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Ralf Michaels

Academic Positions

  • Duke University School of Law
    Professor of Law (since July 2007)
    Associate Professor (Fall 2002-July 2007 )
    Visiting Professor (Spring 2002)
  • Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law,
    Hamburg, Germany
    Visiting Fellow (Spring 2006)
    Senior Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Referent) (2001-2002)
    Research Fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) (1997-1999)
  • American Academy in Berlin
    Lloyd Cutler Fellow (Fall 2005)
    Lloyd Cutler Berlin Prize
  • German National Academic Foundation(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
    Lecturer, Summer University 2005, Salem, Germany
  • Harvard Law School
    Joseph Story Fellow (Nov 1999-Oct 2000)
  • University of Passau, Germany
    Senior Research Assistant, Chair for Private Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law (1994-1995, 1996-1997)

Education

  • University of Passau, Germany
    Dr. iur. (SJD), 2000, summa cum laude
    First state examination in law (JD), 1994, magna cum laude (12.83 points, “gut“)
    Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation, 1992-1997
  • Oberlandesgericht (Court of Appeals), Hamburg, Germany
    Second state examination in law, 2000, magna cum laude (12.54 points, “gut”)
  • Cambridge University, U.K. (King’s College)
    LL.M., 1995, summa cum laude (“First”, highest grade)
    CJ Hamson Prize in Comparative Law, Cambridge University
    Hurst Prize for Law, King’s College

Subjects Taught

  • Comparative Law – The Western Legal Traditions
  • Conflict of Laws
  • Globalization of Jurisdiction
  • Law and Globalization
  • Current Issues in International and Comparative Law (method/theory seminar)
  • European Integration and Conflict of Laws

Membership on Editorial Boards

  • American Journal of Comparative Law (non-executive)
  • German Law Journal
  • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (Advisory Board)

Peer Reviewer

  • Journal of Private International Law
  • Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Membership in Professional Associations

  • American Branch of the International Law Association
  • American Society of Comparative Law
  • American Society of International Law
  • American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
  • German National Committee of Comparative Law
  • German Society for International Law
  • [German] Academic Association for International Procedural Law
  • Selden Society
  • Societé de Législation Comparée (French Society of Comparative Law)

Services

Duke University School of Law:

  • Director, Center for International and Comparative Law (since 2007)
  • International and Comparative Legal Studies Committee (since 2002, chair 2003-4)
  • Advisor to the Journal of Comparative and International Law (since 2006)
  • Entry-Level Appointments Committee (since 2007)
  • Co-Director, JD/LLM Program in International and Comparative Law (2003-07)
  • Curriculum Committee (2006-7)
  • Administrative Committee (2004-5)
  • Workshop Committee (2002-4)
  • Dean's Award for Faculty Collaboration (2004)

Duke University:

  • Duke University Center for International Studies, Advisory Committee (since 2007)
  • Academic Council (2003-5)
  • Faculty Hearing Committee (2003-4)

American Association of Law Schools:

  • Section on Comparative Law (Executive Committee 2006, chair-elect 2007)

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish, Latin

Publications and Presentations

  • Author of a book, co-editor of a book and a journal special issue (both forthcoming); author of articles and book reviews in various American and European publications (see separate list)
  • Duke Law Faculty Scholarship Award (2007)
  • Invited Academic Presentations, in English, German, and French, held in Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, and United States (see separate list)

Publications and Selected Presentations
(as of August 2007)

Books, Monographs and Edited Volumes

  • THE RETURN OF THE PRIVATE. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW MEETS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE (special editor with Karen Knop and Annelise Riles), LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS (forthcoming 2008)
  • CONFLICT OF LAWS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD. A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR VON MEHREN (ed. with Eckart Gottschalk, Giesela Rühl, Jan von Hein), Cambridge University Press, 2007
  • EU LAW AS PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW? RE-CONCEPTUALISING THE COUNTRY-OF-ORIGIN PRINCIPLE AS VESTED RIGHTS THEORY, ZERP Discussion Paper 5/2006, 51 pp.
  • 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], Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002, 474 pp.
    • Reviews: Roland Dubischar, 11 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 229-233 (2003); Wolfgang Ernst, 72 THE LEGAL HISTORY REVIEW (TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR RECHTS-GESCHIEDENIS) 145-151 (2004); Christian Neschwara, 45 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR RECHTS-VERGLEICHUNG 37 (2004); Astrid Stadler, RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT (forthcoming); Hans Wieling, 120 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR RECHTSGESCHICHTE (GERMANISTISCHE ABTEILUNG) 480-491 (2003)

