Professor Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University
Stefan Voigt is currently the director at the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University. He is a
fellow with CESifo (Munich) and has been affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research
(ICER) in Torino, Italy. Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel, Ruhr-
University Bochum, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a research fellow
position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Research Into Economic Systems. He has also worked with
the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of
Industrialists (ERT). His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions and the economic effects
of the judiciary. Voigt is one of the editors of the Review of Law & Economics and a member of various
boards including those of Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy.
Professor Luigi Alberto Franzoni, University of Bologna
Luigi Alberto Franzoni (D.Phil. Nuffield College, Oxford) is
Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna. He is a
leading European academic scholar in the field of Law and Economics.
His main fields of specialization are the economics of IPRs and law
enforcement. He has written, together with D. Marchesi, the most
important introductory book on law and economics in Italian language.
He is currently acting as Mundus Director of the international Ph.D.
programme “European Doctorate in Law and Economics” (Bologna,
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Mumbai). Since September 2014, Professor Franzoni
is the President of the European Law and Economics Association.
Professor Walter A. Stoffel, University of Fribourg
Walter A. Stoffel is currently a professor at the University of Fribourg.
He studied law at the University of Fribourg and Yale Law School. In 1986 he completed his
post-doctoral work on competition law at the University of Fribourg
and the year after he received a professorship in the law faculty of
the same university where he teaches in the francophone section.
Walter Stoffel has also taught at various other foreign universities
including the Université de Paris II, McGill University in Montreal,
Deakin University in Melbourne and the University of Turin. The main
focus of his research and publications lays on competition law,
company law as well as questions concerning the Swiss and
international system of courts. From 1981 to 1987 Walter Stoffel
served as vice-director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in
Lausanne and from 1994 to 2000 he was scientific director of the
International Association of Legal Science. From 2003 to 2010 he was
president of the Swiss Competition Commission. Walter Stoffel has been
a member of the Swiss Science and Innovation Council since 2003.
Professor John Shahar Dillbary, University of Alabama
John Shahar Dillbary is currently a professor at the Univeristy of Alabama, where he holds a
Joint Appointment in the Business School, Culverhouse College of
Commerce and Business Administration and he is a member of the
Graduate Faculty. He is also the co-director of the Cross-Disciplinary Legal Studies Program.
Professor Dillbary joined the faculty at the University of Alabama in
2007 after practicing law at Weil, Gotshal Manges, LL.P. in New
York. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Member Award
(2010), the Commitment to Academic Excellence Award (2011), and a two
time recipient of the Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award for making a
lasting contribution to legal education and the Law School (2012 and
2013). In special recognition of his research and scholarly
accomplishments, professor Dillbary was awarded the Deans Scholar
(2013 - 2016). Professor Dillbarys scholarship focuses on antitrust,
intellectual property, torts and the intersection between law and
economics.
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