List of Publications

Journal

• General Editor and founder of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum

Books

• Principles of the Existing EC Contract Law (Acquis Principles), Contract I: Pre-Contractual Obligations. Conclusion of Contract. Unfair Terms, prepared by the Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group), Sellier, München 2007, 311 + xl pp (co-editor and contributor; see also below).

• Die ungewollte Diskriminierung in der internationalen Rechtsanwendung. Zur Anwendung, Berücksichtigung und Anpassung von Normen aus unterschiedlichen Rechtsordnungen [Accidental Discrimination in the Conflict of Laws:  applying, considering and adjusting legal norms in cases involving different jurisdictions], Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2004. 528 + xxii pp.
  
  Reviewed in:
• Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts 2005, 396 (Red.)
• Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 2006, 601-608 (D. Looschelders);
• Revue Critique de Droit International Privé 2005, 248ff (Ch. Tsouca)
  
• The German Law of Obligations, Volume I: The Law of Contracts and Restitution: a Comparative Introduction (together with Basil S. Markesinis and Werner Lorenz). Clarendon Press Oxford 1997. 942 + xlvii pp.

Reviewed in:
• 1999 Cambridge Law Journal, 236-238 (P. Schlechtriem);
• 1999 Edinburgh Law Review 412-414 (M. Hesselink);
• 1998 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 739 (A. Kunst);
• 1998 Law Quarterly Review, 515-523 (K. Schiemann);
• 1999 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 547-552 (W. Ebke);
• Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 2001, 147-150 (E. Kramer). 

• Recht sprechen - German for lawyers (together with Thorsten Pötzsch and Sibylle Weigel). The Law Society, London 1994. Ca. 4½h  audiotape course and a course book with a glossary, 137 + viii pp.

• Schadensersatz bei Verletzung der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention. Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Haftung nach Art. 50 EMRK [Compensation for Violation of the European Convention on Human Rights Under Its Article 50], Carl Heymanns Verlag, Köln etc. 1994. 512 + xxii pp. With an English summary.

Reviewed in:
• Aktuelle Juristische Praxis 1995, 684-685 (A. Kley-Struller);
• Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts 1995, 656-660 (M. Niedobitek);
• Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt 1995, 533-534 (P. Szczekalla);
• Journal du Droit International 1994, 1109-1110 (I. Seidl-Hohenveldern);
• Mensch + Recht 52/1994;
• Plädoyer Magazin für Recht und Politik 1994, 13 (M.P. Wyss);
• Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 1997, 160-164 (W. Lorenz);
• Revue de droit international et de droit comparé 1996, 326 (J. Verhoeven);
• Revue internationale de droit comparé 1995, 297 (J. Gleichauf);
• Rivista di Diritto Internazionale 1995, 595-596 (R. Sapienza);
• Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali 1996, 593 (A. Cristiani);
• Der Staat 1995, 324 (T. von Danwitz);
• SYNTAGMA (The Constitution, Greece) 1997, 206
• Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 1994, 1061-63 (J. Polakiewicz);
• Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht 1997, 955-57 (K.D. Deumeland).

• An Introduction to German Civil and Commercial Law. With a chapter on Company Law by Thomas Meyding. British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London 1993. 140 + xxviii pp.

Reviewed in:
• German Yearbook of International Law 37 (1994) 522-523 (M. A. Convery);
• 1996 International and Comparative Law Quarterly, July Issue (B. Markesinis);
• Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 1998, pp. 821-822 (M. Zalewski).

Research Projects

• The Functioning of the Judiciary in Forty European States. Joint research project between the Centre for the Advanced Study of European and Comparative Law, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, both University of Oxford. Overall responsibility towards the sponsor. Co-author of the final report, some 250pp (1996-1997).

Websites

• General Editor and founder (2000) of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum
• Webmaster and founder (1997) of the German Law Archive
• Founder (1997) of the website of the Institute of European and Comparative Law

Articles and other shorter publications

• Interdisciplinary Spoof Studies, in: Superannual Report, Centre of British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2008), p. 10 (s.n. Gerard Dunn O'Moynes).
  
• Consolidating EC Contract Law: An Introduction to the Work of the Acquis Group, in: Principles of the Existing EC Contract Law, Contract I, prepared by the Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group), Sellier, München 2007, pp. xxiii-xxxii.
• Consolidating EC Contract Law Terminology: The Contribution of the Terminology Group, in Principles of the Existing EC Contract Law, Contract I (as above), pp. xxxiii-xl (togehter with Silvia Ferreri and Michele Graziadei).
• Glossary, in: Principles of the Existing EC Contract Law, Contract I (as above), pp.307-311 (together with Silvia Ferreri, Michele Graziadei and Irene Maier).
  
• Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences?, in: Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, OUP Oxford 2006, pp. 383-419.
  
• Unjust Enrichment as Absence of Basis: Can English Law  Cope?, in: Andrew Burrows and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (eds.), Mapping the Law. Essays in Memory of Peter Birks, OUP Oxford 2006, pp. 363-377.
  
• Die britische Limited in rechtsvergleichender und kollisionsrechtlicher Perspektive, in: Rainer Schröder (ed.), Die GmbH im europäischen Vergleich, lexxion Berlin 2005, pp. 11-25.
  
• Of Princesses and Politicians: Current Developments in the German Law of Personality Rights and the Media, in: Axel Beater and Stefan Habermeier (eds.), Verletzungen von Persönlichkeitsrechten durch die Medien, Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2005, pp. 33-48.
  
• Rechtsvergleichung im Exil: Martin Wolff und das englische Recht. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Reihe Öffentliche Vorlesungen, Heft 135, 36pp (2004).
  
• Martin Wolff (1872-1953), in: Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), Jurists Uprooted. German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain, OUP Oxford 2004, pp. 441-461.
  
• In Memoriam Peter Birks, (2004) Oxford University Comparative Law Forum No. 2.
• Formation of Contracts on the Internet, in: Themes in Comparative Law in Honour of Bernard Rudden, ed. by Peter Birks and Arianna Pretto, OUP Oxford 2002, pp. 179-197.
• German Civil Code - Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch. Bilingual edition of the provisions amended by the Law of Obligations Reform Act (together with Geoffrey Thomas), German Law Archive (2002)
  
• Sachrechtliche Gründe für die Berücksichtigung nicht anwendbaren Rechts, in: Festschrift für Hans Stoll zum 75. Geburtstag, hrsg. von Gerhard Hohloch, Rainer Frank und Peter Schlechtriem, Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2001, pp. 417-436.
• Unjust Enrichment by Transfer: Some Comparative Remarks, in: 79 Texas Law Review (2001), pp. 1837-1867.
• Illegality as a Defence Against Unjust Enrichment Claims, in: (2000) Oxford University Comparative Law Forum No. 4.
• Some Comparisons between Common Law and Civil Law, in: Joint Ventures in English and German Law, ed. by Eva Micheler and Dan Prentice, Hart Publishing Oxford 2000, pp. 1-11
• The "Battle of the Forms" and the Conflict of Laws, in: Lex Mercatoria. Essays in honour of Francis Reynolds, ed. by Francis Rose, LLP London 2000, pp. 199-219
• Haftung für die Verletzung von Verfahrensgarantien nach Art. 41 EMRK. Zur Herausbildung europäischer Haftungsmaßstäbe [Compensation for violation of procedural rights under Art. 41 ECHR], in: Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht Vol. 63 (1999), pp. 452-470; (2001) Oxford University Comparative Law Forum No. 5.
• The Drafting of Consumer Credit Legislation - A Structural Comparison Between the EU Directive and the English, Irish and German Acts, in: Europäische Rechtsangleichung und nationale Privatrechte, ed. by Hans Schulte-Nölke and Reiner Schulze, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 1999, pp. 191-204
• Restitution for Termination of Contract in German Law, in: Failure of Contracts: Contractual, Restitutionary and Proprietary Consequences, ed. by F. Rose, Hart Publishing 1997, pp.129-153
• The Legacy of History on German Contract Law, in: Making Commercial Law. Essays in Honour of Roy Goode, ed. by R. Cranston, Clarendon Press Oxford 1997, pp. 1-29 (together with B. Markesinis)
• Access to Justice: an Anglo-German Comparison, in: 2 European Pubic Law (1996), 271-292, also published in the German Law Archive
• Education and Judicial Review in Germany, in: 1 Education, Public Law and the Individual (1996) pp. 13-15
• Les Obstacles juridiques à la mobilité des jeunes. IIIe Forum francophone des jeunes, Les rélations internationales de jeunesse, Wègimont, février 1993; Communauté Française de Belgique, Bruxelles 1994, pp. 65-69
• Establishing Foreign Law in a German Court (1994), published in the German Law Archive
• Constitutional Complaints: the European Perspective, 43 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1994) pp. 142-153
• German Law in English. A select bibliography (together with Gereon Thiele and Nikolaus Hermann). 2nd updated ed. Bonn 1993 (1st ed. 1987 by Klaus Radke und Axel Tiemann). DAAD, Reihe Dokumentationen & Materialien, Nr. 10. Now published in the German Law Archive (follow links to Bibliographies)
• Primerjalni ocrt ustavnih pritozb evropskih drzavah. Slovenija in evropska konvencija o clovekovih pravicah, [A Comparative Outline of Constitutional Complaints in European States. Slovenia and the European Convention on Human Rights] Ljubljana 1993, pp. 107-115
• Jurisdiction Based on the Presence of Assets in Germany: A Case Note, 41 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1992) pp. 632-637
• Reform des Verjährungsrechts aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht [A Comparative Approach to the Reform of the Law on Limitation of Actions] - Hans Stoll zum 65. Geburtstag am 4. August 1991 -, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 1991, pp. 697-733 (together with Fotios Karatzenis and Geoffrey V. Thomas)
• Das staatsvertragliche Kollisionsrecht der DDR nach der Vereinigung [GDR International Treaties on the Law of Conflicts After Unification], Deutsch-Deutsche Rechts-Zeitschrift 1991, pp. 130-135
• Arzthaftung für die unerwünschte Geburt eines Kindes [Medical Liability for the Unwanted Birth of a Child], Versicherungsrecht 1989, pp. 676-683
• Barriers to Youth Mobility. Report to the European Steering Committee for Intergovern-mental Co-operation in the Youth Field, Council of Europe Document JE-BM (88) 2 = CEJ/MOBY (88) 1
• Legale Revolution - nationale Revolution. Die Staatsrechtslehre zum Umbruch von 1933 [Legal Revolution - National Revolution. The Position of Constitutional Law Scholars on the 1933 Power Seizure], in: E.-W. Böckenförde (ed.), Staatsrecht und Staatsrechtslehre im Dritten Reich, Heidelberg 1985, pp. 3-22

