Kai Purnhagen

Kai Peter Purnhagen (* 1980 in Gießen ) is a German legal scholar at the University of Bayreuth .

Life

Purnhagen studied law at the Universities of Giessen and Madison and received his doctorate in 2011 from the European University Institute in Florence . After periods as post-doc at the University of Amsterdam and Academic Council a. Z. at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he was appointed Assistant Professor in the tenure track at the Wageningen University in 2013 and became a senior fellow at the Wageningen School of Social Sciences and the ius commune research school. He successfully completed the tenure track as a Senior Associate Professor with ius doctoral programs in 2020.

In July 2020 he accepted a professorship for food law at the University of Bayreuth , which is linked to the work as co-director of the research center for German and European food law. He also taught and researched as a guest at numerous institutions such as the London School of Economics and Political Sciences , the University of Lucerne , the Erasmus University Rotterdam , the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the University of Wisconsin-Madison . For his research he has received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service , the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison , the ERASMUS program and the European University Institute in Florence .

Purnhagen works in European law , international commercial law as well as interdisciplinary analysis of law and in comparative law .

Eva van der Zee, a lawyer, is one of his PhD students.

Fonts (selection)

Editorial activity

Series of publications

• Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation (Springer Science) (joint editor with Josephine van Zeben ). ISSN  2214-2037
• Economic Analysis in European Legal Scholarship (Editorial Board).

Magazines

• Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law (editorial board)
• Journal of Consumer Policy (Editorial Board)
• European Journal of Risk Regulation (first founding editor, then advisory board)

Books (including editorships)

• with Peter Feindt , Christiane Krämer, Andrea Früh-Müller, Alois Heißenhuber , Claudia Pahl-Wostl , Fabian Thomas, Caroline van Bers, Volkmar Wolters : A new social contract for sustainable agriculture Springer Open, New York et al 2019. ISBN 978-3 -662-58655-6 ( [1] )
• with Lucila de Almeida , Marta Cantero Gamito and Matea Durovic (eds.): The Transformation of Economic Law. Hart Publishing, Oxford 2019, ISBN 978-1-5099-3260-3 . ( bloomsburyprofessional.com )
• with Harry Bremmers (Ed.): Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU. Springer Science, New York et al 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-77043-7 . ( link.springer.com )
• with Liesbeth Dries , Wim Heijman , Roel Jongeneel and Justus Wesseler (eds.): EU Bioeconomy Economics and Policies. Volume I, Palgrave Macmillan , 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-28633-0 . ( palgrave.com )
• with Liesbeth Dries , Wim Heijman , Roel Jongeneel and Justus Wesseler (eds.): EU Bioeconomy Economics and Policies. Volume II, Palgrave Macmillan , 2019, ISBN 978-3-03028641-5 ( palgrave.com )
• with Genevieve Helleringer (Ed.): Towards a European Legal Culture. CH Beck, Hart, Nomos, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84946-491-8 . ( bloomsburyprofessional.com )
• The Politics of Systematization in EU Product Safety Law. Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-94-007-6542-9 . ( link.springer.com ); (revised version of the dissertation for publication)

