Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society

Prof. Dr. Philipp Hacker, LL.M. (Yale) 


Professor for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society

Contact details

+49 335 5534 16 6856
+48 61 829 6856
hacker[at]europa-uni.de

Office: CP 119
Office hours: By appointment (send me an Email)

Research Areas

  • Regulation of Emerging Technologies (particularly AI)
  • Contract Law
  • Data Protection Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Blockchain and Fintech
  • Behavioral Law and Economics

Curriculum Vitae


Since September 2020, Professor Dr. Philipp Hacker, LL.M. (Yale), has held the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He serves jointly at the Faculty of Law and at the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS). In 2021, he held a Research Fellowship at Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Before joining Viadrina, Philipp was a legal AXA Postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin's law department, where he led a project on Fairness in Machine Learning and EU Law. Prior to that, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and an A.SK Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. For his work, he received several academic prizes, most recently the Science Award of the German Foundation for Law and Computer Science.

Philipp studied law at the universities of Munich and Salamanca, and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School. During his academic career, he held various scholarships, inter alia from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the Stiftung Maximilianeum. He obtained both his PhD (2016) and his Habilitation in Law (2020) from Humboldt University of Berlin.

His PhD thesis applies insights from behavioral law and economics to the disclosure paradigm in EU private law and developed alternatives to ubiquitous information disclosure as a regulatory tool. His more recent work in his Habilitation inquires into the relationship and tensions between EU data protection law, particularly the GDPR, and other areas of EU and national private law in the context of emerging technologies. Currently, his research focuses on the regulation of digital technologies more broadly, particularly concerning artificial intelligence. He frequently advises national and EU institutions in these matters.

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Physical address:

Building: Collegium Polonicum (CP)
Ul. Kosciuszki 1
69-100 Slubice, Poland
Room CP 100

Postal address:

Stiftung Europa-Universität Viadrina
Große Scharrnstrasse 59
15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Contact:

Phone: +49 (0)335 5534 16 6780
E-Mail: ens [at] europa-uni.de