Ralf Michaels is Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Chair of Global Law at Queen Mary University of London and Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg. Until 2019, he was Arthur Larson Professor at Duke University School of Law ; he has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Toronto and Tel Aviv, as well as the London School of Economics. Michaels holds an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a doctorate in law from the University of Passau. He has published extensively on private international law, comparative law and legal theory. His current research interests include decolonial comparative law, regulatory conflict, the theoretical foundations of private international law and global legal plurality, as well as, more recently, sustainable legal theory. Michaels is a member of the Academia Europaea, the American Law Institute, the International Association of Comparative Law and the comparative law associations of the USA, Germany and France.
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Ralf Michaels
Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg