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1.

The Functional Method of Comparative Law

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 87
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Nov 2005
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Global Legal Pluralism

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Global Legal Pluralism

Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Vol. 5, 2009, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 259
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2009
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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state, community, international law, comparative law, conflict of laws, recognition

Global Legal Pluralism

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 5, pp. 243-262, 2009
Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

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Decolonial Comparative Law: A Conceptual Beginning

Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ), Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 166-188, January 2022, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2022-0007, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 22/1
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Jan 2022
Lena Salaymeh and Ralf Michaels
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Decolonial comparative law, Comparative law method, Decolonial theory, Pluriversality, Coloniality, Decolonial legal theory

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Globalization and Law: Law Beyond the State

Law and Social Theory (Banakar & Travers eds., Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2013), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2014
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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globalization, transnational law

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International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach

American Society of International Law Proceedings, Vol. 103, 2009, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 253, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 Jun 2009
Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels, Annelise Riles and Annelise Riles
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Northwestern Law SchoolBuffett Institute of Global Affairs
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International law and domestic courts, Conflict of Laws, Private International Law, International Law

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Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny's Private International Law and the Challenge of Europeanization and Globalization

Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 74
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Savigny, private, international law

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The True Lex Mercatoria: Law Beyond the State

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2008, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 220
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Sep 2008
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Conflict of Norms or Conflict of Laws? Different Techniques in the Fragmentation of Public International Law

MULTI-SOURCE EQUIVALENT NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, Tomer Broude & Yuval Shany, eds., Oxford: Hart, 2010
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2014
Ralf Michaels and Joost Pauwelyn
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2006, Duke Law School Research Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Jan 2007
Ralf Michaels and Nils Jansen
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and University of Münster
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EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory

Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 122
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Aug 2006
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in International Antitrust Law – A U.S. Perspective

INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST LITIGATION: CONFLICT OF LAWS AND COORDINATION (STUDIES IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW), Jürgen Basedow, Stéphanie Francq, Laurence Idot, eds., Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1974545
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Dec 2011
Hannah L. Buxbaum and Ralf Michaels
Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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antitrust, European law, comparative law, international litigation

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From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, 2012, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-30
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels, Annelise Riles and Annelise Riles
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Northwestern Law SchoolBuffett Institute of Global Affairs
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conflict of laws, feminism

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Non-State Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Contracts

Festschrift, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Jan 2014
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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non-state law, choice of law, international contracts

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The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 5, 2008, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 219
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Sep 2008
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Global Legal Pluralism and Conflict of Laws

Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Forthcoming), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-32
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 May 2019 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2019
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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conflict of laws, law and globalization, legal theory, legal pluralism

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Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions and Historical Observations

Rabels Zeitschrift Fuer Auslaendisches Und Internationales Privatrecht, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2007, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 136
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Jan 2007
Ralf Michaels and Nils Jansen
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and University of Münster
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Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism

Forthcoming in Pluralism and European Private Law (Leone Niglia, ed., Hart, 2013)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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european law, private law, legal pluralism, comparative law

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Private International Law and the Question of Universal Values

Forthcoming, The Continuing Relevance of Private International Law (Franco Ferrari & Diego P. Fernández Arroyo eds., Elgar, 2019) , Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-35
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 May 2019
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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values, justice, universality, pluralism, responsivity, technique

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Private or International? Two Economic Models for Private International Law of Torts

JÜRGEN BASEDOW & TOSHIYUKI KONO (eds.), PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, Mohr, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 73
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 12 Sep 2005
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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torts, international, law

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The Re-State-Ment of Non-State Law: The State, Choice of Law, and the Challenge from Global Legal Pluralism

Wayne Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 81
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Sep 2005
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Jurisdiction, Foundations

Forthcoming in Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Jürgen Basedow et al. eds.), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-53
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Forum non conveniens, Jurisdiction direct and indirect, Jurisdiction in personam and in rem, Jurisdiction levels of regulation, Jurisdiction of necessity, subject matter Jurisdiction, Lis alibi pe

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Does Brexit Spell the Death of Transnational Law?

