Hamburg
Studying in Hamburg
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
Tel.: +49-40-42838.5782
Fax.: +49-40-42838.6794
Email.: Stefan.Voigt[AT]uni-hamburg.de
Office:
Ms. Christiane Ney-Schönig
Tel.: +49-40-42838.5776
Fax.: +49-40-42838.6794
Email.: EMLE[AT]uni-hamburg.de
Postal Address:
Universität Hamburg
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Institut für Recht und Ökonomik
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Teaching Staff:
Matthew Braham, PhD
Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger
Prof. Michael Funke
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Leyens, LL.M
Sang-Min Park
Dr. Alessandro Pomelli
Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Dr. Noah Vardi
Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt
Stephan Wittig
Thesis Areas:
Contract Law
Tort Law
Competition Law
Environmental Law
European and International Law
Public Law
Constitutional Law
Public Choice
New Institutional Economics
Banking Law
Commercial Law
Corporation Law, esp. Corporate Governance
Securities Regulation
Law and Development
Law and Transition
Coordinator
Teaching Staff
Dr. Matthew Braham studied for his B.Sc in Human Sciences at University College London and for his M.Sc in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. He was a member of the University of Hamburg PhD programme in Law and Economics from 1998-2000, after which he first joined the staff of the Institute of Law and Economics and then the Institute of SocioEconomics. He now holds an assistant professorship in ethics at the University of Groningen (http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.braham/index), and for the summer semester 2009 will hold a temporary full-professorship in philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. His main research focus is on the conceptual analysis of the measurement of power and freedom but he also has diverse interests in law and economics, economic and social history, and the methodology of the social and natural sciences. He received PhD, a collection of papers entitled 'Essays on Power, Freedom, and Success: Concepts, Measurement, and Applications' in September 2004. He has published in Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Review of Law and Economics, and the European Journal of Law and Economics. He is currently working on a monograph (with Martin van Hees) entitled 'Individual Responsibility and Collective Action.'
Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger is Professor at the Law Faculty and at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Hamburg. His main fields of interest, on which he has written several books and articles, are the economic analysis of civil law, the law and economics of European integration and the transformation of Eastern and Central European economic systems. Special mention should be made of his book on the economic analysis of long-term contracts (1995) and his book on the Law and Economics of European Integration (together with Wagener and Fritz, 2006).
Prof. Dr. Michael Funke is a Professor of Economics at Hamburg University, and has been a member of the Faculty of Economics and Management Science since August 1995. His research interests are macroeconomics and econometrics. Between 1992-1993 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the London Business School, and between 1994-1995 he was an associate professor of economics at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has worked as a Visiting Professor and consultant for the IMF, the Bank of England, the Bank of Finland, and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
Jun. Prof. Dr. Patrick C. Leyens, LL.M. (London) is Junior Professor for Civil Law and Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private and International Private Law. His main fields of interest concern the law and economics of German and European corporate, commercial and capital market law, especially corporate governance. For his doctoral thesis on the information of supervisory directors in the boards of listed stock corporations (in German) he received several research prizes. In 2007 and 2008 he has been an advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Finance on deposit insurance and investor compensation. Since 2009 he is the Hamburg Director of the European Doctorate of Law and Economics (EDLE), a cooperation between the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Rotterdam. Since 2007 he teaches 'Basic Concepts Law & Economics: The Comparative Legal Perspective' in the first term and 'Contracts II: Economic Analysis of Long-term Contracts' in the second term.
Alessandro Pomelli is research assistant professor at the University of Bologna Faculty of Economics, where he teaches courses in corporate 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 Bocconi University Faculty of Law in 2004 and an LL.M. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2006 together with the academic title of Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He also teaches courses in basic concepts of law and economics, comparative law and economics, corporation law and economics and corporate governance on the EMLE programme, the course in international mergers and acquisitions on the Loyola Law School and University of Bologna Faculty of Law international LL.M. programme as well as he holds lectures on corporate law in the postgraduate program of the School of Specialisation in Legal Professions in Bologna. Author of numerous articles on corporate and takeover laws and securities regulation published in Italian law reviews, his main field of interest is the law and economics of corporations and capital markets.
Prof. Dr. 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. Claus Ott he published a German textbook on the economic analysis of civil law (which has been translated into English, Spanish and Chinese) and a series of articles on law and economics. He is director of the Ph.D. Graduate College on Law and Economics and until 2008 was also the Director of the EMLE programme.
Stephan Wittig studied Economics and Business Administration in Bonn, Zurich and Vancouver, and acquired his Masters in Economics from the University of Bonn in 2004. Since 2005 he is a member of the DFG-Graduate School for Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on International Trade and Subsidies. He spent a year as Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, at the European University Institute in Florence, and at the European Commission (DG Trade). Since 2006, he teaches the "Foundations of Law and Economics I: Microeconomics" tutorial in the Fall Term at the EMLE-programme in Hamburg, and this year he will also conduct the "Formal Methods & Concepts of Mathematics" course.
Dr. Noah Vardi (PhD) is Researcher in private comparative law at the University of Roma Tre since 2005. She has a degree in Law from the University of Roma Tre and a PhD in European private law from the University of Verona (2005). She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School (2004) and has been a Research Guest at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris. Her main fields of interest are European private law and private comparative law (on which she has lectured in the Universities of Roma Tre, Sassari, and Pázmany Péter Budapest). Her current research is on monetary obligations and financial markets.
