Past Meetings

25.04.2024, 12:30 - 13:30, KOL-E-13 (Senatszimmer), Artur Tim (Universität St. Gallen), "Automation of Legal Argumentation in Tax Matters: Text Generation for Supportive Legal Reasoning".

21.03.2024, 12:30 - 13:30, KUM 1/2/3 (Künstlergasse 15/17), Dr Sébastien Ragot (E. Blum & Co. AG), "Measuring the scope of patent claims using (large) language models".

14.03.2024, 12:30 - 13:30, PES 205 (Pestalozzistrasse 24), Dr Ryohei Hisano (University of Tokyo), "Quantitative Comparative Law in the Digital Era: Insights from Informatics".

29.02.2024, 12:30 - 13:30, PES 205, Mahdi Khesali (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), "Eliciting Values and Social Norms from Folktales – Introducing the Historical Values Survey". 

16.11.2023, 12:30-13:30, PES 205, Prof Andrew Pillar (Thompson Rivers University), "Justice Epidemiology – Developing a Systemic Approach to Measure and Improve Access to Justice". 

19.10.2023, 12:30-13:30, Dr Amit Zac (ETH),  "Markets for Consent: CMPs as superspreaders of privacy-intrusive practices". This rendition was held on Zoom.

28.09.2023, 12:30-13:30, RAA-E-08, Prof Florian Grisel (University of Oxford), "Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia".

25.05.2023, 12:30-13:30, Dr Judith Spirig (UCL), "Political actors, resource curbing and asylum appeal decisions". This rendition was held on Zoom.

27.04.2023, 12:30-13:30, KOL-E-13, Dr Ben Arold (ETH), “Contracts as Amenities: Evidence from Collective Bargaining in Canada"

16.03.2023, 12:30-13:30, KOL-E-13, Tilmann Altwicker (UZH) & Andrej Ilievski (UZH), "Learning Interpretation: A ML-Approach to Legal Interpretation Classification"

Thursday, 4 November 2021, 16.15–17.45, KO2-D-54, Presentation and discussion in English: Julius Schumann (Uni Wien / UZH): Remembering Past Cases: Analyzing the Organizational Memory System of the Austrian Supreme Court

Thursday, 25 November 2021, 16.15-17.45, KO2-D-54, Presentation and discussion in English: Prof. Dr. Sergio Galletta (Universität Bergamo / ETH Law & Econ): A Machine Learning Approach to Anti-Corruption Policy  (joint paper with Elliott Ash and Tommaso Giommoni)

Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 16.30–17.30, KO2-F-156, Presentation and discussion in English: Gabriel Gertsch (ETH Law & Econ), Are Swiss Judges Neutral? Judicial Preferences Across Legal Areas

Wednesday, 16 October 2019, 16.30–17.30, KO2-F-156, Presentation and discussion in German: Prof. Dr. Marc Thommen (UZH Law), Zahlen und Fakten zu den Strafbefehlen

Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 16.30-17.30, KOL-G-220 (UZH Main Building), Presentation and discussion in English: Project presentation by Dr. Andreas Beerli (ETH KOF), The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border: Evidence from Switzerland

Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 16.30-17.30, KOL-H-322 (UZH Main Building), Presentation and discussion in English: Yi-Shan Lee (UZH), Revealed Privacy Preferences: Are Privacy Choices Rational?