Reviewed in:
• Die Zeit, 29.11.1985, p. 18 (E. Jesse);
• Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik 1987, 408 (D. Majer).

Book reviews

 
1. PALMER, VERNON, The Louisiana Civil Experience. Critiques of Codification in a Mixed Jurisdiction, Durham NC 2005, in: 122 Law Quarterly Review (2006), 333-336.
   
2. UNBERATH, HANNES, Transferred Loss: Claiming Third Party Loss in Contract Law, Oxford 2003, in: Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 2004, 858-861.
   
3. IBBETSON, DAVID J., A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations, Oxford 1999, in: Zeitschrift für neuere Rechtsgeschichte 23 (2001), pp. 316–317.
4. VON BAR, CHRISTIAN, The Common European Law of Torts, Vol. II , in: 117 Law Quarterly Review (2001), pp. 517-519.
5. POSSER, DIETHER, Anwalt im Kalten Krieg: Deutsche Geschichte in politischen Prozessen, 1951-1968, in: 116 English Historical Review (2001), p. 289.
6. VON BAR, CHRISTIAN, The Common European Law of Torts, Vol. I , in: 115 Law Quarterly Review (1999), pp. 696-704.
7. SWADLING, WILLIAM (ed), The Limits of Restitutionary Claims: a Comparative Analysis, London 1997, in : 47 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1998), 737-738.
8. KÖTZ, HEIN, Europäisches Vertragsrecht I, Tübingen 1996, in: 46 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1997), pp. 736-7.
9. Principles of European Contract Law, Part I: Performance, Non-Performance and Remedies, ed. by O. LANDO and H. BEALE, Dordrecht 1995, in: 46 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1997), pp. 736-7.
10. VERHAGEN, H.L.E., Agency in Private International Law. The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Agency , Den Haag 1995, 113 Law Quarterly Review (1997), pp. 177-184.
11. JUNKER, ABBO: Internationales Arbeitsrecht im Konzern, Tübingen 1992, 43 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1994), p. 744.
12. Civil Procedures in EC Countries. An Industry Report, by DAVID MCINTOSH und MARJORIE HOLMES, London 1991, in: 42 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1993), pp. 206-7.
13. Der Weg zur deutschen Rechtseinheit. Internationale und interne Auswirkungen im Privatrecht, ed. by ERIK JAYME and OLIVER FURTAK, Heidelberg 1991, in: 41 International and Com-parative Law Quarterly (1992), pp. 741-2.
14. GERMAIN's Transnational Law Research: A Guide for Attorneys, New York 1991ff, in: 41 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1992), p. 741.

Miscellaneous