German Law Journal (Brexit Suppl.), Vol. 17, p. 51, 2016, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-41
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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The UNIDROIT Principles as Global Background Law

Uniform Law Review, Vol. 19, no. 4 (2014)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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'One Size Can Fit All' – On the Mass Production of Legal Transplants

ORDER FROM TRANSFER—STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE (CONSTITUTIONAL) LAW, Günter Frankenberg ed., Elgar, 2013
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Dec 2012
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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law reform, law and culture, comparative law

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Comparative Law and Private International Law

Forthcoming in, Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Jürgen Basedow et al. eds.), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-50
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Oct 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Adaptation, Better law, False conflicts, Forum non conveniens, Comparative impairment, Interest analysis Ordre public, Renvoi,Transposition, Unification of private international law, Universalism

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Private International Law and the Legal Pluriverse

Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law, Roxana Banu, Michael Green, Ralf Michaels, eds., Forthcoming 2023, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 23/10
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 May 2023
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Carl Schmitt, William James, Decolonial, pluriversality, legal pluralism

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Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions

CONFLICT OF LAWS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR VON MEHREN, Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl, Jan von Hein, eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 123
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Aug 2006
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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After the Revolution – Decline and Return of U.S. Conflicts of Laws

Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. 11, pp. 11-30, 2009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 May 2010
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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interdiscipline, Restatement Conflict of Laws, same sex marriage, law and economics, legal pluralism

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Comparative Law by Numbers? Legal Origins Thesis, Doing Business Reports, and the Silence of Traditional Comparative Law

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 57, p. 765, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Jan 2010
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Foreword: Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2008, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 252, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-015
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2009
Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels, Annelise Riles and Annelise Riles
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Northwestern Law SchoolBuffett Institute of Global Affairs
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conflict of laws, private international law, legal theory, colonialism, feminism, anthropology, legal history

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Transnationalizing Comparative Law

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-8, TLI Think! Paper 02/2016
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Public and Private International Law: German Views on Global Issues

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 218, Journal of Private International Law, Vol. 4, No. 1
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Aug 2008
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Joseph Story

Forthcoming in Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Jürgen Basedow et al. eds.) , Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-56
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Of Islands and the Ocean: The Two Rationalities of European Private Law

THE FOUNDATIONS OF EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW, Roger Brownsword, Hans-W Micklitz, Leone Niglia, Steve Weatherill, eds., Hart Publishing, 2011
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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International Arbitration as Private or Public Good

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-57
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Towards Private International Law for Everyone

Elgar Research Handbook of Private International Law, Forthcoming, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 23/14
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2023
Ralf Michaels and Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Edinburgh Law School
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Functions of private international law, responsivity, cultural humility, interculturality, inter-systemic thinking

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Law and Recognition — Towards a Relational Concept of Law

Forthcoming in, Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Nicole Roughan & Andrew Halpin eds., Cambridge University Press), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 43
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Symposium: Success and Limits of Competition Law and Policy in Developing Countries

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, No. 4, 2016, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 252 Posted: 12 Jan 2018
Tim Buthe, Umut Aydin, A.E. Rodriguez, Ashok Menon, Eleanor M. Fox, Francisco Agüero, Marianela López-Galdos, William E. Kovacic, Yane Svetiev, Lei Wang and Ralf Michaels
Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Governance - Hochschule für Politik, Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Uppsala University - Department of Chemistry, New York University School of Law, Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Chile, George Washington University - Competition Law Center, George Washington University - Law School, University of Sydney Law School, University of Lucerne and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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antitrust, competition law, competition policy, developing countries

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Private International Law As an Ethic of Responsivity

Forthcoming, Diversity and Integration in Private International Law (Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm & Maria Blanca Noodt Taquela eds, Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018=57
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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recognition, Levinas, tolerance, responsivity

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Economics of Law as Choice of Law

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 73-104, 2008
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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choice of law, country of origin, governmental interest analysis, better-law approach

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The Mirage of Non-State Governance

Utah Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 May 2010
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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comparative law, NGOs, governance structures, globalization

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Anti-Enforcement Injunctions

NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 56, Pp. 101-118, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 24/11
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Jul 2024
Hannah L. Buxbaum and Ralf Michaels
Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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international litigation, jurisdiction, antisuit injunction, enforcement of foreign judgments

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Notes on Territory

Tipping Points in International Law – Commitment and Critique, pp. 332-349, Jean d'Aspremont, John Haskell, eds., Cambridge University Press, October 2021, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 20/18
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2023
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Territoriality, Legal geography, Sovereignty, International law

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The Right to Have Private Rights 

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 74, Supplement 1, pp. 128-150, May 2024, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 24/1
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2024
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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refugees, conflict of laws, human rights, Hannah Arendt

