Publikationen | Publications

Mechanische Gerechtigkeit. Das Design öffentlich-rechtlicher Matching-Märkte als Rechtsproblem und Aufgabe der öffentlichen Verteilungsverwaltung, 460 p., Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2025) [Habilitation Thesis]. Link

Öffentliches Recht als Verhaltensordnung. Ein neues Paradigma (with Christoph Engel, Laurence O’Hara, Stefanie Egidy, Leonard Hoeft, and Pascal Langenbach), 389 p., Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2025). Link

Informationelle Selbstgefährdung. Zur rechtsfunktionalen, spieltheoretischen und empirischen Rationalität der datenschutzrechtlichen Einwilligung und des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, 436 p., Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2016) [PhD Thesis]. Link

Recht – Jurisprudenz – Wissenschaft. Festgabe aus Anlass des Juristentags in Zürich 2025, Altwicker, Tilmann / Babusiaux, Ulrike / Heiss, Helmut / Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Thier, Andreas (Eds.), 458 p., Schulthess: Zürich (2025). Link 

Der Schutz der Meinungsbildung im digitalen Zeitalter. Instrumente und Instrumentenvergleich, Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Lüdemann, Jörn (Eds.), 205 p., Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2021). Link

Legally Constrained Narratives in Artificial Intelligence, 182 Journal of Institutional and
Theoretical Economics (JITE) XX–XX (forthcoming, 2026). 

Doctrine as a Decision Aid (with Christoph Engel), 182 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics (JITE) XX–XX (forthcoming, 2026).

Modeling Motivated Reasoning in Law: Evaluating Strategic Role Conditioning in LLM Summarization
(with Eunjung Cho and Alexander Hoyle), Proceedings of the Natural Legal
Language Processing Workshop 2025 (NLLP 2025), Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL) 68–112 (2025). Link

Procedural Information as a “Game Changer” in School Choice, 16 Games 25, 1–36 (2025).Link

School Choice with Consent: An Experiment (with Claudia Cerrone and Onur Kesten), 134 The Economic Journal 1760–1805 (2024). Link

Fair Governance with Humans and Machines (with Pascal Langenbach), 29 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 525–548 (2023). Link

Debarment and collusion in procurement auctions (with Claudia Cerrone and Pedro Robalo), 129 Games and Economic Behavior 114–143 (2021).  Link

The Limits of Blockchain Democracy, 14 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty (NYU JLL) 402–492 (2020). Link

Fairnessprinzipien der algorithmischen Verwaltung: Diskriminierungsprävention beim staatlichen Einsatz von Machine Learning, 145 Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts (AöR) 479–521 (2020). Link

Democratic Blockchain Design, 175 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 163–177 (2019). Link

Anreize und Nudging zur Patientencompliance: Staatliche Entscheidungen über Heilung und Ressourcenverteilung, 17 GesundheitsRecht (GesR) 21–27 (2018). Link

Sharing is daring: An experiment on consent options, chilling effects and a salient privacy nudge (with Stephan Dickert), 51 International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) 38–49 (2017). Link

Contracting Around Privacy: The (Behavioral) Law and Economics of Consent and Big Data, 8 Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (JIPITEC) 9–26 (2017). Link

Using the Internet’s Fast Lane: Exemptions from Net Neutrality (with Christoph Werkmeister), Cambridge International Law Journal Online (CILJ) Online (2016). Link

Ausnahmen vom Grundsatz der Netzneutralität – Wer darf auf die Überholspur im Internet? (with Christoph Werkmeister), 31 Computer und Recht (CR) 570–576 (2015). Link

Die Datenkrake als Nutztier der Strafverfolgung – Zum strafprozessualen Zugriff auf Facebook-Profile (with Markus Englerth), 4 Rechtswissenschaft (RW) 326–359 (2013). Link

