Peer Zumbansen

Titulaire de la Chaire Elizabeth-Carmichael-Monk en droit des affaires
Professeur titulaire

Nouveau Pavillon Chancellor-Day
3674 rue Peel
Salle 306
Montréal, Québec
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-1453 [Bureau]
peer.zumbansen [at] mcgill.ca (Courriel)

Site web: McGill Business Law Platform
Publications: SSRN
Twitter: @PZumbansen

Le professeur Zumbansen organise les Séminaires sur les affaires et la société et dirige le blogue McGill Business Meter.

Biographie

Peer Zumbansen est un chercheur internationalement reconnu dans le domaine du droit privé. Après avoir étudié la philosophie et le droit à Francfort, Paris et Cambridge, Mass; le professeur Zumbansen passe le barreau et obtient son doctorat et son habilitation à l'université Goethe de Francfort. Pendant son habilitation, il a enseigné à la faculté de droit et a travaillé à temps partiel comme avocat chez Taylor Wessing et White & Case avant de rejoindre la Osgoode Hall Law School à Toronto où il a détenu une chaire de recherche du Canada de 2004 à 2014. Il a fondé et dirigé le Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society et le Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory. Il a également lancé le journal électronique du Comparative Research and Law & Political Economy Network (CLPE) sur SSRN. De 2014 à 2018, il a détenu à temps plein la chaire inaugurale en Droit transnational au King’s College à Londres et servi comme directeur inaugural du Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute. Formé à Frankfort, à Paris et à Harvard, le professeur Zumbansen a reçu deux prix en enseignement d’Osgoode et de la province de l’Ontario, ainsi que le prix universitaire Teaching Innovation Excellence Award du King’s College.

Le professor Peer Zumbansen s'est joint à la Faculté de droit à titre de titulaire inaugurale de la Chaire professorale en droit des affaires, en janvier 2021. Le 1 janvier 2026, il a été nommé titulaire de la Chaire Elizabeth-Carmichael-Monk en droit des affaires. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur le droit privé, avec un accent sur le droit des contrats et le droit des affaires, l'intelligence artificielle, le capitalisme de palteforme, les changements climatiques, le droit transnational, la théorie du droit et la sociologie du droit. 

Rédactions

• Transnational Legal Theory (Co-rédacteur en chef)
• Corona Journal (Co-rédacteur en chef)
• King’s College London, Transnational Law Institute (TLI) Think! Papers (Rédacteur en chef)

Professeur invité et visites de recherche

• October 2026, University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, Transnational Law LL.M.
• Visiting Professor, FU Empirical Legal Studies Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaften – Free University Berlin, Faculty of Law (Spring 2026)
• Senior Fellow, RefLex Reflexive Globalization Advanced Studies Institute, Humboldt University, Faculty of Law, Berlin (Jan-March 2026)
• Visiting Professor in Transnational Business Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, Shenzhen, China May 2025
• Master Class Lecturer, LPE Europe, Summer School in Law and Political Economy, University of Rotterdam 2-4 June 2025
• Visiting Professor in Corporate Law and Governance, Université de Paris Dauphine PSL, Paris (Jan. 2016, Feb. 2017, Feb. 2018, Feb. 2019; Oct. 2023)
• Visiting Professor in Corporate Law and International Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles (Spring 2020)
• Visiting Professor, FGV Direito Sao Paulo (Nov. 2017)
• Visiting Professor, Université de Paris IX Dauphine, Paris (Jan. 2016, Feb. 2017, Feb. 2018, Feb. 2019)
• Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2012-2016)
• Visiting Professor Université de Sherbrooke, Transnational Law LL.M. Program (2014, 2015)
• Visiting Professor, Albrecht-Mendelssohn Graduate School of Law), University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law (June-July 2014)
• Senior Research Fellow, Michigan Law School (fall semester 2013)
• Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School (Spring semester 2014)
• Visiting Professor, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain (2013)
• Visiting Professor, Centre for Transnational Studies (ZenTra), University of Bremen, Germany (2012)
• Visiting Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (2012)
• Visiting Professor, University College Dublin, School of Law (Visiting Professor in Corporate Governance and Transnational Law, 2009-2010)
• Visiting Professor, International Institute for Legal Sociology, Oñati, Spain (March 2010)
• Visiting Professor, University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law (October 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Melbourne Law School, Global Law Masters (May-June 2009)
• Visiting Professor, University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, DFG Project “Transformations of the State” (2006-2012)
• Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Toronto), (Spring term, 2004)
• Visiting Professor, University of Idaho, College of Law (Fall 2003).