Magazine articles

• with Verena Preusse, Liesbeth Dries, The Brussels Effect in Action: Do the EU's Standards Travel Abroad ?: A Study on Control Systems for Geographical Indications in the EU and Thailand, Houston Journal of International Law (2020).
• with Hanna Schebesta, Island or Ocean: Empirical Evidence on the Average Consumer Concept in the UCPD , 28 European Review of Private Law 293-310 (2020).
• with Josephine van Zeben, Christiane Ahlborn, Peter Oosterveer, Beyond Food Safety - EU Food Information Standards as a Facilitator of Political Consumerism and International Law Enforcement Mechanism, European Law Review (2020) (judgment meeting).
• with Dennis Eriksson et al: A comparison of the EU regulatory approach to directed mutagenesis with that of other jurisdictions, consequences for international trade and potential steps forward, 222 New Phytologist 1673-1684 (2019).
• with Taufik Haryanto : Governing nature conservation in political “hotbeds” - A contractual approach, 25 Hastings Environmental Law Journal 143 (2019).
• with Justus Wesseler : Maximum vs. Minimum Harmonization: What to expect from the institutional and legal battles in the EU on Gene editing technologies ?, Pest Management Science , 2310-2315 (2019).
• How to manage the Union's diversity: The regulation of New Plant Breeding Technologies in Confédération paysanne and Others, Common Market Law Review , 1379 - 1396 (2019) (judgment meeting).
• with Esther Kok et al: EU court casts new plant breeding techniques into regulatory limbo, Nature Biotechnology , 799-800 (2018).
• with Esther Kok et al: The European Union Court's Advocate General's Opinion and new plant breeding techniques, Nature Biotechnology , 573-575 (2018).
• with Vicky Stone et al: The Essential Elements of a Risk Governance Framework for Current and Future Nanotechnologies, Risk Analysis , 1321-1331 (2018).
• with Hanna Schebesta: Is the 'Behavioral Turn' in Consumer Law Taken by Dutch Courts ?, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken, 1321-1331 (2018).
• with Peter Feindt : Principles-based regulation - blueprint for a “New Approach” for the internal agricultural market, European Law Review , 722-763 (2017).
• with Hanna Schebesta : A Case moving at the Frontiers of Market Access, Freedom of Goods, the Common Agricultural Policy and Science in Court - Reflections on Scotch Whiskey Association, European Law Review , 420-433 (2017) (judgment meeting).
• with Erica van Herpen : Can Bonus Packs Mislead Consumers? A Behavioral Law and Economics Assessment of the ECJ's Mars Judgment and its Potential Impact on the “Average Consumer” in Internal Market Law, Journal of Consumer Policy , 217-234 (2017).
• with Lucia Reisch : "Nudging Germany"? Challenges for behavior-based regulation in Germany, Journal for European Private Law , 629-655 (2016).
• with Dominique Sinopoli: When life gives you lemons: The battle on the correct interpretation of data in the citrus black spot disease between the EU and South Africa in WTO law according to the SPS agreement, Trade, Law and Development (2016), 29- 62.
• with Dominique Sinopoli: Reversed Harmonization or Horizontalization of EU Standards? Or: Does WTO Law Facilitate or Constrain the Brussels Effect ?, Wisconsin International Law Journal , 92-119 (2016).
• with Johannes Saurer : Climate change in court - The legal dispute of the non-governmental organization “Urgenda” against the Netherlands and its importance for Germany, Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht , 16-23 (2016).
• Mapping Private Regulation - Classification, Market Access and Market Closure Policy and Law's Response, Journal of World Trade , 309-324 (2015).
• The EU′s Precautionary Principle in Food Law is an Information Tool, European Business Law Review (2015), 903-921.
• with Peter Feindt : Better Regulatory Impact Assessment: Making Behavioral Insights Work in the Commission's New Better Regulation Strategy, European Journal of Risk Regulation , 361-368 (2015).
• The attribution of entrepreneurial and consumer activities in §§ 13 and 14 BGB as reflected in the case law - cornerstone of a concept ?, consumers and law, 3-9 (2015).
• The Behavioral Law and Economics of the Precautionary Principle in the EU and its Impact on Internal Market Regulation, Journal of Consumer Policy , 453-464 (2014).
• with Harry Bremmers and Bernd van der Meulen, Multi-Stakeholder Responses to the European Health Claims Requirements, Journal on Chain and Network Science, 161-172 (2013).
• Beyond Threats to Health: May Consumers' Interest in Safety Trump Fundamental Freedoms in Information on Foodstuffs? Reflections on Berger vs. Free State of Bavaria, European Law Review , 711-719 (2013) (judgment discussion).
• After the transitional period for the unisex judgment has expired - legal consequences for insurance contract law, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift , 113-118 (2013).
• with Dennis-Jonathan Mann, The Nature of Union Citizenship between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship - A Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: How to Avoid a European Dred Scott Decision ?, Wisconsin International Law Journal , 484-533 (2012).
• Principles of European Private Or Civil Law? - A Reminder of The Symbiotic Relationship Between the ECJ and the DCFR in a Pluralistic European Private Law, European Law Journal , 113-118 (2012).
• with Jörg Binding: Regulations on E-Commerce Consumer Protection Rules in China and Europe Compared - Same Same but Different ?, Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law , 186-194 (2011).

• On the interpretation of the obligation to provide supplementary performance - A bang from Luxembourg, European Journal for Business Law , 626-630 (2011).

Book contributions

• From Supranationality to Managing Diversity - A (Re-) New (ed) Paradigm for the Establishment of the Internal Market ?, in: Sacha Garben and Inge Govaere (Eds.) Internal Market 2.0 , Hart, Oxford 2020.
• with Johannes Saurer : Member State Liability under EU Law, in: Wolfgang Kahl and Marc-Philippe Weller (Eds.) Climate Change Litigation , CH Beck, Hart, Nomos 2020.
• with Jessica Vapnek and Ben Hillel : Regulatory and Legislative Framework for Novel Foods, in: Shivani Pathania and Brijesh Towari (Eds.) Food Formulation: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques, Wiley-Blackwell , 2020.
• with Hanna Schebesta, Limits to Behavioral Consumer Law and Policy - The Case of EU Alcohol labeling, in: Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor (Eds.) Consumer Law and Economics , Springer Science, New York et al 2020.
• Keck is dead, long live Keck? - How the Court Tries to Avoid a Sunday Trading Saga 2.0, in: Fabian Amtenbrink , Gareth Davies , Dimitry Kochov and Justin Lindeboom (eds.) The Internal Market and the Future of European Integration, Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 2019, 176-187 .
• with Hanna Schebesta: An Average Consumer Concept of Bits and Pieces, in: Lucida de Almeida , Marta Cantero Gamito , Mateja Durovic and Kai Purnhagen (eds.), The Transformation of Economic Law, Hart, Oxford 2019, 176-187.
• with Niels Petersen : Evaluating Academic Legal Publications in Germany, in: Rob van Gestel and Andreas Lienhard (Eds.), Evaluating Academic Legal Research in Europe, Edward Elgar , Cheltenham 2018, 88-103.
• Regulatory Validity, in: Hans Micklitz , Anne-Lise Sibony and Fabrizio Esposito (eds.), Research Methods in Consumer Law, Edward Elgar , Cheltenham 2018, 276-295.
• Who Recognizes Standards in TTIP ?, in: Elaine Fahey , (Ed.), Institutionalization Beyond the Nation State, Springer Science, New York et al 2018, 97-110.
• with Ellen van Kleef: Commanding to Nudge via the Proportionality Principle ?, in: Harry Bremmers and Kai Purnhagen (Eds.), Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU - A legal-economic analysis, Springer Science, New York et al 2018, 151-168.
• with Justus Wesseler : The "Honey" Judgment Bablok and Others vs. Freistaat Bayern of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Implications for Co-Existence, in: Nick Kalaitzandonakes , Peter Phillips , Stuart Smyth and Justus Wesseler (eds.), The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods: Government Policies and Market Practices, Springer Science, New York et al 2016, 149-165.
• with Erica van Herpen and Ellen van Kleef: The Potential Use of Visual Packaging as Nudges - An Analysis on the Example of the EU Health Claims Regime, in: Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor (Eds.), Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics, Springer Science, New York et al 2016, 197-216.
• with Ari Afilalo and Dennis Patterson: Statecraft, the Market State and the Development of European Legal Culture, in: Geneviéve Helleringer and Kai Purnhagen (eds.), Towards a European Legal Culture CH Beck, Hart, Nomos 2014, 227-302.
• with Jens-Uwe Franck: Homo Economicus, Behavioral Science, And Regulation: What Does EU Law teach us on The Individual Behavior Model to Adopt For Internal Market Regulation ?, in: Klaus Mathis (Ed.), Law and Economics in Europe: Foundations and Applications, Springer 2014, pp. 329-365.

Blog posts

• with Justus Wesseler, The SAM Report “Towards a Sustainable Food System” bites the hand that feeds us! , European Law Blog (2020).
• with Hanna Schebesta, Tom Verdonk and Bert Keirsbilck, Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain: Regulating Right? Oxford Business Law Blog (January 11, 2019).
• with Josephine van Zeben, Hanna Schebesta and Robbert Biesbroek, Rumbling in Robes Round 2 - Civil Court Orders Dutch State to Accelerate Climate Change Mitigation , European Law Blog (January 9, 2019).

honors and awards

2018 Excellence in Education Award from Wageningen University

Web links

• dr. KP (Kai) Purnhagen LLM - Associate Professor. Wageningen University (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/4465/browse?authority=32248&type=author
2. ↑ https://www.infranken.de/regional/kulmbach/ein-campus-in-den-startloechern;art312,5002655
3. ↑ Internet editors : Prof. Dr. Eva van der Zee: Law: University of Hamburg. Retrieved July 28, 2020 . 
4. ^ Opening Month of Education. Accessed June 1, 2020 .