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Internationales Privatrecht als Rechtsvergleichung: Die kollisionsrechtlich-vergleichende Methode (Private International Law as Comparative Law: The Conflicts Method of Comparative Law)

Iurium itinera. Historische Rechtsvergleichung und vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte – Historical Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History. Reinhard Zimmermann zum 70. Geburtstag am 10. Oktober 2022, pp. 149-176, Nils Jansen, Sonja Meier, et al., eds., Mohr Siebeck, October 2022, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper 22/19
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Ernst Rabel, Kollisionsrecht, Funktionale Rechtsvergleichung, Kulturalistische Rechtsvergleichung, Qualifikation, allgemeine Rechtsbegriffe

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Private Law Theory and the “Global Legal Community”

German Law Journal (GLJ), pp. 851-861, July 2022, DOI: 10.1017/glj.2022.56, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 22/16
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Aug 2022
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Coloniality, Global South, Pluriversality, private law theory

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The Functionalism of Legal Origins

DOES LAW MATTER? ON LAW AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, 21-39 (100 Ius Commune Europaeum, Michael Faure & Jan Smits eds., 2011)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Mar 2013
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Legal Medievalism in Lex Mercatoria Scholarship

Texas Law Review See Also, Vol. 90, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Jun 2012
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Empagran’s Empire: International Law and Statutory Interpretation in the US Supreme Court of the 21st Century

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW; CONTINUITY OR CHANGE?, David L. Sloss, Michael D. Ramsey & William S. Dodge eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2014
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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antitrust, international law, statutory interpretation, civil litigation

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The Conflicts Restatement and the World

AJIL Unbound, Vol. 110, p. 155 (2016), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-51
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 08 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Dreaming Denationalized Law – Scholarship on Autonomous International Arbitration as Utopian Literature

1 London Review of International Law 35-62 (2013)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2014
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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international arbitration, non-state law, commercial arbitration

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Der Code des Kapitals und seiner Portabilität – Anmerkungen zu Katharina Pistor (The Code of Capital and its Portability – Comments on Katharina Pistor)

Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ), Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 890-906, October 2021, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2021-0051, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 21/30
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Nov 2021
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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IPR, Kapitalismus, Rechtswahl

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How Asian Should Asian Law Be? – An Outsider’s View

Forthcoming, Convergence of Commercial Laws in Asia: Methods and Drivers edited by Gary Low and Maartje de Visser, Cambridge University Press, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-58
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Sep 2018
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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comparative law, Asian law, Law & History

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Rollen Und Rollenverständnisse Im Transnationalen Privatrecht (Roles and Role Perceptions in Transnational Private Law)

Berichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für internationales Recht, Vol. 45, 2011
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Oct 2011
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Is Choice of Law Biased? How Would We Know?

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Vol. 179, No. 1, pp. 51-64, January 2023, DOI: 10.1628/jite-2023-0004, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 23/6
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 May 2023 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2023
Michael M. Karayanni and Ralf Michaels
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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local law theory, lex fori in foro proprio, better law, jurisdiction, choice of law method

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Kommentare zum transnationalen Privatrecht. Grenzen der Entnationalisierung eines nationalen Modells (Legal Commentaries in Transnational Private Law. The Limits to Denationalization of a National Model)

Juristische Kommentare: Ein internationaler Vergleich, pp. 395-416, David Kästle-Lamparter, Nils Jansen, Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Mohr Siebeck, November 2020, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 20/15
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2020
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Gesetzeskommentare, Rechtslehre, transnationales Recht, Rechtswissenschaft, Commentaries, Legal Doctrine, Transnational Law, Legal Academia

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Code vs. Code: Nationalist and Internationalist Images of the Code Civil in the French Resistance to a European Codification

European Review of Contract Law, Vol. 8, Forthcoming 2012
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 May 2012
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Towards Sustainable Private Law Theory

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume III, Paul B Miller and John Oberdiek, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Nov 2024
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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sustainability, planetary boundaries, private law theory, private ordering, global south, nature, future generations, externalities

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After the Backlash: A New PRIDE for Transnational Law

Forthcoming, Jessup's Bold Proposal: Critical Engagements with Transnational Law (Peer Zumbansen ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-26
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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transnational law, Brexit, legal theory, European Union