Biometrie und Behavioral Economics. Verhaltensökonomische Perspektiven auf das europäische Datenschutzrecht (with Hanjo Hamann), 46 Kritische Justiz (KJ) 184–197 (2013). Link

Referendarexamensklausur – Öffentliches Recht: Staatsrecht – Das Verkaufsverbot für Schokoladenzigaretten (with Jörn Lüdemann), 52 Juristische Schulung (JuS) 57–62 (2012). Link

Zum recours pour excès de pouvoir im französischen Verwaltungsprozessrecht. Die crossfertilisation objektiver und subjektiver Rechtsschutzsysteme, Bonner Rechtsjournal 2010 (BRJ) 222–225 (2010). Link

Philosophie und Recht in Zeiten des Terrors. Terrorismus aus Perspektiven der Philosophie: Jürgen Habermas und Jacques Derrida, Humboldt Forum Recht 2009 30–51 (HFR) (2009). Link

(Behavioral) Market Design for Contracts, in: Atamer, Yesim M. / Hellgardt, Alexander (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Regulatory Contract Law, OUP: Oxford (forthcoming, 2026).

Quantitative Legal Studies: The Science of Measuring the Law (with Tilmann Altwicker), in: Altwicker, Tilmann / Babusiaux, Ulrike / Heiss, Helmut / Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Thier, Andreas (Eds.), Recht – Jurisprudenz – Wissenschaft. Festgabe aus Anlass des Juristentags 2025 in Zürich, 41–70, Schulthess: Zürich (2025). Link

Behavioral Public Law (with Stefanie Egidy, Leonard Hoeft, Pascal Langenbach and Laurence O’Hara), in: Engel, Christoph / O’Hara, Laurence / Egidy, Stefanie / Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Hoeft, Leonard/Langenbach, Pascal, Öffentliches Recht als Verhaltensordnung. Ein neues Paradigma, 11–48, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2025). Link

Staatsorganisationsrecht, in: Engel, Christoph / O’Hara, Laurence / Egidy, Stefanie / Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Hoeft, Leonard / Langenbach, Pascal, Öffentliches Recht als Verhaltensordnung. Ein neues Paradigma, 49–94, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2025). Link

Internationales Kommunikationswirtschaftsrecht (Telekommunikationsrecht und Postrecht) (with Jörn Lüdemann), in: Tietje, Christian / Nowrot, Karsten (Eds.), Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht, 3rd ed., 572–603, De Gruyter: Berlin (2021). Link

Blockchain and public administration, in: Pollicino, Oreste / De Gregorio, Giovanni (Eds.), Blockchain and Public Law: Global Challenges in the Era of Decentralisation, 104–121, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham/Northampton (2021). Link

Wahrheit als Regelungsproblem – Instrumente zum Umgang mit Fake News, in: Hermstrüwer, Yoan / Lüdemann, Jörn (Eds.), Der Schutz der Meinungsbildung im digitalen Zeitalter. Instrumente und Instrumentenvergleich, 149–188, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2021). Link

Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Decisions Under Uncertainty, in: Wischmeyer, Thomas / Rademacher, Timo (Eds.), Regulating Artificial Intelligence, 199–223, Springer International Publishing: Cham (2020). Link

Algorithmische Verteilungsmechanismen im Infrastrukturrecht – Überlegungen zur Stauregulierung aus einer Marktdesign-Perspektive, in: Krönke, Christoph (Ed.), Regulierung in Zeiten der Digitalwirtschaft, 145–162, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen (2019). Link

Die Regulierung der prädiktiven Analytik: eine juristisch-verhaltenswissenschaftliche Skizze, in: Hoffmann-Riem, Wolfgang (Ed.), Big Data – Regulative Herausforderungen, 99–116, Nomos: Baden-Baden (2018). Link

Schöne neue Privatheit: Informationspreisgabe in der Netzwerköffentlichkeit, Jahrbuch 2014 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Forschungsbericht Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern (2014). Link

