Ralf Michaels | Scholars@Duke

Ralf Michaels
Arthur Larson Professor of Law

Ralf Michaels is an expert in comparative law and conflict of laws, and a professor at Duke University School of Law. His current research focuses mainly on three issues: the role of domestic courts in globalization, the role of conflict of laws as a theory of global legal fragmentation, and the status and relevance of law beyond the state. He has authored numerous articles on all three topics.

Michaels is the editor or co-editor of two special volumes of the American Journal of Comparative Law: "Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law", 2008 (also published as a book) and "Legal Origins", 2009, as well as a book and a journal issue on conflict of laws: Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World (2007); Transdisciplinary Conflicts, Law and Contemporary Problems, 2008.

Michaels has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Panthéon/Assas (Paris II), Princeton, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and the London School of Economics. He has also held senior research fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, as well as the American Academy in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg. In 2015, he gave a number of lectures on private international law at The Hague Academy for International Law.

Michaels studied law at the Universities of Passau and Cambridge, UK. He is married and has three daughters. His skills at the piano are in steady decline.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Arthur Larson Professor of Law, Duke Law School, Duke University 2012
Professor of Law, Duke Law School, Duke University 2007

Contact Information

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School Room 4004, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
michaels@law.duke.edu (919) 613-7173
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- J.D., University of Passau (Germany) 2000
- LL.M., University of Cambridge (UK) 1995
Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor of Law, Duke Law School, Duke University 2002 - 2007
Recognition
In the News
- MAR 4, 2016 The Huffington Post
  
  Ralf Michaels: The silence of Justice Thomas is overrated
- FEB 22, 2016 The Huffington Post
  
  Ralf Michaels: Trump does not really want to be president
- OCT 23, 2015
  
  Duke Law's Michaels Elected to American Law Institute
- MAR 12, 2015 The Huffington Post
  
  Ralf Michaels: Greatest harm from senators’ letter to Iran is in our relations to other countries
- MAR 12, 2015 The Huffington Post
  
  Throwing Away the Respect of Mankind
Awards & Honors
- Fellows. American Academy in Berlin. 2005
Research
Selected Grants
- German Law Journal awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2004 - 2005
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Michaels, R, and Keyes, M. Oxford Handbook of Private International Law (Accepted). Oxford University Press, 2017. (Edited Book)
  - Michaels, R. Contracts and Private International Law (Accepted). Edward Elgar, 2017. (Edited Book)
  - Michaels, R. Liber Amicorum Klaus Schurig. Sellier, 2012. (Edited Book) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law. Mohr/Siebeck, 2008. (Edited Book) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, Gottschalk, E, Rhl, G, and Heim, J. Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World. Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Edited Book) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. Book Review. 2005. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. Sachzuordnung durch Kaufvertrag. Konsensprinzip, Traditionsprinzip, ius ad rem in Geschichte, Theorie und geltendem Recht [Assigning Ownership through Contracts of Sales. Consent, Delivery, ius ad rem in History, Theory, and Current Law]. Duncker & Humblot, 2002. (Monograph) Link to Item
- Academic Articles
  - Michaels, R. "International Arbitration as Private and Public Good(Accepted)." (2019). Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "A Symmetry of Asymmetries? A Private-International-Law Reconstruction of Lindahl’s Work on Boundaries." Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 29, no. 3 (2019): 405-422. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Whytock, C. "Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement." Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 27, no. 3 (2017): 349-359. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Global Legal System and the State (Accepted)." Italian Yearbook of Comparative Law (2017).
  - Michaels, R. "Towards a Private International Law for Regulatory Conflicts? (Accepted)." Japanese Yearbook of International Law (2017).
  - Michaels, R. "Supplanting Foreign Antitrust." Law & Contemporary Problems 79, no. 4 (2017): 223-247. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Transnationalizing Comparative Law." Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 23 (2016): 352-358. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Donald Trump Does Not Want to be President." Huffington Post Politics (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "Does Brexit Spell the Death of Transnational Law?." German Law Journal 17 (2016): 51-61. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Conflicts Restatement and the World." AJIL Unbound 110 (2016): 155-160. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "State Law as a Transnational Legal Order." UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 1 (2016): 141-160.
  - Michaels, R. "Private Lawyer in Disguise? On the Absence of Private Law and Private International Law in Martti Koskenniemi's Work." Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 27 (2014): 499-521. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Non-State Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts." (2014): 43-69. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The UNIDROIT Principles as Global Background Law." Uniform Law Review 19, no. 4 (2014): 643-668. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Foreword." (2014). Open Access Copy
  - Michaels, R. "Dreaming Law Without a State: Scholarship on Autonomous International Arbitration as Utopian Literature." London Review of International Law 1 (2013): 35-62. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Book Review." Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 2012 (2013): 236-238. (Review) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Party Autonomy in Private International Law--A New Paradigm Without a Solid Foundation?." Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law 15 (2013): 282-284.
  - Michaels, R, Knop, K, and Riles, A. "From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style." Stanford Law Review 64 (2012): 589-656. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Rollen und Rollenverstndnisse im transnationalen Privatrecht." Berichte der Deutschen Vereinigung fr internationales Recht 45 (2012): 175-227. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Entries." Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law 2012 (2012).
  - Michaels, R. "Legal Medievalism in Lex Mercatoria Scholarship." Texas Law Review 90 (2012): 259-268. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "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. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Book Review." International Journal of Constitutional Law 10 (2012): 1179-1184. (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "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. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, Knop, K, and Riles, A. "International Law in Domestic Courts: A Conflict of Laws Approach." American Society of International Law Proceedings 103 (2010): 269-274. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Mirage of Non-State Governance." Utah Law Review 2010 (2010): 31-45. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Explanation Interpretation in Functionalist Comparative Law A Response to Julie de Coninck." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 74 (2010): 351-359. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Second Wave of Comparative Law and Economics?." University of Toronto Law Journal 59 (2009): 197-213. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Global Legal Pluralism." Annual Review of Law & Social Science 5 (2009): 243-262. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Umdenken fr die UNIDROIT - Prinzipien: Vom Rechtswahlstatut zum Allgemeinen Teil des transnationalen Vertragsrechts [Rethinking the UNIDROIT Principles: From a Law to be Chosen by the Parties Towards a General Part of Transnational Contract Law]." Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 73 (2009): 866-888. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Comparative Law by Numbers? Legal Origins Thesis, Doing Business Reports, and the Silence of Traditional Comparative Law." American Journal of Comparative Law 57 (2009): 765-795. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "After the RevolutionDecline and Return of US Conflict of Laws." Yearbook of Private International Law 11 (2009): 11-30. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Foreword: The Bernstein Memorial Lecture, The First Six Years." CICLOPS (Center for International & Comparative Law Occasional Papers) 1 (2009): ix-xii. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "US Courts as World Courts." Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law 12 (2009).
