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Talking law and economics at ETH Zurich
by ETH Center for Law & Economics
This podcast is brought to you by the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics. We discuss current topic in intellectual property law, the law of emerging technologies, experimental law & economics, law & tech, and machine learning.
Episodes
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Science under Inquisition — Roberto Galbiati (CNRS-Sciences Po & CEPR)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Roberto Galbiati (CNRS-Sciences Po & CEPR) talks about his paper "Science under Inquisition: The Allocation of Talent in Early Modern Europe" with Benjamin Kohler (ETH Zurich). In their study, Roberto Galbiati and his co-authors Edgard...
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Divesting University Endowments — Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern University)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern University) and Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich) discuss the paper "Divesting University Endowments", which examines the legal and financial principles governing university endowment divestment and evaluates both...
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Money and Social Exclusion in Networks — Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna)
Globalization creates new opportunities for cooperation across vast networks of individuals who may never meet. Social exclusion and monetary exchange are institutions that in theory can incentivize cooperation. But what encourages cooperation most effectively – money or social exclusion? In this...
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Off-the-Shelf Large Language Models Are Unreliable Judges – Jonathan Choi (USC / WashU)
With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being considered for tasks once thought to be uniquely human—including legal interpretation. The idea of “AI judges” suggests appealing possibilities: consistent, fast, and ostensibly unbiased answers to...
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Symmetry, Presumptions and Judges Design – Murat Mungan (Texas A&M)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog Series, Prof. Murat C. Mungan (Texas A&M University) discusses his paper "Symmetry, Presumptions, and the Judges Design" with Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich). In his work, Murat C. Mungan discusses an important assumption underlying a popular empirical method used in...
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Prediction without Preclusion – Berk Ustun (UC San Diego)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Berk Ustun (University of California San Diego) discusses his paper "Prediction without Preclusion: Recourse Verification with Reachable Sets" with Benjamin Kohler (ETH Zurich). In their work, Berk Ustun and his co-authors investigate how...
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Swiss Cheese Contracts – Mitu Gulati (University of Virginia)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Mitu Gulati (University of Virginia) and Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich) discuss "Swiss Cheese Contracts", a topic drawn from Gulati's new book "Contract Hazards: Lawyers and Their Landmines", co-authored with Stephen J. Choi (NYU) and Robert E.…
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The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation – Anu Bradford (Columbia University)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Raquel De Haro (ETH Zurich) interviews Anu Bradford (Columbia University) about her recent paper “The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation.” Prof. Bradford is the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization…
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Rewarding Failure – Francesco Parisi (Universities of Minnesota & Bologna)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Francesco Parisi (University of Minnesota & University of Bologna) discusses his paper "Rewarding Failure" with Gianmarco Torchetti (ETH Zurich). In their work, Parisi and his co-authors Alice Guerra and Andres Sawicki challenge the…
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The Rise of Nonbanks in Servicing Household Debt – Manisha Padi (UC Berkeley)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Manisha Padi (University of California, Berkeley) discusses her study "The Rise of Nonbanks in Servicing Household Debt" with Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich). In their work, Padi and co-authors study the effects of capital regulation focusing…
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An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology – Kevin Cope (University of Virginia)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Kevin Cope (University of Virginia) discusses his paper "An Expert-Sourced Measure of Judicial Ideology" with Benjamin Kohler (ETH Zurich). In his work, Kevin Cope investigates how to measure judicial ideology and how this construct…
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Work Requirements and Child Tax Benefits – Jacob Goldin (University of Chicago)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Jacob Goldin (University of Chicago) discusses his paper "Work Requirements and Child Tax Benefits" with Noah Fehr (ETH Zürich). In his work, Jacob Goldin examines the trade-offs between targeting child tax benefits to the most vulnerable...
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Law and the New Dynamic Public Finance – Prof. Daniel Hemel (New York University)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Daniel Hemel (New York University School of Law) discusses his paper "Law and the New Dynamic Public Finance" with Luca Baltensperger (ETH Zurich). In his work, Prof. Hemel explores how insights from the new dynamic public finance can inform legal...
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Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – Prof. Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
In this episode of the CLE vlog series, Raquel De Haro (ETH Zurich) interviews Professor Nick Feamster (University of Chicago) about his studies on compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Prof. Feamster’s research examines how businesses implement opt-out options for data...
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Paternity Leave and Child Development – Prof. Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & BSE)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabrica and Barcelona School of Economics) discusses her paper on the effect of paternity leave on early child development with Claudia Marangon (ETH Zurich). For their study, Prof. González, Prof. Lídia Farré...
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Day-Fines: Should the Rich Pay More? – Prof. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Fines are efficient and widely adopted criminal sanctions due to their low enforcement burdens and the wealth transfer from offenders to society. Among the various fining regimes that have emerged, day fines have been proposed as an optimal way to ensure equality across social classes, yet...
