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GLJ Co-Editor-in-Chief Russell A. Miller, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law, has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany (2001-2002). He also served, part-time, as a legal advisor and translator at the German Federal Constitutional Court (2000-2001). Russell came to Germany in 1999 with the Robert Bosch Foundation's Fellowship for Young American Leaders, during which he participated in internships at the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Before coming to Germany Russell's legal practice was focused exclusively on the representation of death-sentenced inmates in their appeals. Russell was a legal advisor (Law Clerk) to the Honorable Robert H. Whaley of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Russell holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English Literature (Washington State University - 1991), a Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in English Literature (Duke Univeristy -- 1994) and is currently an LL.M. candidate at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Since July 1, 2004, Professor Peer Zumbansen holds the Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Comparative Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada. He passed the Habilitation (post-doctoral, full professor qualification) at the University of Frankfurt Law School in April 2004. He studied philosophy and law in Frankfurt, Paris and at Harvard Law School; he obtained a Licence en Droit from the University of Paris X Nanterre in 1991, the Legal State Exam Diploma (J.D./LL.B.) from the University of Frankfurt Law School in 1995, a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Frankfurt and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1998. After passing the Bar in 2000, he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt, before spending the academic year 2001-2002 as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (http://www.iue.it). He held Visiting Professorships at the University of Idaho College of Law and at Osgoode Hall Law School. His current research in private law focuses on Corporate Governance, Comparative Company Law and the implications of national differences on the ‘Constitution of the Firm’.
Peer Zumbansen holds the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School. He holds law degrees from the University of Paris X Nanterre, from the University of Frankfurt, and from Harvard Law School. Professor Zumbansen is the founder and director of the CLPE Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Research Network at Osgoode Hall Law School (www.comparativeresearch.net). He is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the monthly English-language legal periodical German Law Journal and of the Annual of German & European Law. Recent publications include “Comparative Law’s Coming of Age? Twenty Years after ‘Critical Comparisons’”, 6 German Law Journal 1073-1084 (2005); “Spaces and Places: A Systems Theory Approach to Regulatory Competition in European Company Law”, 12 Eur. L. J. 534-556 (2006); “The Parallel Worlds of Corporate Governance and Labor Law”, 13 Ind. J. Glob. Leg. Stud. 261-312 (2006).
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Nina Boeger graduated from University College, London and the European University Institute, Florence. She is a qualified solicitor and a qualified German lawyer. She joined the School of Law at Bristol in September 2004, and teaches EU law and comparative law. Her current research covers public services regulation in the European Union.
Recent Publications:
Nina Boeger, Is Public Health Subject to EC Competition Law?, EUROPEAN CURRENT LAW xi (September 2007).
Nina Boeger, Solidarity and EC Competition Law 32 EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW 319(2007).
Nina Boeger, ‘New' Social Democracy before the Court of Justice, in CAMBRIDGE YEARBOOK OF EUROPEAN LEGAL SUDIES, Chapter 5 (John Bell/Claire Kilpatrick eds., 2005-2006).
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Gralf-Peter Calliess is Professor of International and Comparative Commercial Law at the Law Faculty, University of Bremen.
His research areas include European, international and comparative contract law, transnational consumer and company law as well as alternative dispute resolution. His theoretical interests are in law and globalization, where he builds on both systems theory of law and new institutional economics.
Dr. Calliess focuses on new approaches to transnational coordination and regulation beyond the traditional public-private-divide, where states, industry, and civil society actors work together to build transnational civil regimes operating within a framework of civil constitutions, thus generating an alternative path towards a global rule of law.
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Morag Goodwin (b. 1977) is a Lecturer (UD) in European and International Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University (NL). She holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence (2006) in the area of international law, more specifically the recognition and participation of non-state actors in international governance. Morag holds an LL.M. (distinction) in International Law from the University of Nottingham (2000) and an M.A. Hons. (1st) in History from the University of Edinburgh (1995-96; 1997-9).
She also pursued her undergraduate studies at the University of Tübingen (Germany), where she studied history and German (1996-7).
Prior to taking up her doctoral studies, she worked for the European Roma Rights Center, Budapest, as a researcher in the Research and Publications Dept. (2000-2001), combining fieldwork research with report writing. Morag has worked at Maastricht University since 2004, and combines her research and teaching obligations with the position of Executive Editor of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law. She is also co-Director of three of the Faculty’s LL.M. programmes, namely LL.M. European Law School, LL.M. Globalization & Law, and LL.M. Law & Languages.
