Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Christoph Engel

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Research Focus

Empirical Legal Studies, Experimental Law and Economics, AI and the Law

Academic Career

1988 Doctoral Thesis in Tübingen
1992 Post Doctoral Thesis in Hamburg
1992 Professor in Osnabrück
1997 Head of the Project Group
2003 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Institute
2003 Professor in Bonn
2004 Honorary Professor in Osnabrück
2012-2013 Sanders Chair, Erasmus University Law School, Rotterdam
2013 Chair for Experimental Law and Economics, Erasmus University Law School, Rotterdam
2013-2016 Chair, Section of Humanities and Social Sciences, Max-Planck-Society
Member of the Academic Board to the German Minister of Economics and Labour
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the Scientific Council, Centre for European Economic Research (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, ZEW) Mannheim
Chair of the Advisory Board, Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics

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Inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich, Center for Law and Economics (5 March 2024)

In the new vlog of the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics, Prof. Christoph Engel and Prof. Stefan Bechtold discuss Engel's recent study "The German Constitutional Court – Political, but not Partisan?".

“The Human in Human Rights Law”
Minerva Lecture, 25 April 2022
at the MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Surprisingly, for the most part, human rights law takes human nature for granted. Using rulings of the European Court of Human Rights from 2021 and 2022 Christoph Engel demonstrates that taking the human in human rights law seriously, i.e. adopting a behavioral perspective to the topic, is a promising enterprise.

Deliberate Ignorance

This book is available open source with MIT Press.

How Do Lawyers Decide Cases?

Franz Böhm lecture at Walter Eucken Institute

Franz Böhm Lecture

Interview on Youtube

Can We Distribute Goods Efficiently Without Property Rights?

Even in the absence of absolute property rights, ex-post bargaining may lead to efficient distribution of goods, CHRISTOPH ENGEL explains in this video. The findings of this research thus extend the domain of the Coase theorem. In the experiment, with a society of two individuals and a single commodity, a good ends up with the individual who values it most even if only relative property rights – i.e., rights only against other parties to a contract – are provided.