Niels Petersen

University of Muenster – Faculty of Law

Professor of Public Law, International Law and EU Law

Germany

http://www.nielspetersen.net

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Research Affiliate

Germany

http://https://www.coll.mpg.de/56547/prof-dr-niels-petersen.html

  • University of Muenster – Faculty of Law

  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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Antitrust Law and the Promotion of Democracy and Economic Growth

Journal of Competition Law & Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 593-636, 2013, MPI Collective Goods Preprint No. 2011/3
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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antitrust law, economic growth, democracy, panel data, first difference

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The Role of Consent and Uncertainty in the Formation of Customary International Law

Reexaminging Customary International Law, Brian Lepard, ed., CUP, 2017, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2011/4
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2016
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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international law, customary law, consent, persistent objector, common goods, coordination

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Proportionality and the Incommensurability Challenge – Some Lessons from the South African Constitutional Court

South African Journal on Human Rights, Vol. 30/3, 2014, pp. 405-429, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-07
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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Proportionality, balancing, South Africa, constitutional law, incommensurability, consistency, fundamental rights, Makwanyane, Manamela, justification

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Rational Choice or Deliberation? Customary International Law between Coordination and Constitutionalization

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 165, pp. 71-85, 2009, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/28
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2011
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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international law, customary law, rational choice, constructivism

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The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Politics of Identifying Customary International Law

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 357-385 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chx024, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2016/19
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2020
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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Determining the Domestic Effect of International Law Through the Prism of Legitimacy

Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Vol. 72, No. 2, 2012, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2009/39
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2013
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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international law, constitutional courts, legitimacy, US Supreme Court, European Court of Justice, ECJ, Germany, Kadi, Medellin, Görgülü

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Avoiding the Common Wisdom Fallacy: The Role of Social Sciences in Constitutional Adjudication

International Journal of Constitutional Law 11, pp. 294-318, 2013, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2011/22
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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constitutional law, constitutional theory, comparative law, Canada, Germany, South Africa, United States, social sciences, empirical studies, proportionality, uncertainty, margin of appreciation, deference

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How Rational is International Law?

European Journal of International Law, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2009, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2009/16
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2013
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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international law, rational choice, law & economics

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The Principle of Democratic Teleology in International Law

Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2008, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/16
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 May 2008 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2011
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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international law, democracy, democratic governance, legitimacy, elections

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Customary International Law and Public Goods

Custis Bradley (ed.), Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World, Cambridge University Press, 2015 Forthcoming, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2015/5
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2015
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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Empirical Research in Comparative Constitutional Law - the Cool Kid on the Block or All Smoke and Mirrors?

International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 19, Forthcoming 2021, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-01
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law and Institute for International and Comparative Public Law, University of Münster
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Legislative Inconsistency and the 'Smoking Out' of Illicit Motives

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 63, 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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consistency, coherency, proportionality, comparative constitutional law, strict scrutiny, capture, Germany, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom

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Empirische Verfassungsrechtswissenschaft – Zu Möglichkeiten und Grenzen quantitativer Verfassungsvergleichung und Richterforschung (Empirical Constitutional Law)

Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts (144) 2019, 501–535
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Oct 2021
Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law and Institute for International and Comparative Public Law, University of Münster
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Verfassungsrecht, Verfassungsdesign, Verfassungsgerichte, Rechtsvergleichung, Empirie

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Primacy’s Twilight? On the Legal Consequences of the Ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court of 5 May 2020 for the Primacy of EU Law

European Parliament, AFCO Committee, Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, 2021
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 10 Sep 2021
Niels Petersen and Konstantin Chatziathanasiou
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law and Institute for International and Comparative Public Law, University of Münster
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Primacy of EU law, PSPP judgment, German Federal Constitutional Court, Court of Justice, judicial dialogue, proportionality

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Karlsruhe's Lochner Moment? A Rational Choice Perspective on the German Federal Constitutional Court's Relationship to the CJEU After the PSPP Decision

German Law Journal, Vol. 21, pp. 995-1005 (2020)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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PSPP, German Federal Constitutional Court, ECB, pluralism, ultra vires

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Evaluation of Academic Legal Publications in Germany

Evaluating Academic Legal Research, Rob van Gestel and Andreas Lienhard (eds.), Edward Elgar (2019), Wageningen Working Paper Law and Governance 2018/05
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Jan 2019
Kai P. Purnhagen and Niels Petersen
University of Bayreuth and University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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The Implicit Taxonomy of the Equality Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee

Jean Monnet Working Paper 16/20; Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 34 (2021), forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Feb 2021
Niels Petersen
University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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equality, non-discrimination, Human Rights Committee, ICCPR, suspect criterion, sex discrimination, doctrine, race discrimination, arbitrariness

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Network Analysis and Legal Scholarship

German Law Journal, 2017
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Emanuel V. Towfigh and Niels Petersen
EBS Law School and University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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German Law Journal

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Ökonomische Methoden im Recht [Economic Methods in Law. An Introduction for Jurists] - 2nd edition

Ökonomische Methoden im Recht [Economic Methods in Law. An Introduction for Jurists], Mohr Lehrbücher Series, 2nd revised and up-dated edition, Tübingen 2017, joint work with Niels Petersen, in co-operation with Markus Englerth, Sebastian J. Goerg, Stefan Magen, Andreas Nicklisch (German)
Number of pages: 316 Posted: 21 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Emanuel V. Towfigh and Niels Petersen
EBS Law School and University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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Economic Methods for Lawyers (revised and expanded English edition)

Edgar Elgar International Academic Publisher, Cheltenham
Number of pages: 225 Posted: 09 Feb 2022
Emanuel V. Towfigh and Niels Petersen
EBS Law School and University of Muenster – Faculty of Law
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Game Theory, Public Choice, social choice theory, behavioural economics, empirical research design, basic statistics

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The Political Economy of International Law. A European Perspective

The Political Economy of International Law. A European Perspective, by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2016
Posted: 10 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2017
Alberta Fabbricotti, Eyal Benvenisti, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Barbara Delcourt, Evisa Kica, Ulyana Kohut, Tobias A. Lehmann, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Marion Panizzon, Panos Merkouris, Andre Nollkaemper, Niels Petersen, Paul B. Stephan, Joel P. Trachtman, Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken, Daniela Vitiello, Andreas von Staden, Ramses A. Wessel and Jan Wouters
Sapienza University of Rome, University of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Geneva - Faculty of Law - Department of Public International Law, Independent, Independent, Independent, University of St. Gallen - LS: School of Law, Students, University at Buffalo Law School, World Trade Institute, University of Groningen - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Muenster – Faculty of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School, Independent, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, University of Groningen - Faculty of Law and KU Leuven - Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies

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