Peer Zumbansen
Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory
Director, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society (www.criticalresearchlab.org), two programs:
Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory
Director, Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society (www.criticalresearchlab.org), two programs:
- Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy [CLPE]
- Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory [CURL]
Co-Director, European Union Centre of Excellence, York University
www.yorku.ca/euce
2010-2011 York-Massey Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
German Law Journal: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/
Teaching:
- Osgoode Graduate Program, Study Group: Law in a Global Context “Legal Theory and Global Governance”, Mondays, 6-8 pm, Massey College [Program]
- Osgoode JD Program, German Law Journal (Transnational and EU Law), Wednesdays, 1-2:30 pm, Ross S 821.
Education:
- Licence en droit (Paris 1991)
- LLB (Frankfurt 1995)
- LL.M. (Harvard 1998)
- Ph.D. law (Frankfurt 1998)
- Habilitation (Frankfurt 2004)
Research:
SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=109516
Since 2000: Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief, German Law Journal (with Russell Miller)
Since 2004: Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief, CLPE Research Paper Series (with John W. Cioffi and Lisa Philipps [since 2009])
Previous Appointments:
- 2006-2009, Associate Professor (with tenure)
- 2004-2006, Assistant Professor
- 2004-2009: Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance, Osgoode Hall Law School
- 2007-2009: Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies & Institutional Relations)
- 1998-2004 Post-doctoral Senior Research Fellow, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt
Visitorships:
- Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance and Transnational Law, University College Dublin School of Law, Ireland (2009-2010)
- July-August 2009 / June-August 2010 Fellow, Hanse Institute of Advanced Study, Bremen-Delmenhorst, Germany
- March 2010, Visiting Professor, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain (Course: Globalisation and the Law)
- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 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
- Senior Fellow (The Melbourne Law Masters, Melbourne Law School) May-June 2009: Law, Globalisation and Development
- Fellow at the Hanse Institute of Advanced Study 2009, 2010
- October 2009, Visiting Professor, University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law, Lucerne, Switzerland
Courses taught:
Legal Theory and Global Governance
Regulatory Governance (UCD Dublin)
Comparative Corporate Governance
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Research Projects:
Corporate Law in the Knowledge Society
Corporate Governance and the Embedded Firm
Reflexive Law and Legal Pluralism After the Welfare State
Selected Publications: (http://ssrn.com/author=109516)
- Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (Hart Publishing 2010, with Gralf-Peter Calliess)
- The Conundrum of Order: The Concept of Governance from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, in David Levi-Faur, The Oxford Handbook on Governance (OUP, forthcoming 2011), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1671673
- 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. 10/2010. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1595158
- Transnational Legal Pluralism, 1:2 Transnational Legal Theory 141-189 (2010), CLPE Research Paper 01/2010, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1542907
- The Next ‘Great Transformation’ of Markets and States in the Transnational Space: Global Assemblages of Corporate Governance & Financial Market Regulation, CLPE Research Paper 09/2009, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1415463
- Law after the Welfare State: Formalism, Functionalism and the Ironic Turn of Reflexive Law, 56 American Journal of Comparative Law 769-805 (2008) [SSRN]
- Transitional Justice in a Transnational World: The Ambiguous Role of Law, CLPE Research Paper No.40/2008, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1313725
- ‘New Governance’ in European Corporate Law Regulation as Transnational Legal Pluralism, in: 15:2 European Law Journal (2009), 246-276, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1128145
- The State as Black Box and Market as Regulator: A Comment, in 165:1 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics [JITE] 2009, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1292789