Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken
Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken is Tenured Track Professor (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Tenure Track Professor) of Law and Economics, Public Law, Public International Law and European Law and is part of the profile area “Business Enterprise – Law, Innovation, Risk".
Academic career
- For the academic year 2010-2011 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin)
- Since October 2006: Max Schmidheiny Foundation Tenure-Track-Professor for Law and Economics, Public, International and European Law at the University of St.Gallen
- July 2005 to Sept. 2006: Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
- 2003-2005: Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
- 2000-2003: Graduate Research Assistant to the Chair of German, European and International Civil- and Business Law and New Institutional Economics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Kirchner
- 2002: 2. Juristisches Staatsexamen („Bar Exam“), Admitted to the Bar 2003
- 2000-2002: Trainee Clerk at the Appeals Court in Berlin (Kammergericht)
- 2001: Doctoral Thesis “Rational-Choice in der Rechtswissenschaft. Zum Stellenwert der ökonomischen Theorie im Recht”, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Supervision: Prof. Gerard Rowe
- 1998-2000: Graduate Research Assistant to the Chair of Economic Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Prof. Dr. Henner Kleinewefers
- 1997-1998: Visiting Scholar at the Law Schools of UC Berkeley and Yale University, financed by a doctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)
- 1997: First Law Degree
- 1992-1997: studied law in Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian-University
- 1992: M.A. in Economics, Diploma in Communication Science
- 1987-1992: studied economics and communication science at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Main Research Focus
- Public International Law, especially international economic law, investment law and human rights, Theories of International Law;
- (Behavioral) Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Deliberative Theories;
- Regulation of Financial Markets, Theories of Regulation, (International) Administrative Law;
- Corruption;
- Regulatory Impact Assessment; and
- State liability and accountability.
Grants and Fellowships
Guest Professorship
- Academy of International Trade Law, Macao (July 2009)
- Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Nov. 09)
- University of Hamburg (SS 2008; EMLE)
- IBMEC, Sao Paulo (Sept. 2007, Aug. 2008)
- University of Osnabrück (SS 2007/08/09)
- University of Haifa, Israel (WS 2005/06)
- Heidelberg Center of Latin America, Santiago de Chile (2004/2005)
- Ministry of Justice, Ethiopia, LLM course organized by the University of Amsterdam (2005)
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