Book Contributions

  • Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (forthcoming)
  • Preamble (Purpose of the Principles), in: Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (Jan Kleinheisterkamp & Stefan Vogenauer eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)
  • 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) (Reinhard Zimmermann ed., Tübingen: Mohr, forthcoming 2007)
  • 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 (Société de législation comparée & Cedroma eds., forthcoming 2007)
  • Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions, in CONFLICT OF LAWS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD. A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR VON MEHREN, (Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl, Jan von Hein eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  • Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny’s Private International Law and the Challenge from Europeanization and Globalization, in DEZENTRALISIERUNG. AKTUELLE FRAGEN POLITISCHER UND RECHTLICHER STEUERUNG IM KONTEXT DER GLOBALISIERUNG 119-144 (Michael Stolleis & Wolfgang Streeck eds, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007)
  • The Functional Method of Comparative Law, in: THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW 339-382 (Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • 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 & Giesela Rühl eds. Tübingen: Mohr, 2006)
    • Review: Red., 27 PRAXIS DES INTERNATIONALEN PRIVAT-UND VERFAHRENSRECHTS (IPRAX) 282 (2007)
  • American Law (United States), in: ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW 66-77 (Jan Smits ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)
    • Reviews: Larry Catá Becker, 1 THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 243-262 (2006); Stuart Hannabuss, 21/1 REFERENCE REVIEWS 16-17 (2007); Tsun Hang Tey, ASIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW Vol. 2 Issue 1 Article 9 (2007)
  • 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., Brussels: Bruylant, 2005)
    • Review: Horatia Muir Watt, 94 REVUE CRITIQUE DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL PRIVÉ 865-869 (2005)
  • Territorial Jurisdiction after Territoriality, in: GLOBALISATION AND JURISDICTION 105-130 (Piet-Jan Slot & Mielle Bulterman eds., Kluwer Law International, 2004)
    • Review: Peter Roudik, 33 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL INFORMATION 147-151 (2005)

Journal Articles and Essays

  • Global Legal Pluralism, 4 ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (forthcoming 2008)
  • Economics of Law as Choice of Law? Replication, Repetition, Renewal, LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS (forthcoming 2008)
  • The True Lex Mercatoria, INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL STUDIES (forthcoming 2007)
  • Private Law and the State. Comparative Perceptions, Historical Observations, and Basic Problems (with Nils Jansen), 71 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 345-397 (2007)
  • Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, 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) (co-author), 71 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 224 (2007)
  • Private Law Beyond the State. Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization (with Nils Jansen), 54 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 845-892 (2006)
  • Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction, 27 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1003-1069 (2006)
  • EU Law as Private International Law? Reconceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory, 2 JOURNAL OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 195-242 (2006)
  • US-Gerichte als Weltgerichte: Die Avantgarde der Globalisierung [US Courts as World Courts: The Avant-garde of Globalization], 31 DAJV-NEWSLETTER 46-54 (2006)
  • 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)
  • Profile: Arthur Taylor von Mehren, 7 INTERNATIONAL LAW FORUM DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL 213-218 (2005)
  • Welche Globalisierung für das Recht? Welches Recht für die Globalisierung? [Which Globalization for the Law? Which Law for Globalization?] (review essay), 69 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT, 525-544 (2005)
  • US-Gerichte als Weltkartellgerichte? [US Courts as World Antitrust Courts?] (with Daniel Zimmer), 24 PRAXIS DES INTERNATIONALEN PRIVAT- UND VERFAHRENSRECHTS 451-457 (2004)
  • Fünf Minuten Rechtsvergleichung [Five Minutes of Comparative Law], 4 RECHTSGESCHICHTE 239-242 (2004)
  • Die Auslegung und Fortbildung ausländischen Rechts [Interpreting and Developing Foreign Law] (with Nils Jansen), 116 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ZIVILPROZESS 3-56 (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 (co-author), 67 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTER-NATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 1-56 (2003)
  • Three Paradigms of Legal Unification: National, International, Transnational, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 96TH MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 333-336 (2002)
  • 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 97-115 (2002)
  • Grundlagen eines allgemeinen gemeinschaftlichen Richtlinienkollisionsrechts – „Amerikanisierung“ des Gemeinschafts-IPR? [Foundations of EC conflict of laws regarding community directives – „Americanisation“ of EC conflict of laws?] (with Hans-Georg Kamann), 12 EUROPÄISCHES WIRTSCHAFTS- UND STEUERRECHT 301-311 (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 458-465 (2001)
  • 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 182-195 (2001)
  • 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] (with Arthur T. von Mehren), 25 DAJV-NEWSLETTER 124-128 (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 5-9 (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 580-626 (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 illegitimate child’s succession rights in the conflict of laws], 18 PRAXIS DES INTERNATIONALEN PRIVAT- UND VERFAHRENSRECHTS 192 (1998)
  • Schiffsgläubigerrecht und Auslandsveräußerung – Anmerkung zu BGH, TranspR 1997, 156 [Security Rights in Ships Sold Abroad], 20 TRANSPORTRECHT 330 (1997)
  • 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 685-713 (1997)
  • Europäisches Verbraucherschutzrecht und IPR [European Consumer Law and Choice of Law] (with Hans-Georg Kamann), 52 JURISTENZEITUNG 601-610 (1997)

