Gunther Teubner#
Membership Number: | 277 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LAW |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/l_Personal/em_profs/teubner/Person_englisch/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Principal Investigator, Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt
- Professor, International University College, Torino
- 1998- 2009 Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology, Faculty of Law, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main
- 1994- External Professor, Law Department, European University Insitute, Firenze
- 1993- 98 Otto-Kahn-Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory, Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
- 1981-94 Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology at the European University Institute, Firenze
- 1977-93 Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology, Law Faculty, University of Bremen
- 1977 Professor of Private Law, Law Faculty, University of Frankfurt
Fields of Scholarship
- Social Theory of Law
- Private Law Theory
- Contract Law
- Comparative Law
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Member, National Academy of the Sciences, Italy (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei)
- 2006/2010 Honorary doctorates at University of Lucerne, University of Neapel, University of Macerata, University of Tiflis, Lund University
- 2008 "Premio Capo Circeo", Rome
- 2007-2008 Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Fellow
- 2007 "Max Weber Lecture", European University Institute, Firenze
- 2004 "Storrs Lectures", Yale Law School, New Haven2002 "John F. Diefenbaker Award" (Gonvernment of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts)
- 2001 Award Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German National Research Foundation): One year research grant
- 2000 Prix "Lussac / Humboldt", Paris
- 1998 Award "Recht und Gesellschaft" (Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie)
- 1988 Member, "Academia Europaea", London
- 1981 "Leon Petrazycki International Prize 1976-80" for the best book in Legal Sociology (International Scoiological Association)