Morag’s primary research interest lies in the area of international law, notably in the area of development, participation and human rights in norm generation and implementation, in particular, concerning non-state actors. She is also interested in the role played by transplantation in the development of both norms and strategy in the human rights field and is currently researching the value of non-discrimination law in addressing the socio-economic exclusion of Roma.
Recent Publications:
Morag Goodwin, From Province to Protectorate to State? Speculation on the Impact of Kosovo’s Genesis upon the Doctrines of International Law, 8 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 1 (2007).
M. Goodwin and Th. Mertens, Democracy and Terror: When the People Decide, in JENNIFER HOCKING COUNTER-TERRORISM AND THE POST-DEMOCRATIC STATE (2007).
Morag Goodwin, Romani Lessons for European citizenship: from an imaginary to an imagined citizenship?, in 50 YEARS OF EUROPEAN IINTEGRATION: FOUNDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (A. Ott/E. Vos eds., forthcoming).
Morag Goodwin, Multidimensional Exclusion and the (mis)uses of Non-Discrimination Law in tackling Romani Exclusion’, in EUROPEAN UNION DISCRIMINATION LAW: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL EQUALITY LAW (D. Schiek ed., forthcoming).
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Felix Hanschmann studied Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, graduating in 2000. From 2000 to 2004 he held a position of post-graduate research assistant at the Chair of Constitutional Law, Comparative Law and Philosophy of Law at the University in Frankfurt/Main. There, he was also interim research assistant at the Chair for Legal History as well as at the Wilhelm Merton-Center for European Integration and International Economic Systems. For his Ph.D., completed and defended in summer 2004, he was awarded a scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
In 2004/2005, he was a Visiting Researcher at the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, focusing on theoretical issues in international law and European law.
In 2005/2006, Dr Hanschmann was a post-graduate research assistant with Prof. Dr. Armin von Bogdandy at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and a legal intern in civil litigation, criminal law, and administrative law in Frankfurt am Main.
Dr Hanschmann is currently a legal intern (elective) at the Federal Constitutional Court (Karslruhe), where he is clerking for Justice Brun-Otto Bryde.
Recent Publications:
Monograph:
FELIX HANSCHMANN, DER BEGRIFF DER HOMOGENITAT IN DER VERFASSUNGSLEHRE UND EUROPARECHTSWISSENSCHAFT. ZUR THESE VON DER NOTWENDIGKEIT HOMOGENER KOLLEKTIVE UNTER BESONDERER BERUCKSICHTIGUNG DER HOMOGENITATSKRITERIEN „GESCHICHTE“ UND „SPRACHE“, Heidelberg/New York 2007 (forthcoming).
Articles and Book Chapters:
Felix Hanschmann, Theorie transnationaler Rechtsprozesse, in NEUE TEORIEN DES RECHTS, 347-369 (S. Buckel/R. Christensen/A. Fischer-Lescano eds., 2006).
Felix Hanschmann, Kalkulation des Unverfügbaren. Das Folterverbot in der Neu-Kommentierung von Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG im Maunz-Dürig, in DIE RUCKKEHR DER FOLTER, 113-141 (H. Brunkhorst ed., 2005).
Felix Hanschmann, Ein Fall methodischer Kapitulation? Zur Auslegung des Begriffs »europäisch« im Sinne des Art. 49 Abs. 1 EU, in POLITIK, [NEUE] MEDIEN UND DIE SPRACHE DES RECHTS, 81-104, (F. Müller ed., 2007).
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Florian Hoffmann teaches international law and human rights in the Law Department at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil). He is also the Deputy Director of that Department's human rights centre, the Núcleo de Direitos Humanos.
He completed his undergraduate studies in law and government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and holds a Masters degree (Mestrado em Ciências Jurídicas) from the PUC-Rio. He received his PhD in Law at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) with a thesis entitled “Can Human Rights Be Transplanted: reflections on a pragmatic theory of human rights under conditions of globalization.”
His research interests include human rights in theory and practice, international accountability, international legal theory, and general legal philosophy. Within the Núcleo de Direitos Humanos he is, inter alia, co-coordinating a research project on 'International Trade, Development, and Human Rights' which seeks to work on the interface between these three issue areas from the perspective of the global South, and a study on “Rights Consciousness, Access to Justice, and Alternative Means to Realize Human Rights,” conducted jointly with the NGO VivaRio. He is, inter alia, a member of the Executive Boards of the European Society of International Law (ESIL-SEDI) and of Sur - Human Rights University Network, a book review editor for the Leiden Journal of International Law, a European and International Law editor for the German Law Journal, and a member of the Editing Team of the incipient CPOG-J - Journal of Critical Perspectives on Global Governance.
