RILE Activities Report 2017-2018 Erasmus University Rotterdam 2 RILE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2017-2018 Colophon Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +31-(0)10-4082186 Director: Prof. Dr. Michael G. Faure LL.M. Vice-Director: Prof. Mr. Dr. Louis T. Visscher General Director (till 28 September 2018): Prof. Dr. Roger J. Van den Bergh RILE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2017-2018 3 Foreword We are proud to present the Activities Report of the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics (RILE) covering the years 2017 and 2018. Much has happened in these two years. The RILE participates in the research programme Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort (BACT), which received a substantial subsidy in the REI Excellence Initiative from the Board of Directors of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The RILE also participates in the new REI programme ‘Shifting from welfare to social investment states: privatization of work-related risk control’, which started in early 2017. On June 26, 2017, Sharon Oded held his inaugural lecture as Professor of Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. On October 27, 2017, Niels Philipsen held his inaugural lecture as professor of Shifts in Private and Public Regulation. Besides welcoming these two new professors, two other professors left the RILE in 2018. Roger Van den Bergh, founder of the RILE, retired and held his valedictory lecture on ‘The Roundabouts of European Law and Economics’ on September 28, 2018. Alessio Pacces was appointed professor in Law and Finance at the University of Amsterdam per October 1, 2018. The high quality research within BACT, which is carried out together with the Rotterdam Institute of Private Law (RIPL) and researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences goes hand in hand with a high academic level in teaching. The European Master programme in Law and Economics (EMLE) was awarded the Erasmus Mundus recognition by the European Commission in 2004 and 2009. In 2014 the EMLE was included in the Erasmus+ Joint Master Degree Catalogue, the follow-up of Erasmus Mundus. In June 2018, the EMLE was again selected for Erasmus+, so for the fourth time in a row. New RILE teaching activities in 2017 and 2018 include the course Rechtseconomie voor mr.drs.-studenten (‘Law & Economics for students in the double bachelor and master programme in economics and law’) and the course ‘Economic Analysis of Private Law’ in the EMLE. 4 RILE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2017-2018 The European Doctorate programme in Law and Economics (EDLE), which is carried out together with the Universities of Bologna, Haifa and Hamburg and which was awarded the Erasmus Mundus label in 2009 as well, has seen many successful PhD defences. In 2017 and 2018, a total of sixteen PhD candidates from the EDLE defended their thesis, which brings the total number of defences since the EDLE started to 65. This report, which is prepared by the new RILE secretariat (Ipek Ören (management assistant) and Sanne Nordbjorn (secretary)), presents an overview of all teaching, research and related activities of the RILE. We are very proud of this impressive list of activities, which in the next years is likely to continue growing. We wish you pleasant reading. Michael Faure Director Louis Visscher Vice-Director RILE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2017-2018 5 Table of Content 1. Introduction.................................................................................................................. 8 2. European Master Programme in Law and Economics (EMLE) ........................... 10 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 10 2.2 Accreditation by NVAO ......................................................................................................... 12 2.3 EMLE Meetings ........................................................................................................................ 13 2.4 Erasmus Mundus / Erasmus+ .............................................................................................. 14 2.5 EMLE courses taught at Erasmus University Rotterdam ............................................... 16 3. European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE) ........................................... 18 3.1 Goal and set-up ....................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 Application and Selection procedure ................................................................................ 19 3.3 Programme Structure ........................................................................................................... 20 3.4 Success rate ............................................................................................................................ 24 3.5 EDLE Seminars in Rotterdam .............................................................................................. 25 3.6 EDLE Participants .................................................................................................................... 27 3.7 EDLE alumni ............................................................................................................................ 39 4. Education ..................................................................................................................... 41 4.1 Teaching and (Guest) lectures............................................................................................. 41 4.2 Minor ‘The Political Economy of European Integration’ (Klaus Heine) ..................... 41 4.3 Master course ‘Economic Analysis of European Integration’ (Klaus Heine) ............. 41 4.4 Bachelor Course ‘Technology and Law’, part of TU Delft Minor ‘Companies and Innovation’ (Kees van Noortwijk) ........................................................ 42 4.5 Master Course ‘Computers and Law’ (Kees van Noortwijk) ........................................ 42 4.6 Mr.Drs. programme (Louis Visscher) ................................................................................. 43 4.7 Behavioural Approaches to Private Law – Erasmus University College (Pieter Desmet) ....................................................................................................................... 43 4.8 Seminar Series on Empirical Legal Studies by Jonathan Klick and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz .......................................................................................................... 44 4.9 Top notch keynote speakers at the Marie Curie ITN Advanced Training Course on Law and Economics of TTIP .......................................................... 44 4.10 Experimental Law and Economics Seminar (EDLE Empirical Track) ........................ 45 4.11 Academie voor Wetgeving .................................................................................................. 45 4.12 Individual teaching and (guest) lectures in courses taught at Erasmus University Rotterdam ........................................................................................... 46 4.13 Individual teaching and (guest) lectures outside Erasmus University Rotterdam .. 50 5. PhD Defences ............................................................................................................ 55 5.1 Dissertations defended in Rotterdam ................................................................................55 5.2 PhD dissertations to be defended, (co-) supervised by: ................................................ 77 5.3 Dissertations supervised by RILE members, (to be) defended at other universities .....................................................................................................................79 5.4 Membership of PhD committees 2017 and 2018 ........................................................... 81 6 RILE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2017-2018 6. Research Programme Behavioural Approaches to Contract and Tort ........... 83 6.1 Programme ............................................................................................................................. 83 6.2 BACT seminar series ............................................................................................................. 83 6.3 BACT Lunch seminars .......................................................................................................... 84 7. Research Projects and Contract Research ........................................................... 86 7.1 Research project in West Africa / The effect of Land Tenure Reforms on Trust, Cooperation and Conflictual Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Rural Benin .................................................................................................................... 86 7.2 Joint research Law and Economics of the Cyber Insurance Market .........................87 7.3 Research project with Ecologic ..........................................................................................87 7.4 Social Benefits of the Judiciary ...........................................................................................87 7.5 Roger Van den Bergh - Expert Report for the FNE market study on Chilean notaries ............................................................................................................... 88 7.6 Perceived Risk of Terrorism and its Implications for (Counter-Terrorism) Communication Strategies (Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko) ...............................