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Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2017, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2018-15, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-28
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Mar 2018
Ralf Michaels and Christopher A. Whytock
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and University of California, Irvine, School of Law
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Choice of Law, Conflict of Laws, Private International Law, International Law, Comparative Law, Restatement, Transnational Litigation, International Litigation

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Sustainability and Private International Law

Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability, pp. 479-499, Marta Santos Silva, Andrea Nicolussi, Christiane Wendehorst, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Marc Clément, Fryderyk Zoll, eds., Routledge, May 2024 [10.4324/9781032662046-34], Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 24/16
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2024
Ralf Michaels and Samuel Zeh
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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sustainability, regulation, facilitation, coordination, functions of private international law

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Carl Georg Von Wächter

Forthcoming in Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law (Jürgen Basedow et al. eds.), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-55
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2016
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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lex fori, Party autonomy, Savigny, theory, of statutes vested rights, politicization of private international law, delict

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Climate's Empire in Comparative Law

Tilburg Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1–19, December 2023, DOI: 10.5334/tilr.341, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 24/4
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2024
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Comparative Law, Legal History, climate theory, Determinism, Climate Crisis

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EU-Lieferketten-Richtlinie und internationale Zuständigkeit (The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction)

Gedächtnisschrift für Peter Mankowski, pp. 775-791, Christian von Bar, Oliver L. Knöfel, Ulrich Magnus, Heinz-Peter Mansel, Arkadiusz Wudarski, eds., Mohr Siebeck, September 2024 [10.1628/978-3-16-163992-0], Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 25/2
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Ralf Michaels and Antonia Sommerfeld
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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EU-Lieferketten-RL, internationale Lieferketten, zivilrechtliche Haftung, Durchsetzung von Umwelt und Menschenrechtsstandards, Internationale Zuständigkeit, Internationales Privatrecht, forum legis, forum necessitatis, forum connexitatis, doing business jurisdiction, CSDDD / CS3D, Global Value Chains, civil liability, Corporate Sustainability, Jurisdiction, Private International Law

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Das Persönlichkeitsrecht am Bild der eigenen Sache (Personhood and the Rights in the Images of One's Property)

Ius Vivum: Kunst – Internationales – Persönlichkeit. Festschrift für Haimo Schack zum 70. Geburtstag, pp. 974-985, Sebastian Kubis, Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, Benjamin Raue, Malte Stieper, eds., Mohr Siebeck, September 2022, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 23/3
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2023
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Urheberrecht, Radin, Eigentumstheorie, Fotografie, geliebte Objekte

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Einleitung zum Symposium: Grundrechte und IPR im Lichte der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Kinderehenbekämpfungsgesetz (Symposium Introduction: Fundamental Rights and Private International Law after the Federal Constitutional Court Decision on the Act to Combat Child Marriages)

Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ), Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 707-713, November 2023, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0084, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 24/2
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2024
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Kinderehe, Frühehe, Internationales Eherecht, Verfassung und internationales Privatrecht, Bundesverfassungsgericht

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Was ist fremdes Recht? – Rechtstheoretische Grundlagen des § 293 ZPO (What is Foreign Law? – The Legal-Theoretical Basis of § 293 of the German Code of Civil Procedure)

Das Gutachten zum ausländischen Recht im Prozess des 21. Jahrhunderts, pp. 33-59, Ralf Michaels, Jan Peter Schmidt, eds., Mohr Siebeck, March 2025 [10.1628/978-3-16-163411-6], Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 25/10
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 May 2025 Last Revised: 23 May 2025
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Gutachten, H.L.A. Hart, Richter, internationales Privatrecht, Urteil

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Die Hamburger Leitlinien zur Ermittlung und Anwendung ausländischen Rechts in deutschen Verfahren: Entstehung, Ziele, Inhalt (Hamburg Guidelines for Ascertaining and Applying Foreign Law in German Litigation: Origin, Objectives, Content)

Das Gutachten zum ausländischen Recht im Prozess des 21. Jahrhunderts, pp. 235-248, Ralf Michaels, Jan Peter Schmidt, eds., Mohr Siebeck, March 2025 [10.1628/978-3-16-163411-6], Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 25/12
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2025 Last Revised: 22 May 2025
Ralf Michaels and Jan Peter Schmidt
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
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Application of Foreign Law, Expert Opinions, Legal Framework, Practical Recommendations, Anwendung ausländischen Rechts, Gutachten, rechtlicher Rahmen, praktische Empfehlungen