  - Michaels, R, Knop, K, and Riles, A. "Foreword: Transdisciplinary Conflicts." Law and Contemporary Problems 71 (2008): 1-17. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Gibson, C. "Conference Report." Duke University School of Law Conference 2008 (2008). (Review) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Introduction: Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law." American Journal of Comparative Law 56 (2008): 527-539. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Economics of Law as Choice of Law." Law and Contemporary Problems 71 (2008): 73-104. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The New European Choice-of-Law Revolution." Tulane Law Review 82 (2008): 1607-1644. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Die europische IPR-Revolution: Regulierung, Europisierung, Mediatisierun." Die richtige Ordnung: Festschrift fr Jan Kropholler (2008): 151-173.
  - Michaels, R. "Public and Private International Law : German Views on Global Issues." Journal of Private International Law 4 (2008): 121-138. (Review) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, Basedown, J, and Wurmnest, W. "Comments on the European Commission's Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 71 (2007): 225-344. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions, Historic Observations, and Basic Problems." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 71 (2007): 345-397. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Retour aux sources ? Droit et politiques des sources du droit contemporain aux Etats-Unis." Les sources du droit: aspects contemporains 2007 (2007): 97-112.
  - Michaels, R. "The True Lex Mercatoria. Private Law Beyond the State." Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 14 (2007): 447-468. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Book Review." Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 15 (2007): 950-952. (Review)
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization." American Journal of Comparative Law 54 (2006): 845-892. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Rhl, G. "Arthur Taylor von Mehren, 10. August 1922 - 17. January 2006." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 70 (2006): 233-234. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory." Journal of Private International Law 2 (2006): 195-242. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "US-Gerichte als Weltgerichte - Die Avantgarde der Globalisierung." DAJV Newsletter (2006): 46-54.
  - Michaels, R. "Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction." Michigan Journal of International Law 27 (2006): 1003-1069. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory." ZERP Discussion Paper (2006). Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Re-State-ment of Non-State Law: The State, Choice of Law, and the Challenge from Global Legal Pluralism." Wayne Law Review 51 (2005): 1209-1259. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Profile: Arthur Taylor von Mehren." International law FORUM du droit international 7 (2005): 213-218.
  - Michaels, R. "Welche Globalisierung fr das Recht? Welches Recht fr die Globalisierung? [Which Globalization for the Law? Which Law for Globalization?]." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 69 (2005): 525-544. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Zimmer, D. "US-Gerichte als Weltkartellgerichte? [US courts as World Antitrust Courts?]." Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 24 (2004): 451-457.
  - Michaels, R. "Fnf Minuten Rechtsvergleichung." Rechtsgeschichte 4 (2004): 239-242. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, Basedow, J, Blobel, F, Essebier, J, Hein, J, Metzger, A, Puttfarken, HJ, Samtleben, J, Schnier, J, and Schwarz, S. "Hamburg Group for Private International Law." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 67 (2003): 1-56.
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Die Auslegung und Fortbildung auslndischen Rechts [Judicial Interpretation and Development of Foreign Law]." Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess 116 (2003): 3-56.
  - Michaels, R, and Rhl, G. "Conference Report, 11th Tagung der International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law (IACCL) in Hamburg." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 67 (2003): 353-.
  - Michaels, R. "Conference Report: Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law in the Light of European Integration, Brssel, 26-28 October 2002." Zeitschrift für Europisches Privatrecht 11 (2003): 453-455.
  - Michaels, R. "Same-Sex Marriage: Canada, Europe and the United States." ASIL Insights (2003).
  - Michaels, R. "Book Review." German Law Journal 4, no. 4 (2003): 411-417. (Review) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Kannitverstaan in Zrich." Zeitschrift für Europisches Privatrecht 10 (2002): 428-.
  - Michaels, R. "Gerichtsverfassung und Verfahrensstrukturen in fderalen Gemeinwesen Diskussionsbericht [Courts and Proceedings in Federal Systems Discussion Report]." Rabels Zeitschrift für auslndisches und internationales Privatrecht 66 (2002): 357-364.
  - Michaels, R. "Im Westen nichts neues? Zum Stand der Rechtsvergleichung 100 Jahre nach dem Pariser Kongress Gedanken anlsslich einer Jubilumskonferenz in New Orleans." 66 (2002).
  - Michaels, R. "Three Paradigms of Legal Unification National, International, Transnational." ASIL Proceedings 96 (2002): 333-336.
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Basil S. Markesinis." Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 10 (2002). (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Klaus Adomeit & Guillermo Frhbeck." Informaciones 18 (2002): 103-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Sylvia Sella-Geusen." Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 10 (2002): 423-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R, and Kamann, HG. "Grundlagen eines allgemeinen gemeinschaftlichen Richtlinienkollisionsrechts "Amerikanisierung" des Gemeinschafts-IPR?." 12 (2001).
  - Michaels, R. "Globale Wirtschaft und lokale Gesetzgebung Zu einem neuen Urteil des US Supreme Court." Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 100 (2001): 182-.