Schaffen offen Netze Mehrwert? (with Marcus Dapp, Abraham Taherivand and Hendrik Send), in: Innovation im Digitalen Ökosystem, 6. Abschlussbericht des Internet & Gesellschaft Co:llaboratory, 95–116 (2012). Link

Biometrie und Autonomie. Die Vermessung der Person zwischen Datenschutzrecht und Entschei- dungsforschung (with Hanjo Hamann), in: Stiftung der Hessischen Rechtsanwaltschaft (Ed.), Schwimmen mit Fingerabdruck? Die biometrischen Herausforderungen für das Recht der Gegenwart und Zukunft, 1–44, Optimus: Göttingen (2012).Link

Modeling Motivated Reasoning in Law: Evaluating Strategic Role Conditioning in LLM Summarization
(with Eunjung Cho and Alexander Hoyle), Working Paper, 1–27 (2025). Link

LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams (with Yu Fan, Jingwei Ni, Jakob Merane, Etienne Salimbeni, Yang Tian, Yinya Huang, Mubashara Akhtar, Florian Geering, Oliver Dreyer, Daniel Brunner, Markus Leippold, Mrinmaya Sachan, Alexander Stremitzer, Christoph Engel, Elliott Ash and Joel Niklaus), Working Paper, 1–32 (2025).Link

The Democracy Premium in Expressive Law: An Experiment (with Mahdi Khesali), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2025/6, 1–41 (2025).Link

Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap (with Benjamin Chen, Pascal Langenbach, Alexander Stremitzer and Kevin Tobia), ETH Zurich Center for Law and Economics Working Paper Series, Number 07/2025, 1–26 (2025).Link

Human Realignment: An Empirical Study of LLMs as Legal Decision-Aids in Moral Dilemmas (with Christoph Engel and Alison Kim), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2025/3, 1–59 (2025). Link

A Market Design Approach to Refugee Law, Working Paper 1–29 (2025).

Fair Governance with Humans and Machines (with Pascal Langenbach), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2022/4, 1–55 (2022). Link

School Choice with Consent: An Experiment (with Claudia Cerrone and Onur Kesten), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2022/2, University of Sydney, Economics Working Paper Series, 2021-09, 1–64 (2023). Link

The Limits of Blockchain Democracy: A Transatlantic Perspective on Blockchain Voting Systems, TTLF Working Papers No. 49, Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum 1–65 (2020). Link

Transparency and Fairness in School Choice Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2019/11 1–72 (2019). Link

Debarment and Collusion in Procurement Auctions (with Claudia Cerrone and Pedro Robalo), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Discussion Paper 2018/5 1–52 (2018). Link

Tearing the Veil of Privacy Law: An Experiment on Chilling Effects and the Right to Be Forgotten (with Stephan Dickert), Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2013/15 1–39 (2013). Link

Book Review: ”Sarah Jabri, Simulationen. Ein Erkenntnismittel der Verwaltung und seine ver- fassungsrechtliche Einhegung”, 139 Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt (DVBl) 1277–1278 (2024). Link

Translation from French to German: Olivier Jouanjan, Grundzüge staatlichen Verfassungsrechts in Frankreich, in: von Bogdandy, Armin / Cruz Villalón, Pedro / Huber, Peter M. (Eds.), Handbuch Ius Publicum Europaeum, Vol. 1, 87–150, C.F. Müller: Heidelberg (2007). Link

LEXamGlobal (with Yu Fan et al.)