Untitled Book Reviews, Case Notes and Conference Reports

  • Book Review: Denationalisierung des Privatrechts? Symposium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Karl Kreuzer (Eva-Maria Kieninger ed., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2005), RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT (forthcoming)
  • Book Review: Jan Smits (ed.), The Need for a European Contract Law: Empirical and Legal Perspectives, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT (forthcoming)
  • Book Review: Mistake, Fraud, and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law (Ruth Sefton-Green ed., 2005), http://www.europeanlawbooks.org/reviews/detail.asp?id=81 (2005)
  • Case Note: F. Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A, http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/commentary/fhovemp.html
  • Book Review: Towards a European Ius Commune in Legal Education and Research (Michael Faure et al. eds., 2002), 12 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 874 (2004)
  • Conference Report: Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law in the Light of European Integration, Brüssel, 26. bis 28. Oktober 2002, 11 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 453 (2003)
  • Conference Report: 11. Tagung der International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (with Giesela Rühl), 67 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 353 (2003)
  • Book Review: Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law (Annelise Riles ed., Hart 2001), 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 411 (2003)
  • Book Review: Basil S. Markesinis, Always on the Same Path. Essays on Foreign Law and Comparative Methodology, Volume II, 10 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 903 (2002)
  • Book Review: Klaus Adomeit & Guillermo Frühbeck, Einführung in das spanische Recht: Das Verfassungs-, Zivil-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsrecht des Königreichs Spanien (Munich: Beck, 2nd ed. 1999, 18 INFORMACIONES 103 (2002)
  • Book Review: Sylvia Sella-Geusen, Doppelverkauf – Zur Rechtsstellung des ersten Käufers im gelehrten Recht des Mittelalters, Berlin 1999, 10 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 423 (2002)
  • Book Review: Peter A. Reichart, Der Renvoi im schweizerischen IPR, Zürich 1996; Hans Kuhn, Der Renvoi im internationalen Erbrecht der Schweiz, Zürich 1998, 65 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 320 (2001)
  • Book Review: Tony Weir, Economic Torts (Clarendon Lectures), Oxford 1997, 65 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 351 (2001)
  • Book Review: Petar Šarčević & Paul Volken (eds.), Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume I-1999, The Hague-London-Boston 1999, 48 NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 108-112 (2001)
  • Book Review: Peter Cane & Jane Stapleton (eds.), The Law of Obligations – Essays in Celebration of John Fleming, Oxford 1998, 9 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 425 (2001)
  • Book Review: Cordula Thoms, Einzelstatut bricht Gesamtstatut. Zur Auslegung der „besonderen Vorschriften“ in Art. 3 Abs. 3 EGBGB (Studien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht 51), Tübingen 1996, 64 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 177 (2000)
  • Book Review: Heinrich Nagel & Peter Gottwald, Internationales Zivilprozeßrecht, 4th ed., Münster 1997, 6 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 1050 (1998)

