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Table of Contents (HTML)Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (with Gralf-Peter Calliess). Hart Publishing: 2010.The Embedded Firm Corporate Governance, Labour Law and Financial Capitalism (co-edited with Cynthia Williams) Cambridge University Press, 2010.Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal (co-edited with Russell Miller). Oxford University Press, 2010.Publisher's Site (PDF)

Table of Contents (HTML)Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory (co-edited with Gralf-Peter Calliess). Edward Elgar, 2010.Publisher's Site (HTML)(Co-Editor) The Annual of German & European Law, Vols. 2 & 3 (2006), Oxford/New York: Berghahn BooksPublisher's Site (HTML)(Co-Editor) THE ANNUAL OF GERMAN AND EUROPEAN LAW, Berghahn Books: Oxford/New York, Vol. I (2003) [ Fall 2004], 689 pages (co-edited with Russell Miller)INNOVATION UND PFADABHÄNGIGKEIT. DAS RECHT DER UNTERNEHMENSVERFASSUNG IN DER WISSENSGESELLSCHAFT [Innovation and Path-Dependency. The Constitution of the Firm in the Knowledge Society]. Habilitation- (Full Professor Qualification) Thesis, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, submitted December 2003, defended and passed 28 April 2004. Manuscript 341 pages (+ bibliography). In preparation for publication.Publisher's Site (HTML)(Editor) ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH: ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG. JURISTISCHE UND ZEITGESCHICHTLICHE BETRACHTUNGEN. NS-FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY. LEGAL AND HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2002Table of Contents (PDF)

Summary (HTML)ORDNUNGSMUSTER IM MODERNEN WOHLFAHRTSSTAAT. LERNERFAHRUNGEN ZWISCHEN STAAT, GESELLSCHAFT UND VERTRAG. [Regulatory Patterns in the Modern Welfare State. Learning Experiences Between State, Society and Contract] Nomos: Baden-Baden 2000.

Books

Full Text (HTML)Corporate Governance, Capital Market Regulation and the Challenge of Disembedded Markets, in William Sun (ed.), Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 24/2010Full Text (HTML)3. Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Theory: State of the Art and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Gralf-Peter Calliess), in: LAW, ECONOMICS, AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (Peer Zumbansen & Gralf-Peter Calliess, eds., Edward Elgar, 2010, forthcoming). Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 10/2010Full Text (PDF)Transnational Law and Societal Memory, in Law and the Politics of Reconciliation (Scott Veitch ed., Aldershot: Ashgate 2007), 129-146Full Text (PDF)

Summary (HTML)The Conundrum of Corporate Social Responsibility: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Firms and States, forthcoming in TRANSBOUNDARY HARM: LESSONS FROM THE TRAIL SMELTER ARBITRATION (RUSSELL MILLER & REBECCA BRATSPIES EDS., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2006)Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Transnational Law, in: Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Jan Smits ed., Edward Elgar 2006), 738-754.Full Text (PDF)Law of Contracts. In: INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LAW (Joachim Zekoll and Mathias Reimann eds., Kluwer Law International 2005), 179-203.Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Quod Omnes Tangit: Globalization, Welfare Regimes and Entitlements, in: THE WELFARE STATE IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION 135-173 (Eyal Benvenisti and Georg Nolte eds. New York 2003)Full Text (PDF)Das gesellschaftliche Gedächtnis des Rechts oder: Die juristische Dogmatik als Standeskunst [The social memory of law, or: legal doctrine as the lawyers’ state of art], in: Christian Joerges/Gunther Teubner (eds.), RECHTSVERFASSUNGSRECHT: RECHT-FERTIGUNG ZWISCHEN PRIVATRECHT UND GESELLSCHAFTSTHEORIE, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2003, 151-179Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Vertragsregimes im ‚Dritten Sektor’: Zur Verortung des Verwaltungsrechts in Zeiten veränderter Handlungsformen [The Governance of Contracting: The Province of Administrative Law in an Era of Contractualized Government], in: 2 NON-PROFIT YEARBOOK 2002, 61-85 (W.Rainer Walz/Hein Kötz/Karsten Schmidt et al. eds., Cologne et al. 2003.Full Text (PDF)Die engen Wände der Internetwelt: Autonomie und Kontrolle jenseits von staatlicher Steuerung und gesellschaftlicher Selbstorganisation? [The Narrow Confines of the Internet World: Autonomy and Control Beyond “State and Market”] in: INNOVATIONSOFFENE REGULIERUNG DES INTERNET 273-300 (Karl-Heinz Ladeur/Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem eds., Baden-Baden 2003Full Text (PDF)Iura Novit Curia: Rechtsanspruch auf Entschädigung für NS-Zwangsarbeit vor deutschen Gerichten [iura novit curia: compensation claims before German courts] (co-authored with Christoph Safferling), in: Juristische Rundschau 2002, 6-11; also in: Peer Zumbansen (ed.), NS-FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY, Nomos: Baden-Baden November 2002, pp. 229-240. [Iura Novit Curia: Legal Claim for Compensation for NS- Forced Labor before German Courts]

