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The textbook “Economic Methods for Lawyers”, edited by Emanuel V. Towfigh and Niels Petersen, published by Edward Elgar Publishing, is now freely available on the Internet. You can access it here for free. In this textbook I wrote the chapter “Contract Theory and Economics of Contract Law” (pp. 9...

My review of Johannes W. Flume's book "Marktaustausch" has been published in ERCL, 2020, Issue 4, pp.557–561.

On May 23-24, 2019 the Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn hosted the workshop "Experimental Comparative Law". This workshop brought together researchers from comparative law and empirical legal studies to discuss the promises as well as potential pitfalls of using experime...

On May 3rd, 2019 The Max-Planck-Institute hosted the First German-Dutch-Belgian Symposium on Non-Listed Corporations and Partnerships in Reform, where I presented my thoughts on "Capital in Closed Corporations - Ten Years of MoMiG in Germany".

In April 2019 the commentary European Financial Law Services, edited by Matthias Lehmann and Christoph Kumpan, was published. This book analyses and explains EU legislation governing financial services. It is for legal practitioners in international law firms, the financial industry, regulators, ...

In October 2018 the Institute of Law and Technology hosted the conference Exploring Remedies - Impulses for a German and European ´Law of Remedies´ where I presented my thoughts on "Economics of remedies - the perspective of corporate law". You can find the whole agenda here.

In the Competition and Consumer Law Journal 2017 Vol. 25 Part 2 Rhonda L Smith reviews the book Economic Methods for Lawyers. Among other things she writes the following about my chapter "Contract theory and the economics of contract law": "Contracts are the everyday fare of commerce. Klaus Sch...

Recently the volume Issues and Challenges in Corporate and Capital Market Law: Germany and East Asia, edited by Holger Fleischer, Hideki Kanda, Kon Sik Kim and Peter Mülbert, was published. This volume is based on presentations delivered at a symposium held in March 2016 at the University of Toky...

In May the Special Issue 11 (2018) of the Journal of Japanese Law celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Journal. Leading private and commercial law scholars from Japan and Germany classify the manifold types of information duties and shed light on their differences and similariti...

Recently,  a new paperback edition of the book "Economic Methods for Lawyers" has been published and is available now. For more information follow this link.