26.03.2026 Courses and Seminars Offered in Summer Semester 2026

We would like to draw your attention to courses and seminars offered by our group members in the summer semester 2026.

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Courses:

  • On the bachelor level, Dr. Cat Lam Pham (lecturer) and David Berthold (tutor) will jointly offer the course "Introduction to Law and Economics". In this course, students will be introduced to the basic concepts of the economic analysis of liability, contract and criminal law, as well with the theory of litigation. The knowledge acquired can provide foundation for engaging more deeply with concrete legal issues. The detailed syllabus can be found HERE. 
  • On the master level,  Dr. Cat Lam Pham will offer the course "Economics of Civil and Criminal Law". The course will cover a broad range of topics in Law and Economics on both basic and advanced levels. The aim is to deepen students' understanding about how economics and law are interrelated as well as provide a systematic approach to evaluate different legal solutions for well-specified circumstances.  The detailed syllabus can be found HERE.

Seminars:

  • On the master level, Dr. Patrick Hufschmidt will offer a seminar on Empirical Political Economics. The seminar introduces students to core empirical methods used in applied microeconometrics and political economics to identify causal effects in observational data. Topics include natural experiments, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs, with applications to fiscal policy, political institutions, voting behavior, and ideology. Students write either a seminar paper or a replication report and present their work in a block session at the end of the semester. Further information about the seminar can be found HERE.