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.
Beat Weibel, Head of ETH transfer at ETH Zurich, has been appointed as "Professor of Practice" in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS). Together with Prof. Stefan Bechtold from the CLE, he will develop and implement training and awareness initiatives for ETH students in the area of intellectual property.
On September 2, EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus, the first large-scale, open, multilingual language model. Prof. Elliott Ash, Jingwei Ni and Dr. Alexander Hoyle from the ETH Center for Law & Economics (CLE) are among the co-authors of Apertus.
Margaritha Windisch, Ph.D. candidate at ETH’s Center for Law & Economics (CLE), reached 2nd place in the Young Scholar Recognition at the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) Conference 2025 in Toulouse.
