munich Summer Institute 2022, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadfinal program (PDF, 214 KB)
March 14 – 23, 2022: Empirical Methods Workshop, organized by the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich
February 17 – 18, 2022: 3rd Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop, organized by Monash University, the University of Warwick and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: external pageprogram
October 28 – 29, 2021: Digital Democracy Workshop, organized by the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the Digital Democracy Lab (DigDemLab) at the University of Zurich, incl. Elliott Ash from the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 149 KB)
October, 26 – 28, 2021: International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science, organized by the University of Chicago Law School Coase-Sandor Institute, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the Tsinghua University School of Law: Downloadprogram (PDF, 803 KB)
September 14 – 15, 2021: AI Policy Conference, organized by RegHorizon and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: external pageprogram
August, 30 – 31, 2021: 2nd Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop: external pageprogram
June 21 – 25, 2021: Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, organized by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich. Program available upon request.
June 7 – 9, 2021: Munich Summer Institute 2021, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 203 KB), Downloadfinal program (PDF, 180 KB)
February, 18 – 19, 2021: Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshop: Downloadprogram (PDF, 242 KB)
December, 1 – 3, 2020: International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science, organized by the University of Chicago Law School Coase-Sandor Institute, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the Tsinghua University School of Law: Downloadprogram (PDF, 873 KB)
November 16 – 17, 2020: AI Policy Conference, organized by RegHorizon & ETH Zurich: Downloadconference publication (PDF, 820 KB)
October 2 – 3, 2020: 2020 Experimental Methods in Legal Scholarship Conference (EMLS 5): Downloadprogram (PDF, 88 KB)
September 11, 18, and 25, 2020: CIS Workshop in Empirical Political Economy. Program available upon request.
September 9 – 11, 2020: EPIP2020 Online Conference: external pageprogram
October 25 – 26, 2019: Workshop Zurich Text as Data, Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 38 KB)
September 13 – 14, 2019: Zurich IP Retreat 2019, Zurich, jointly organized by INGRES and ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 305 KB)
September 11 – 13, 2019: EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) 2019 Conference at ETH Zurich, jointly organized by Stefan Bechtold from ETH Zurich and Gaétan de Rassenfosse from EPFL Lausanne: Downloadprogram (PDF, 1.6 MB)
June 17 – 19, 2019: Munich Summer Institute 2019, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadcall for paper (PDF, 164 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 158 KB)
June 7 – 8, 2019: Conference on Data Science & Law, Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 1.4 MB)
March 22 – 23, 2019: Workshop on the Law & Economics of Patents, Zurich: program
March 15 – 16, 2019: 4th Experimental Methods in Legal Scholarship Conference (EMLS 4 Conference), Zurich: external pageprogram
November 2 – 3, 2018: Zurich IP Retreat 2018, Zurich, jointly organized by INGRES and ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 219 KB)
Workshop & Lecture Series in Law & Finance: 2008 - 2017
June 4 – 6, 2018: Munich Summer Institute 2018, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 173 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 282 KB)
February 12, 2018: Workshop on Blockchain, Law & Policy, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the University of Amsterdam: Downloadprogram (PDF, 119 KB)
September 2017: Zurich IP Retreat 2017, Zurich, jointly organized by INGRES and ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 449 KB)
May 2017: Munich Summer Institute 2017, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 49 KB), Downloadprogram and list of participants (PDF, 1.3 MB)Download
May 2017: ETH/NYU Design2 Conferece, New York, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University: Downloadprogram (PDF, 53 KB)
January 2017: DownloadEuropean Progress Conference 2017 (PDF, 570 KB): Dissemination of IP Knowledge in Universities, Zurich, conference organized by the European Patent Office in cooperation with ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
June 2016: Munich Summer Institute 2016, Munich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 66 KB), Downloadprogram and list of participants (PDF, 1.4 MB)
April 2016: Workshop on the Law & Economics of Antitrust, Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 330 KB)
June 2015: ETH/NYU Transatlantic Innovation Scholarship Conference: Design Protection --> Design Innovation?, Zurich, jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University: Downloadprogram (PDF, 192 KB)
June 2015: Innovation, Finance & the Law Connference on "Fostering Innovation", Toulouse, jointly organized by the Institute of for Advanced Study in Toulouse and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 1 MB)
June 2014: Munich Conference on Innovation and Competition (formerly Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law), Munich, jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 224 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 125 KB)
January 2014: Transatlantic Workshop on Intellectual Property Research, Zurich: Downloadprogram (PDF, 393 KB)
September 2013: Empirical Studies of Trademark Data, Alexandria, VA, jointly organized by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & POlicy at New York University, ETH Zurich, as well as the Universities of Oxford and East Anglia: Downloadprogram (PDF, 64 KB)
July 2013: July 2013: DownloadBehavioral Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (PDF, 35 KB), International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Munich (co-taught by Stefan Bechtold, Christopher Buccafusco, Chicago-Kent, and Christopher Sprigman, NYU)
June 2013: Fourth Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Castle Ringberg, jointly organized by the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 293 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 278 KB)
December 2012: Workshop on Empirical Studies of Trademark Data, Oxford, jointly organized by ETH Zurich, INNOTEC, the Engelberg Center for Innovation and Policy at New York University, the Oxxofrd Intellectual Property Research Centre, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the University of East Anglia: Downloadprogram (PDF, 111 KB)
June 2012: Third Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Castle Ringberg, jointly organized by the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 148 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 330 KB)
June 2011: Second Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Castle Ringberg, jointly organized by the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 122 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 124 KB)
May/June 2011: DownloadBehavioral Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (PDF, 30 KB), International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Munich (co-taught by Stefan Bechtold & Christopher Sprigman, Virginia)
July 2010: The Expressive Powers of Law, Zurich (taught by Richard McAdams, Chicago)
June 2010: Empirical Legal Studies, Zurich (taught by Robert Lawless, Jennifer Robbennolt & Thomas Ulen, Illinois)
June 2010: Workshop for Junior Researchers on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Castle Ringberg, jointly organized by the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation and the Professorship for Intellectual Property at ETH Zurich: Downloadcall for papers (PDF, 120 KB), Downloadprogram (PDF, 230 KB)
Spring 2010: DownloadBehavioral Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (PDF, 57 KB), International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Munich
Summer 2008: Introduction to Empirical Legal Studies, Zurich (taught by Kathryn Zeiler, Georgetown)
Spring 2008: Download2nd Law, Economics & Psychology Seminar and 4th EIPIN Doctoral Meeting (PDF, 47 KB), Zurich