German legal scholar and sociologist (born 1944)
Gunther Teubner (2017)
Gunther Teubner (born 30 April 1944 in Herrnhut ) is a German legal scholar and sociologist , best known for his works within the field of Social Theory of Law . His work "stands as one of the most highly evolved positions in the contemporary sociology of law and legal-political norms".[ 1]
Biography
He was Professor of Private Law at the University of Bremen from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1991 he was associated with the European University Institute in Florence , Italy . From 1993 to 1998 he was the Otto Kahn Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics , and since 1998 he has been Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology at the University of Frankfurt . Since 2007, Teubner has been Principal Investigator at the Frankfurt Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders". In 2007/2008 he was Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin , in 2009/2010 at the universities of The Hague, and Maastricht.
In 2011 he has taken up an "ad personam" Jean Monnet Chair at the International University College of Turin .
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