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Karen Kaiser is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.
She studied law at the University of Constance, Germany, and clerked for courts in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the European Parliament, Directorate-General Research, in Luxembourg. She gained her Dr. in law at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis entitled Intellectual Property and European Community Law: The Distribution of Powers and its Influence on the Enforceability of International Treaties.
Her teaching and research interests include European Community and Union law, international economic law (with a particular focus on international intellectual property law), and public international law in general. At the Max Planck Institute she is responsible for European Community and Union Law, TRIPS/WIPO, Israel, Palestine and Ireland.
Dr. Kaiser is managing editor of the new edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law which will be published online by Oxford University Press in 2008 and co-editor of volume 2 of the Max Planck Commentaries on WTO law on institutions and dispute settlement. She has organized various seminars and workshops, among them two German-Polish Seminars on the Emerging Constitutional Law of the Eeuropean Union.
Recent Publications:
Karen Kaiser, The Strange Case of Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Is There a Way to Reconcile Dr. Jekyll with Mr. Hyde?, in I NTERNATIONAL L AW T ODAY: N EW C HALLENGES AND THE N EED FOR R EFORM?, 199-219 (Doris König / Peter-Tobias Stoll / Volker Röben / Nele Matz-Lück eds., 2007).
Karen Kaiser, Das TRIPs-Übereinkommen in der EG und ihren Mitgliedsstaaten, Anwendbarkeit und Durchsetzung, in TRIPs – I NTERNATIONALES UND EUROPAISCHES R ECHT DES GEISTIGEN E IGENTUMS, 33-68 (Jan Busche/Peter-Tobias Stoll Hrsg., 2007).
Karen Kaiser, Artikel 63, 64, 67 und 68 des TRIPs-Abkommens, in TRIPs – I NTERNATIONALES UND EUROPAISCHES R ECHT DES GEISTIGEN E IGENTUMS, 697-725, 743-754 (Jan Busche/Peter-Tobias Stoll Hrsg., 2007).
M AX P LANCK C OMMENTARIES ON W ORLD T RADE L AW, V OLUME 2, WTO – I NSTITUTIONS AND D ISPUTE S ETTLEMENT, (Rüdiger Wolfrum / Peter-Tobias Stoll & Karen Kaiser eds., 2006).
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Alexandra Kemmerer is a writer and journalist, based in Berlin and Seligenstadt am Main, and a researcher at the University of Würzburg, Faculty of Law. She holds law degrees from the University of Würzburg (LLB., LLM. Eur.) and is a member of the Frankfurt bar. Her writing about arts and culture, politics, religion and the law regularly appears in, inter alia, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has been academic assistant at the Jean Monnet Chair for European Law (Prof. Dr. Dieter H. Scheuing), Institute for International Law, European Law and European Private Law, University of Würzburg, law clerk at the European Commission’s Delegation to the United Nations, New York, and visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Florence.
Her current research focuses on European Union citizenship; further research interests encompass European and international law as well as its intersections, constitutional law, legal history, legal theory, and interdisciplinary and contextual approaches to the law.
Recent Publications:
Alexandra Kemmerer, Spheres of Transformation, Limits of Integration: (European) Citizenship as a Social System, in L AW A FTER L UHMANN: C RITICAL R EFLECTIONS ON N IKLAS L UHMANN'S C ONTRIBUTION TO L EGAL D OCTRINE AND T HEORY (Oren Perez/Peer Zumbansen eds., 2008) (forthcoming).
Alexandra Kemmerer, Der normative Knoten. Über Recht und Politik im Netz der Netzwerke, in D ER N ORMATIVE K NOTEN: Ü BER R ECHT UND P OLITIK IM N ETZ D ER N ETZWERKE, 195-224 (Sigrid Boysen et al eds., 2007); abstract available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999441.
Alexandra Kemmerer, À la recherche de l’individu, in „S CHMERZLICHE E RFAHRUNGEN“ DER V ERGANGENHEIT UND DER P ROZESS DER K ONSTITUTIONALISIERUNG E UROPAS, V ERLAG FUR S OZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN (Christian Joerges / Matthias Mahlmann / Ulrich K. Preuß eds., 2007) (forthcoming); available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=987713.
