ISAB (International Scientific Advisory Board)
- Anna Louisa Bindler
Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses, among other topics, on gender disparities in judicial decision-making, sanctions and recidivism, and the impact of crime on its victims. - Susann Fiedler
Professor of Psychology and Head of the Institute for Cognition and Behavior at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her specialization includes research on human decision-making, discrimination, and perceptions of inequality. - Barbara Havelková
Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Hilda’s College. Her extensive research and publications cover equality and anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, and gender legal studies. - Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko
Professor of Quantitative Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Director of the international PhD program European Doctorate in Law and Economics (EDLE). Her research focuses on crime, behavioral and economic analysis of law, and international criminal law. - Keren Weinshall
Professor of Law and Edward S. Silver Chair in Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has authored numerous books and academic articles using comparative and empirical methods to study judicial decision-making and the influence of factors such as workload, court composition diversity, and ideological preferences.
Research Team
- Josef Montag is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. He holds a habilitation in economics from Charles University and a PhD in Law and Economics from the University of Turin. His research focuses on inequality, discrimination, and criminal behavior and justice, with publications in journals such as the Journal of Housing Economics, Kyklos, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of international and national research grants, including Horizon Europe and Czech Science Foundation projects, and currently leads the EU-funded Center for Inequality and Open Society. He also serves as Chairman of the Economics Panel at the Czech Science Foundation and is active in international academic networks and evaluation committees.
- Michal Šoltés is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE-EI. He is also a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IDEA) and Co-Chair of the Empirical Criminal Law Working Group within the European Society of Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS). His research lies at the intersection of public economics, law and economics, and empirical public policy, with recent projects focusing on sentencing disparities, public procurement, and tax compliance.
Research Team
Josef Montag
Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. He holds a habilitation in economics from Charles University and a PhD in Law and Economics from the University of Turin. His research focuses on inequality, discrimination, and criminal behavior and justice, with publications in journals such as the Journal of Housing Economics, Kyklos, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on a number of international and national research grants, including Horizon Europe and Czech Science Foundation projects, and currently leads the EU-funded Center for Inequality and Open Society. He also serves as Chairman of the Economics Panel at the Czech Science Foundation and is active in international academic networks and evaluation committees.
Michal Šoltés
Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE-EI. He is also a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IDEA) and Co-Chair of the Empirical Criminal Law Working Group within the European Society of Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS). His research lies at the intersection of public economics, law and economics, and empirical public policy, with recent projects focusing on sentencing disparities, public procurement, and tax compliance.
Project Administration
- Anna Malá – Project Manager
- Eva Myšáková – Financial Manager
- Kateřina Pospíchalová Pavlov – Project Administrator
- Karolína Martínek – Data Manager, Open Science Officer