Bibliography

Ralf Michaels

Forthcoming

Entries 'Acquisition from a non-owner,' 'Comparative Law,' 'Legal Culture,' 'Ownership,' 'Restatements,' in Handbook of European Private Law (Jürgen Basedow, Klaus Hopt & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Entries 'Eigentum', 'Gutgläubiger Erwerb', 'Rechtsvergleichung', 'Rechtskultur', in Handworterbüch des Europäischen Privatrechts (Jürgen Basedow, Klaus Hopt & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Mohr/Siebeck, forthcoming)
International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach, 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings (forthcoming 2009) (with Karen Knop & Annelise Rice)

Books

Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law (editor with Nils Jansen, Mohr/Siebeck 2008)
Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World (editor with Eckart Gottschalk, Giesela Rühl, & Jan von Hein, Cambridge University Press, 2007) (A tribute to Arthur von Mehren)
Sachzuordnung durch Kaufvertrag. Konsensprinzip, Traditionsprinzip, ius ad rem in Geschichte, Theorie und geltendem Recht. [Assigning Ownership through Contracts of Sales. Consent, Delivery, ius ad rem in History, Theory, and Current Law] (Duncker & Humblot, 2002).

Issues Edited

Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law, 56 American Journal of Comparative Law (Summer 2008) (Special Editor with Nils Jansen)
Transdisciplinary Conflicts, 71 Law & Contemporary Problems (Summer 2008) (Special Editor with Karen Knop & Annelise Riles)

