Professor Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh

Chair in Public Law, Empirical Legal Research and Law & Economics — EBS Law School
Distinguished Scholar in Residence — Peking University School of Transnational Law
Max Planck Fellow & Head, Center for Diversity in Law — Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Jan Zepf

Junior Researcher

Dissertation topic: Conflicts of Interest of Members of the German Bundestag (completed)

Jan Zepf studied Law and Economics at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht in Wiesbaden (Germany) and at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield (UK). He graduated with the First State Examination in Law in 2021 specializing in Public Commercial Law.

From December 2021 until December 2023, Jan Zepf was a Junior Researcher and PhD Candidate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh. After his successful disputation on October 22, 2025, his dissertation (Nomos) was published in Mai 2026.