In recent months, we have hosted specialists in various fields of law who, with their vast experience and expert knowledge, introduced students to current issues such as criminal law on social media and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
During the 2025/2026 academic year, we continued our series of meetings with international researchers. We were pleased to host scholars from Hungary, the United States, and Ukraine, among other countries, who spoke about their research and international collaboration.
Below you will find information about upcoming meetings:
Torsten Müller is a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in the field of collective bargaining, wages and trade unions in Europe. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick in the UK. Before joining the ETUI in September 2012, he did cross-national comparative research at the University of Applied Sciences at Fulda / Germany and the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. He also worked as a research manager at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin / Ireland. He has, furthermore, been expert advisor to European and international organisations such as the OECD, the ILO, Eurofound, the ETUC and various European trade union federations. He is author and co-author of some 100 publications on collective bargaining, minimum wages and trade unions in Europe.
The lecture titled “The development of collective bargaining in Europe” will be delivered on October 21st, 2026, at 6 p.m. in room no. 1.4
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schulten is the Scientific Head of the Collective Agreement Archive of the Institute for Economic and Social Research (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut, WSI) of the Hans Böckler Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany. The Hans Böckler Foundation is the foundation of the German Trade Union Movement. The Collective Bargaining Archive is the central institution for monitoring and research on collective bargaining in Germany.
Thorsten Schulten also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Tübingen where he regularly teaches at the Institute for Political Science. He has published widely on International and European Political Economy and Comparative Industrial Relations, in particular on collective bargaining and minimum wages. A current focus of his research is the adaption and implementation of the European Minimum Wage Directive. Most recently, he published a primarily comparative analysis on the National Action Plans for the Promotion of Collective Bragaining together with Torsten Müller from the ETUI.
The lecture titled “The development of collective bargaining in Europe” will be delivered on October 21sr, 2026, at 6 p.m. in room no. 1.4