Evening Lectures
General information on the seminar "Evening Lectures"
In this series of events, professors from renowned universities are invited to present current topics and foster discussion.
Particular attention is paid to approaches and issues that have received little attention in the European discussion so far. The Evening Lectures are open to everyone working in the legal professions.
The event series takes place in cooperation with the Austrian Hub of the European Law Institute (ELI).
Information on the seminar series for the summer semester 2022
Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the seminar will mainly take place online in the summer semester 2022.
For details on the topics and registration, please take a look at the respective seminar evenings in the program.
Summer Semester 2022
Date: 04.05.2022
Book-Launch "Law by Algorithm"
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Horst Eidenmüller, University of Oxford
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the evening lecture will take place online.
Date: 31.05.2022
Empirical Foundations of the Iron Law of Financial Regulation
Lecturer: Prof. Roberta Romano, Yale Law School
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place as a hybrid event.
Lecture held by Prof. Roberta Romano, Sterling Professor of Law at the Yale Law School and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, in the series „Evening Lectures“ of the Department of Business Law of the University of Innsbruck. The event will be hosted and moderated by Univ. Prof. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale).
This lecture will discuss the Empirical Foundations of the Iron Law of Financial Regulation. After the financial crisis of 2008, and in general following a crisis, legislators often enact crisis-induced financial regulations without having completed a thorough analysis of the crisis and its causes. The legislators then create a complex, regulatory ratchet of often very strict rules. These regulations have many, and often unintended, consequences. Prof. Romano analyses the impact of such “crisis-regulations” by comparing long-term empirical data of different financial regulations and assessing their effective impact.
Date: 08.06.2022
The changing role of contracts in the contemporary economic environment
Lecturer: Prof. Lisa Bernstein, Chicago Law School
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Lecture held by Prof. Lisa Bernstein, Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at Chicago Law School, as a part of the series „Evening Lectures“ of the Department of Business Law of the University of Innsbruck, and hosted and moderated by Univ. Prof. Susanne Augenhofer, LL.M. (Yale).
This lecture examines the changing role of contracts in the contemporary economic environment. Topics that will be addressed include - the relation of vested contracting, relational contracting, and classical relational contracts to the governance structures of firms, - the impact of the success of vested and managerial contracting on lawyering practices, and - different ways of incorporating pre-existing norms guiding human behavior into contractual relationships.
Dates and information on previous events
Winter Semester 2021/22
Date: 13.10.2021
The ultra-vires-doctrine of the Federal Consitutional Court
– crisis or opportunity for Europe?
Lecturer: Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Dieter Grimm, LL.M., Humboldt University Berlin
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the evening lecture will take place as a hybrid event in autumn 2021.
Date: 15.12.2021 online
Behavioural Public Policy for Sustainable Development
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lucia Reisch, University of Cambridge
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Summer Semester 2021
Date: 14.04.2021
Controlling Power in the Digital Economy:
The Role of Antitrust
Lecturer: Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, NYU School of Law
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Date: 28.04.2021
Mergers and merger control in digital markets
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso, DIW Berlin
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Date: 19.05.2021
Lecturer: Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger, LL.M., Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Date: 09.06.2021
The Digital Markets Act – a game changer?
Lecturer: Prof. Giorgio Monti, Tilburg Law School / European University Institute
Abstract: "This is a collection of recommendations and discussions on the European Commission proposal for a Digital Markets Act. My contribution is on the Institutional Issues."
The research report on the Digital Markets Act can be found here
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture will take place online.
Winter Semester 2020/21
Date: 03.11.2020
Antitrust in the age of digitalization
Lecturer: Prof. Giorgio Monti, Tilburg University
Note: Due to the current situation (COVID-19), the Evening Lecture took place online.