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--Select-- (HTML)2. Neither Public Nor Private, Neither National Nor International: Transnational Corporate Governance from a Legal Pluralist Perspective, Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 22/2010Full Text (HTML)Transnational Legal Pluralism, 1:2 Transnational Legal Theory 141-189 (2010), CLPE Research Paper 01/2010Full Text (HTML)Law’s Knowledge and Law’s Impact: Reflections from Legal Sociology and Legal Theory, 10 German Law Journal 417-438 (2009)Full Text (HTML)'New Governance’ in European Corporate Law Regulation as Transnational Legal Pluralism, in: 15:2 EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL (2009), 246-276Full Text (HTML)11. The State as Black Box and Market as Regulator: A Comment, in 165:1 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS [JITE] 2009Full Text (HTML)Law after the Welfare State: Formalism, Functionalism and the Ironic Turn of Reflexive Law, 56 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 769-805 (2008), reprinted in Jansen/Michaels eds., BEYOND THE STATE – RETHINKING PRIVATE LAW (Tübingen: Siebeck Mohr), 349-386Full Text (HTML)Review Essay – After Enron. Improving Corporate Law and Modernising Securities Regulation in Europe and the US, in 22 Banking & Finance Law Review 215-222 (2007) / 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 101-108 (2008)Full Text (HTML)"Global Forces of Corporate Change and European Path-Dependencies: A Review of 'After Enron' (McCahery/Armour, eds.)" . CLPE Research Paper No. 34/2007 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1030658Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)"The ECJ, Volkswagen and European Corporate Law: Reshaping the European Varieties of Capitalism" (Together with Daniel Saam). CLPE Research Paper No. 30/2007 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1030652Full Text (HTML)Varieties of Capitalism and the Learning Firm: Corporate Governance and Labour int he Context of Contemporary Developments in European and German Company Law (A Comment on the Strine-Bainbridge Debate About Shared Values of Corporate Management and Labour), 8 Eur. Bus. Organ. L. Rev. [EBOR] 467-496 (2007)Full Text (PDF)

Full Text (HTML)The Parallel Worlds of Corporate Governance and Labor Law. 16 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 261-312 (2006) and CLPE Research Paper 6/2006Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Spaces and Places: A Systems Theory Approach to Regulatory Competition in European Company Law, 12 Eur. L. J 535-557 (2006), and CLPE Research Paper 8/2006Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Die Geheimhaltungspflicht des Vorstands bei der Due Diligence: Neubewertung im globalisierten Geschäftsverkehr, Betriebsberater 2006, 613-619 (gemeinsam mit/co-authored with Constantin Lachner)Full Text (PDF)Harry Arthurs and the Philosopher's Stone, in: 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 105-117 (2006)Full Text (PDF)

Full Text (HTML)Europe’s ‘Darker Legacies’? Notes on ‘Mirror Reflections’, the ‘Constitution as Fetish’ and Other Such Linkages between the Past and the Future (Review Essay on C Joerges/NS Ghaleigh (eds.), Darker Legacies of Law in Europe (Hart 2003); JHH Weiler/M Wind (eds), Constitutionalism Beyond the State (Cambridge 2003), in: 43 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 321-334 (2005).Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Beyond Territoriality: The Case of Transnational Human Rights Litigation. ConWeb Paper 4/2005Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Comparative Law’s Coming of Age? Twenty Years after ‘Critical Comparisons’, 6 German Law Journal 1073-1084 (2005).Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Sustaining Paradox Boundaries: Perspectives on Internal Affairs in Domestic and International Law (Review Essay on A. Claire Cutler, PRIVATE POWER AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY. TRANSNATIONAL MERCHANT LAW IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (Cambridge University Press 2003), in: 15 European Journal of International Law 197-211 (2004).Full Text (Word Document)European Corporate Law and National Divergences: The Case of Takeover Regulation (Review essay on: TAKEOVERS IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN LAW (Jennifer Payne, ed. Hart 2002); CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REGIMES: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERSITY (Joseph A. McCahery et al. eds., Oxford University Press, 2002); Christin M. Forstinger, TAKEOVER LAW IN THE EU AND THE USA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (Kluwer Law International, 2002), in: 3 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 867-886 (2004).Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)Globalization and the Law: Deciphering the Message of Transnational Human Rights Litigation, in: 5 German Law Journal 1499-1520 (2004)Full Text (PDF)Review Essay on Karl-Heinz Ladeur, NEGATIVE FREIHEITSRECHTE UND GESELLSCHAFTLICHE SELBSTORGANISATION, Tübingen 2000, in: Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht [RabelsZ] 404-415 (2004)Full Text (PDF)Lex mercatoria: Zum Geltungsanspruch transnationalen Rechts, in: 67 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht [RabelsZ] 637-682 (2003)Full Text (PDF)Piercing the Legal Veil: Commercial Arbitration and Transnational Law, 8 European Law Journal 400-432 (2002).Full Text (PDF)The Forgetfulness of Noblesse: A Critique of the German Foundation Law Compensating Slave and Forced Laborers of the Third Reich (co-authored with Libby Adler), 39 Harvard Journal on Legislation 1-62 (2002).Publisher's Site (HTML)Germany Inc. Eroding? Board Structure, CEO and Rhenish Capitalism, in: 3 German Law Journal No. 6 (1 June 2002)Full Text (PDF)