Miscellaneous

  • The Attorney General Looks Abroad (Op-Ed), THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, August 31, 2006
  • Zu guter Letzt: Die Festschriften der Gesellschaft, 14 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 960-962 (2006)
  • Code vs. Code. Images of Code in the French Resistance to European Codification, in DOUBLE MAITRISE ASSOCIATION PARIS II / CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, FIRST SPRING CONVENTION 26-28 (2006)
  • US Courts as World Courts, in FOR BOB MUNDHEIM 36-41 (American Academy in Berlin ed., 2006)
  • [In memoriam] Arthur Taylor von Mehren, 10. August 1922 – 17. Januar 2006 (with Giesela Rühl), 70 RABELS ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES UND INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT 233-234 (2006)
  • George W. Schröder (Op-ed), DER TAGESSPIEGEL, September 22, 2005
  • Justice, thwarted by secrecy (Op-Ed), THE NEWS & OBSERVER, April 6, 2004
  • U.S. provides visitors not-so-warm welcome (Op-Ed), ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, February 16, 2004
  • Same Sex Marriage: Canada, Europe, and the United States, ASIL INSIGHTS, JUNE 2003
  • Zu guter Letzt: Kannitverstaan in Zürich, 10 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 428 (2002)
  • Echo (Der praktische Fall – Internationales Privatrecht: Eine Düngemittelanlage für China), 40 JURISTISCHE SCHULUNG 936 (2000)
  • Welches europäische Vertragsrecht braucht die Wirtschaft?, in EUROPA ALS UNION DES RECHTS – EINE NOTWENDIGE ZWISCHENBILANZ IM PROZEß DER VERTIEFUNG UND ERWEITERUNG 158-159 (Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung ed., 1999)
  • Zu guter Letzt: My Own Private Switzerland, 7 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR EUROPÄISCHES PRIVATRECHT 197 (1999)
  • Echo (Der praktische Fall – Internationales Privatrecht: Eine unsichere Sicherheit), 38 JURISTISCHE SCHULUNG 192 (1998)

Working Papers and Work in Progress

  • A GENERAL APPROACH TO JURISDICTION FOR THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (book project)
  • US Courts as World Courts – The Avant-garde of Globalization
  • Economics of Law as Choice of Law, to be published in THE RETURN OF THE PRIVATE, supra.
  • The Reluctant World Court. Three Readings of the Supreme Court Decision in Empagran
  • Code versus Code. The French Resistance to a European Civil Code and to the World Bank’s Doing Business Reports
  • The Return of Vested Rights
  • Private or International? Two Economic Models for Private International Law of Torts, http://ssrn.com/abstract=788804

