Advanced Seminar Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Digital Platforms and the Law

What it is about

You will engage with the economic peculiarities of digital platform markets and the resulting legal challenges. In the end, you will be able to assess antitrust questions in the context of digital platforms, analyze market forces and competitive strategies, and evaluate current cases and legislative proposals.

What you will be able to do

• Understand the basics of European and German antitrust law
• Grasp the economic effects of competition and innovation strategies
• Apply knowledge to current cases and legislative projects in platform economy
• Analyze challenges of digital platform markets and identify competitive impediments
• Identify corporate practices that enable successful market participation

What the module consists of

• EinführungsveranstaltungIntroduction to academic work, literature research, formal requirements, and basics of antitrust law
• GruppenarbeitElaboration of the written project and preparation of the presentation
• BetreuungsveranstaltungDiscussion of progress and individual support for the work
• AbschlussveranstaltungPresentation of the project work and discussion

Teaching method

• Blockseminarenables concentrated processing of the topics in coherent units
• Gruppenarbeitpromotes cooperative development of the project work and presentation preparation
• Betreuungsgesprächesupport scientific work and provide feedback on progress
• Präsentationen und Diskussionentrain presentation techniques and critical engagement with other works