TILEC, the Tilburg Law and Economics Center, is a fascinating and very successful interdisciplinary research center at Tilburg University. Gathering more than 40 legal scholars and economists and over 50 extramural fellows mainly working at other organizations, TILEC was named a “global leader in its field of law and economics” by an external assessment committee.

I am very happy to announce that, as of September 2023, I have taken over the TILEC directorship from Panos Delimatsis, who performed the job over an impressive 12-year period. Here is my take on the Center, as published on TILEC’s website:

“TILEC’s main purpose is to organize interdisciplinary academic events related to the governance of economic activity in the digital age. It serves as a platform of exchange, especially between lawyers and economists. TILEC also strives to support policy-relevant, well-founded research of its members and to connect TILEC members with other researchers and decision makers in politics, firms, public agencies, and society at large. I am very grateful to be connected to this globally renowned research center, which has attracted attention from highest-level policy makers, judges, regulators and academics. Truly interdisciplinary research is the unique feature of the Center: it enriches a scholar’s life to see different perspectives on a “well known” subject, and it keeps us humble and awake to know that there is always somebody in the room who knows more. If you feel similarly, please do not be shy but get in contact with us!”