Workshop & Lecture Series
In various compositions, four Swiss universities offer two joint law and economics seminar series each year. In each seminar series, guest scholars present their work in a lecture and discuss their ongoing research in a workshop. Guest scholars come from around the world and include researchers from law, economics, and related fields. Each spring semester, the general Workshop and Lecture Series in Law & Economics is organized by ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics as well as the universities of external pageSt. Gallen and external pageZurich. Each fall semester ETH Zurich, the University St. Gallen and Zurich organize the Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation.
All series include a mix of speakers who represent the wide range of current social science research methods applied to legal questions in general, to intellectual property, innovation, antitrust policy and technology policy issues. Theoretical models, empirical and experimental research as well as legal research methods are represented. Taken together, the workshop and lecture series present the current international frontier in interdisciplinary research in various areas of law and economics.
