VSPEE - Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics
Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics (VSPEE) take place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. in room 38. A complete list of speakers can be found below. This seminar series is supported by the Center for Inequality and Open Society, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (project no. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008690).
Fall 2026
October 6, 2026 | 2 pm
Michael Kvasnicka (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) "Immigration, Scapegoating, and Spillovers in Anti-Foreigner Crime"
October 13. 2026 | 2 pm
Teresa Freitas-Monteiro (CERGE-EI) "Stigmatizing Politics and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark's Ghetto List"
October 20, 2026 | 2 pm
Nikita Melnikov (Nova School of Business and Economics) "TBA"
October 27, 2026 | 2 pm
Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University) "The Publicity of Law: Philosophy and Cognitive Science of Knowing the Rules"
November 3, 2026 | 2 pm
Amalavoyal Chari (University of Sussex Business School) "Market Reform and Workplace Safety: Evidence from India"
November 10, 2026 | 2 pm
Autumn Reading Week
November 17, 2026 | 2 pm
Public holiday (Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day and International Students’ Day)
November 24, 2026 | 2 pm
Diego Zambiasi (Newcastle University) "What’s on the menu? The Impact of Dismantling Small Methamphetamine Laboratories on Crime and Addiction"
December 1, 2026 | 2 pm
TBA
December 8, 2026 | 2 pm
Tom Kirchmaier (London School of Economics) "Productivity and Teamwork: Crew Size Effects in Policing"
December 15, 2026 | 2 pm
Alexander Stremitzer (ETH Zurich) "Rights by Permission vs Rights by Exemption"
Spring 2026
February 10, 2026 | 2 pm
Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute and ETH Zurich’s Center for Law & Economics) "The Judicial Mind of Large Language Models"
February 17, 2026 | 2 pm
Bakhtawar Ali (Aix Marseille School of Economics) "Lawfare in Action: Evidence from Anti-Corruption Trials in Pakistan"
February 24, 2026 | 2 pm
Olivier Marie (Erasmus School of Economics) "Deliver Us from Crime? Online Platforms, Gig Jobs, and Offending"
March 3, 2026 | 2 pm
David Abrams (University of Pennsylvania Law and The Wharton School) "Prose and Cons: Evaluating the Legality of Police Stops with Large Language Models"
March 10, 2026 | 2 pm
Henrik Sigstad (BI Norwegian Business School) "Can Judges Be Replaced by Machines? AI, Legal Reasoning, and Incentives to Obey the Law"
March 17, 2026 | 2 pm
Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Torino) "Women Behind Bars: Do Single-Gender Prisons Reduce Recidivism?"
March 24, 2026 | 2 pm
Svenja Hippel (University of Bonn) "Opening the Black Box: Exploring How the Design of Law Enforcement Influences Sanctions, Detection Probabilities, and Violations"
March 31, 2026 | 2 pm
Mario Gollwitzer (LMU Munich) "The (Social) Psychology of Revenge"
April 7, 2026 | 2 pm
Adam Poloček (ECB) "
Changes in punitiveness of the Czech Criminal Code"
April 14, 2026 | 2 pm
Mikko Aaltonen (University of Eastern Finland) "The Impacts of Guaranteed Basic Income on Crime Perpetration and Victimization"
April 21, 2026 | 2 pm
Mitja Kovac (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law) "Compliance with International Law in a Dynamic Equilibrium"