Alexandra Kemmerer, The Turning Aside. On International Law and Its History, in P ROGRESS IN I NTERNATIONAL L AW (Rebecca M. Bratspies/Russell A. Miller eds., 2008) (forthcoming); available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=986648.
Email: akemmerer@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de
Web: http://www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fakultaet/dekanat/kemmerer/
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Malcolm MacLaren is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with “Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century”, an interdisciplinary research program of the Swiss National Science Foundation ( www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch). He was until recently a Research Assistant at the Institute for Public International and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich ( www.ivr.uzh.ch).
Academic publications include:
with D. Thürer, Switzerland, in F OREIGN R ELATIONS IN F EDERAL C OUNTRIES (H. Michelmann ed., forthcoming).
with D. Thürer, A Common Law of Democracy? – an Experimental Conceptualization, in E TUDES EN L'H ONNEUR DU P ROFESSEUR G EORGIO M ALINVERNI - L ES D ROITS DE L'H OMME ET L A C ONSTITUTION (A. Auer et al. eds., 2007).
with D. Thürer, Military Outsourcing as a Case Study in the Accountability and Responsibility of Power, in T HE L AW OF I NTERNATIONAL R ELATIONS, L IBER AMICORUM H ANSPETER N EUHOLD (A. Reinisch/U. Kriebaum eds., 2007).
with F. Schwendimann, The New ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law as an Exercise in the Development of International Law, 6 G ERMAN L AW J OURNAL 1217 (2005), available at http://germanlawjournal.com/article.php?id=627.
He is preparing his dissertation, "Rechte, Rechtsmittel und Rechtfertigungen im Völkerrecht - Eine Studie über den Zugang Privater zu internationalen Streitbeilegungsmechanismen", for publication. His habilitation is concerned with ethnic conflict resolution, democratization, and the protection of minorities.
Malcolm MacLaren has a Dr. iur. from the University of Zurich, a LL.M. from the University of Frankfurt, a LL.B. from the University of Toronto, a M.A. (Modern History) from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. (English and Latin) from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Ontario Bar.
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Dr. Matthias Casper completed studies in banking economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cambridge and holds a degree in economics ( Dipl.-Ökonom). From 1995-2001 he was senior research assistant at the Institute of German and European Company and Commercial Law, University of Heidelberg. In 1998 he received his Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.). He was the recipient of a German Research Foundation scholarship in 2001/2002. He completed his post-doctoral thesis ( Habilitation) at the University of Heidelberg in 2002. Since 2003 he is a professor at the University of Münster and Director at the Institute of Civil, Banking and Capital Market Law. For more information see: www.matthiascasper.de.
Dr. Casper has various publications in the areas of corporate-, capital market-, banking- and civil law, i.e. Heilung nichtiger Beschlüsse im Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht published with Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag: Cologne in 1998; commentary on §§ 676a - 676h BGB [law on credit transfers] in Der Optionsvertrag [the law of options], published with Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen in 2005; Wechsel- und Scheckgesetz (commentary on the law of bill of exchange und cheque, founded by Baumbach/Hefermehl), 23rd ed. published with C.H. Beck: Munich in 2007.
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Dr. Christoph J.M. Safferling holds an LL.M from the London School of Economics and received his doctoral degree at the University of Munich, Germany. He is a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure, and international law at the University of Marburg, Germany. He has been on the editorial board of the German Law Journal since 2003. He is also on the editorial board of the International Review of Criminal Law.
Recent Publications: The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law since 1945 (with Herbert Reginbogin), Munich 2006; Verdeckte Ermittler im Strafverfahren - deutsche und europäische Rechtsprechung im Konflikt?, in: 26 Neue Zeitschrift für Strafrecht 75 (2006); Die Abgrenzung von strafloser Vorbereitung und strafbaren Versuch im deutschen, europäischen und im Völkerstrafrecht, 118 Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 682 (2006); Terror and Law in Germany, German Responses to 9/11, in: 4 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1152-1165 (2006); A World of Peace Under the Rule of Law – The View from Europe, in: Wash. U. J. Int’l Law (2007); Vorsatz und Schuld: Subjektive Täterelemente im deutschen und englischen Strafrecht, Tübingen 2007.
