Hamburg

Studying in Hamburg

Director:
Jun. Prof. Dr. Patrick Leyens, LL.M. (London)
Tel.: +49-40-42838.5782
Fax.: +49-40-42838.6794

Contact :
Mr. Gabor Gottlieb
Tel.: +49-40-42838.6779
Fax.: +49-40-42838.6794
Email.: ue.dhp-elde@grubmah

Postal Address:
University of Hamburg
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Institute of Law and Economics
Rothenbaumchaussee 36
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Director

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 EDLE.

Teaching Staff

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. Eger is also Director of the European Master in Law and Economics Programme.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Sch

Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt is director at the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University. He is a fellow with CESifo (Munich) and has been affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, Italy. Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel, Ruhr-University Bochum, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a research fellow position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Research Into Economic Systems. His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions. More specifically, current research focuses on the economic effects of the judiciary. Prof. Dr. Voigt is one of the editors of the Review of Law & Economics and a member of various boards including those of Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. He has consulting experience with both the public and the private sector. Prof. Dr. Voigt has worked with the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).