Thursday, 26 June 2025
12:30 – 13:00 Coffee & Snacks
13:00 – 14:20 Session I
Words of Welcome
· Prof. Thomas Eger (Hamburg): „AI and copyright law from an economic perspective".
· Prof. Mitja Kovac (Ljubljana), “Judicial Efficiency, Transaction Costs and the Propensity to Patent? Some Firm-Level Evidence”.
Discussion
14:20 – 14:35 Coffee Break
14:35 – 15:45 Session II
· Prof. Oren Gazal Ayal (Haifa): “Evaluating Large Language Models as Judicial Decision-Makers”.
· Prof. Edgardo Buscaglia, “Jurimetrics within the frontiers of Law & Economics”. Electronic presentation.
Discussion
15:45 – 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 – 18:00 Session III (this session will take place in a different room, to be assigned)
· Prof. Clemens Jabloner (Vienna): „Hans Kelsen and the Austrian School of Economics".
· Prof. Roger van den Bergh (Rotterdam): “Forty years of Law and Economics in Europe: Per aspera ad astra”.
Discussion
Friday, 27. June 2025
9:00 – 10:50 (Session IV)
· Prof. Stefan Voigt (Hamburg): „Wolfgang and the fairy tales: Folktales as transmitters of values and norms”.
· Prof. Jean-Robert Tyran (Vienna): “Civic engagement and the accountable state”.
· Prof. Eli Salzberger (Haifa), “The Crises of Liberal Democracy and the Economic Approach”.
Discussion
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:25 (Session V)
· Prof. Peter Lewisch (Vienna): „2500 years of jurisprudence, 250 years of economics: Have the lawyers lived in the dark for so long?”
· Prof. Wolfgang Weigel (Vienna): “Why more Barm should be used in the Cake of Jurisprudence”.
Discussion
12:25 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:50 (Session VI)
· Prof. Michael Faure (Maastricht): “How to compensate for damage caused by climate change related natural disasters? Lessons from Law and Economics”. Electronic presentation.
· Prof. Henrik Lando (Copenhagen): „Contract Interpretation“.
· Prof. Boudewijn Bouckaert (Ghent): “Get them by their minerals! Initial assignment of property rights to sea-bed minerals”.
Discussion
14:50: Words of thanks & Farewell
15:00: End of the Conference
Academic head of program: Univ.-Prof. DDr. Peter Lewisch, Department of Criminal Law
The conference is free of charge. Registration at sekretariat.lewisch@univie.ac.at
Thanks are due to the organizer Professor Peter Lewisch!
Best regards
Wolfgang Weigel
Ao.Univ.-Prof.i.R.
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Wien
Oskar Morgenstern Platz 1 05.502, 1090 Wien
und
Joseph von Sonnenfels Center for the Study of Public Law and Economics, Donau-Universität Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 23
3500 Krems an der Donau