Dan Wielsch
Professor of Law
Dan Wielsch holds the Chair of Private Law and Legal Theory at the University of Cologne. He earned his Master of Laws degree from UC Berkeley and was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. After studying law and philosophy, he became a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. Following his legal clerkship, which included a placement at the Federal Constitutional Court, he worked, among other roles, as a policy advisor at the German Ministry of the Interior.
As part of his fellowship, Dan Wielsch will explore the topic of digital autonomy and examine various approaches to regulating AI as well as the narratives surrounding it.
Selected Awards
2021–22 | Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2017 | Prize for Law and Society from the Vereinigung für Recht & Gesellschaft
1999 | Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society
Selected Publications
2025 | “Deep-tier Regulation: On Governance by and of Private Regulators.” In: European Property Law Journal 14, pp. 71–79.
2018 | “Contract Interpretation Regimes.” In: Modern Law Review 81, pp. 958–988:
2008 | Zugangsregeln: Die Rechtsverfassung der Wissensteilung. Jus Privatum 133. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.