Publications

Ralf Michaels, EU Law as Private International Law? Re-conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory (ZERP-Diskussionspapier, 5/2006) 2006, 51 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Sachzuordnung durch Kaufvertrag. Traditionsprinzip, Konsensprinzip, ius ad rem in Geschichte, Theorie und geltendem Recht, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, 474 pp.

Eckart Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl, Jan von Hein (eds.), Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne etc. 2007, XVI + 302 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Dennis Solomon (eds.), Liber Amicorum Klaus Schurig, Sellier, München 2012, X + 323 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen (eds.), Beyond the State - Rethinking Private Law, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, XII + 422 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Blog Posts: Verfassungsblog: https://verfassungsblog.de/author/ralf-michaels/.

Ralf Michaels, Blog Posts: Conflictoflaws.net: http://conflictoflaws.net/author/ralf-michaels/.

Ralf Michaels, Blog Posts: Law and Political Economy: https://lpeblog.org/author/ralfmichaels/.

Reinhard Zimmermann, Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels (eds.), Juristische Methodenlehre, Jahrestreffen der Freunde des Hamburger Max-Planck-Instituts, Hamburg, 30. Juni 2018 (Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 83,2, Schwerpunkt S. 241-397), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019, 156 pp.

Ralf Michaels (ed.), Symposium: Legal Origins Thesis, Doing Business Reports, and Comparative Law (special editor) (The American Journal of Comparative Law, 57:4, 765-876), American Society of Comparative Law, Berkeley 2009, 122 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen (eds.), Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law (symposium issue editor) (The American Journal of Comparative Law, 56:3, 527-843), American Society of Comparative Law, Berkeley 2008, 317 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Karen Knop, Annelise Riles (eds.), Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws (special editor) (Law and Contemporary Problems, 71:3) 2008, 349 pp.

Ralf Michaels, Stephen Bornick, Jonathan White (eds.), CICLOPs – Duke Law Center for International Studies Occasional Papers.

Ralf Michaels, Preamble I: Purposes, legal nature, and scope of the PICC; applicability by courts; use of the PICC for the purpose of interpretation and supplementation and as a model, in: Stefan Vogenauer (ed.), Commentary on the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts (PICC), 2 ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, 31–109.

Ralf Michaels, Preamble I: Purposes, legal nature, and scope of the PICC; applicability by courts; use of the PICC for the purpose of interpretation and supplementation and as a model, in: Stefan Vogenauer, Jan Kleinheisterkamp (eds.), Commentary on the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts (PICC), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, 21–80.

Ralf Michaels, Eigentum, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, vol. I, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 358–362.

Ralf Michaels, Erwerb von Nichtberechtigten, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, vol. I, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 451–454.

Ralf Michaels, Rechtskultur, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, vol. II, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 1255–1259.

Ralf Michaels, Rechtsvergleichung, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, vol. II, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 1265–1269.

Ralf Michaels, Restatements, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, vol. II, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, 1295–1299.

Ralf Michaels, Systemfragen des Schuldrechts, in: Mathias Schmoeckel, Joachim Rückert, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Historisch-kritischer Kommentar zum BGB, Bd. II, Mohr, Tübingen 2007, 1–97.

Ralf Michaels, International Arbitration as Private and Public Good, in: Thomas Schultz, Federico Ortino (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, 398–420.

Ralf Michaels, Comparative Law and Private International Law, in: Jürgen Basedow, Gisela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds.), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, vol. I, Elgar, Cheltenham 2017, 417–425.

Ralf Michaels, Jurisdiction, Foundations, in: Jürgen Basedow, Gisela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds.), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, vol. II, Elgar, Cheltenham 2017, 1042–1051.

Ralf Michaels, Story, Joseph, in: Jürgen Basedow, Gisela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds.), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, vol. II, Elgar, Cheltenham 2017, 1659–1667.

Ralf Michaels, Waechter, Carl Georg von, in: Jürgen Basedow, Gisela Rühl, Franco Ferrari, Pedro de Miguel Asensio (eds.), Encyclopedia of Private International Law, vol. II, Elgar, Cheltenham 2017, 1824–1832.

Ralf Michaels, American Law (United States), in: Jan Smits (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Elgar, Cheltenham 2006, 66–77.

Ralf Michaels, Private international law as an ethic of responsivity, in: Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, María Blanca Noodt Taquela (eds.), Diversity and integration in private international law, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2019, 11–27.