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Focus on Fine-Tuning: Understanding the Pathways for Shaping Generative AI – Prof. Paul Ohm (Georgetown)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast series, Prof. Paul Ohm (Georgetown University) and Prof. Filippo Lancieri (Georgetown University, formerly ETH Zurich) discuss Prof. Ohm's study on the pathways for shaping generative AI, with a special focus on fine-tuning.In his study, Prof. Ohm…
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How Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms – Prof. Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast series, Prof. Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne) and Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich) talk about Prof. Zanarone's recent paper "Relationships in the Wild: How Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms". In their study, Zanarone and his co-authors Gani Aldashev...
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How to Legitimate the Prosecution of Politicians – Prof. Ian Ayres (Yale University)
In 1883, the US Supreme Court declared that no one is above the law, emphasizing that all government officials must obey it. This principle, widely accepted in contemporary legal systems, asserts that politicians, like everyone else, should not be immune from prosecution. Unlike for everybody…
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Shareholder Democracy - Prof. Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, Prof. Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago) discusses the broader topic of "Sharehoder Democracy" with Dr. Philine Widmer (ETH Zurich). References: Eleonora Broccardo – University of Trento Oliver Hart – Harvard University Luigi Zingales –...
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Did the Global South Have Their Say on EU Supply Chain Regulation? – Prof. Kevin Davis (NYU)
In this episode of the CLE vlog & podcast series, Prof. Kevin Davis (New York University) discusses his study "Did the Global South Have Their Say on EU Supply Chain Regulation?" with Luca Baltensperger (ETH Zurich). Prof. Davis' study (joint with Roy Germano and Lauren E. May from NYU) uses data...
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The Court Speaks, But Who Listens? Automated Compliance Review of the GDPR – Prof. Amit Zac (University of Amsterdam)
In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast series, Amit Zac (University of Amsterdam) and Filippo Lancieri (ETH Zurich) discuss Prof. Zac’s study "The Court Speaks, But Who Listens? Automated Compliance Review of the GDPR", which is an empirical analysis of the mobile applications’ response to the...
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Prof. Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute Bonn): The German Constitutional Court – Political, but not Partisan?
In this episode of the CLE vlog & podcast series, Prof. Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn) and Prof. Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) discuss Engel's recent study on the German Constitutional Court. The latter has powers that are no weaker than the powers of...
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The Right to Be Forgotten – Prof. Christopher S. Yoo (University of Pennsylvania)
In this episode of the CLE vlog & podcast series, Christopher S. Yoo (University of Pennsylvania) and Christophe Gösken (ETH Zurich) talk about Prof. Yoo's study "An Economic Analysis of the Right to be Forgotten". The so-called “right to be forgotten” has gained prominence under the European...
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Common Law vs. Civil Law – Prof. Holger Spamann (Harvard)
For a long time, scholars have been classifying most legal systems around the world as falling within one of two inherently different categories: common or civil law systems. While the former (common law), rooted in England and practiced also in the US, involves precedent or deference to…
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Noisy Factors in Law - Prof. Adriana Robertson (Chicago)
For years, academic experts have championed the widespread adoption of the “Fama-French” factors in legal settings. Factor models are commonly used to perform valuations, performance evaluation and event studies across a wide variety of contexts, many of which rely on data provided by Professor...
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Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Online Disinformation - Prof. Jonathan Mayer (Princeton)
Disinformation is proliferating on the internet, and platforms are responding by attaching warnings to content. There is little evidence, however, that these warnings help users identify or avoid disinformation. In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics' vlog & podcast series, Prof....
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Putting the Equity Back into Intellectual Property Remedies - with Prof. Henry E. Smith (Harvard)
In this episode of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. Henry E. Smith (Harvard) discusses his essays "Putting the Equity Back into Intellectual Property Remedies" and "Equity as Meta-Law" with Christophe Gösken (ETH Zurich). In his articles, Henry Smith argues that equity and related parts of...
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The Influence of Environmental Concerns & Market Competition on Innovation - Prof. Ralf Martin (ICL)
In this episode of the CLE's vlog series, Luca Baltensperger (ETH Zurich) discusses the study "Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?" with Prof. Ralf Martin (Imperial College London). In their study, Ralf Martin and his co-authors Prof.…
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Prof. Saul Levmore (Chicago) on SPACs, PIPEs, and Common Investors
In this episode of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) talks to Prof. Saul Levmore (Chicago) about "SPACs, PIPEs, and Common Investors", a recent study by Levmore and Prof. Frank Fagan (South Texas). Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs, have come to…
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Prof. Talia Gillis (Columbia) on the Fairness of Machine-Assisted Human Decisions
When machine-learning algorithms are deployed in high-stakes decisions, we want to ensure that it leads to fair and equitable outcomes. However, many machine predictions are deployed to assist in decisions where a human decision-maker retains the ultimate decision authority. In this episode of…
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Democratizing Behavioral Economics - with Prof. Daniel Markovits (Yale)
Behavioral economics — arising from the insight that people make recognizable, systematic mistakes — has revolutionized policymaking. For example, in governments around the world, including the US, teams of experts have recently arisen to harness these insights, promising to do things like…
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Right-to-Carry Gun Laws and Their Impact on Violent Crime - Prof. John J. Donohue (Stanford)
In this podcast of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. John J. Donohue discusses the study "Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis" with Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich). In their study, John J....
