Stefan Bechtold is Professor of Intellectual Property and Associate Vice President IP Policy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include intellectual property, internet, privacy, telecommunications, and antitrust law, law & technology, as well as law & economics. He was a Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law (2014 & 2022) and the University of Haifa, a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and spent research visits in Amsterdam, Berkeley, Chicago, Munich, Singapore, and Stanford (2025).Stefan Bechtold is a member of the foundation board of the Study Center Gerzensee (a foundation of the Swiss National Bank), where he is involved in the organization of law & economics courses for doctoral students. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the ETH AI Center, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, advising the ministry on all issues of economic policy, a board member of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, and an Advisor to the Copyright Project of the American Law Institute. From 2018 to 2021, he was Head of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich.Stefan Bechtold has published in journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Journal of Law, Economics & Organization; Southern California Law Review; Harvard Journal of Law & Technology; Marketing Science; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Communications of the ACM; Indiana Law Journal; HotNets Proceedings; and various European law journals. He is a graduate of the University of Tübingen School of Law, Germany, and of Stanford Law School (JSM 2002). In his youth, Stefan Bechtold composed numerous orchestral and chamber music works which have been awarded several composition prizes and have been repeatedly performed and broadcast.