red. prof. dr.
Mitja Kovač

Mitja Kovac je diplomiral (cum laude) iz prava na Pravni fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, ter magistriral in doktoriral iz prava in ekonomije na Univerzi Utrecht (Utrecht University Faculty of Law Economics and Governance, Nizozemska). Med drugim je kot gostujoci raziskovalec deloval na državnem British Institute of International and Comparative Law v Londonu (Velika Britanija), na Washington University School of Law v St. Louisu (ZDA) in na Evropski pravni akademiji v Trierju (ERA, Nemcija). Je tudi clan Economic Impact Group at the CoPECL Network of Excellence pri evropskem projektu Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) in International Association for Court Administration pri EU Study group on Law and Public Administration. Trenutno je redni profesor za področje civilnega in gospodarskega prava na Ekonomski Fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani in gostujoci predavatelj na Univerzi v Gentu (Belgija), na ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius (Litva), na Erasmus University Rotterdam (Nizozemska), na University of Torino (Italija) ter na University of Vienna (Avstrija). Intenzivno se ukvarja s primerjalnim pogodbenim pravom, pravom intelektualne lastnine, novo institucionalno ekonomijo in ekonomsko analizo prava.

• Nuno Garupa, Mitja Kovac and Rok Spruk
  The boulevard of broken dreams? Long-run effects of labor-managed socialism.
  The European Journal of Comparative Economics 21(2), 2024

• Mitja Kovac
  Generative Artificial Intelligence - A Law and Economics Approach to Optimal Regulation and Governance
  Palgrave MacMillan (2024)

• Chiara Focacci, Mitja Kovac and Rok Spruk
  The Missing Window of Opportunity and Quasi-Experimental Effects of Institutional Integration: Evidence from Ukraine
  Review of Law and Economics, 2025

• Dothan Shai, Kovac Mitja and Rok Spruk
  Long-Term Effects of Deep Institutional Shocks: Historical Evidence from Mexico
  Journal of Government and Economics (2024)

• Mitja Kovac
  Tragedy of commons, civil drones and hybrid modes of technology regulation: a comparative law and economics perspective
  Journal of Law, Market and Innovation, 3(2) 2024

• Mitja Kovac
  Rule by Law, Excessive Length of Proceedings, and Property Rights in Slovenia
  In Mateja Durovic and Cristina Poncibo (eds.), Private Law, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights: Comparative Perspectives from South-Eastern Europe (Hart Publishing, 2024)

• Mitja Kovac
  Research methods and techniques in contract law and economics
  in Yuliya Chernykh and Joshua Karton (eds.), Research Methods Handbook for Contract Law and Scholarship (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2024)

• Emery J. Thomas, Kovač Mitja and Rok Spruk
  Estimating the Effects of Political Instability in Nascent Democracies
  243 Journal of Economics and Statistics 5-6, 2023 (Jahrbucher fur National Ekonomie und Statistik)

• Chiara Focacci, Mitja Kovac and Rok Spruk
  Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Quality of Local Public Institutions, and Firm-Level Innovation
  International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 75, 2023

• Kostka Katarzyna and Mitja Kovač
  A double-edged-sword approach to fighting pandemics: patent waivers and incentives to innovate
  Review of European and Comparative Law 54(3), 2023.

• Mitja Kovac
  Autonomous AI torts: A Comparative Law and Economics Approach
  in Phillip Morgan (ed.), Tort Liability and Autonomous Systems Accidents Common and Civil Law Perspectives, Edward Elgar, 2023

• Mitja Kovac, Amira Elkanawati, Vita Gjikolli and Jessica Woitalla
  European vaccine-rollout policy, unraveled markets, and moral externalities
  European Integration Studies 17/2023

• Kovac Mitja
  The rise of the mailbox rule and formation of contracts in English, US and Canadian law
  Liverpool Law Review (2022)

