# Emanuel V. Towfigh (@towfigh.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/towfigh.bsky.social
Headline: University Professor, EBS Law School & Peking University School of Transnational Law; Max Planck Fellow
Location: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

## About

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.

## Experience

- **Research Affiliate at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods** (2016 – 2025)
- **Dean, EBS Law School at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht** (2018 – 2020)
- **Research and Teaching Fellow at University of Muenster** (2003 – 2007)
- **Geschäftsführer at Treuhand Weinheim** (2014 – 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
- **Summer Associate at McKinsey & Company, Inc. (Business Technology Office)** (2001 – 2002)
  Post-Merger-Management Strategy, Cost Cutting, Process Optimization
- **Visiting Professor of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin** (2015 – 2016)
- **Visiting Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law** (2012 – 2013)
- **Head at Center for Diversity in Law** (2024 – present)
- **Intern / Voluntary Service at Baha'i International Community** (1996 – 1997)
  Office of Public Information
- **Attorney at law (Rechtsanwalt) at towfigh.law** (2007 – present)
- **Associate Editor at German Law Journal** (2011 – 2012)
- **Max Planck Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law** (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
- **Global Research Fellow (Hauser Research Scholar) at New York University** (2011 – 2012)
- **Vice Dean Research, EBS Law School at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht** (2023 – present)
- **Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Peking University School of Transnational Law** (2021 – present)
- **Director at BRYTER Center for Digitalization & Law** (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
- **Member of the Supervisory Board at Freudenberg Group** (2008 – present)
  Gesellschafterausschuss Freudenberg & Co. KG Aufsichtsrat Freudenberg SE  Mitglied im Personalausschuss und im Innovations- und Technologieausschuss
- **Co-Editor in Chief at German Law Journal** (2016 – present)
  Pioneering Open Access in Transnational Law since 1999 Published with Cambridge University Press since 2019
- **Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods** (2007 – 2016)
- **Co-Founder & Managing Director (geschäftsführender Gesellschafter) at LATEST THINKING (lt.org)** (2014 – 2016)
- **Senior Editor at German Law Journal** (2012 – 2016)
- **Visiting Professor of Law at University of Muenster** (2015 – 2015)
- **Visiting Professor of Law at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen** (2014 – 2015)
- **University Professor at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht** (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

## Education

- **University of Münster** — Dr. iur. (JSD equivalent) (2003 – 2005)
- **OLG Hamm / LG Münster** — Ass. iur. (Legal Clerkship) (2005 – 2007)
- **南京大学** (1999 – 2000)

## Skills

- Policy
- International Arbitration
- Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences
- Public International Law
- International Development
- Statistics
- Legal Research
- Administrative Law
- Research Skills
- Higher Education
- Higher Education Research
- Higher Education Teaching
- University Lecturing
- Academic Administration
- Public Law
- Economics
- Organizational Behavior
- Research
- Teaching
- Human Rights
- Political Economy
- International Political Economy
- International Law
- Political Science
- Policy Analysis
- Qualitative Research
- German
- Constitutional Law
- Public Policy
- French
- International Relations
- Commercial Litigation
- European Law
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- International Human Rights
- NGOs
- Corporate Law
- European Union
- Politics
- Competition Law
- Lecturing
- Legal Writing
- Strategy
- Legal Advice
- Government
- Political Philosophy
- Civil Society
- Microeconomics
- Program Evaluation
- Econometrics
- Courts
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Governance
- Economic Policy

## Languages

- German (native)
- English (full_professional)
- French (professional_working)
- Persian (limited_working)
- Chinese (elementary)