Dan Wielsch explores the evolution of technological architectures and legal institutions, focusing on the socio-legal implications of principles like modularization and e2e. In this context he concentrates on the intersection of antitrust and IP law. His general interests are in the fields of private, international, and constitutional law as well as political theory. Another emphasis of his thought is devoted to phenomena of self-organization.
Having studied philosophy and law at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt/Germany, he then worked at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. His doctoral thesis traced the methodological innovations in the law of the liberal society and was awarded by the Max Planck Society with the Otto-Hahn Prize for young scholars. After completing his practical legal education, among others at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, he worked as a legal advisor for the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin. Recently he obtained the LL.M. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. At present he writes his post-doctoral thesis.