Welcome to the Group of Law and Economics of Digitization

Research

This specialist area deals with the interface between private law and economics.

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TU Ilmenau / Michael Reichel (ari)

Teaching

From a legal-economic perspective, we offer students sound insights into private law and European commercial law.

Recent publications

Regulating Big Tech: From Competition Policy to Sector Regulation?, with Oliver Budzinki, Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society: ORDO Vol. 72/73 No.1 (2023), pp. 215-255

Sustainability in merger control, Klever et al, Nachhaltigkeit im Privatrecht, Jahrbuch Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaft, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, pp. 215-239

Reconsidering Conglomerates - how are digital conglomerates different from those in the past? Theory and implications, Competition Law Review: 15/1 CompLRev 2023, pp. 83-103

Platform-specific requirements of the Data Act, with Philipp Richter, in: Steinrötter, Handbuch Plattformregulierung, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2023, pp. 544-564

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