Ralf Michaels, The Dual Privatisation of Law in Globalisation (Note on Kasky v Nike), in: Horatia Muir Watt, Lucia Bíziková, Agatha Brandão Oliveira, Diego Fernández Arroyo (eds.), Global private international law: adjudication without frontiers, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2019, 162–171.

Ralf Michaels, The Functional Method of Comparative Law, in: Mathias Reimann, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, 2 ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 2019, 345–389.

Ralf Michaels, Private International Law and the Question of Universal Values, in: Franco Ferrari, Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (eds.), Private International Law, Contemporary Challenges and Continuing Relevance, Elgar, Cheltenham 2019, 148–177.

Ralf Michaels, Law and Recognition – Towards a Relational Concept of Law, in: Nicole Roughan, Andrew Halpin (eds.), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017, 90–115.

Ralf Michaels, Zugangsschranken – Zur Nichtrezeption der Systemtheorie in den USA, in: Michael Grünberger, Nils Jansen (eds.), Privatrechtstheorie heute, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, 238–267.

Ralf Michaels, What is Non-State Law? A Primer, in: Michael A. Helfand (ed.), Negotiating State and Non-State Law: the Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, 41–58.

Ralf Michaels, Post-Critical Private International Law: From Politics to Technique, in: Horatia Muir Watt, Diego Fernández Arroyo (eds.), Private international law and global governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, 54–67.

Ralf Michaels, Roles and Role Perceptions in International Commercial Arbitration, in: Walter Mattli, Thomas Dietz (eds.), International arbitration and global governance – contending theories and evidence, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, 47–73.

Ralf Michaels, On Liberalism and Legal Pluralism, in: Miguel Poiares Maduro, Kaarlo Tuori, Suvi Sankari (eds.), Transnational Law – Rethinking European Law and Legal Thinking, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, 122–142.

Ralf Michaels, Was ist nichtstaatliches Recht? Eine Einführung [What is Non-State Law? An Introduction], in: Gralf-Peter Calliess (ed.), Transnationales Recht – Stand und Perspektiven, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, 39–56.

Ralf Michaels, Globalisation and Law: Law Beyond the State, in: Reza Banakar, Max Travers (eds.), Law and Social Theory, 2 ed., Hart, Oxford 2013, 287–303.

Ralf Michaels, „One Size Can Fit All“ – Some Heretical Thoughts On Mass Production of Legal Transplants, in: Günter Frankenberg (ed.), Order from Transfer – Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture, Elgar, Cheltenham 2013, 56–78.

Ralf Michaels, Make or Buy – A Public Market for Legal Transplants?, in: Horst Eidenmüller (ed.), Regulatory Competition in Contract Law and Dispute Resolution, C.H. Beck, München 2013, 27–41.

Ralf Michaels, Why We Have No Theory Of European Private Law Pluralism, in: Leone Niglia (ed.), Pluralism and European Private Law, Hart, Oxford 2013, 139–159.

Ralf Michaels, Hannah Buxbaum, European Class Actions and Applicable Law, in: Arnaud Nuyts, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail (eds.), Cross-Border Class Actions – The European Way, Sellier, München 2013, 111–141.

Ralf Michaels, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, in: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Max Planck Society, Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, vol. 8: [PA - SA], Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 672.

Ralf Michaels, Rollen und Rollenverständnis im transnationalen Privatrecht (Roles and Role Perceptions in Transnational Private Law), in: Bardo Fassbender, Christiane Wendehorst, Erika de Wet, Anne Peters, Ralf Michaels, Christian Tietje, Hanno Merkt, Friedl Weiss, Jan von Hein (eds.), Paradigmen im internationalen Recht – Implikationen der Weltfinanzkrise für das internationale Recht (Berichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht, 45), C.F. Müller, Heidelberg 2012, 175–227.

Ralf Michaels, Acquisition of Ownership from a Non-Owner, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, vol. I, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 15–18.

Ralf Michaels, Comparative Law, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, vol. I, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 298–302.

Ralf Michaels, Legal Culture, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, vol. II, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 1060–1064.

Ralf Michaels, Property, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, vol. II, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 1373–1376.

Ralf Michaels, Restatements, in: Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, vol. II, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 1466–1470.

Ralf Michaels, Hannah Buxbaum, Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in International Antitrust Law – A US Perspective, in: Jürgen Basedow, Stéphanie Francq, Laurence Idot (eds.), International Antitrust Litigation: Conflict of Laws and Coordination, Hart, Oxford 2012, 225–244.