Full Text (HTML)The Privatization of Company Law? Corporate Governance Codes and Commercial Self Regulation, in: Juridikum 136-145 (2002)Full Text (PDF)

Full Text (HTML)Rechtsentfremdungen: Über den gesellschaftlichen Mehrwert des zwölften Kamels (co-authored with Gunther Teubner), in: 21 Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie (2000), 189-215 [also in: G.Teubner (Hrsg.), DIE RÜCKGABE DES ZWÖLFTEN KAMELS. NIKLAS LUHMANN IN DER DISKUSSION ÜBER GERECHTIGKEIT, Lucius & Lucius: Stuttgart 2000, 189-215]. [Legal Alienations: Societal Surplus Value of the 12th Camel]Full Text (PDF)Die vergangene Zukunft des Völkerrechts, in: Kritische Justiz (KJ) 34 (2001), 46-68. [The Past Future of International Law]Full Text (PDF)Spiegelungen von Staat und Gesellschaft: Governance-Erfahrungen in der Globalisierungsdebatte, in: GLOBALISIERUNG ALS PROBLEM DER STEUERUNGSFÄHIGKEIT DES RECHTS UND DER GERECHTIGKEIT (Michael Anderheiden, Stefan Huster, Stephan Kirste eds.), ARSP Beiheft No. 79, Stuttgart 2001, 13-40. [Reflections of State and Society: Governance Experiences and the Globalization Debate]Full Text (PDF)Semantics of European LawTowards a Deliberative Model of Free Speech, in: Revista Cientifica de la Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES) 2 (1998), 3-16Carl Schmitt und die Suche nach politischer Einheit, in: Kritische Justiz (KJ) 1997, 63-79. [Carl Schmitt and the Search for Political Unity]

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Publisher's Site (HTML)Review of NIKLAS LUHMANN, LAW AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM (K.Ziegert transl., Kastner, Nobles, Schiff, R.Ziegert eds., OUP 2004), 15:3 Social & Legal Studies (2006), 453-461.Full Text (PDF)Reforming Closely Held Corporations: Corporate Governance Writ Small? The Governance of Close Corporations and Partnerships. US and European Perspectives. Edited by Joseph McCahery, Theo Raaijmakers, and Erik P. M. Vermeulen. Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York: 2004, in: 21:2 Banking & Finance Law Review 341-351 (2006)Full Text (PDF)Making Day to Day Sense of European Governance. Review of: Christian Calliess/Matthias Ruffert, Kommentar zu EU-Vertrag und EG-Vertrag, 2. Aufl., Luchterhand 2002 [Commentary to EC and EU Treaty, 2nd Ed. July 2002], in: Miller/Zumbansen (eds.), ANNUAL OF GERMAN & EUROPEAN LAW [AGEL] Vol. 1 (2003), Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York 2004, pp. 612-616.Full Text (PDF)Review of Ringleb/Kremer/Lutter/v.Werder, DEUTSCHER CORPORATE GOVERNANCE KODEX, München 2003, in: 58 Wertpapiermitteilungen [WM] 805-807 (2004)Full Text (PDF)

