The Munich Summer Institute 2027 will take place from 31 May through 3 June 2027: the Ph.D. Workshop on 31 May and the main conference from 1 to 3 June. Then in its eleventh year, the MSI has established itself as one of the leading forums for research at the intersection of economics, management, law, and related disciplines, bringing together researchers from around the world for three days of intensive academic exchange. This will also mark the sixth time that an MSI Ph.D. Workshop will be held – a platform for emerging young scholars.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the winners of its 2026 Starting Grant competition. The ERC will award 1.5 million euros to Benedict Probst, Head of the Net Zero Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Within the framework of his project COMPASS, artificial intelligence will be used to continuously examine, on a large scale, whether carbon credits actually deliver the promised climate benefits.

Four years ago, at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kateryna Militsyna left her home country with a single suitcase and took up a fellowship at the Institute. What followed was not only a successful doctoral dissertation on generative AI and copyright law, but also a profound personal journey of starting over in an unfamiliar country. In this interview, now a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, she reflects on resilience, research, and the lessons that extraordinary circumstances can teach.

Law comparison does not mean copying other countries’ models. It shows how different countries address the same legal challenges – and what outcomes result. That was precisely the focus of the international symposium “Global Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law – Public Health, Fair Competition, and Artificial Intelligence,” held on 3 July 2026 at the Judicial Academy of the State of Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ).