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


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:

  • 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:

  • Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy [CLPE]
  • 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:

Courses taught:

Globalization and the Law

Business Associations

Legal Theory

Comparative Corporate Governance

Transnational 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

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)