Giesela Rühl

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Giesela Rühl (born March 8, 1974 in Duisburg ) is a German legal scholar . She researches and teaches at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

Life

Giesela Rühl studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1993 to 1998 . After the first state examination in law , she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg as a research assistant, where she did her doctorate with Jürgen Basedow with a comparative law thesis on the harmonization of insurance contract law in Europe. In 2001 she obtained a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley (USA). After passing the Second State Exam in Law in 2004, Giesela Rühl initially went to Harvard Law School (USA) as a Joseph Story Fellow for one year . She then returned to the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg and began working on her interdisciplinary habilitation thesis on the economic foundations of private international law. After research stays at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), she received her habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 2010 . Since 2010 she has held the chair for civil law , civil procedural law , international private and procedural law , European private law and comparative law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Giesela Rühl is an elected member of the European Law Institute , the International Academy of Comparative Law and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . She is also a member of the regional board of the German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV), mentor of the tandem scholarship program for "First Generation Students" of the German University Foundation and liaison lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation . From 2010 to 2015 she was a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. From 2013 to 2014 she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Junge Akademie. She has been Secretary General of the European Association of Private International Law since 2019 .

Giesela Rühl is (co-) editor of the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Private International Law published in 2017, (co-) editor of the information and discussion portal conflictoflaws.net and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML ). She is one of the initiators of the Young Academy's blog project “Science and Family”.

Giesela Rühl is married and has two children.

Awards

Giesela Rühl was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for her doctorate in 2003 . For her habilitation thesis she received the Carus Medal of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 2013 and the Carus Prize of the City of Schweinfurt in 2014 . The Encyclopedia of Private International Law , which she co-edited , was awarded a "Certificate of Merit" by the American Society of International Law in 2018 .

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Giesela Rühl deals with the challenges that globalization and European integration mean for law. She examines how the tension between globally networked societies and national law can be resolved. Her special focus is on the Europeanization of international private and procedural law . In terms of method, she draws on the instruments of comparative law and legal economics .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Statute and efficiency. Economic foundations of private international law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150698-7 .
  • Obligations in insurance contract law. On the way to the European single market for insurance . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148295-3 .
Essays
  • (Ex post) Evaluations of legislative actions in the European Union: the example of private international law. In: Netherlands Journal of Private International Law [NIPR] 2017, p.
  • Who's Afraid of Comparative Law? The (Side) Effects of Unifying Private International Law in Europe. In: European Review of Private Law [ERPL] 25 (2017), pp. 485-522.
  • The choice of English law and English courts after Brexit. On the future of England as a location for justice. In: JuristenZeitung [JZ] 2017, pp. 72–82.
  • Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution for Cross-Border Consumer Contracts: A Critical Evaluation of the European Legislature's Recent Efforts to Promote Competitiveness and Growth in the Internal Market . In: Journal of Consumer Policy [J. Consum. Pol.] 38 (2015), pp. 431-456.
  • Towards a European Code on Private International Law? In: Rabel's magazine for foreign and international private law [RabelsZ] 79 (2015), pp. 701–751 (with Jan von Hein)
  • The Protection of Weaker Parties in the Private International Law of the European Union: A Portrait of Inconsistency and Conceptual Truancy . In: Journal of Private International Law [J. Priv. Int'l L.] 10 (2014), pp. 335-358.
  • The Alternative Dispute Settlement Directive: Prospects and Options for Action . In: Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess [ZZP] 127 (2014), pp. 61–98.
  • Regulatory Competition in Contract Law: Empirical Evidence and Normative Implications . In: European Review of Contract Law [ERCL] 9 (2013), pp. 61–89.
  • The Common European Sales Law: 28th Regime, 2nd Regime or 1st Regime? In: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law [Maastricht J. Eur. & Comp. L.] 19 (2012), pp. 148-163.
  • The limitation of § 142 ZPO through the legal privilege . In: Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess [ZZP] 125 (2012), pp. 25–40.
  • Consumer Protection in Choice of Law . In: Cornell International Law Journal [Cornell Int'l LJ] 44 (2011), pp. 569-601.
  • The Problems of International Transactions: Conflict of Laws Revisited . In: Journal of Private International Law [J. Priv. Int'l L.] 6 (2010), pp. 59-91.
  • The presumption of deficiency in the purchase of consumer goods: The case law of the BGH in a comparative legal perspective . In: Rabel's magazine for foreign and international private law [RabelsZ] 73 (2009), pp. 912–934.
  • The limitation of warranty claims under sales law . In: Archives for civilist practice [AcP] 207 (2007), pp. 614–650.
  • The cost of freedom of choice: on the application of foreign law by German courts . In: Rabel's magazine for foreign and international private law [RabelsZ] 71 (2007), pp. 559–596.
  • Methods and Approaches in Choice of Law: An Economic Perspective . In: Berkeley Journal of International Law [Berkeley J. Int'l L.] 24 (2006), pp. 801-841.
  • Common Law, Civil Law and the Single European Market for Insurances . In: International & Comparative Law Quarterly [ICLQ] 55 (2006), pp. 879-910.
  • The English warranties - stumbling blocks on the way to the European single market for insurance? In: Journal for European Private Law [ZEuP] 14 (2006), pp. 607–629.
  • The pre-contractual notification requirement: Recommendations for a harmonized European insurance contract law . In: Journal for the entire insurance science [ZVersWiss] 94 (2005), pp. 479–515.
  • Perspectives for the harmonization of insurance contract law in Europe: on the design and practical handling of the English duty of disclosure . In: Journal for Comparative Law [ZVglRwiss] 104 (2005), pp. 319–354.
  • The Battle of the Forms - Comparative and Economic Observations . In: University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law [U. Penn. J. Int'l Econ. L.] 24 (2003), pp. 189-224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://iuscomparatum.info/ .
  2. ↑ http://www.dajv.de/ .
  3. ^ The governing bodies of the Association. August 23, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (UK English).
  4. ↑ http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/encyclopedia-of-private-international-law .
  5. ↑ http://www.conflictoflaws.net/ .
  6. ↑ https://rsw.beck.de/zeitschriften/eucml .
  7. ↑ http://blog.diejungeakademie.de/ .
  8. ↑ http://www.leopoldina.org/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung/press/2163/
  9. ↑ http://www.schweinfurt.de/wirtschaft-wissenschaft/aktuelles/3704.Carus-Preis_fuer_Physiker_Stefan_Hell_und_Juristin_Giesela_Ruehl.html
  10. ↑ Honors and Awards | ASIL. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rühl, Giesela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg