Publications of Ralf Michaels

Book Review (19)

Book Review
Ralf Michaels, Petar Šarčević & Paul Volken (eds.), Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume I-1999, The Hague-London-Boston 1999, Netherlands International Law Review 48 (2001), 108–112.
Book Review
Ralf Michaels, Peter Cane & Jane Stapleton (eds.), The Law of Obligations – Essays in Celebration of John Fleming, Oxford 1998, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2001, 425.
Book Review
Ralf Michaels, Cordula Thoms, Einzelstatut bricht Gesamtstatut. Zur Auslegung der „besonderen Vorschriften“ in Art. 3 Abs. 3 EGBGB (Studien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht 51), Tübingen 1996, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 64 (2000), 177–183.
Book Review
Ralf Michaels, Heinrich Nagel & Peter Gottwald, Internationales Zivilprozeßrecht, 4. Aufl., Münster 1997, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 1998, 1050.

Conference Report (3)

Conference Report
Ralf Michaels, Catherine H. Gibson, The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution: Lessons for the United States? A Conference at Duke Law School, Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts 2008, 373–375.
Conference Report
Ralf Michaels, Tagungsbericht: Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law in the Light of European Integration, Brüssel, 26. bis 28. Oktober 2002, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2003, 453.
Conference Report
Ralf Michaels, Giesela Rühl, Tagungsbericht: 11. Tagung der International Academy of Commecial and Consumer Law, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 67 (2003), 353–359.

Conference Paper (3)

Conference Paper
Ralf Michaels, Gleichheit bei Rechtsvielfalt? Rechtsvergleichung, Rechtsvereinheitlichung, Internationales Privatrecht, in: Martin Gebauer, Stefan Huber (eds.), Freiheit und Gleichheit im Privatrecht. Ergebnisse der 37. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung in Greifswald – Fachgruppe Zivilrecht (Rechtsvergleichung und Rechtsvereinheitlichung, 82), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2022, 119–197.
Conference Paper
Ralf Michaels, Panel Discussion PIL for a better world: Vision – Reality – Aberration? (Opening statement), in: Konrad Duden, Christiane von Bary, Kristin Boosfeld, Florian Heindler, Nicola Kleinjohann, Tobias Lutzi, Alix Schulz, Christine Toman, Denise Wiedemann, Felix M. Wilke (eds.), IPR für eine bessere Welt: Vision – Realität – Irrweg?, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2022, 179–183.
Conference Paper
Ralf Michaels, Code vs. Code. Images of Code in the French Resistance to European Codification, First Spring Convention 2006, 26–28.

Working Paper (16)

