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People  |  10/01/2025

Heiko Richter appointed Chair of Private Law and Regulation of the Digital Economy and Society at the University of Speyer

Heiko Richter, who has been a Research Fellow at the Institute since 2020, has accepted a call from the University of Speyer and has been appointed University Professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (DUV). Since 1 October 2025, he holds the newly established Chair of Private Law and Regulation of the Digital Economy and Society.

Prof. Dr. Heiko Richter, LL.M. (Columbia), Dipl.-Kfm.
Heiko Richter appointed Chair of Private Law and Regulation of the Digital Economy and Society at the University of Speyer
Prof. Dr. Heiko Richter, LL.M. (Columbia), Dipl.-Kfm.
Heiko Richter appointed Chair of Private Law and Regulation of the Digital Economy and Society at the University of Speyer

The Chair’s research focuses on private law and digitalization law (including data and platform regulation) as well as regulatory and legal theory at the intersection of state, market, and society.
 

Heiko Richter worked at the Institute as a Doctoral Researcher and Junior Research Fellow in the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Department from 2014 to 2020. His dissertation, supervised by Heike Schweitzer at Humboldt University in Berlin, is entitled “Information as Infrastructure.” It was awarded the 2020 Humboldt Prize. Since 2020, Heiko Richter has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute in the department headed by Josef Drexl and a lecturer in private law at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich. He remains closely associated with the Institute as an Affiliated Research Fellow.