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 is an associate professor (interim-evaluated) and Academic Director of the international law term on “Transnational Commercial Law” (TCL) at EBS Law School. He is also a member of the Examination Board there. On the inter-faculty level, he is a member of the Academic Senate, the Ethics Committee (IRB) and the Judicial Board of EBS University, as well as a deputy member of the Review Commission for Scientific Misconduct.
Prior to joining EBS University, 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 obtained 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 program (Erste Juristische Prüfung / Staatsexamen) – 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 both English-language programmes of EBS Law School, namely the bachelor “Law, Politics and Economics” (LPE) as well as the law term on “Transnational Commercial Law” (TCL), which he directs.
From 2010 to 2025, Hamann was affiliated with the interdisciplinary Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods as a Fellow, Senior Fellow, and Guest Researcher. He is an alumnus of the Intercontinental Academia "Laws" of the University-Based Institutes of Advanced Study (UBIAS), and a laureate fellow of the Heidelberg Young Academy. In 2023, he was 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 served 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.