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Dear Reader,
We are pleased to send you the latest newsletter of the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich. We hope you enjoy reading it! Should you ever want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here.
Kind regards,
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| New Hires |
| Recently, the following researchers joined our Center: |
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Filippo Lancieri
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| Filippo Lancieri is a new postdoc at the CLE. Before joining ETH Zurich, Filippo was a J.S.D. candidate and a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he also obtained his LL.M. His work focuses on the challenges associated with the development of a cohesive regulatory framework for the digital economy. |
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Nianyun Li
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| Nianyun Li is a scientific assistant at the CLE. She holds a master's degree in finance with a minor in data science from the University of Zurich, as well as a bachelor's degree in finance from Hong Kong Baptist University. Her main research interest lies in analyzing economic problems with tools from both economics and computer science. |
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Margaritha Windisch
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| Margaritha Windisch has joined the CLE team as a PhD student. She has a bachelor's degree in law from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a master's degree in law from the University of Lausanne. Margaritha is particularly interested in researching copyright, privacy, and data protection changes due to digitization. |
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Amit Zac
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| New CLE postdoc Amit Zac holds a LL.M. in law and economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and recently completed his PhD at the University of Oxford, Centre for Competition Law and Policy. Amit is passionate about empirical legal studies and is interested in competition policy, labour protection and their effects on economic inequality. |
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| Research Highlights |
| Published in Journals |
| • | | Richterliche Unabhängigkeit und Konsistenz am Bundesverwaltungsgericht: eine quantitative Studie (Gabriel Gertsch), Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht, 122(1), 34-56 (2021) |
| • | | Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to US States (Matia Vannoni, Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli), Political Analysis, 29(1), 43-57 (2021) |
| • | | Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts (Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod), Journal of Public Economics, 201, 104478 (2021) |
| • | | Race-Related Research in Economics and Other Social Sciences (Arun Advani, Elliott Ash, David Cai & Imran Rasul), Econometric Society Monograph Series (forthcoming) |
| • | | Emotion and Reason in Political Language (Gloria Gennaro & Elliott Ash), Economic Journal (forthcoming) |
| • | | Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts (Moritz Osnabruegge, Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli), Political Analysis (forthcoming) |
| • | | Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to U.S. Circuit Courts (Sergio Galletta, Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen), Economica (forthcoming) |
| • | | The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19 (with Sergio Galletta, Dominik Hangartner, Yotam Margalit & Matteo Pinna), Political Analysis (forthcoming) |
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| Published in Conference Proceedings |
| • | | The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective (Naman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, Amit Deshpande & Amit Sharma), Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 35(18), 7564-7573 (2021) |
| • | | Measuring Lay Reactions to Personal Data Markets (Aileen Nielsen), AIES '21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 807-813 (2021) |
| • | | Evaluating Document Representations for Content-Based Legal Literature Recommendations (Malte Ostendorff, Elliott Ash, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp, Julian Moreno-Schneider & Georg Rehm), ICAIL '21: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 109-118 (2021) |
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| New Working Papers |
| • | | Follow the Leader: Technical and Inspirational Leadership in Open Source Software (Jérôme Hergueux & Samuel Kessler), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/01 |
| • | | Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary (Elliott Ash, Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Daniel L. Chen, Tanaya Devi, Christoph Goessmann, Paul Novosad & Bilal Siddiqi), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/03 |
| • | | Spatial Dynamics of SARS-Cov-2 and Reduced Risk of Contagion: Evidence from the Second Italian Epidemic Wave (Paolo Buonanno, Sergio Galletta & Marcello Puca), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/04 |
| • | | Having Your Day in Robot Court (Benjamin Chen, Alexander Stremitzer & Kevin Tobia), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/05 |
| • | | The Effect of Fox News Channel on U.S. Elections: 2000-2020 (Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna & Christopher Warshaw), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/07 |
| • | | DocSCAN: Unsupervised Text Classification via Learning from Neighbors (Dominik Stammbach & Elliot Ash), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/08 |
| • | | Cable News and COVID-19 Vaccine Compliance (Matteo Pinna, Léo Picard & Christoph Goessmann), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/09 |
| • | | Vaccine Passports as a Constitutional Right (Kevin L. Cope, Ilya Somin, George Mason University & Alexander Stremitzer), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/10 |
| • | | Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives (Elliott Ash, Germain Gauthier & Philine Widmer), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/11 |
| • | | MemSum: Extractive Summarization of Long Documents using Multi-Step Episodic Markov Decision Processes (Nianlong Gu, Elliott Ash & Richard H.R. Hahnloser), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/12 |
| • | | Mindfulness Reduces Information Avoidance (Elliot Ash, Daniel Sgroi, Anthony Tuckwell & Shi Zhuo), Center for Law & Economics Working Paper Series, 2021/13 |
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| Vlog & Podcast Series |
| We are excited to present the latest videos of our CLE Vlog & Podcast Series, as well as an episode of the AI+X Spotlight Video Series: |
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| Prof. Elliott Ash in the AI+X Spotlight Video Series |
| In the first episode of the AI+X Spotlight Video Series by ETH's AI Center, Professor Elliott Ash gives an introduction to the current state of research on AI in LegalTech. The series is aimed at learning about the latest research results and discussing future implications of AI in different research fields. |
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| Career Moves |
| We proudly announce the following career moves of CLE team members: |
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| Nate Atkinson |
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| Having been a postdoc at the CLE from June 2019 to June 2021, Nate Atkinson is now an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He will continue to cooperate with the CLE as a research affiliate. |
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| Malka Guillot |
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| After several years as a postdoc at the CLE, Malka Guillot has taken up a position as Assistant Professor of Economics at HEC Liège in Belgium. She will continue to work with the CLE as a research affiliate. |
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| Léo Picard |
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| Scientific assistant Léo Picard left the CLE in August to start his PhD at the University of Basel in the fall of 2021. He intends to focus on topics of public economics (mobility, energy and environment). |
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| Outlook: Conferences & Workshops |
| The Center for Law & Economics organizes conferences and workshops on a regular basis. Here is a list of our next events: |
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Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation
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International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science
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Digital Democracy Workshop
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