Articles and Essays

Global Legal Pluralism, 5 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 1-35 (2009)
Preamble I: Purposes, legal nature, and scope of the PICC; Applicability by courts; Use of the PICC for the purpose of interpretation and supplementation and as a model, in Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 21-80 (Stefan Vogenauer & Jan Kleinheisterkamp eds., 2009)
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Rüdiger Wolfrum ed., 2009)
The Second Wave of Comparative Law and Economics?, 59 University of Toronto Law Journal 197-213 (2009) (Focus: Economics and Comparative Law)
Umdenken für die UNIDROIT - Prinzipien: Vom Rechtswahlstatut zum Allgemeinen Teil des transnationalen Vertragsrechts [Rethinking the UNIDROIT Principles: From a Law to be Chosen by the Parties Towards a General Part of Transnational Contract Law], 73 Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 866-888 (2009)
Book Review, 72 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 397-403 (2008) (reviewing Denationalisierung des Privatrechts? Symposium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Karl Kreuzer (Eva-Maria Kieninger ed., Mohr Siebeck 2005)
Conference Report, The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States? (Duke University School of Law Conference, February 9, 2008) (with Catherine H. Gibson)
Die europäische IPR-Revolution: Regulierung, Europäisierung, Mediatisierun [The European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Regulation, Europeanization, Mediatization], in Die richtige Ordnung: Festschrift für Jan Kropholler 151-173 (Dietmar Baetge, Jan von Hein & Michael von Hinden eds., Mohr 2008)
Economics of Law as Choice of Law, 71 Law & Contemporary Problems 73-104 (Summer 2008)
Foreword: Transdisciplinary Conflicts, 71 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-17 (Summer 2008) (with Karen Knop & Anelise Riles)
Introduction, in Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law 1-12 (Ralf Michaels & Nils Jansen eds., Mohr Siebeck 2008) (with Nils Jansen)
Introduction: Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law, 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 527-539 (2008) (with Nils Jansen)
Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions and Historical Observations, in Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law 15-67 (Ralf Michaels & Nils Jansen eds., Mohr Siebeck 2008) (with Nils Jansen)
Private Law Beyond the State?: Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization, in Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law 69-118 (Ralf Michaels & Nils Jansen eds., Mohr Siebeck 2008) (with Nils Jansen)
Public and Private International Law : German Views on Global Issues, 4 Journal of Private International Law 121-138 (April 2008) (review essay on Völkerrecht und IPR (S. Leible & M. Ruffert eds., Jena, Jenaer Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006))
The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution, 82 Tulane Law Review 1607-1644 (2008)
Book Review, 15 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 95-952 (2007) (reviewing, The Need for a European Contract Law: Empirical and Legal Perspectives (Jan Smits ed., 2005))
Comments on the European Commission's Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I), 71/2 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 225-344 (2007) (co-author, Working Group on Rome I, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law)
Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny's Private International Law and the Challenge from Europeanization and Globalization, in Aktuelle Fragen zu politischer und rechtlicher Steuerung im Kontext der Globalisierung 119-144 (Michael Stolleis & Wolfgang Streeck eds., Nomos, 2007)
Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions, Historic Observations, and Basic Problems, 71/2 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 345-397 (2007) (with Nils Jansen)
Retour aux sources ? Droit et politiques des sources du droit contemporain aux Etats-Unis [Back to the Sources? Law and Politics of Sources of Contemporary American Law], in Les sources du droit: aspects contemporains 97-112 (Société de législation comparée & Cedroma eds., 2007)
Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions, in Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World 29-62 (Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Ruhl & Jan von Hein eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Systemfragen des Schuldrechts [Systemic Issues in the Law of Obligations], in II Historisch-Kritischer Kommentar zum BGB [Historical-Critical Commentary on the German Civil Code] 1-97 (Mathias Schmoeckel, Joachim Rückert & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Mohr, 2007)
The True Lex Mercatoria. Private Law Beyond the State, 14 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 447-468 (2007)
American Law (United States), in Encyclopedia of Comparative Law 66-77 (Jan Smits ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2006)
Arthur Taylor von Mehren, 10. August 1922 - 17. January 2006, 70 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 233-234 (2006) (with Giesela Rühl)
Code vs. Code. Images of Code in the French Resistance to European Codification, in Double Maitrise Association, Paris, Cambridge University, First Spring Convention 26-28 (2006)
EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory, 2 Journal of Private International Law 195-242 (2006)
EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory, ZERP Discussion Paper 5/2006
Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization, 54 American Journal of Comparative Law 845-892 (2006) (with Nils Jansen)
The Functional Method of Comparative Law, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 339-382 (Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., 2006) (Arabic translation forthcoming) (Russian translation, forthcoming in ["Herald of Civil Law")
Two Economists, Three Opinions? Economic Models for Private International Law – Cross Border Torts as Example, in An Economic Analysis of Private International Law 143-184 (Jürgen Basedow & Toshiyuki Kono eds., Mohr Siebeck 2006)
Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction, 27 Michigan Journal of International Law 1003-1069 (2006)
U.S. Courts as World Courts, in For Bob Mundheim 36-41 (American Academy in Berlin ed., 2006)
US-Gerichte als Weltgerichte - Die Avantgarde der Globalisierung [U.S. Courts as World Courts: The Avant-Garde of Globalization], DAJV Newsletter, June 2006, at 46-54.
Book Review, European Law Books: Recent Reviews (November 29, 2005) (reviewing Mistake, Fraud and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law (Ruth Sefton-Green ed., 2005))
Profile: Arthur Taylor von Mehren, 7 International law FORUM du droit international 213-218 (2005)
Re-Placements. Jurisdiction for Contracts and Torts Under the Brussels I Regulation when Arts. 5(1) and 5(3) Do Not Designate a Place in a Member State, in International Civil Litigation in Europe and Relations With Third States 129-156 (Arnaud Nuyts & Nadine Watté eds., 2005)
The Re-State-ment of Non-State Law: The State, Choice of Law, and the Challenge from Global Legal Pluralism, 51 Wayne Law Review 1209-1259 (2005) (published 2006)