Amicus Curiae Brief

Selected Presentations

  • Evolution and Differentiation of Legal Systems - Towards a Constructal Theory of Law?, Workshop: Constructal Theory and Social Dynamics, Duke University Dept. of Engineering, April 23, 2007
  • Functionalist Comparative Law – Bottom Up or Top Down? Conference: The "Bottom-Up-Approach" to Comparative Law. Leuven, December 21, 2006
  • The True New Lex Mercatoria. Conference contribution: Governing Contracts – Public and Private Perspective, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, November 10, 2006
  • The Reluctant World Court. Three Readings of the Supreme Court Decision in Empagran. Conference contribution: International Law after the Three Worlds. American University, September 15, 2006
  • The Applicability of the UNIDROIT Principles. Workshop contribution, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Oxford University, July 7, 2006
  • Old Functionalism, New Functionalism and the Common Core of European Private Law. Keynote speech, 11th Annual Meeting of the Common Core of European Private Law Project, Trento, June 30, 2006
  • EU Law as Conflict of Laws – The Return of Vested Rights?, Invited Lecture: Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen, May 19, 2006
  • La mixité du droit américain. Développements actuels en théorie et pratique des sources du droit (The Mixed Character of American Law. Current Developments in theory and practice of Sources of Law). Conference contribution: Les sources du droit: aspects contemporains, Université St. Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon, May 11, 2006
  • Europarecht und Vested Rights Theory (EU Law as Conflict of Laws – The Return of Vested Rights?), Invited Lecture: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg, May 7, 2006
  • What Concept of Law is Required for Comparative Arguments in Judicial Decisions?, Workshop presentation, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg, May 7, 2006
  • Economics of Law as Choice of Law: Repetition and Replication, Conference contribution: “Rethinking the Private in Private International Law”, Cornell University, April 8, 2006
  • The Return of Vested Rights, Conference contribution: “Rethinking the Private in Private International Law”, Cornell University, April 7, 2006
  • Code versus Code: Images of Code in the French Resistance to European Codification of Contract Law, conference contribution, Université Paris II, March 22, 2006
  • US-Gerichte als Weltgerichte – die Avantgarde der Globalisierung (US Courts as World Courts: The Avant-Garde of Globalization), Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture, Dresden, Dec 2, 2005
  • US Courts as World Courts: The Avant-Garde of Globalization, Lloyd Cutler Lecture, American Academy in Berlin, Nov 15, 2005
  • Die Globalisierung des US-Kartellrechts (The Globalization of US Antitrust Law), invited presentation, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Berlin, Germany, Oct 5, 2005
  • Private Law Beyond the State (with Nils Jansen), Summer University, German Scholarship Foundation, Salem, Germany, Aug 24, 2005
  • EU Law as Conflict of Laws – The Return of Vested Rights?, Keynote Speech at International Conference to launch the Journal of Private International Law, Aberdeen, UK, Mar 29, 2005
  • Economic Analysis of Choice of Law in Torts, Conference Presentation, „An economic analysis of private international law“, Naoshima, Japan, Mar 15, 2005
  • Cosmopolitan Choice of Law, 19th Century Style, Conference Presentation, Joint Meeting of the Private International Law and the Law and Anthropology Interest Groups, American Association of Law Schools, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Jan 6, 2005
  • The Latest Conflict of Laws Revolution? A Primer in EU Conflict of Laws, Guest Lecture, Cornell Law School, Nov 19, 2004
  • Comparative Law and Human Rights – The Transatlantic Dimension: The Death Penalty, Panel Contribution, Annual Meeting, American Society of Comparative Law, Annual Meeting, Michigan University School of Law, Oct 22, 2004
  • Code vs. Code. European Civil Code, French Cultural Resistance, and the Pluralism of European Private Law, Lecture, European Legal Research Center, Harvard Law School, European Private Law Speaker Series, Sep 24, 2004
  • La délocalisation de compétence judiciaire pour contrats et délits (De-Placing Jurisdiction for Contracts and Torts), Conference Presentation, Symposium, “Transnational Civil Litigation in the European Judicial Area and in Relations with Third States”, ULB, Brussels, Jan 23, 2004
  • Territorial Jurisdiction after Territoriality, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Workshop Presentation, Hamburg, Germany, Nov 17, 2003
  • Globalization and the Brussels Regulation, Workshop Presentation, “Judicial Cooperation between European and Third States”, Barcelona University, Oct 24, 2003
  • Double Sales, Single Doctrines – Towards a Reconception of the Relation Between Property and Obligations, Workshop Presentation, Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona, Oct 23, 2003
  • The Globalization of US Jurisdiction, Lecture, “Internationalisation of Law”, German Scholarship Foundation, Munich, May 31, 2003
  • The Globalization of US Jurisdiction, Augsburg University, Dec 11, 2002
  • Globalization and Jurisdiction – New Problems and Techniques, Conference Presentation, “Judicial Cooperation between the United States and Europe, New York City Bar Association, May 19, 2003
  • Jurisdiction and Globalization, Europa Institute Lustrum Seminar on Globalisation and Jurisdiction, Leiden, Dec 5, 2002
  • Common Core? Conference on Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law in the Light of European Integration, Katholieke Universiteit, Brussels, October 26, 2002
  • Convergence in Civil Justice? Antisuit Injunctions as an Example, Law and Justice in a Multistate World – Symposium in Honor of Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA, Sep 27, 2002
  • Structures of the Legal Unification Debate, Symposium National Legislation under the Influence of International Model Laws and European Rule-Making, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, May 23, 2002
  • Three Paradigms of Legal Unification, Private International Law Interest Group in the American Society of International Law – Annual Meeting, The American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., March 15, 2002
  • Common Cores or Common Corpses – Promises and Pitfalls of the Common Core Approach for European Private Law, Workshop “Law Beyond the Nation State”, Bielefeld University, October 9, 2001
  • Globalisierung und klassisches internationales Privatrecht [Globalization and Classical Conflict of Laws], Workshop “Recht und Politik unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung und Dezentralisierung” (Law and Politics under the Conditions of Globalization and Decentralization), Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.M., June 8, 2001
  • Richtlinienkollisionsrecht nach der Ingmar-Entscheidung des EuGH [EC Directives in Conflict of Laws after the ECJ Judgment in Ingmar], Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg, April 25, 2001
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