Anne van Aaken (Dr. iur. and MA Economics) is Professor of Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law, University of Hamburg, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Professor 2018-2023) and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Economics. Anne was Vice-President of the European Society of International and the Chair of the European University Research Council (2020-2023). She taught as a guest professor at numerous universities around the world (i.a. HEID, World Trade Institute, NYU, HebrewU and University of Haifa) and was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin in 2010/11. She was a general editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (OUP) and is a member of the editorial boards i.a. of the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law (till 2021), the Journal of International Economic Law (OUP) and International Theory (OUP). She has been consultant for the IBRD, OECD, UNCTAD, GIZ and the UN.

Anne’s far over 100 publications are often interdisciplinary, using economics and social science methods, including behavioral sciences, to understand the consequences of law as well as law-making. Her newest edited book is “International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn”, OUP 2025 with Moshe Hirsch.