6 October, 2009: Inaugural lecture of the new University Maastricht – HiiL Visiting Professor on the Internationalisation of Law Professor Gunther Teubner
On 6 October the 2009-2010 HiiL – University of Maastricht Visiting Professor on the Internationalisation of Law, Professor Gunther Teubner, held his inaugural lecture at the University of Maastricht.
Professor Teubner will work on the theme “Constitutionalism Beyond the Nation State”. He will teach on the topic at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht and complete a monograph at HiiL. In addition, Professor Teubner will supervise a PhD-project on ‘Corporate codes of multinationals – an expression of transnational constitutionalism?’ Two main themes will stand out as part of his research: societal constitutionalism and the horizontal effects of constitutional rights.
“HiiL is extremely proud to have such an eminent scholar affiliated with the Institute. Professor Teubner ranks amongst the first who starting looking into the fundamental questions that internationalisation raises for legal systems,” says Sam Muller, HiiL’s director.
“His appointment fits in a longstanding focus of our Law Faculty on internationalisation and we are very honoured to be able to offer the in-depth knowledge of Professor Teubner to our students and have him at the faculty to interact with colleagues that are working on issues which relate to his work,” adds the Dean of the Law faculty of Maastricht, Professor Aalt Willem Heringa.
On 8 October, Professor Teubner participated in the annual HiiL Law of the Future Conference on Globalisation, the Nation-State and Private Actors: Rethinking Public-Private Cooperation in Shaping Law and Governance that took place on 8 and 9 October 2009 at The Peace Palace in The Hague.
Gunther Teubner is a professor of private law and legal sociology at the University of Frankfurt and a permanent visiting professor at the London School of Economics. One of the world’s leading socio-legal scholars, he has also held faculty and visiting faculty positions in the European University Institute Florence, the universities of Bremen, Michigan, Stanford, and Berkeley. He has won many academic awards including the "John F. Diefenbaker Award" of the Government of Canada in 2002, the Prix Gay Lussac/Humboldt in 2000, and the Leon Petrazycki International Prize in 1981. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Luzern, Tiflis, Naples and Macerata. His research fields are social theory of law, private law theory, contract law, and comparative law. For a detailed cv, click here.