Law and Economics as Interdisciplinary Exchange

Peter Cserne , PhD, is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Northumbria, UK, and extramural fellow of Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC). He has held visiting positions at Columbia, Oxford and Toronto Universities and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg. A lawyer and economist by training, he has published widely on legal theory, economic analysis of law and contracts. He is the founder and convener of MetaLawEcon, an international academic network for research on the foundations of economic analysis of law.

Magdalena Malecka , PhD, is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow (University of Helsinki and Stanford University). Her Marie Curie project is a philosophical analysis of the applications of the behavioral sciences to policy. Before starting the Marie Curie Fellowship, Magdalena was a postdoctoral researcher at TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (University of Helsinki) and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. While remaining affiliated with TINT, in February 2018 she joined the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Central European University in Budapest for five months as a Junior Core Fellow.