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Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Email: emanuel@towfigh.net
Law and Economics
Legal Methodology
Habilitation(formal full professorship qualification), University of Muenster, Faculty of Law (venia legendi: Public Law and Legal Theory) (Germany)
Second State Exam in Law,Higher Regional Court Duesseldorf (Germany)
Doctor of Laws(J.S.D. equivalent), University of Muenster, Faculty of Law (Germany)
First State Exam in Law(J.D. equivalent), Higher Regional Court Hamm (Germany)
Studies of Law, Economics and Modern Chineseat the Universities of Muenster (Germany) and of Nanjing (P.R. China)
Emanuel V. Towfigh is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Peking University School of Transnational Law. He holds the Chair in Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden (Germany) and is Professor for Law & Economics at EBS Business School. Moreover, he is a Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn (Germany), where he was a Senior Research Fellow before. Towfigh also was a Global Fellow and Hauser Research Scholar at New York University Law School (USA) and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School (USA). He furthermore held visiting professorships at Humboldt-University Berlin, University of Muenster and University of Goettingen (Germany). He is admitted to the Frankfurt bar (Germany).
Emanuel V. Towfigh’s research focuses, in terms of substance, on the law of democracy and political parties, on the relationship of law and religion as well as on questions of digitalization. It also includes work on anti-discrimination law and diversity. Methodologically, next to doctrinal approaches, he employs empirical methods and (behavioral) law & economics arguments.
His publications range from monographs (Diversity in the Legal Academy and in Legal Practice in Germany. An Essay; Monographic Commentary on Art. 21 Basic Law – Political Parties; The Paradox of the Parties. A contribution on the relationship between democracy and political parties) and textbooks (Economic Methods for Lawyers) to articles in renowned peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON, Oxford), German Law Journal (Cambridge), Judgement and Decision Making (JDM), Public Choice, Journal of Competition Law and Economics (JCLE) and International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE). Moreover, he has published in leading German law journals.
His research on political parties was awarded the Young Researcher Award of the Muenster University Society, and he received the award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Law at the University of Muenster (Germany). He was a Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and a Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina whose Board he chaired in 2014/15.
Emanuel V. Towfigh is Co-Editor in Chief of the German Law Journal (GLJ) and an editor of the monograph series Computational and Quantitative Methods in Law. He is also Co-Editor of two Blogs: Law’s|Empirics (https://legalempirics.com/) on empirical legal research and Zur Geschaeftsordnung (https://zurgeschaeftsordnung.de/), a blog on the Law of Parliament.