Publisher's Site (HTML)American and European Constitutionalism Compared: A Report from the UNIDEM Conference in Göttingen, 23-24 May 2003 (co-authored with Morag Goodwin), in: 4 German Law Journal 613-627 (2003)Full Text (PDF)Public Values, Private Contracts and the Colliding Worlds of Family and Market: German Federal Constitutional Court, ‘Marital Agreement’ Decisions of 6 February 2001 and 29 March 2001, in: 11 Feminist Legal Studies 71-84 (2003).Full Text (HTML)The Risk of Reverse Convertible Bonds: German Capital Market Law and Investor Protection, in: 3 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 12 ( 1 December 2002), co-authored with Sung-Kee KimFull Text (PDF)Gemeinwohl und Privatinteresse – Expertenhaftung am Scheideweg?, in: NEUE JURISTISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT [NJW] 2001, 3102 (Case Commentary on Bundesgerichtshof – Federal Court of Justice, 26 June 2001, co-authored with Bernd Kannowski). [Common Public Interest and Private Interest – Expert Liability at a Crossroads?]Full Text (HTML)Book Review - A Certain Constitutional History of the Federal Republic of Germany. Review of KRITISCHE VIERTELJAHRESSCHRIFT FÜR GESETZGEBUNG UND RECHTSPOLITIK, SONDERHEFT ZUM JUBILÄUM DES BUNDESVERFASSUNGSGERICHTS (Autumn 2000), in: 2 German Law Journal No. 10 (15 June 2001)Table of Contents (HTML)Private Law (Contracts): „Die falsch ausgelieferten Heizkörperregler“ (co-authored with Kilian Bälz), in: 23 Jura 249 (2000)Drittschützende Wirkung eines Anwaltvertrages und verdeckte Sacheinlage, Juristenzeitung [JZ] 2000, 442-446. [Third Party Protection of a Consultancy Contract and Corporate Finance]Ausländerrecht und internationales Familienrecht (co-authored with Kilian Bälz), in: Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht [ZAR] 1999, 37-39. [Immigration Law and International Family Law]Full Text (HTML)Book Review - Richard Posner, Legal Theory in the UK and USA, Oxford 1996, in: 10 European Journal of International Law [EJIL] 217-218 (1999)Full Text (PDF)Zur Gleichbehandlung von Lohnentgelt und Trinkgeld aus steuer- und arbeitsrechtlicher Sicht (co-authored with Sung-Kee Kim), in: BetriebsBerater [BB] 1999, 2454-2458. [Taxation and Employment Law Issues related to Tipping]Full Text (HTML)Book Review - Heike Kuhn, DIE SOZIALE DIMENSION DER EUROPÄISCHEN GEMEINSCHAFT, Duncker & Humblot: Berlin 1996, in: 9 European Journal of International Law [EJIL] 425-426 (1998)

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Full Text (HTML)Liability within Corporate Groups („Bremer Vulkan“): Federal Court of Justice Attempts the Overhaul (note on Bundesgerichtshof – Federal Court of Justice, 17 September 2001 – II ZR 178/99 – “Bremer Vulkan”, in: 3 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 1 (1 January 2002)Full Text (HTML)Constitutional Control Of Marital Agreements II: The FCC Affirms Its Path-Breaking Decision (note on Bundesverfassungsgericht – Federal Constitutional Court, 29 March 2001 (NJW 2001, 2248), in: 3 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 15 (15 September 2001)Full Text (HTML)Paving the Way for Cyberlaw: Two FCJ Decisions on Domain Names (note on Bundesgerichtshof – Federal Court of Justice, 17 May 2001 – I ZR 216/99 u. 251/99) in: 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 10 (15 June 2001)Full Text (HTML)No Need To Be Italian: ECJ [European Court of Justice] Hands Down Third Case Related To Nationality Requirements For Private Security Guards, in: 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 10 (15 June 2001)Full Text (HTML)Federal Court of Justice (BGH) Convicts Foreigner for Internet Posted Racial Incitement to Racial Hatred (note on Bundesgerichtshof – Federal Court of Justice, 12 December 2000 (NJW 2001, 624), in: 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 8 (1 May 2001)Full Text (HTML)Contracting in the Internet: German Contract Law and Internet Auctions (Landgericht – Regional Court Münster, 21 January 2000 – 4 O 429/99 and Oberlandesgericht – Higher Regional Court Hamm, 14 December 2000 – 2 U 58/00), in: 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 7 (15 April 2001)Full Text (HTML)Federal Constitutional Court affirms Horizontal Effect of Constitutional Rights in Private Law Relations and Voids a Marital Agreement on Constitutional Grounds (Essay on Bundesverfassungsgericht – Federal Constitutional Court, 6 February 2001 (NJW 2001, 957), in: 2 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 6 (1 April 2001)Full Text (HTML)From the Outside Looking In: The Jehovas’ Witnesses’ Struggle for Quasi Public Status under Germany’s Incorporation Law (Essay on Bundesverfassungsgericht – Federal Constitutional Court, 19 December 2000), in: 2 German Law Journal No. 1 (15 January 2001)Full Text (HTML)Note to Bundesgerichtshof - Federal Court of Justice, Decision of 18 May 2000 - IX ZR 43/99 (BGH NJW 2000, 2501), in: LM 10/2000, Nr. 32 § 781 BGB

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