Panel 6: Educating Citizens – the Choice for Paternalism

Anne van Aaken Prof. Dr. iur. et lic. rer.pol. Anne van Aaken is a Professor for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Before that she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Research of Collective Goods as well as at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She holds a Master in Law from the University of Munich, a PhD in Law from the University of Frankfurt/Oder, a master degree in Economics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and is admitted to the bar in Germany. She has been a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and Yale Law School and a guest professor at several universities in Europe, Latin America, the United States, Africa and Asia. In 2010/11, she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. She was the Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2008-2013), is the Chair of the Programmatic Steering Board of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law, Vice-President of the European Society in International Law (since 2014, board since 2012) and member of the board of the Society of International Constitutional Law (I-Con-S) as well as Member of the ILA Investment Committee (ended) and the ILA Committee on Non-State Actors. She has been an expert consultant for the World Bank, UNCTAD and OECD. Her main research areas are international law with a special focus on international economic law and its interaction with other areas of international law, (international) legal theory, (behavioural) law and economics, state responsibility and liability as well as corruption. She has published widely on those topics in peer-reviewed journals and currently has a book on “Behavioral International Law and Economics” under contract with Oxford University Press (with Tomer Broude).

Jeff King Jeff King is Professor of Law at University College London and a Legal Adviser to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. On Verfassungsblog, he writes in a personal capacity.

Uwe Volkmann Uwe Volkmann is a Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main.

Alexandra Kemmerer Alexandra Kemmerer is Senior Research Fellow and Academic Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and Head of the Institute's Berlin Office.