Daniel Zimmer

Daniel Zimmer serves as Professor and Director of the Institute of Commercial and Economic Law at the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASTLE), University of Bonn, and maintains a Research Fellowship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His distinguished career includes chairing the German Monopolies Commission (2012-2016) and serving as Dean of Bonn's Faculty of Law and Economics until 2018.

Education:

• PhD in Legal Studies, University of Göttingen, 1991

His research program integrates legal frameworks with economic analysis across Consumer Protection, International Capital Market Law, International Corporate Law, and Competition Law. He examines regulatory adaptation to global market dynamics and technological innovation, with particular focus on digital transformation challenges in financial and commercial systems.

Recent 2021 publications demonstrate his interdisciplinary approach through works on AI algorithm regulation and economic methodologies in European/German merger control, reflecting sustained engagement with contemporary regulatory dilemmas at the law-economics interface.

As Principal Investigator and Cluster member at CASTLE since 2019, he contributes to collaborative research initiatives bridging legal scholarship and economic policy. The source material contains no information regarding student advising relationships or research grant funding.