Ralf Michaels, The Functionalism of Legal Origins, in: Michael Faure, Jan Smits (eds.), Does Law Matter? On Law and Economic Growth (Ius commune europaeum, 100), Intersentia, Cambridge 2011, 21–39.

Ralf Michaels, Empagran's Empire: International Law and Statutory Interpretation in the U.S. Supreme Court of the Twenty-First Century, in: David L. Sloss, Michael D. Ramsey, William S. Dodge (eds.), The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law: Continuity or Change?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, 533–546.

Ralf Michaels, Global Problems in Domestic Courts, in: Sam Muller, Stavros Zouridis, Morly Frishman, Laura Kistemaker (eds.), The Law of the Future and the Future of the Law, Torkel Opsahl, Oslo 2011, 167–177.

Ralf Michaels, Of Islands and the Ocean: The Two Rationalities of European Private Law, in: Roger Brownsword, Leone Niglia, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (eds.), Foundations of European Private Law, Hart2011, 139–158.

Ralf Michaels, Joost Pauwelyn, Conflict of Norms or Conflict of Laws?: Different Techniques in the Fragmentation of Public International Law, in: Tomer Broude, Yuval Shany (eds.), Multi-Sourced Equivalent Norms in International Law, Hart2011, 

Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen, Private Law Beyond the State. Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization, in: Nils Jansen, Ralf Michaels (eds.), Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law2008, 69–118.

Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen, Private Law and the State. Comparative Perceptions, Historical Observations, and Basic Problems, in: Nils Jansen, Ralf Michaels (eds.), Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law2008, 15–67.

Ralf Michaels, Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny's Private International Law and the Challenge from Europeanization and Globalization, in: Michael Stolleis, Wolfgang Streeck (eds.), Aktuelle Fragen zu politischer und rechtlicher Steuerung im Kontext der Globalisierung, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2007, 119–144.

Ralf Michaels, Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions, in: Ralf Gottschalk, Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl, Jan von Hein (eds.), Conflict of laws in a globalized world, Cambridge University Press, New York 2007, 29–62.

Ralf Michaels, Retour aux sources? Droit et politiques des sources du droit contemporain aux Etats-Unis [Back to the Sources? Law and Politics of Sources of Contemporary American Law], in: Société de législation comparée & Cedroma (ed.), Les sources du droit – Aspects contemporains2007, 97–112.

Ralf Michaels, Two Economists, Three Opinions? Economic Models for Private International Law – Cross-Border Torts as Example, in: Jürgen Basedow, Toshiyuki Kono, Giesela Rühl (eds.), An Economic Analysis of Private International Law, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, 143–184.

Ralf Michaels, The Functional Method of Comparative Law, in: Mathias Reimann, Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, 339–382.

Ralf Michaels, Re-Placements. Jurisdiction for Contracts and Torts under the Brussels I Regulation when Arts. 5(1) and 5(3) do not Designate a Place in a Member State, in: Arnaud Nuyts, Nadine Watté (eds.), International Civil Litigation in Europe and Relations with Third States, Bruylant, Brussels 2005, 129–156.

Ralf Michaels, Territorial Jurisdiction after Territoriality, in: Piet-Jan Slot, Mielle Bulterman (eds.), Globalisation and Jurisdiction, Kluwer Law International, Leiden 2004, 105–130.

Ralf Michaels, Welches europäische Vertragsrecht braucht die Wirtschaft?, in: Rupert Scholz (ed.), Europa als Union des Rechts – eine notwendige Zwischenbilanz im Prozeß der Vertiefung und Erweiterung (Veröffentlichungen der Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Stiftung, 54)1999, 158–159.

Ralf Michaels, A Global Restatement of Private International Law?, in: Christoph Benicke, Stefan Huber (eds.), National, International, Transnational: Harmonischer Dreiklang im Recht, Festschrift für Herbert Kronke zum 70. Geburtstag, Gieseking, Bielefeld 2020, 387–398.

Ralf Michaels, Non-State Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, in: Kai Pumhagen, Peter Rott (eds.), Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation (Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation, 3), Springer, Berlin 2014, 43–69.

Ralf Michaels, Die Struktur der kollisionsrechtlichen Durchsetzung einfach zwingender Normen, in: Ralf Michaels, Dennis Solomon (eds.), Liber amicorum Klaus Schurig, Sellier, München 2012, 191–210.

