People

Management Team

• Prof. Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko

  Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko is Professor of Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies and co-director of the Erasmus Centre of Empirical Legal Studies. Having an interdisciplinary background, she uses experimental methods to investigate decision-making in areas such as constitutional law, copyright law, and administrative law, with a particular focus on nudges. Elena is also a member of the ESL Research Ethics Review Committee. 

  

• Prof. Pieter Desmet

  Pieter Desmet is Professor of Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies and co-director of the Erasmus Centre of Empirical Legal Studies. He uses experimental and quantitative methods to study the decision making of victims, perpetrators, judges & jurors, but also organizational behavior, behavioral ethics and nudging. His research is interdisciplinary, award winning and has been published in top tier journals in different domains. 

  

• Dr. Aylin Aydin-Cakir 

  Aylin Aydin-Cakir is Assistant Professor of Law, Politics and Quantitative Methods.  Her research interests focus on judicial politics, comparative political institutions, comparative constitutional law, and public opinion. Methodologically, her research leverages several  quantitative approaches including observational data, experiments as well as other causal inference designs. Her studies are published in various journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP); Political Research Quarterly, International Political Science Review, Law&Society Review, Democratization, International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), International Review of Law and Economics.