Working Paper
MPI for Comparative and International Private Law, Max Planck Society (ed.), Hamburger Leitlinien zur Ermittlung und Anwendung ausländischen Rechts in deutschen Verfahren für Gerichte, Sachverständige und Parteien – Oktober 2023, 2023, 34 pp., https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3529891, 10/01/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Palästinenser*innen in Deutschland: Staatsräson sticht Grundrechte, 2023, https://www.ufuq.de/aktuelles/palaestinenserinnen-in-deutschland/, 09/26/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Antonia Sommerfeld, The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction, 2023, https://conflictoflaws.net/2023/40963/, 08/03/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Warum die Grundrechte keine allgemeine Antisemitismusausnahme kennen, 2023, https://www.soziopolis.de/warum-die-grundrechte-keine-allgemeine-antisemitismusausnahme-kennen.html, 06/14/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Private International Law and the Legal Pluriverse, 2023, 24 pp., https://ssrn.com/abstract=4446451, 05/15/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Foreign Child Marriages and Constitutional Law – German Constitutional Court Holds Parts of the German Act to Combat Child Marriages Unconstitutional, 2023, https://conflictoflaws.net/2023/foreign-child-marriages-and-constitutional-law/, 03/30/2023.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Versammlungsfreiheit gilt auch für Palästinenser, 2022, https://doi.org/10.17176/20220514-182114-0, 05/14/2022.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Symeonides’ 30th (and last) Annual Survey of Choice of Law, 2021, https://conflictoflaws.net/2021/symeonides-30th-and-last-annual-survey-of-choice-of-law/, 01/02/2021.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Jakob Olbing, Corona and Private International Law: A Regularly Updated Repository of Writings, Cases and Developments, 2020, https://conflictoflaws.net/2020/corona/, 12/14/2020.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, On the Mbembe Anti-Semitism Debate in Germany: A Decolonial Critique of German Universalism, 2020, https://doi.org/10.17176/20220530-124418-0, 08/04/2020.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Notarization from abroad in times of travel restrictions, 2020, https://conflictoflaws.net/2020/notarization-from-abroad/, 05/22/2020.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Learning from Corona?, 2020, https://crisis-diary.net/2020/04/07/learning-from-corona/, 04/07/2020.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Is Brexit a Game?, 2019, https://doi.org/10.17176/20190929-232414-0, 09/29/2019.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Is Adjudicatory Jurisdiction a Category of Public International Law?, 2018, http://opiniojuris.org/2018/09/20/is-adjudicatory-jurisdiction-a-category-of-public-international-law/, 09/20/2018.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, Gehört der Islam zu Deutschland? Beyond Böckenförde, 2018, https://doi.org/10.17176/20180322-092112, 03/22/2018.
Working Paper
Ralf Michaels, “Law as the Study of Norms” – Foundational Subjects and Interdisciplinarity in Germany and the United States, 2014, https://verfassungsblog.de/law-as-the-study-of-norms-foundational-subjects-and-interdisciplinarity-in-germany-and-the-united-states-2/, 02/19/2014.

Opinion (1)

Opinion
Ralf Michaels, Hannah Buxbaum, Horatia Muir Watt, Amicus Curiae Brief: F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., et al. v. Empagran, S.A., et al., 542 U.S. 1552004

Editorial (7)

Editorial
Daniel Bonilla Maldonado , Ralf Michaels, Patricia Zalamea, Los derechos de la naturaleza: diálogos entre el derecho y las artes / The rights of nature: Dialogues between law and the arts, Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales (no. 4), 2022, https://doi.org/10.53010/nys4.00, 12/16/2022.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Foreword, Blurry Boundaries of Public and Private International Law – Towards convergence or divergent still? (Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit, Dharmita Prasad eds.) 2022, V-VI.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Foreword, in: Felix M. Wilke, A Conceptual Analysis of European Private International Law: The General Issues in the EU and its Member States, Intersentia, A Conceptual Analysis of European Private International Law: The General Issues in the EU and its Member States 2019, VII-IX.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Foreword, in: Jie Huang, Interregional Recognition and Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Judgments – Lessons for China from US and EU Law, Hart 2014, IX - X., 2014, 2014.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Foreword: The Bernstein Memorial Lecture — The First Six Years, Duke Law CICLOPs 1 (2009), ix-xii.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen, Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law. Introduction to the Issue, The American Journal of Comparative Law 2008, 527–539.
Editorial
Ralf Michaels, Karen Knop, Annelise Riles, Foreword, Law and Contemporary Problems 71, 3 (2008), 1–17.

Newspaper Article (6)

Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, Deutschstunde für alle Welt (essay on the debate surrounding philosopher Achille Mbembe, with English translation), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 06/08/2020, 11.
Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, Blog Posts on Huffington Post, 2015-2017, 2017.
Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, The Attorney General Looks Abroad (Op-Ed), The News & Observer 08/31/2006.
Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, George W. Schröder (Op-Ed), Der Tagesspiegel 09/22/2005, 10.
Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, Justice, thwarted by secrecy (Op-Ed), The News & Observer 04/06/2004.
Newspaper Article
Ralf Michaels, U.S. provides visitors not-so-warm welcome (Op-Ed), Atlanta Journal-Constitution 02/16/2004.
Go to Editor View