Ralf Michaels, Die europäische IPR-Revolution: Regulierung, Europäisierung, Mediatisierung, in: Dietmar Baetge, Jan von Hein, Michael von Hinden (eds.), Die richtige Ordnung. Festschrift für Jan Kropholler zum 70. Geburtstag, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, 151–173.

Ralf Michaels, US Courts as World Courts, in: American Academy in Berlin (ed.), For Bob Mundheim2006, 36–41.

Ralf Michaels, Rechtliches Wissen in der Krise, Kritische Justiz 53 (2020), 375–386.

Ralf Michaels, A Symmetry of Asymmetries? A Private-International-Law Reconstruction of Lindahl’s Work on Boundaries, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 2019, 405–422.

Ralf Michaels, Beyond Universalism and Particularism in International Law – Insights from Comparative Law and Private International Law (Symposium: Anthea Roberts’ Is International Law International?), Boston University Law Review Online 99 (2019), 18–21.

Ralf Michaels, The New, Old, Jus Gentium Privatum (Online Symposium on Dagan/Dorfman, Interpersonal Human Rights), Cornell International Law Journal Online 51 (2018), 125–132.

Ralf Michaels, The UNIDROIT Principles as Reference for the Interpretation of US Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law Supplement 66 (2018), 31–65.

Ralf Michaels, Böckenförde Theorem and Burqa Ban, German Law Journal 19 (2018), 321–350.

Ralf Michaels, Banning Burkas – The perspective of Postsecular Comparative Law, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 28 (2018), 213–245.

Ralf Michaels, Towards a Private International Law for Regulatory Conflicts?, Japanese Yearbook of International Law 59 (2017), 175–201.

Ralf Michaels, Christopher A. Whytock, Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement, Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 27 (2017), 349–359.

Ralf Michaels, State Law as a Transnational Legal Order, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational and Comparative Law 1, inaugural issue (2016), 141–160.

Ralf Michaels, Supplanting Foreign Antitrust, Law & Contemporary Problems 79 (2016), 223–247.

Ralf Michaels, The Conflicts Restatement and the World, AJIL Unbound (online) 110 (2016), 155–160.

Ralf Michaels, Does Brexit Spell the Death of Transnational Law?, German Law Journal 17 (2016), 51–62.

Ralf Michaels, Transnationalizing Comparative Law, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 23 (2016), 352–358.

Ralf Michaels, The UNIDROIT Principles as Global Background Law, Uniform Law Review 19 (2014), 643–668.

Ralf Michaels, Private Lawyer in Disguise? On the Absence of Private Law and Private International Law in Martti Koskenniemi’s Work, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 27 (2013), 499–521.

Ralf Michaels, Dreaming Law without a State – Scholarship on Autonomous International Arbitration as Utopian Literature, London Review of International Law 1, inaugural issue (2013), 35–62.

Ralf Michaels, Party Autonomy – A New Paradigm without a Proper Foundation? (talk summary, with Japanese translation), Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law 15 (2013), 282–284.

Ralf Michaels, Code vs. Code – Nationalist and Internationalist Images of the Code civil in the French Resistance to a European Codification, European Review of Contract Law 8 (2012), 277–295.

Ralf Michaels, Legal Medievalism in Lex Mercatoria Scholarship, Texas Law Review 90 (2012), 259–268.

Ralf Michaels, Karen Knop, Annelise Riles, From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style, Stanford Law Review 64 (2012), 589–656.

Ralf Michaels, Joost Pauwelyn, Conflict of Norms or Conflict of Laws?: Different Techniques in the Fragmentation of Public International Law, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 22 (2012), 349–376.

Ralf Michaels, A Fuller Concept of Law Beyond the State? – Thoughts on Lon Fuller’s Contributions to the Jurisprudence of Transnational Dispute Resolution – A Reply to Thomas Schultz, Journal of international dispute settlement 2 (2011), 417–426.

Ralf Michaels, Explanation and Interpretation in Functionalist Comparative Law – a Response to Julie de Coninck, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 74 (2010), 351–359.

Ralf Michaels, The Mirage of Non-State Governance, Utah Law Review (symposium issue) (2010), 31–45.

Ralf Michaels, Karen Knop, Annelise Riles, International Law in Domestic Courts – A Conflict of Laws Approach, Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting / American Society of International Law 2010, 269–274.

Ralf Michaels, After the Revolution – Decline and Return of U.S. Conflicts of Laws, Yearbook of Private International Law 11 (2009), 11–30.

Ralf Michaels, Global Legal Pluralism, Annual Review of Law and the Social Sciences 5 (2009), 243–262.