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Prof. Sarath Sanga (Northwestern) on the Origins of the Market for Corporate Law in the USA
In this episode of the CLE's vlog & podcast series, Prof. Sarath Sanga (Northwestern) talks with Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich) about his paper "The Origins of the Market for Corporate Law", a study of the market for corporate charters and the emergence of Delaware as the leader of this...
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Prof. Erina Ytsma (Carnegie Mellon) on the Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation
In this episode of the vlog & podcast series of ETH's Center for Law & Economics, Professor Erina Ytsma from Carnegie Mellon discusses her study “Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation” with Dr. Amit Zac (Postdoc at ETH Zurich). It is well-documented that…
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Discussing "A Network Theory of Patentability" with Prof. Laura Pedraza-Fariña (Northwestern)
In this episode of the vlog & podcast series of ETH's Center for Law & Economics, Prof. Laura Pedraza-Fariña (Northwestern) discusses her paper "A Network Theory of Patentability" with PhD student Margaritha Windisch (ETH Zurich). Patent law is built upon a fundamental premise: only significant...
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Discussing the Difficulty of Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age with Prof. Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon)
In this episode of the vlog and podcast series of ETH's Center for Law & Economics, Professor Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon) and Dr. Naman Goel (ETH Zurich) discuss Prof. Acquisti's study "Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving it in the Digital Age".…
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Talking with Prof. Melissa Wasserman about "A Prescription for Rising Drug Prices: Patent Office Reform"
In this episode of ETH's Center for Law & Economics vlog and podcast series, Professor Melissa Wasserman (University of Texas) talks to Gabriel Gertsch (ETH Zurich) about her study "A Prescription for Rising Drug Prices: Patent Office Reform". Paper References: Michael Frakes - Duke University...
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Prof. Luis Aguiar (UZH) on "Platforms, Power, and Promotion: Evidence from Spotify Playlists"
In this episode of ETH's Center for Law & Economics vlog and podcast series, Professor Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) talks with Professor Luis Aguiar (UZH) about his recent assessment of Spotify's market power by measuring the impact of its promotion decisions via platform-operated playlists.…
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Prof. Tobias Salz (MIT) on "The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry: Empirical Evidence from GDPR"
In this episode of ETH's Center for Law & Economics vlog and podcast series, Professor Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) talks with Professor Tobias Salz (MIT) about his recent study on the effects of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), using a novel dataset from an online travel...
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Professors Christian Peukert (HEC) and Stefan Bechtold (ETH) on European Privacy Law & Global Markets for Data
In this episode of ETH's Center for Law & Economics vlog and podcast series, Professors Christian Peukert (HEC Lausanne) and Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) discuss how privacy law interacts with competition and trade policy in the context of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....
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Discussing Competing Algorithms for Law with Prof. Saul Levmore
In this episode of ETH's Center for Law & Economics Vlog/Podcast Series, Daniela Sele talks to Professor Saul Levmore from the University of Chicago Law School about his paper "Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment". Paper Reference Saul Levmore - University of...
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Being Innovative in the 21st Century with Prof. Benjamin Jones
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, we are exploring what being innovative in the 21st Century means with Prof. Benjamin Jones from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Paper References: Age and Great Invention:...
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Discussing copyright and creative incentives with Prof. Christopher Sprigman
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, Daniela Sele is discussing copyright and creative incentives with Prof. Christopher Sprigman from NYU School of Law. Paper References: Copyright and Creative Incentives: What We Know (and Don't)...
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A double-click on EBITDA in syndicated loan debt covenants with Prof. Adam Badawi
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, Erasmus Elsner and Prof. Adam Badawi is taking a deep dive into the paper "Contractual Complexity in Debt Agreements: The Case of EBITDA" with Professor Adam Badawi from the Berkeley Law. Paper References: Contractual Complexity in...
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Ensuring Competition and Innovation in 3D Printing with Prof. Michal Gal
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, Christian Peukert is exploring " 3D Challenges: Ensuring Competition and Innovation in 3D Printing" with Professor Michal Gal from Haifa University.
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Finding happiness in intellectual property with Prof. Christopher Buccafusco
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ ETH Zurich, Gabriel Gertsch is exploring the book chapter " Intellectual Property and the Promotion of Happiness" with Professor Christopher Buccafusco from Cardozo School of Law
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Exploring Biometric Privacy with Prof. Matthew Kugler
In this episode of the Center for Law & Economics @ETH Zurich, Erasmus Elsner is exploring biometric privacy with Prof. Matthew Kugler from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Paper References: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3289850 Audio Credits: Trailer music:...
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