Welcome to the Group of Law and Economics of Digitalization

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

Forerunners vs. Latecomers - institutional competition in the German federalism during the COVID crisis, Lukas Breide, Oliver Budzinski, Thomas Grebel, Juliane Mendelsohn, European Journal of Law and Economics (2025).

Considering the direction of innovation in EU merger control, Juliane Mendelsohn & Lukas Breide, Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol. 11 (1) (2024).

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

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