  - Michaels, R. "Standortwettbewerb als Rechtsfigur." Kritische Justiz (2001): 351-.
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Tony Weir." Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 65 (2001): 351-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Peter A. Reichart." Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 65 (2001): 320-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing." Netherlands International Law Review 48 (2001): 108-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing." Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 9 (2001): 425-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R, and Mehren, A. "Pragmatismus und Realismus fr die Haager Verhandlungen zu einem weltweiten Gerichtsstands- und Vollstreckungsbereinkommen." 25 (2000).
  - Michaels, R. "Echo, 1998 Juristische Schulung 192." Juristische Schulung 2000 (2000): 936-.
  - Michaels, R. "Anerkennung internationaler Schiedssprche und ordre public Anm zu OGH 23.2.1998 3 Ob 115/95, ZfRV 1999, 24 [Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards and ordre public]." Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung 40 (1999): 5-.
  - Michaels, R. "My Own Private Switzerland." Zeitschrift für Europisches Privatrecht 7 (1999): 197-.
  - Michaels, R. "Privatautonomie und Privatkodifikation Zu Anwendbarkeit und Geltung Allgemeiner Vertragsrechtsprinzipien." Rabels Zeitschrift für Auslndisches und Internationales Privatrecht 62 (1998): 580-626. Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Sharp Distinctions and Floating Transitions: a German View of Sharp v. Thompson (House of Lords)." European Review of Private Law 1997 (1998): 407-.
  - Michaels, R. "Vorzeitiger Erbausgleich und internationales Privatrecht." 18 (1998): 192-196.
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing Heinrich Nagel & Peter Gottwald." Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 6 (1998): 1050-. (Review)
  - Michaels, R, and Kamann, HG. "Europisches Verbraucherschutzrecht und IPR." 52 (1997).
  - Michaels, R. "Der Abbruch der Weiterverweisung im deutschen internationalen Privatrecht." 61 (1997).
  - Michaels, R. "Schiffsglubigerrecht und Auslandsveruerung Anmerkung zu BGH, TranspR 1997, 156 [Security Rights in Ships Sold Abroad]." Transportrecht 20 (1997): 330-.
  - Michaels, R. "Reviewing." Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 64 (1996): 177-. (Review)
- Book Sections
  - Michaels, R. "How Asian Should Asian Law Be? – An Outsider’s View(Accepted)." In Convergence of Commercial Laws in Asia: Methods and Drivers. : Cambridge University Press, 2019. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Private International Law as an Ethic of Responsivity(Accepted)." In Diversity and Integration in Private International Law. : Edinburgh University Press, 2019. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "After the Backlash: A New PRIDE for Transnational Law(Accepted)." In Jessup's Bold Proposal: Critical Engagements with Transnational Law. : Cambridge University Press, 2019. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Private International Law and the Question of Universal Values(Accepted)." In The Continuing Relevance of Private International Law. : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Mehr Freiheit wagen im Recht der Privatutonomie? Rechtswahlfreiheit und religiöse Rechte." In Mehr Freiheit Wagen, 251-280.: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Transnational Law and Comparative Law (Accepted)." In Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law. 2017. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Zugangsschranken--Zur Nichtrezeption der Systemtheorie in den USA." In Perspektiven Deutscher Privatrechtstheorie, 238-267. Mohr, 2017. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Zugangsschranken – Rezeptionsprobleme der Systemtheorie in der US-amerikanischen Rechtstheorie." In Privatrechtstheorie heute: Perspektiven deutscher Privatrechtstheorie, 238-267. 2017. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Wächter, Carl Georg von (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2016. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Law and Recognition-- Towards a Relational Concept of Law (Accepted)." In In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence. 2016. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "On Liberalism and Legal Pluralism." In Transnational Law, 122-142. 2016. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Joesph Story (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2016. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Jurisdiction, Foundations (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2016. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Wächter, Carl Georg von (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2016. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Comparative Law and Private International Law (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2016. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Religiöse Rechte und Postsäkulare Rechtsvergleichung." In Zukunftsperspektiven der Rechtsvergleichung, 39-102.: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "What Is Non-State Law? A Primer." In Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Challenges of Global and Local Legal Pluralism, 41-58. Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Comparative Law and Private International Law (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2015. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Jurisdiction, Foundations (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2015. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Story, Joseph (Accepted)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Private International Law. 2015. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "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 Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 31-109. Oxford University Press, 2015. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Was ist nichtstaatliches Recht? Eine Einführung [What is Non-State Law? An Introduction]." In Transnationales Recht -- Stand und Perspektiven, 39-56. 2014. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "On Liberalism and Legal Pluralism." In Transnational Law: Rethinking Law and Legal Thinking, 122-142. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "European Class Actions and Applicable Law." In Cross-Border Class Actions: The European Way, 111-141. 2014. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Roles and Role Perceptions in International Commercial Arbitration." In International Arbitration and Global Governance--Contending Theories and Evidence, 43-73. Oxford University Press, 2014. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Post-Critical Private International Law: From Politics to Technique." In Private International Law and Global Governance, 54-67. Oxford University Press, 2014. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism." In Pluralism and European Private Law, 139-160. 2013. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Make or Buy A Public Market for Legal Transplants?." In Regulatory Competition in Contract Law and Dispute Resolution, 27-42. Beck / Hart / Nomos, 2013. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. ""One Size Can Fit All" Some Heretical Thoughts on the Mass Production of Legal Transplants." In Order from Transfer: Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture Law. 2013. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Globalization and Law: Law Beyond the State." In Law and Social Theory, 289-303. 2013. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Buxbaum, H. "Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in International Antitrust Law - A US Perspective." In International Antitrust Litigation: Conflict of Laws and Coordination, 225-244. 2012. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments." In Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 672-. 2012. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Die Struktur der kollisionsrechtlichen Durchsetzung einfach zwingender Normen." In Liber Amicorum Klaus Schurig, 191-210. 2012. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "American Law (United States)." In Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 66-77. 2012. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R, and Pauwelyn, J. "Conflict of Norms or Conflict of Laws?: Different Techniques in the Fragmentation of International Law." In Multi-Sourced Equivalent Norms in International Law, 19-44. 2011. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Empagran's Empire: International Law and Statutory Interpretation in the U.S. Supreme Court of the 21st Century." In International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court, 533-564. 2011. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Of Islands and the Ocean: The Two Rationalities of European Private Law." In Foundations of European Private Law, 139-158. 2011. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Global Problems in Domestic Courts." In The Law of the Future and the Future of Law, 165-176. 2011. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "The Functionalism of Legal Origins." In Does Law Matter? On Law and Economic Growth, 21-40. 2011. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "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 Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 21-80. 2009. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Entries 'Eigentum', 'Gutglubiger Erwerb', and 'Rechtsvergleichung', 'Rechtskultur'." In Handworterbch des Europischen Privatrechts. Mohr Siebeck, 2009. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions and Historical Observations." In Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law, 15-67. Mohr Siebeck, 2008. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Private Law Beyond the State?: Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization." In Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law, 69-118. Mohr Siebeck, 2008. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R, and Jansen, N. "Introduction." In Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law, 1-12. Mohr Siebeck, 2008. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Globalizing Savigny? The State in Savigny's Private International Law and the Challenge from Europeanization and Globalization." In Aktuelle Fragen zu politischer und rechtlicher Steuerung im Kontext der Globalisierung, 119-144. Nomos, 2007. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "Systemfragen des Schuldrechts [Systemic Issues in the Law of Obligations]." In Historisch-Kritischer Kommentar zum BGB, 1-97. Mohr, 2007. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Some Fundamental Jurisdictional Conceptions as Applied in Judgment Conventions." In Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World, 29-62. 2007. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "U.S. Courts as World Courts." In For Bob Mundheim, 36-41. American Academy in Berlin, 2006. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Code vs. Code: Images of Code in the French Resistance to European Codification." In Double Maitrise Association, Paris, Cambridge University, First Spring Convention, 26-28. 2006. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Two Economists, Three Opinions? Economic Models for Private International Law Cross Border Torts as Example." In An Economic Analysis of Private International Law. Mohr Siebeck, 2006. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "The Functional Method of Comparative Law." In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, 339-382. 2006. (Chapter) Link to Item
  - Michaels, R. "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 International Civil Litigation in Europe and Relations With Third States, 129-156. 2005. (Chapter)
  - Michaels, R. "Territorial Jurisdiction after Territoriality." In Globalisation and Jurisdiction, 105-130. 2004. (Chapter)
- Other Articles
  - Michaels, R. "The Silence of Justice Thomas is Overrated." Huffington Post (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "Mister Trump, Please Say You Condemn Violence Against Your Opponent." Huffington Post (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "Donald Trump's Cry for Love." Huffington Post (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "The First Faithful Elector." Huffington Post (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "Climate Change Denial and the Rise of Authoritarianism." Huffington Post (2016).
  - Michaels, R. "Throwing Away the Respect of Mankind." Huffington Post (2015).
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- LAW 501: Civil Litigation in US Federal Courts: Transnational Issues 2019
- LAW 611: Readings 2019
- LAW 640: Independent Research 2019
- LAW 206: International Arbitration 2018
- LAW 218: Comparative Law 2018
- LAW 504JS: Foreign Law in U.S. Courts 2018
- LAW 739: Religious Laws 2018

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