Research at The Europe Center

Research Programs

Austrian & Central European Program
The Austrian & Central European Program hosts a visiting professor at Stanford to teach a course in his/her specialty for a one-year term while also working closely with The Europe Center to promote specific research topics pertaining to Austria and Central Europe.

» Austria in the Postwar World

» FIW – Research Centre International Economics

» Linkages between Services and Manufacturing

» Semantic Information Systems and Visualization

» The Role of Multinational Companies and Supply Chains in Innovation

» What Trade Economists Should Know About Their Data

Debating History, Democracy, Development, and Education in Conflicted Societies
The aim of this collaboration is to study how divided societies—viewed in international context, with a focus on the Middle East, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority—reconcile diverging notions of the past, and of democracy, development, and education.

Iberian Studies Program
The Iberian Studies Program is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote relational knowledge of the various cultures of the Iberian Peninsula.

Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region
The Program on Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Baltic Region is comprised of several components, which together are designed to make The Europe Center, and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, a crucial nexus for new thinking and influential public programming on Sweden and the region.

Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) aims to promote a balanced approach to today's and future transatlantic tech law issues and to focus scholarly attention on these issues by involving academics, businesspeople, legislators, and policy makers from both sides of the Atlantic.

» A Comparative Analysis of Online Distribution of Software in the United States and Europe: Piracy or Freedom of "First Use"?

» A Status Report from the Software Decompilation Battle

» European Union Commerce Law: Consolidated Legislation

» European Union E-commerce Law Project

» Information Security Law in the EU and the U.S.: A Risk-Based Assessment of Implicit and Explicit Regulatory Policies

» Separation of Ownership and the Authorization to Use Personal Computers: Unintended Effects of EU and U.S. Law on IT Security

» Technology Transfer Agreements in EU and U.S. Antitrust Law

» The Legality of the European Data Retention Directive in Light of the Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection

» The Patent Application: A Comparison between Europe and the U.S.

Research Projects

» Comparative Study of Farm Policy Reform in the EU and US

» Democracy in the European Union

» Europe, America and the Multilateral Trade System

» Principles of European Integration: Treaty revisions in multi-stage two-level processes

» The Cult of the Cross in Byzantium

» The Origins of Democratic Institutions in Europe

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