International research projects
Regulation of online platforms in the EU and South Korea from a comparative law perspective
A German-Korean research group led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch (Osnabrück) and Prof. Dr. Byung Jun Lee (Seoul) will investigate the regulation of online platforms in the EU and South Korea from a comparative law perspective from January 2023.
Participating professors, partners or institutes:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Maître en Droit, University of Osnabrück (Co-ordinator)
Prof. Dr. Byung-Jun Lee, Korea University Seoul (Co-ordinator)
Prof. Dr. Jan Oster, LL.M. (Berkeley), University of Osnabrück
Prof. Dr. Seung Pil Choi, Hankuk University Seoul
Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Franck, LL.M. (Yale), University of Mannheim
Prof. Dr. Won-Jae Hwang, Keimyung University Daegu
Prof. Dr. Shindong Jun, Gangneung-Wonju National University Gangneug
Jun.Prof. Dr. Katharina Kaesling, LL.M. (Collège d'Europe), University of Dresden
Prof. Dr. Sang-Jung Kim, Korea University Seoul
Duration: 2023-2024
Project funding: The one-year pilot project is funded by the German Research Foundation and the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Professor Busch is an Affiliated Scholar at the Yale ISP, an intellectual center at Yale Law School. The Yale ISP brings together a community of interdisciplinary scholars working on issues at the intersection of law, technology and society.
Participating professors, partners or institutes:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch
Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
Comparative Perspectives from Germany and the UK
The comparative research project focuses on new questions of consumer law (Internet of Things).
Professors, partners or institutesinvolved :
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Osnabrück University,
Prof. Dr. Guido Noto La Diega, University of Stirlin,
Prof. Dr. Christian Twigg-Flesner, University of Warwick,
Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, University of Bonn
Duration: 2022-2025
Project funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Under the auspices of the European Law Institute (ELI), the research project is investigating the impact of algorithmic decision-making and automation on EU consumer and contract law.
Professors, partners or institutesinvolved :
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Osnabrück University,
Prof. Dr. Marie Jull Sorensen, Aalborg University,
Prof. Dr. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballel, University Carlos III Madrid,
Prof. Dr. Dariuz Szostek, University of Katowice,
Prof. Dr. Christian Twigg-Flesner, University of Warwick
Duration: 2022-2025
Project funding: Co-funding from the European Commission
The examples of 5G and the smart energy transition between structural policy and economic stimulus program
In Germany, there is a lack of knowledge about the way in which China's national policy is implemented at local and provincial level. The ChiP-NI project aims to provide this knowledge by following the "funnel" of increasingly concrete legislation and law application across the three levels against the background of the Chinese "New Infrastructure" project. Using the example of the two use cases 5G and smart energy transition, Professors Dr. (NTU) Georg Gesk and Dr. Bernd J. Hartmann, in cooperation with Chinese legal scholars, will develop new Chinese legal sources through translation and place them in the cultural context of Chinese legal application practice.
Professors, partners or institutesinvolved :
Prof. Dr. Bernd Hartmann, project leader CHiP-NI,
Prof. Dr. Gesk, holder of the Chair of Chinese Law, Osnabrück University,
Prof. Dr. JIANG Huiyu (Anhui University of Finance and Economics),
Prof. Dr. SONG Yahui (Nanjing University) and
Prof'in Dr. LA Sen (Beijing Technology and Business University)
Duration: 01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024
Project funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
The rise of online platforms is one of the fundamental economic and social developments of recent years. The rapid growth of the "platform economy" has triggered a debate on whether the legal framework needs to be adapted to adequately reflect the changing market structure. The ELI project team has developed a set of model rules that are intended to contribute to the ongoing debate and provide a "visualization" of what a balanced approach might look like if regulatory action is deemed necessary.
Professors, partners or institutesinvolved :
Prof. Dr. Christoph Busch, Rapporteur of the European Law Institute for Model Rules on Online Intermediary Platforms
Prof. Dr. Hans Schulte-Nölke, Rapporteur of the European Law Institute for Model Rules on Online Intermediary Platforms
Here you can find a list of other team members.
Duration: since 2015
The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltsgesetz) obliges companies falling within its scope of application to observe human rights and environmental due diligence obligations in their supply chains in an appropriate manner. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) deals with the legal issues.
Professors, partners or institutesinvolved :
Prof. Dr. Leonard Hübner,
Prof. Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg),
Dr. Markus Lieberknecht (Harvard)
Duration: 2022/2023
Project funding: Swiss Pro Bono KBA-NotaSys Integrity Fund (CH)