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Christian Joerges (* 27. September 1943 in Weißenfels) is Professor Emeritus of Law and Society at the Hertie School of Governance. and Co-Director of the Centre for European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen.

Life and Legal Education

Joerges started his law studies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in 1962, spent a study term at University of Montpellier before completing his studies with the First State Examination in August 1966. Between 1966 and 1967, he was a researcher at the Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law, at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Following, he continued doctoral research under the supervision of professors Rudolf Wiethölter and Heinrich Kronstein. He defended his Ph. D in 1970 with a thesis Zum Funktionswandel des Kollisionsrechts: Die “Governmental Interest Analysis” und die “Krise des Internationalen Privatrechts.

Between 1972 and 1974 Joerges worked as an Assistant Lecturer at University of Frankfurt and an attorney of law in Frankfurt. In 1974, he was appointed Professor of German and European Private Law and Economic law at University of Bremen, where he later also headed the law department and co-directed the Center for European Law and Policy.

After a year as a guest professor, he was named full-time professor for Economic Law at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy in 1998. After 21 years at the EUI, and departing as Economic and Private Law Chair, Joerges was regarded as “one of the most senior professors” to leave the institute when he was replaced as chair by Hans Wolfang Micklitz in September 2007.

Between 2013-2018 he was senior professor for Law and Society at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Joerges held visiting professorships at the Columbia University School of Law, the Hauser Global Law Faculty at NYU, the University of Toronto. He returned from EUI to Universität Bremen’s Law Faculty in 2007 and was awarded a Research Professorship. At the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of the State” he organized with Josef Falke a long-term project on social regulation and international trade.

Main Fields of Research

His main fields of research are (1) German Private Law, (2) Private International Law (Conflict of Laws) and International Economic Law, (3) The Conceptual History of European Integration, (4) Europeanisation of Private Law, (5) European and International Social Regulation, (6) European Economic Law and the Financial Crisis, (7) Legal Theory and Economic Sociology and (8) Anti-liberal, National Socialist and Fascist Legacies of Law in Europe.

Honors

• 1964-1966 Student Scholarship from the Bischöfliche Studienstiftung Cusanuswerk.
• 1970 “Walter-Kolb-Gedächtnispreis” from the City of Frankfurt awarded by jury for "for a particularly good academic dissertation"
• 1985-86 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, NL
• 1992-1993 Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study
• 2009 Honorary Doctorate, University Freiburg i.Ue., Switzerland.
• Legal "experts from Europe and the US" joined to honor Joerges during a symposium, "The Political in the Economy and its Law" at Hertie School of Governance on May 12 2018.
• Joerges delivered the second annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in International and Comparative Law "Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture" at Duke University School of Law in 2003.
• On 5 December 2018, at the University of Amsterdam's law school, an "interdisciplinary group of scholars" discussed Christian Joerges’s work during a Symposium: Law, Conflict and Transformation.

Publications

Since 1971 Joerges has authored and co-authored close to 500 works including on German private law, private international law, legal theory, economic sociology and political economy.

Selected Publications

German Private Law

• Bereicherungsrecht als Wirtschaftsrecht. Eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklung von Leistungs- und Eingriffskondiktion, Köln: O. Schmidt 1977 (reprint from Die Aktiengesellschaft 1976, 281-293; 315-328) ISBN-10: 3504400102
• Verbraucherschutz als Rechtsproblem (Abhandlungen aus dem gesamten Bürgerlichen Recht), Handelsrecht und Wirtschaftsrecht, Heft 51, Heidelberg: Recht und Wirtschaft, 1981.

Private International Law (Conflict of Laws) and International Economic Law

• Zum Funktionswandel des Kollisionsrechts. Die “Governmental Interest Analysis” und die “Krise des Internationalen Privatrechts” (Beiträge zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht, Bd. 38), Berlin-Tübingen: de Gruyter-Mohr-Siebeck 1971, Reprint with De Gruyter (Berlin), 2020 ISBN: 978-3161602931
• Die klassische Konzeption des Internationalen Privatrechts und das Recht des unlauteren Wettbewerbs, 36 (1972) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 421-491. Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG

The Conceptual History of European Integration and Social Europe

• Conflict and Transformation. Essays on European Law and Policy. Essays on European Law and Policy, Oxford: Hart Publishing 2022 (International Studies in the Theory of Private Law: Volume 15). ISBN: 9781509926954

The Europeanisation of Private law

• “The Challenges of Europeanization in the Realm of Private Law: A Plea for a New Legal Discipline”, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 24 (2004), 149-196.
• Relational Contracts Law in a Comparative Perspective: Tensions Between Contract and Antitrust Law Principles, (1985) Wisconsin Law Review 581-613.

Social Regulation

• With Josef Falke, Hans-W. Micklitz, Gert Brüggemeier, Die Sicherheit von Konsumgütern und die Entwicklung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Europäische Rechtspolitik, Band 2), Baden-Baden: Nomos 1988; European Product Safety, Internal Market Policy and the New Approach to Technical Harmonisation and Standards, EUI Working Papers Law Nos. 91/10-14 and Hanse Law Review Hanse No. 2, Vol. 6. ISBN 978-3789014840
• Compliance research in legal perspectives”, in Michael Zürn and Christian Joerges (eds.), Law and Governance in Postnational Europe. Compliance Beyond the Nation-State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 218-261. ISBN: 9780511492099

Financial Crisis

• Ed. (with Carola Glinski), The European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance. Authoritarian Managerialism versus Democratic Governance, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014. ISBN: 9781849466325
• "Brother, can you paradigm"?, Review Essay (Kaarlo Tuori and Klaus Tuori. The Eurozone Crisis. A Constitutional Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), International Journal of Constitutional Law 12 (2014), 769-785. VIII, XII. ISBN: 9781107649453
• Anti-liberal, National Socialist and Fascist Legacies of Law in Europe“History as Non-History: Divergencies and Time Lags between Friedrich Kessler and German Jurisprudence,” 42 (1994) American Journal of Comparative Law 163-193.
• (Ed.), The Darker Side of a Pluralist Heritage: Anti-liberal Traditions in European Social Theory and Legal Thought, Special Issue of Law and Critique 14:3 (2003).

Blog Posts

• Justice within and between Polities, Debate about Europe’s Justice Deficit, VerfBlog Mi. 10. Jun. 2015; Online: https://verfassungsblog.de/justice-within-and-between-polities-2/
• With Florian Rödl, EU-Kommissionspräsident: Wen und was wollten wir eigentlich wählen? (EU Commission President: Who and what did we actually vote for?) VerfBlog Do. 3. Jul. 2014; Online: https://verfassungsblog.de/eu-kommissionspraesident-wen-und-wollten-wir-eigentlich-waehlen/
• Democratisation of Euro-Governance is the Solution!”—But what was the Problem?, Eutopia Law (Oct. 12, 2012), http://eutopialaw.com/2012/10/11/ democratisation-of-euro- governance-is-the-solution-but-what-was-the-problem/.
• Where the Law Ends, Debate about The Eurozone Crisis, Sa. 12. Apr. 2014; Online:
• Would the election of a Member of the European Parliament as President of the Commission make democratic sense? Mi. 4. Jul. 2012; Online: https://verfassungsblog.de/election-member-european-parliament-president-commission-democratic-sense/

Weblinks

• Literature by Christian Joerges in the catalog of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
• Christian Joerges, Dr. jur, Dr. jur. h.c. (Freiburg, i.Ue.) (Switzerland) Hertie School of Governance (Official Website)
• Official profile page of Christian Joerges, at Universität Bremen.