Ralf Michaels

Ralf Michaels (* 1969 ) is a German lawyer .

Life

He studied law in Passau and Cambridge . From 1992 to 1997 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1994 he passed the first state examination. From 1994 to 1995 and from 1996 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the chair for civil law, international private law and comparative law ( Klaus Schurig ) at the University of Passau . In 1995 he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Cambridge University (King's College). From 1995 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law with Jan Kropholler . 1999–2000 Joseph Story Fellow at Harvard Law School . After obtaining his doctorate in 2000 at the University of Passau and the second state examination, he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law from 2001 to 2002. From 2002 to 2007 was Assistant Professor, 2007–2012 Professor and 2012–2019 Arthur Larson Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. In 2005 he was a Lloyd Cutler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin . From 2009 to 2010 he was a Katherine and Martin Crane Fellow at Princeton University , Program in Law and Public Affairs. Since 2018 he has also held the Chair of Global Law at Queen Mary University of London . Since July 2019 he has been teaching as a professor at the University of Hamburg .

Since January 1, 2019, he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

His research areas are international private law, comparative law, private law theory and law and globalization.

Material allocation through sales contract. Principle of tradition, principle of consensus, ius ad rem in history, theory and applicable law . Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10530-3 .
as editor with Eckart Gottschalk, Giesela Rühl and Jan von Hein : Conflict of laws in a globalized world . Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87130-3 .
as editor with Nils Jansen : Beyond the state - rethinking private law. Conference held in the summer of 2007 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany . Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149862-6 .
as editor with Dennis Solomon : Liber amicorum Klaus Schurig. For the 70th birthday . Munich 2012, ISBN 3-86653-219-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Michaels, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1969