EVENTS: Behavioural International Law and Economics Lecture:
With the increasing applications of behavioural economics in several sub-fields of political science and international laws, the Centre for Political Research and Studies and Intercultural Dialogue (CPRSID) at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University in collaboration with the Master of Law and Economics Programme, are pleased to hold the following guest speaker lecture:
Behavioural International Law and Economics
by
Professor Anne can Aaken, Professor of Law and Economics – Hamburg University
The session will be held in English
Date: Wednesday 21st November, 2018
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Venue: Sawiris Hall, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.
Review of Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken’s fields of interest:
What happens when parliamentarians are under obligation to respect transparency and publish their outside earnings? And what is the legal status of what is known as “nudging”? With this relatively recent method of regulation the state refrains from imposing prohibitions and obligations to make people behave in a certain way. Instead, politicians rely on nudging, pushing people in a specific direction, but leaving the decision up to them. Examples include people actively deciding against organ donation and having to file an objection to it or telling consumers in their energy bills that they are using more power than their neighbours.
Anne van Aaken is one of the world’s leading experts on fundamental legal issues of this kind. She works in diverse legal fields ranging from public international law through international economic law to areas like corruption, and financial market supervision and regulation. She tackles these topics from the perspective of both law and behavioural economics – a bridging method that promises to generate new approaches to issues such as the change brought about by globalisation processes in legal systems or the development of (international) law. Anne van Aaken is invited to the University of Hamburg to drive the economic analysis of law as well as the Law Faculty’s theoretical orientation and empirical
More information on Professor van Aaken and the field could be found on:
https://www.humboldt-professur.de/en/preistraeger
Dr. Sarah Mansour
Coordinator, Centre for Institutions, Economics and Law
Prof. Mazen Hassan
Deputy Director, CPRSID