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Law, Economics, and Business Group (Stremitzer)

The Law, Economics, and Business Group (Stremitzer) at ETH Zurich is part of the Center for Law & Economics within the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. Our research group operates the ETH Legal Engineering Lab, which conducts lab, internet, and field experiments on legal and social institutions aiming towards designing and improving legal institutions. As part of the Frontiers in Law & Tech Project, the group also studies the likely effects of advances in engineering and the sciences (including but not limited to blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, big data) on legal policy, regulation and private ordering.

Associated Organizations

News

Call for Participation - International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science

On December 9 & 10, 2024, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich co-organizes the next International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science with the University of Chicago Law School Coase-Sandor Institute. The Call for Participation has now been released.

04.09.2024

CLE Vlog with Prof. Kevin Davis (NYU) on the Inclusion of the Global South in EU Supply Chain Regulation

In this episode of the CLE vlog & podcast series, Prof. Kevin Davis (New York University) discusses his study "Did the Global South Have Their Say on EU Supply Chain Regulation?" with Luca Baltensperger (ETH Zurich).

29.04.2024

CLE Vlog with Prof. Christoph Engel (Max Planck Bonn) on German Constitutional Courts

In the new vlog of the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics, Prof. Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn) and Prof. Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) discuss Engel's recent study "The German Constitutional Court – Political, but not Partisan?".

05.03.2024

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Teaching

Selected Publications

Geering & Merane (2023): external page Swiss Federal Supreme Court Dataset (SCD), Zenodo
Stremitzer, Chen & Tobia (2022): external page Having Your Day in Robot Court, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, 36(1), 127–169
Cope, Somin & Stremitzer (2022): external page Vaccine Passports as a Constitutional Right, Arizona State Law Journal, 54(1), 25–102
Kubíček, Merane, Cotrini, Stremitzer, Bechtold & Basin (2022): external page Checking Websites' GDPR Consent Compliance for Marketing Emails, Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2, 282–303
Leibovitch & Stremitzer (2022): external page Aspirational Rules, Journal of Legal Studies, 51(2), 427–453
Gesche (2021): external page De-Biasing Strategic Communication, Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 452–464
Tobia, Nielsen & Stremitzer (2021): external page When Does Physician Use of AI Increase Liability?, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 62(1), 17–21
Tobia (2020): external page Testing Ordinary Meaning, Harvard Law Review, 134(2), 726–806
Stone & Stremitzer (2020): external page Promises, Reliance, and Psychological Lock-in, Journal of Legal Studies, 49(1), 33–72
Mischkowski, Stone & Stremitzer (2019): external page Promises, Expectations, and Social Cooperation, Journal of Law & Economics, 62(4), 687–712
Brooks, Stremitzer & Tontrup (2017): external page Stretch It But Don’t Break It: The Hidden Cost of Contract Framing, Journal of Legal Studies, 46(2), 399–426
Ederer & Stremitzer (2017): external page Promises and Expectations, Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 161–178
Stremitzer (2012): external page Opportunistic Termination, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 28(3), 381–406
Stremitzer (2012): external page Standard Breach Remedies, Quality Thresholds, and Cooperative Investments, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 28(2), 337–359
Brooks & Stremitzer (2011): external page Remedies On and Off Contract, Yale Law Journal, 120(4), 690–727

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Additional Information

Our group conducts lab, internet, and field experiments with the goal of designing and improving legal institutions. A special emphasis is to explore the effects of new technologies on legal policy, regulation, and private ordering.

Contact

ETH Zurich
Center for Law & Economics
IFW Building, E 43.2
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

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