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Dr. Frank Schorkopf studied law at the University of Hamburg and the London School of Economics. He is an adjunct professor (Privatdozent) at the Institute of Public Law at the University of Bonn in Germany (Homepage: http://www.jura.uni-bonn.de/ index.php?id=2449).
Recent Publications:
Grundgesetz und Überstaatlichkeit, Jus Publicum Bd. 167, Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2007
http://www.mohr.de/cgi-bin/search.pl? lang=d&feld_val=schorkopf&vg=v&sid={SID}&range=0&detail=4991
WTO – World Economic Order, World Trade Law, Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 1, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2006 (Co-author).
http://www.mpil.de/ww/de/pub/forschung/forschung_im_detail/ projekte/voelkerrecht/commentaries_world_trade_law.cfm
Der Europäische Haftbefehl vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht, Dokumentation des Verfahrens, Jus Internatonale et Europaeum Bd. 5, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006 (Editor).
http://www.mohr.de/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=d&feld_val= schorkopf&vg=v&sid={SID}&range=0&detail=4533
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Dr. Hans Michael Heinig holds a law degree from the University of Düsseldorf. He is a member of the faculty of law at the University of Heidelberg. His fields of expertise include German and European constitutional law, public law, legal history, law of religion and social theory. In 2005/2006 he was a fellow of the SIAS Summer Institute “The Political: Law, Culture, Theology” at Yale Law School.
Homepage: http://www.haverkate.uni-hd.de/mitarbeiter_heinig.htm
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Gregor Bachmann studied law at the Universities of Passau and München (Germany). He completed his final examination ("Erste Staatsprüfung" = equvialent to J.D.) in 1991 and earned his doctoral degree in 1993, both with distinction. After serving as a research assistant he took part in an LL.M.-program at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, USA. Gregor Bachmann completed his legal training in Berlin with the second State Exam ("Zweite Staatsprüfung") in 1996 and joined the law firm of Hengeler Mueller in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. As an attorney he focused on Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Litigation. In 1998 Prof. Bachmann left the firm to become Assistant Professor at the Humboldt-University Law School, Berlin. He completed his Habilitation (professoral thesis) in 2004 and spent a semester at the University of Frankfurt am Main as a visiting professor. Since October 2004 Gregor Bachmann holds a chair for Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Trier.
Recent publications:
Private Ordnung. Grundlagen ziviler Regelsetzung, Tübingen 2006 (= Private Ordering - Foundations of Civil Rulemaking - in German)
Der Grundsatz der Gleichbehandlung im Kapitalmarktrecht, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht (ZHR) 170 (2006), p. 144-177 (= The Principle of Euqal Treatment in Capital Markets Law - in German)
Strengthening Shareholders' Rights: A Comment on the EU Action Plan, ERA-Forum 2005, 352-362
Internet: http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb5/bachmann/
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Dr. Helge Dedek is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn (2006). In 2004, he obtained an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School as a Langdon H. Gammon Fellow. In the course of his legal studies, he has held several scholarships from institutions such as the German National Merit Foundation and the “Zeit”-Foundation (Bucerius Programme). Before completing his graduate work, he practiced with the Chamber of Civil Law Notaries in Cologne, Germany, as a “Notarassessor”, primarily in the fields of corporate law and real estate transactions. Dr. Dedek is interested in and has published in the areas of (European) private law, in particular the law of obligations, comparative law, comparative legal history and Roman law.