The Judicial Mind of Large Language Models (with Christoph Engel and Johannes Kruse)

Cross-Jurisdictional Machine Predictions in Antitrust (with David Imhof)

Appeals and School Choice (with Claudia Cerrone and Josué Ortega)

Fairness through Order Symmetry (with Rupert Freeman and Mark C. Wilson)

2025

• 35th Annual Meeting of the American Law & Economics Association (ALEA 2025), New York University
• 41st Conference on Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE 2025), Naples
• Annual Conference of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS 2025), Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse
• 42nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE 2025), BI Norwegian Business School and University of Oslo, Oslo
• Vortragsreihe am Mittag 2025, EuropaInstitut an der Universität Zürich
• Speaker Series of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group ”Artificial Justice”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (virtual)
• 19th Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2025), Georgetown University Law
  Center, Washington, D.C.
• UZH Brown Bag Series in Legal Data Science, Center for Legal Data Science

2024 

• Workshop on Experimental Methods in Legal Scholarship (EMLS 2024), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
• Annual Conference of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS 2024), Miguel Hernández University, Elche
• London Workshop on School Choice, City, University of London
• 41st Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE 2024), University of Turin
• ICON•S Germany Conference – Re(Vision) (2024 ICON•S Germany), University of Mannheim
• 18th Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2024), Emory University School of Law, Atlanta
• Regulation and Contract Law, Conference for the Inauguration of the UZH Center for Regulation in Contract Law (CRCL), University of Zurich

2023

• Workshop & Lecture Series in Law & Economics, ETH Zurich, University of Zurich & University of St. Gallen
• Law, Economics and Regulation Conference, HEC Paris & Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
• Workshop on Human Dignity, University of Regensburg
• AI+X Summit, ETH AI Center, Zurich
• Regulation Research Conference 2023, University of Regensburg

2022

• 2022 Easter Workshop on School Choice, Queen’s University Belfast
• 2022 World Economic Science Association Conference (2022 World ESA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2021

• Meeting of the MD4SG Working Group on Algorithms, Law, and Policy
• ICON•S Mundo Conference – The Future of Public Law (2021 ICON•S)
• Forum Junge Rechtswissenschaft, University of Tübingen
• ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ’21)
• Workshop of the Max Planck Law – Tech – Society Initiative, Max Planck Law Network

2020

• Arbeitskreis Grundlagen, 60. Assistententagung im Öffentlichen Recht “Der digitalisierte Staat” (ATÖR 2020), University of Trier
• 37th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE 2020), Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2)
• International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science, University of Chicago, ETH Zurich and Tsinghua University

2019

• Law and Economics Colloquium, Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE), University of Bonn
• Privacy Icons Workshop, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
• 3rd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG ’19) & 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’19), Phoenix
• 4th Annual Conference of the French Law and Economics Association (AFED 2019), University of Rennes 1
• 2019 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS 2019), Seattle

2018

• GIF Young Scientists’ Meeting, Legal Rules for the Digital Economy, Potsdam
• Workshop Meinungsbildung im digitalen Zeitalter, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
• 28th Annual Meeting of the American Law & Economics Association (ALEA 2018), Boston University
• 2nd Conference of Empirical Legal Studies Europe (CELSE 2018), KU Leuven
• 36th Conference on Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE 2018), Florence
• Workshop Regulierung der Digitalwirtschaft, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU Munich
• 2018 MaCCI Law & Economics Conference on The Law and Economics of Market Design, ZEW Mannheim

2017

• Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop (BEEW), LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
• Karlsruher Dialog zum Informationsrecht, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Institut für Europäische Gesundheitspolitik und Sozialrecht (ineges), Compliance im Gesundheitswesen: Zur guten Ordnung des Behandlungsgeschehens, Goethe University Frankfurt

2016

• INT Workshop, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
• Interdisciplinary Conference on Contracts on Digital Goods and Services (JIPITEC), Humboldt University Berlin
• PinG Workshop, Härting Rechtsanwälte, Berlin

2014

• Symposium for Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

2013

• Seminar on Social Sciences and the Law, Yale Law School
• Yale Law School Graduates Seminar, Yale Law School
• 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE 2013), University of Warsaw
• 3rd Yale Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Law and Uncertainty, Yale Law School

2012

• Hessian Bar Foundation, Frankfurt a.M.; Law and Economics Seminar, ETH Zurich
• Workshop on Law and Biometrics, University of Marburg