Welche Globalisierung für das Recht? Welches Recht für die Globalisierung? [Which Globalization for the Law? Which Law for Globalization?], 69 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 525-544 (2005) (review essay)
Book Review, 12 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 874 (2004) (reviewing Towards a European Ius Commune in Legal Education and Research (Michael Faure, Jan Smits & Hildegard Schneider eds., (Ius Commune Europaeum 40) 2002)).
Fünf Minuten Rechtsvergleichung [Five Minutes of Comparative Law], 4 Rechtsgeschichte 239-242 (2004).
Territorial Jurisdiction after Territoriality, in Globalisation and Jurisdiction 105-130 (Slot & Bulterman eds., 2004).
US-Gerichte als Weltkartellgerichte? [US courts as World Antitrust Courts?], 24 Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 451-457 (2004) (with Daniel Zimmer)
Die Auslegung und Fortbildung ausländischen Rechts [Judicial Interpretation and Development of Foreign Law], 116 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess 3-56 (2003) (with Nils Jansen).
Book Review, 4 German Law Journal 411-417 (Issue 4, 2003) (reviewing Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, (Annelise Riles ed., 2001)).
Conference Report, 11th Tagung der International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (IACCL) in Hamburg, 67 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 353 (2003) (with Giesela Rühl).
Conference Report: Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law in the Light of European Integration, Brüssel, 26-28 October 2002, 11 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 453-455 (2003).
Hamburg Group for Private International Law, Comments on the European Commission's Draft Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, 67 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 1-56 (2003) (with others).
Same-Sex Marriage: Canada, Europe and the United States (ASIL Insights June 2003).
Gerichtsverfassung und Verfahrensstrukturen in föderalen Gemeinwesen – Diskussionsbericht [Courts and Proceedings in Federal Systems – Discussion Report], 66 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 357-364 (2002).
Im Westen nichts neues? Zum Stand der Rechtsvergleichung 100 Jahre nach dem Pariser Kongress – Gedanken anlässlich einer Jubiläumskonferenz in New Orleans [Nothing new in the West? On the State of Comparative Law 100 Years after the Paris Congress – Reflections on the Occasion of a Centennial Conference in New Orleans], 66 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 97 (2002).
Kannitverstaan in Zürich, 10 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 428 (2002).
Reviewing Basil S. Markesinis, Always on the Same Path. Essays on Foreign Law and Comparative Methodology, Volume II (2001),10 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (2002).
Reviewing Klaus Adomeit & Guillermo Frühbeck, Einführung in das spanische Recht: Das Verfassungs-, Zivil-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsrecht des Königreichs Spanien (2d ed. 1999),18 informaciones 103 (2002).
Reviewing Sylvia Sella-Geusen, Doppelverkauf – Zur Rechtsstellung des ersten Käufers im gelehrten Recht des Mittelalters (1999), 10 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 423 (2002).
Three Paradigms of Legal Unification – National, International, Transnational, 96 ASIL Proceedings 333-36 (2002).
Globale Wirtschaft und lokale Gesetzgebung – Zu einem neuen Urteil des US Supreme Court [Global Economy, Local Legislation – On a New Judgment by the US Supreme Court (Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council)], 100 Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 182 (2001).
Grundlagen eines allgemeinen gemeinschaftlichen Richtlinienkollisionsrechts – „Amerikanisierung" des Gemeinschafts-IPR? [Foundations of EC conflict of laws regarding community directives – „Americanisation" of EC conflict of laws?], 12 Europäisches Wirtschafts- und Steuerrecht 301 (2001) (with Hans-Georg Kamann).
Reviewing Peter A. Reichart, Der Renvoi im schweizerischen IPR (1996) and Hans Kuhn, Der Renvoi im internationalen Erbrecht der Schweiz (1998), 65 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 320 (2001).
Reviewing Tony Weir, Economic Torts (Clarendon Lectures,1997), 65 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 351 (2001).
Reviewing Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume I-1999 (Petar Šarèeviæ & Paul Volken eds., 1999), 48 Netherlands International Law Review 108 (2001).
Reviewing The Law of Obligations – Essays in Celebration of John Fleming (Peter Cane &Jane Stapleton eds., 1998), 9 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 425 (2001).
Standortwettbewerb als Rechtsfigur – die Entscheidung des OVG Hamburg zum Airbus A 380 im Lichte der Globalisierungsdebatte [Institutional Competition as a Legal Concept – the Decision of the Hamburg Appeals Court in Administrative Matters on the Airbus A 380 in the Light of Globalization Debate] 34 Kritische Justiz 351 (2001).
Echo, 1998 Juristische Schulung 192, 2000 Juristische Schulung 936.
Pragmatismus und Realismus für die Haager Verhandlungen zu einem weltweiten Gerichtsstands- und Vollstreckungsübereinkommen [Pragmatism and Realism for the Hague Negotiations on a Worldwide Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments], 25 DAJV-newsletter 124 (2000) (with Arthur T. von Mehren).
Reviewing Cordula Thoms, Einzelstatut bricht Gesamtstatut. Zur Auslegung der „besonderen Vorschriften" in Art. 3 Abs. 3 EGBGB (Studien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht 51) (1996), 64 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 177 (2000).
Anerkennung internationaler Schiedssprüche und ordre public – Anm zu OGH 23.2.1998 – 3 Ob 115/95, ZfRV 1999, 24 [Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards and ordre public], 40 Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung 5 (1999).
My Own Private Switzerland, 7 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 197 (1999).
Privatautonomie und Privatkodifikation – Zu Anwendbarkeit und Geltung allgemeiner Vertragsrechtsprinzipien [Party Autonomy and Private Codifications – On Applicability and Validity of Common Principles of Contract Law], 62 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 580 (1998).
Reviewing Heinrich Nagel & Peter Gottwald, Internationales Zivilprozeßrecht (4th ed.1997), 6 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 1050 (1998).
Sharp Distinctions and Floating Transitions – a German View of Sharp v. Thompson (House of Lords), 1997 SLT 636 4 European Review of Private Law 407 (1998).
Vorzeitiger Erbausgleich und internationales Privatrecht [The Conflict of Laws of the Illegitimate Child's Succession Rights], 18 Praxis des internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts 192-196 (1998).
Der Abbruch der Weiterverweisung im deutschen internationalen Privatrecht [Breaking the Circle of Second Degree Renvoi in German Conflict of Laws], 61 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 685 (1997).
Europäisches Verbraucherschutzrecht und IPR [European Consumer Law and Conflict of Laws] (with Hans-Georg Kamann), 52 Juristenzeitung 601 (1997).
Schiffsgläubigerrecht und Auslandsveräußerung – Anmerkung zu BGH, TranspR 1997, 156 [Security Rights in Ships Sold Abroad], 20 Transportrecht 330 (1997).

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

George W. Schröder (Op-ed), Der Tagesspiegel, September 22, 2005