We are very pleased to announce that the dissertation 'Grenzen der Personalisierung des Rechts' of our former research associate, Philip Maximilian Bender, has been awarded as 'Juristisches Buch des Jahres'. This prestigious award recognises outstanding academic work in the field of law.
In his dissertation, which was supervised by Professor Dr Hans Christoph Grigoleit at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München, Bender examines the opportunities and risks associated with personalising legal norms through new technologies such as big data. He shows that legislation based solely on algorithms and economic considerations would jeopardise the foundations of a liberal social order and lead to a system of micro-socialist external control.
The multi-award-winning work was written at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, where Bender was a research associate from 2019 to 2021. The title 'Juristisches Buch des Jahres' is assigned by a high-calibre jury of law professors who select the best legal monographs each year and publish them in the JuristenZeitung. As a finalist for the Körber Foundation Study Award, Bender has already been accepted into the Körber Foundation's alumni program in June 2023 for his outstanding work. In September, he was awarded the Science Prize of the German Foundation for Law and Informatics, and in October he received the LMU Faculty Prize. On 16 November, the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts awarded him the Bavarian Culture Prize 2023 in the Science category.
In addition to his academic work, Bender has been a lecturer at LMU and a visiting fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and participated in the Law and Economics course at the Swiss National Bank's Gerzensee Study Centre Gerzensee of the Swiss National Bank. Bender studied law at the LMU, Paris II/Panthéon-Assas and Yale Law School, as well as philosophy at the LMU and the École normale supérieure in Paris. He completed his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich with a period at the German Embassy in Tehran and has been a Bavarian notary since November 2021. In January 2024, he joined the management of the Federal Chamber of Notaries in Brussels.
This award recognises Philip M. Bender's outstanding contribution to jurisprudence, which provides important impetus for the discussion on the integration of new technologies into legislation.
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November 2024