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:

On Sabbatical Leave 2009-2010:

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

E-mail: pzumbansen@osgoode.yorku.ca
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=109516
CLPE Web site: http://www.comparativeresearch.net/
German Law Journal: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/
Tel: 416-736-5535
Fax: 416-650-4321
Assistant: Angela Monardo, Room 328W
amonardo@osgoode.yorku.ca

Peer Zumbansen

Education:

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)

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
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
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:

Regulatory Governance (UCD Dublin)

Research Projects:

Corporate Law in the Knowledge Society

Selected Publications: (http://ssrn.com/author=109516)

Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (in print, Hart Publishing 2010, with Gralf-Peter Calliess)
Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory (in print, Edward Elgar 2010, edited with Gralf-Peter Calliess)
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, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1313725
‘New Governance’ in European Corporate Law Regulation as Transnational Legal Pluralism, in: 13 European Law Journal forthcoming (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