Hanjo Hamann, JSM (Stanford)
Associate professor for civil law, commercial and intellectual property law, in particular the law of digitalisation and legal linguistics
Research focus
- contract law
- commercial and corporate law
- copyright law and law of digitalization
- behavioral law and economics
- empirical legal studies
- legal linguistics (language and law)
Curriculum Vitae
Hanjo Hamann joined EBS Law School in 2022 and passed his interim evaluation in 2025 (associate professor equivalent). He studied law and audited social psychology at Heidelberg and Hamburg, before obtaining doctorates in law and economics from the universities of Bonn and Jena. He got international research and teaching experience in Florence, Chengdu, Pretoria, and at Stanford University, where he received both a Master of the Science of Law degree (JSM) and the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities (GCDH).
Hamann teaches private law in EBS University's German law degree (Staatsexamen) program – including Contracts, Commercial Law, and Copyright, as well as lectures in the elective programmes ”Corporate and Restructuring Law” and “Law of Digitalization”. In addition, he teaches in the English-language programmes of EBS Law School, namely both the bachelor “Law, Politics and Economics” (LPE) as well as the law term on “Transnational Commercial Law” (TCL), which he codirects as its academic director.
Hamann is an alumnus of the Intercontinental Academia "Laws" of the University-Based Institutes of Advanced Study (UBIAS), and a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. He is currently a laureate fellow of the Heidelberg Young Academy and, since 2023, the first German lawyer selected for fellowship in the Global Young Academy at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. As the only researcher across humanities and social sciences, he holds both of Germany’s highest distinctions for early career researchers: The German University Association (DHV) named him Rising Researcher of the Year 2020, the German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded him the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize 2022.
Hamann acts as an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Language & Law (JLL) as well as a founding editor of the blog “Legal Empirics in Europe” (R|E). He serves as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He publishes in German and in English.
… … … …