The Group

The Intellectual Property 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 focuses on interdisciplinary research on intellectual property, Internet, privacy, telecommunications, law & technology, and antitrust policy. Recently, the group has been working on empirical and experimental projects in intellectual property and privacy policy as well as on legal problems of big data and automated decision-making. The group also applies machine-learning and natural-language processing tools to intellectual property law and beyond. In a collaboration that includes computer scientists and economists, the group explores how to regulate the digital economy at scale, where regulators face thousands of content providers and millions of consumers.

Through research projects, workshops and teaching activities, the group participates in the international discourse in the areas mentioned. It co-organizes the Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation, which regularly brings leading experts from all over the world to Zurich.