He gives a course on Globalization and Law (8 - 12 March 2010)
Peer Zumbansen
On Sabbatical Leave 2009-2010
Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance and Transnational Law, University College Dublin School of Law (2009-2010)
Since 2004: Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance, Osgoode Hall Law School
Education:
• Licence en droit (Paris 1991)
• LLB (Frankfurt 1995)
• LL.M. (Harvard 1998)
• Ph.D. law (Frankfurt 1998)
• Habilitation (Frankfurt 2004)
Since 2004: Director, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society (www.criticalresearchlab.org), two programs:
1. Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy [CLPE]
2. Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory [CURL]
Since 2009: Co-Founder, Member of Editorial Committee, Transnational Legal Theory
Since 2004: Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief, CLPE Research Paper Series (with John W. Cioffi)
Since 2000: Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief, German Law Journal (with Russell Miller)
Previous Appointments:
• 2007-2009: Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies & Institutional Relations)
• Fellow at the Hanse Institute of Advanced Study July-August 2009, June – August 2010
• Senior Fellow (The Melbourne Law Masters, Melbourne Law School) May-June 2009: Law, Globalisation and Development
• 1998-2004 Post-doctoral Senior Research Fellow, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt
• 2006, 2007, 2008 Visiting Professor, University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of the State”
• 2004 Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
• 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Idaho College of Law
• 2001-2002 Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Law Department
Courses taught:
Globalization and the Law
Business Associations
Legal Theory
Comparative Corporate Governance
Transnational Governance
more...
Research Projects:
Corporate Law in the Knowledge Society
Corporate Governance and the Embedded Firm
Reflexive Law and Legal Pluralism After the Welfare State
Transnational Law
Contractual Governance
The Global City University
Selected Publications: (http://ssrn.com/author=109516)
• The Law of Society: Governance Through Contract, 14 IND. J. GLOB. LEG. STUD. 191-233 (2007) [SSRN]
• Law, the State, and Evolutionary Theory: Introduction (with Gralf-Peter Calliess), 9 GERMAN L.J. 389-396 (2008)
• ‘New Governance’ in European Corporate Law Regulation as Transnational Legal Pluralism, in: 13 EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL forthcoming (2008) [SSRN]
• Law after the Welfare State: Formalism, Functionalism and the Ironic Turn of Reflexive Law, 56 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 769-805 (2008) [SSRN]
• The State as Black Box and Market as Regulator: A Comment, in 165:1 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS [JITE] 2009, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1292789
• Transitional Justice in a Transnational World: The Ambiguous Role of Law, CLPE RESEARCH PAPER NO. 40/2008, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1313725
• The Evolution Of The Corporation: Organization, Finance, Knowledge and Corporate Social Responsibility, CLPE Research Paper 06/2009, available at: http://ssrn.com/ abstract =1346971
• ROUGH CONSENSUS AND RUNNING CODE: A THEORY OF TRANSNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW (forthcoming, Hart Publishing 2009, with Gralf-Peter Calliess)