ETH - Hertig

ETH Zürich - Gerard Hertig - CLEF

Comparative Law and Economics Forum (CLEF)

CLEF is a joint American-European-Asian forum aiming at developing a better comparative understanding of legal issues arising in various countries.

It comprises a core group of 16 scholars: John Armour (Oxford), Robert Cooter (Berkeley), Bruno Frey (Zurich), Nuno Garoupa (Illinois), Andrew Guzman (Berkeley), Fernando Gomez-Pomar (Pompeu Fabra), Henry Hansman (Yale), Gillian Hadfield (USC), Gerard Hertig (ETH Zurich), Guy Horsmans (Louvain-la-Neuve), Lewis Kornhauser (NYU), Katharina Pistor (Columbia), Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale), Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley), Alois Stutzer (Basel), Thomas Ulen (Illinois).

The group generally meets once a year, one of the represented institutions being the host. Sessions were held in Berkeley (1992), Brussels (1993), Geneva (1994), New York (1995), Chicago (1996), Trento (1997), New Haven (1998), Torino (1999), Brussels (2000), Berkeley (2003), Zurich (2004), Chicago (2005), Barcelona (2006), New York (2007), Madrid (2008), Singapore (2009), New Haven (2010), Oxford (2011) and Berkeley (2012). The 2013 meeting will take place in Rio de Janeiro, and it is planned to have the 2014 meeting in Paris/Brussels and the 2015 meeting in New York.

CLEF activities are of pluri-disciplinary and multi-national nature. In particular, the purpose is to conduct joint-projects dealing with topics suited to such an approach. A first project dealt with "Trusts", a second with "Arbitration and Conflict-solving".

In addition, CLEF facilitates exchanges among Law & Economics scholars, in particular by inviting promising scholars to present papers at its meetings.