Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

[4] His successor, Eugen Ulmer (1903–1988), put a stamp on the research work for decades; he notably promoted the expansion of the national and international copyright and competition law.

The MIPLC conducts both research as well as teaching and, since autumn 2003, offers an internationally networked LLM degree, under the direction of Joseph Straus (until 2008) and Josef Drexl (as of 2009) and staffed by world-renowned academics.

In 2009, Kai A. Konrad was appointed to the directorate of the institute, and the Department of Public Economics was added to the formed unit "Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law".

The department analyzes the limits and scope of government, with a special focus on levying taxes to finance its core tasks in a modern nation state.

[6] At the same time these Institutes, along with the MPI for Foreign and International Social Law, joined to form the Munich Max Planck Campus for Legal and Economic Research.