Recent Publications:
“Negative Haftung aus Vertrag” (“’Negative’ – sc.: reliance-based - Contractual Liability”), Monograph, 315 pp., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149193-1. http://www.mohr.de/r/n4727_e.htm
Book Review: James Gordley/Arthur Taylor von Mehren, An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law, Readings, Cases, Materials (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006), in: Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht (GPR) 2007, p. 174. http://www.sellier.de/pages/en/gpr_index/gpr/553.gpr_42007.htm
Book Review: Michael Kuhnke: Privatrechtsangleichung in der Europäischen Union und in Kanada, (“Private Law Harmonization in the European Union and in Canada”), Berlin, 2006, in: GPR 2007, p. 182. http://www.sellier.de/pages/en/gpr_index/gpr/553.gpr_42007.htm
“A Past (Almost) Without Promise – A Comparative Perspective on the Relationship between ‘Promise’ and ‘Contract’ - forthcoming
Affiliations:
McGill University, Faculty of Law; http://www.mcgill.ca/law
McGill University, Institute of Comparative Law; http://www.mcgill.ca/icl
Université de Montréal/McGill University, Institute for European Studies; http://www.iee.umontreal.ca/ladirectionfr.html
Institut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; http://www.jura.uni-bonn.de/institute/roemr/index.htm
German Merit Foundation: “Kolleg” in Social Sciences http://www.studienstiftung.de/wissenschaftliche-kollegs.html?&L=1
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Betsy Baker joined Vermont Law School as Visiting Assistant Professor from Harvard Law School where she was the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization and assistant dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies. Over a ten-year residence in Germany she was a legal historian at the Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften and affiliated with the Max Planck-Institut for ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. She teaches comparative law, law of the sea, public international law, international organizations, and the law of property, drawing on US and German law degrees - J.D. (Michigan), LL.M. and Dr. iur. (Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel ). She clerked for Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Publications include:
"States Parties and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf" in : R. Wolfrum / T. Malik Ndiaye (eds), Liber Amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah: Law of the Sea, Protection of the Marine Environment and Settlement of Disputes (Nijhoff 2007), 669-686;
The New Partnership for African Economic Development, 63 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 1063 (2003);
Betsy Röben, Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Francis Lieber und das moderne Völkerrecht 1861-1881 (Nomos 2002), vol. 4 Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts, Michael Stolleis (ed).
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Dr. Giesela Rühl is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Before she joined the Max Planck Institute, she was a Joseph Story Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. She is the author of a book about the harmonization of insurance contract law in Europe and has published a number of law review articles on comparative law and conflict of laws in Germany, England, and the United States. Her research at the Max Planck Institute focuses on comparative and economic analysis of conflict of laws. She holds both German State Examinations, a Master of Laws from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hamburg. Her dissertation was awarded the Otto–Hahn Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievements by the Max Planck Society.
Recent Publications:
Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World – Essays in Memory of Arthur T. von Mehren, Cambridge University Press (2007) (with Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels & Jan von Hein), see http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871303.
Methods and Approaches in Choice of Law: An Economic Perspective, 24 Berkeley Journal of International Law 801-841 (2006), also available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=920999.
Party Autonomy in the Private International Law of Contracts: Transatlantic Conversion and Economic Theory, in: Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl & Jan von Hein (eds.), Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World – Essays in Memory of Arthur T. von Mehren, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 153-183, also available as CLPE Research Paper 4/2007 at http://comparativeresearch.net and at http://ssrn.com/abstract=921842.
Common Law, Civil Law and the Single European Market for Insurances, 55 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 879-910 (2006), also available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=921850.
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Dr. Ralf Michaels [ http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/michaels/] is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law [ http://www.law.duke.edu/cicl/] at Duke University Law School [ www.law.duke.edu]in Durham, NC. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg [ www.mpipriv.de]. He also served as a Joseph Story Research Fellow at Harvard Law School [ www.law.harvard.edu]. In 2005 he was the Lloyd Cutler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin [ www.americanacademy.de]. Michaels’ research focuses on conflict of laws, comparative law, and law and globalization; he has published and edited several volumes and numerous articles, in German and English, in these fields. Michaels holds both German State Examinations and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Passau [ www.jura.uni-passau.de], Germany, as well as a Master of Laws from King’s College, Cambridge [ www.kings.cam.ac.uk], where he received the C. J. Hamson Prize in Comparative Law.
Recent Publications:
Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World (co-editor, Cambridge University Press 2007), http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871303
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 Paradigms of Jurisdiction, 27 Michigan Journal of International Law 1003-1069 (2006), http://eprints.law.duke.edu/archive/00001614/01/
27_Mich._J._Int'l_L._1003_(2006).pdf
Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization (with Nils Jansen), 54 American Journal of Comparative Law 845-892 (2006)
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.history/PrivateLaw/privatelawbeyondstate.html
Some Current Projects:
Private Law Beyond the State (with Nils Jansen) [ www.privatelaw.org]
The Return of the Private in International Law (with Karen Knop and Annelise Riles)
Global Legal Pluralism (on request by the Annual Review of Law and the Social Sciences)
A General Theory of Jurisdiction for the Age of Globalization
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Stefan Magen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. His research areas include behavioral law and economics, the interplay between legal institutions and cognition, empirical theories of justice, constitutional law, state and church law, and administrative law.
Dr. Cornelia Vismann is an associate of the Max-Planck-Institute for European legal history. Her research focus is on the archeology of law and law as cultural study. Dr. Vismann is a member of the faculty of law at the University of Frankfurt.