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The Hamburg EMLE Students visited the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (MPI) for the special lecture event “Foundations and Perspectives of Comparative Law” on 17^th November 2009. Following a brief introduction to the work of the MPI, Hannes Rösler, Senior Research Fellow at the MPI, delivered a presentation on the foundations and perspectives of comparative legal research with special regard to the history of the MPI, its current research projects and the links between comparative legal research and law & economics. A short movie on the work of the MPI (MPI Movie) underpinned his presentation. The event closed with a presentation on the institute’s library and a guided tour by Holger Knudsen, Director of the MPI Library. Participants and speakers continued their discussion over dinner at a restaurant close by. The joint EMLE/MPI lecture event is an integrated module of the EMLE first term course “Foundations of Law and Economics: The Comparative Legal Perspective” taught by Patrick C. Leyens.

Hamburg, 18^th November 2009,  

Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger, EMLE Managing Director

This editorial of Prof. Thomas Eger has been published in the September 29th 2008 edtion of Newsweek.

Postgraduate studies have become an almost indispensable supplement to university education for the new generation of legal professionals. Within the last few decades the demand for Master of Laws (LL.M.) programmes has increased immensely. US universities were long seen as the market leaders in high quality postgraduate legal education. Although offered at considerably lower fees, Master Programmes in Europe stand for equally high quality. High standards can be expected of programmes which receive funding from accepted institutions. Telling from my own experience, the European Commission sets particularly high standards under the Erasmus Mundus project.

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We are very pleased to announce that the EMLE programme has been selected for the second round of the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus initiative (EM II). This signifies another five years of financial support from the Commission for researchers and students, besides being a great recognition of the EMLE programme's qualities in teaching and organisation.
EMLE was one of the first master programmes to be selected for Erasmus Mundus support in 2004 and has since benefited from generous student grants. Funding under EM II will enable even greater financial support for European students, while grants for third country students will continue to be available. As a further consequence of the selection for EM II, the EMLE consortium of universities will change in compostion as of the academic year 2010/2011. The University of Manchester will no longer participate, while the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbai, India) will join the network. The University of Haifa, currently EMLE's non-European partner university, will become a full consortium member.
We are furthermore delighted that the European Doctorate Programme in Law and Economics (EDLE) has also been accepted for support from Erasmus Mundus as of 2010. Each year, some of the top graduates from EMLE continue their studies in Law and Economics at PhD level in the EDLE programme. Thus, together EMLE and EDLE are now in a position to offer comprehensive first-class postgraduate education in Law and Economics with the valuable support of the Erasmus Mundus programme.

Giovanni Formica was awarded 1.000 Euro for the best thesis. He presented his paper on "Law and Economics of Bundling by Non-Dominant Firms" on the Midtermmeeting in Hamburg in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.

The annual Midterm Meeting of the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Law and Economics Programme took place in Hamburg on February 13-14, 2009.

The European Commission has informed us that for the application for the academic year 2009-2010, students from the candidate countries for accession to the EU (currently Croatia, Macedonia, Turkey) are regarded as third country students, rather than as European students, as in previous years. This implies that students from these countries:
- are now eligible for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship but must also pay the tuition fees for third country students, and
- must follow the application procedure for third country students. Important: The deadline for application is December 15, 2008.

On Friday November 7, the Erasmus University Rotterdam has conferred a doctorate honoris causa upon Guido Calabresi, Emeritus Professor and Former Dean of the Yale University Law School and Judge of the US Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, for his pioneering work in the field of Economic Analysis of Law – on the recommendation of the Erasmus School of Law.

Read the Laudatio by Prof. Dr. Roger Van den Bergh.

The Graduation Ceremony  for the class of 2007/08 will take place on Saturday 18th October 2008, starting at 11:00 h Erasmus University Rotterdam, Woudestein Campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam (Forumzaal, M-building, 3rd floor)

The annual Midterm Meeting of the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Law and Economics Programme will be held at the University of Hamburg on February 13-14, 2009. The Midterm Meeting will start with a One-day Conference on Law and Economics on February 13, 2009. Papers in any field of Law and Economics are welcome to be submitted for presentation at the workshop. You can find more information here.

On June 6^th, 2008, a grand ceremony was held in the Guesthouse of the University of Hamburg in honour of Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer on the occasion of his recent 65^th birthday. Professor Schäfer was presented a commemorative volume (Festschrift) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of Law and Economics, both in terms of academic achievement and his continuous dedication to building an institutional structure for Law and Economics in Europe.

The volume, which was presented by the editors Thomas Eger, Jochen Bigus, Claus Ott, and Georg von Wangenheim, comprises articles by 59 renowned legal and economic scholars under the title Internationalization of the Law and Its Economic Analysis. The ceremony was attended by more than 50 distinguished professors from throughout Europe, including most of the authors of the volume and the coordinators of the European Master Programme in Law and Economics.