A new meta-study published in Nature Communications has revealed that emission reductions from climate mitigation projects are significantly lower than claimed. Benedict Probst, Head of the Net Zero Lab at the Institute, and coauthors systematically reviewed more than 60 empirical studies, uncovering substantial quality issues with carbon credits.
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has adopted a Model Law that is intended to standardize and facilitate the formation and performance of automated contracts online. As a member of the E-Commerce Working Group, Jörg Hoffmann, a researcher at the Institute, participated in several discussion rounds on the drafting of the Model Law.
Open access (OA) represents a transformative shift in scientific publishing, aiming to ensure unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded research and data. In a new study published in Science, Frank Mueller-Langer, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute and Professor at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, and Mark McCabe, Professor at the SKEMA Business School, make a significant contribution to the discourse on OA by analyzing the economic, political, and institutional dynamics shaping the transformation of scholarly publishing.
Moritz Sutterer receives the Heinrich Hubmann Prize 2024 of VG WORT for his dissertation Das Kollisionsrecht der kollektiven Rechtewahrnehmung (The Conflict of Laws of Collective Rights Management), supervised by Josef Drexl. The work was primarily written at the Institute, where Moritz Sutter worked as a Research Fellow in Josef Drexl's department from 2016 to 2022.
On 14 March 2025, Adolf Dietz was awarded the Jan Löwenbach Prize of the Czech ALAI regional group for his great services to the German-Czech copyright dialog. He is the first laureate of this newly established prize.
The Max Planck European Law Group invites abstract submissions for the Fourth Max Planck Conference for Early Career European Scholars on 4 and 5 September 2025 in Munich. The conference will bring together researchers interested in European law and policy for an exchange of ideas on longstanding and developing issues of fairness as a guiding principle of European law.
Bronwyn H. Hall, Affiliated Research Fellow of the Institute and in close collaboration with the economics department, has been named Distinguished Fellow 2024 by the American Economic Association (AEA).
Ban, EceBridging the Innovation Gender Gap: Analysis Under EU Merger Control Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2025, forthcoming, 19.03.2025 (gemeinsam mit Carolina Banda).
Journal articles
Johannsen, Germán OscarMonopsony Power, Competition Law, and Women's Informal Labour Markets in Latin America Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2025, fortcoming, 15.03.2025 (gemeinsam mit Jeniffer Rodriguez).
Journal articles
Kim, DariaThe Illusory Standard of Significant Human Contribution to AI-Assisted Inventions after the DABUS Decision of the German Federal Court of Justice IIC 56, 1 (2025), 369 - 380.
Probst, Benedict (2025). Viele CO2-Zertifikate halten nicht, was sie versprechen, Makronom 2025.
Further Publications, Press Articles, Interviews
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK); Bierbrauer, Felix; Engel, Christoph; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hellwig, Martin F.; Janeba, Eckhard; Kübler, Dorothea; Schmidt, Klaus M.; Wambach, Achim (Hg.) (2025). Bürokratieabbau und ergebnisorientiertes Verwaltungshandeln Gutachten des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK). Berlin: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (BMWK).
Further Publications, Press Articles, Interviews
Harhoff, Dietmar; Rübsamen-Schaeff, Helga; Brakhage, Axel A. (2025). Ökonomische Anreize für die Entwicklung neuer antimikrobieller Wirkstoffe (Leopoldina Fokus Nr. 3), 2025.
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