Emanuel V. Towfigh

@towfigh.bsky.social

University Professor, EBS Law School & Peking University School of Transnational Law; Max Planck Fellow

University Professor at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany🇩🇪

Emanuel V. Towfigh holds the Chair in Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics at EBS Law School and is Professor for Law & Economics at EBS Business School.

He also serves as a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, heading the »Centre for Diversity in Law«. Moreover, he is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Peking University's School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. He's Director of the »BRYTER Center for Digitalization & Law« and a Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn.

Apart from these academic positions, he's an attorney at towfigh.law in Frankfurt and serves on the Supervisory Board of the Freudenberg Group in Weinheim.

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Career: 24

University Professor

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

Jan 2016 - Present

Chair for Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics, EBS Law School Courtesy Appointment as Professor for Law and Economics, EBS Business School Democracy • Diversity • Digitalization Governance • Political Parties • Law & Religion • Public/Private Divide • (Comparative) Constitutional Law • Empirical Methods

Head

Center for Diversity in Law

Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Oct 2024 - Present

Max Planck Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Oct 2024 - Present

Diversity in the (German) Legal System Principal Investigator, Center for Diversity in Law Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg funded by Stiftung Mercator

Vice Dean Research, EBS Law School

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

Oct 2023 - Present

Director

BRYTER Center for Digitalization & Law

Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

Feb 2022 - Present

LegalTech / Automatization • Legal Ops & Processes • AI • European Regulation (AI Act, DSA, DMA, GDPR) • Algorithmic Decision Making / ADM • Digitalization & Access to Justice • Digital Biases & (Non-)Discrimination

Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Peking University School of Transnational Law

Aug 2021 - Present

Co-Editor in Chief

German Law Journal

2016 - Present

Pioneering Open Access in Transnational Law since 1999 Published with Cambridge University Press since 2019

Member of the Supervisory Board

Freudenberg Group

Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Jul 2008 - Present

Gesellschafterausschuss Freudenberg & Co. KG Aufsichtsrat Freudenberg SE Mitglied im Personalausschuss und im Innovations- und Technologieausschuss

Attorney at law (Rechtsanwalt)

towfigh.law

TaunusTurm, Taunustor 1, 60310 Frankfurt

Sep 2007 - Present

Research Affiliate

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Bonn Area, Germany

Apr 2016 - Aug 2025

Geschäftsführer

Treuhand Weinheim

Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Jul 2014 - Jun 2025

Tax & Law Office for Partners of Freudenberg Group Non-operative Managing Director (supervising on behalf of Freudenberg Group) Interim Operative MD March-September 2024

Dean, EBS Law School

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

Wiesbaden Area, Germany

Mar 2018 - Jun 2020

Visiting Professor of Law

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Oct 2015 - Mar 2016

Senior Research Fellow

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Jul 2007 - Mar 2016

Co-Founder & Managing Director (geschäftsführender Gesellschafter)

LATEST THINKING (lt.org)

2014 - 2016

Senior Editor

German Law Journal

2012 - 2016

Visiting Professor of Law

University of Muenster

2015

Visiting Professor of Law

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Göttingen Area, Germany

2014 - 2015

Visiting Professor of Law

University of Virginia School of Law

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

2012 - 2013

Associate Editor

German Law Journal

2011 - 2012

Global Research Fellow (Hauser Research Scholar)

New York University

New York City

2011 - 2012

Research and Teaching Fellow

University of Muenster

Jan 2003 - Jul 2007

Summer Associate

McKinsey & Company, Inc. (Business Technology Office)

Aug 2001 - Jan 2002

Post-Merger-Management Strategy, Cost Cutting, Process Optimization

Intern / Voluntary Service

Baha'i International Community

Paris, Île-de-France, France

1996 - 1997

Office of Public Information

Skills: 56

Other

Academic AdministrationAdministrative LawCivil SocietyCommercial LitigationCompetition LawConstitutional LawCorporate GovernanceCorporate Law

Corporate Social ResponsibilityCourtsEconometricsEconomic PolicyEconomicsEuropean LawEuropean UnionForeign PolicyFrenchGermanGovernmentHigher EducationHigher Education ResearchHigher Education TeachingHuman RightsIntellectual PropertyInternational ArbitrationInternational DevelopmentInternational Human RightsInternational LawInternational Political EconomyInternational RelationsLecturingLegal AdviceLegal ResearchLegal WritingLitigationMicroeconomicsNGOsOrganizational BehaviorPolicyPolicy AnalysisPolitical EconomyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical SciencePoliticsProgram EvaluationPublic International LawPublic LawPublic PolicyQualitative ResearchResearchResearch SkillsSocial SciencesStatisticsStrategyTeachingUniversity Lecturing

Education: 3

OLG Hamm / LG Münster

Ass. iur. (Legal Clerkship)

May 2005 - Apr 2007

University of Münster

Dr. iur. (JSD equivalent)

2003 - 2005

Scholarship by German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes); prize for the best PhD dissertation in law in 2005

Activities / Societies: Judo

南京大学

Education

1999 - 2000

Scholarship by Krupp Foundation and German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Languages: 5

German(Native or bilingual)

English(Full professional)

French(Professional working)

Persian(Limited working)

Chinese(Elementary)

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