The Law, Economics, and Data Science Group at ETH Zurich is part of the Center for Law & Economics within the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. The group conducts empirical research on legal and political institutions using tools at the intersection of economics and data science. Research topics include tax and fiscal policy, the behavior of politicians and judges, and the political economy of news media.
Beat Weibel, Head of ETH transfer at ETH Zurich, has been appointed as "Professor of Practice" in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS). Together with Prof. Stefan Bechtold from the CLE, he will develop and implement training and awareness initiatives for ETH students in the area of intellectual property.
On September 2, EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus, the first large-scale, open, multilingual language model. Prof. Elliott Ash, Jingwei Ni and Dr. Alexander Hoyle from the ETH Center for Law & Economics (CLE) are among the co-authors of Apertus.
Margaritha Windisch, Ph.D. candidate at ETH’s Center for Law & Economics (CLE), reached 2nd place in the Young Scholar Recognition at the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS) Conference 2025 in Toulouse.