• Callewaert Margot, Kovac Mitja
  Does Cicero's Decision Stand the Test of Time? Famine at Rhodes and Comparative Law and Economics Approach
  12 Comparative Law Review 1 (2023, published by University of Perugia)

• Domesi Ana Paula and Mitja Kovac
  Best-efforts clauses and the advance vaccine purchase agreements
  Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business, Volume 44 (Wolters Kluwer, 2023)

• Aubrecht Paul, Essink Jan, Kovac Mitja and Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
  Centralised and Decentralised Responses to COVID-19: The EU and the USA compared
  18 Utrecht Law Review 1 (2022)

• Kovac Mitja, Wielinger Elisabeth
  Network Externalities, Income Inequality and the Role of Competition Law
  Kati Cseres and Jan Broulik (eds.), “Competition Law and Economic Inequality" (Hart Studies in Competition Law, Hart, forthcoming 2022).

• Kovac Mitja, Rakovec Lana
  The Covid-19 pandemic and long-term incentives for developing vaccines: patent law under stress
  The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2022)

• Kovac Mitja, Aubrecht Paul
  Frustration of Purpose, Brexit, COVID-19 Pandemic and Commercial Contracts
  Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 19(1), 2022

• Kovac Mitja
  Autonomous AI and uncontemplated hazards: towards an optimal regulatory framework
  European Journal of Risk Regulation (2021)

• Kovac Mitja
  Judgement Proof Robots and Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Law and Economics Approach
  Palgrave Macmillan (book, 2020)

• Kovac Mitja
  Autonomous AI, Smart Seaports and Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Risks
  in Bielicki D. M. (ed.), "Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Industry," Routledge Press 2021

• Kovac Mitja, Salvini Datta & Rok Spruk
  Pharmaceutical Product Liability, Litigation Regimes and the Propensity to Patent: An Empirical Firm-level Investigation
  SAGE Open (11(2), 2021)

• Kovac Mitja, Spruk Rok
  Diversification of Procedural and Administrative Costs and Innovation: Some Firm-Level Evidence
  International Journal of Innovation Studies (5(2), 2021)

• Kovac Mitja
  Day Fines in Slovenia
  Day Fines in Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2021

• Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe and Mitja Kovac
  Illuminating the Development of Precontractual Liability: A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis
  20 European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 1, 2021

• Kovac Mitja, Elkanawati Amira, Gjikolli Vita and Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
  The COVID-19 pandemic: collective action and European public policy under stress
  14 Central European Journal of Public Policy 2 (2020)

• Spruk Rok, Kovac Mitja
  Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Long-Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina
  17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 4, 2020.

• Kovac Mitja
  Duty to re-negotiate in international commercial law and uncontemplated behavioural effects
  27 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 4, 2020.

• Kovac Mitja, Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
  Culpa in contrahendo and pre-contractual liability: towards an optimal classification
  15 The Journal of Comparative Law 1 (2020)

• Spruk Rok & Mitja Kovac
  Does a ban on trans fats improve public health: synthetic control evidence from Denmark
  156 Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 4, 2020

• Kovac Mitja
  Brexit fiasco and the failure of Article 50 of TFEU
  12 Baltic Journal of Law and Politics 2 (2019)

• Paul Aubrecht, Mitja Kovac
  “Brexit” and the boilerplate clauses in commercial contracts
  40 Business Law Review 6 (2019)

• Spruk Rok, Kovac Mitja
  Replicating and Extending Martin-Quinn Scores
  60 International Review of Law and Economics 3, 2019

• Mitja Kovač, Rok Spruk
  Does the Ban on Trans-Fats Improve Public Health? In Search of the Optimal Policy Response.
  55 Journal of Regulatory Economics 3 (2019)

• Kovac Mitja, Spruk Rok
  Transaction Costs and Economic Growth under Common Legal System: State-Level Evidence from Mexico
  31 Economics & Politics 2 (2019, Wiley)