Carrière

• Depuis le 1 janvier 2026: Chaire Elizabeth-Carmichael-Monk en droit des affaires, Université McGill, Faculté de droit
• 2022-2025: Academic Lead, CIBC SGI Office of Sustainable Finance, McGill Sustainable Growth Initiative
• 2021-2025: Professeur inaugural en droit des affaires, Université McGill, Faculté de droit
• 2004-2020: Professeur de droit, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
• 2004-2009: Chaire de recherche du Canada (I) en gouvernance d'entreprise comparative et transnationale (Osgoode Hall Law School)
• 2009-2014: Chaire de recherche du Canada en théorie juridique et en gouvernance économique transnationale (Osgoode Hall Law School)
• 2014-2018: Professeur de droit transnational, directeur fondateur du Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law
• 2000-2013: Co-fondateur et co-éditeur en chef, German Law Journal.
• 1998-2004: Post-doctorant et Lecturer in Law, Université Goethe, Faculté de droit, Francfort, Allemagne
• 1998-2000: Stagiaire à la chambre du droit de la concurrence, tribunal régional (Landgericht) de Francfort ; Stagiaire pour le juge Dieter Hömig, Cour constitutionnelle fédérale, Karlsruhe, Allemagne
• 1995-2000: Avocat à temps partiel (Taylor Wessing; White & Case, Francfort)
• 1989-1994: Taxi de nuit, Francfort
• 1986-1988: Infirmier, Hôpital universitaire et soins aux personnes âgées, Kontakt, Francfort
• 1983-1986: Manutentionnaire de nuit, Aéroport de Francfort

Scolarité

• Habilitation [Full Professor qualifying, post-Doctoral Dissertation] (Frankfurt 2004)
• 2nd State Law Exam (2000)
• Ph.D. law (Frankfurt 1998)
• LL.M. (Harvard 1998)
• 1st State Law Exam (Frankfurt 1995)
• Licence en droit [avec mention] (University of Paris-X-Nanterre 1991)

Publications choisies

• Cloud Delusions: Image Economics and the Legal Constitution of Big Tech Power and the Violence in Front of and Behind the Screen (under review).
• International Law's Icebergs: Anatomy of Impending Disaster and How to Confront It, McGill Law Legal Studies Research Paper 07-2026 / (2026) 40 Maryland Journal of International Law, forthcoming. (https://ssrn.com/abstract=6639978).
• Disaster Law as Methodology, Verfassungsblog, 13 February 2026 (https://verfassungsblog.de/disaster-law-as-methodology/).
• Global Value Chains, Strategic Litigation & Transnational Advocacy (co-edited with Miriam Saage-Maaß, Palvasha Shahab, and Michael Bader), European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin (open access link).
• Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford University Press 2021).
• The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal (Cambridge University Press, April 2020), 520 pp.
• Beyond the Domestic: The London Lectures in Transnational Law and Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, co-edited with Prabha Kotiswaran [forthcoming 2021].
• Reshaping Markets. Economic Governance and Liberal Utopia (co-edited with Alessandro Somma and Bertram Lomfeld), Cambridge University Press 2016, 361 pp.
• Beyond Territoriality. Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization, Brill, 2012 (co-edited with Günther Handl & Joachim Zekoll), 559 pp.
• Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal, Oxford University Press, 2012 (co-edited with Russell Miller), 501 pp.
• Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory, Edward Elgar 2011 (co-edited with Gralf-Peter Calliess). Paperback 2012, 378 pp.
• The Embedded Firm: Labour Corporate Governance and Finance Capitalism, Cambridge University Press 2011 (co-edited with Cynthia Williams), 485 pp.
• Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (co-authored with Gralf-Peter Calliess, with a foreword by Stewart Macaulay). Hart Publishing: Oxford, xv, 366 pp., Hb 2010. Pb 2012.
• Zwangsarbeit im Dritten Reich: Erinnerung und Verantwortung. Juristische Und Zeitgeschichtliche Betrachtungen / NS-Forced Labor: Remembrance and Responsibility. Legal and Historical Observations, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2002, 428 pp. [Included in the Forced Labor bibliography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]
• The Transnationalization of Corporate Governance: Law, Institutional Arrangements and Corporate Power, 38(1) Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 1 (2020), forthcoming. [co-authored with Dionysia Katelouzou]. Preprint: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3601379
• Transnational Corporate Governance: State of the Art and Twenty-First Century Challenges, in: P. Zumbansen (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford University Press, in press 2020) [co-authored with Dionysia Katelouzou]. Preprint: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3536488
• Transnational Law: Theories & Applications, in: Peer Zumbansen (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford University Press, in press 2021). Preprint: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3601385
• The New Geography of Corporate Governance, 42 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 51-152 (2020) [co-authored with Dionysia Katelouzou]. Preprint: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3575009
• What is Economic Law?, 1:3 Journal of Law & Political Economy (2020). (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3660836)
• Transnational Law, With and Beyond Jessup, in: Peer Zumbansen (ed.), The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal (Cambridge University Press 2020, 1-54). Preprint: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3757067
• Manifestations and Arguments: The Everyday Operation of Transnational Legal Pluralism, in: Paul Schiff Berman (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2020), 231-262. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3502576)
• Transnational Law as Socio-Legal Theory and Critique: Prospects for ‘Law and Society’ in a Divided World, 67 Buffalo Law Review 909-960 (2019).
• Transnational Liability Regimes in Contract, Tort and Corporate Law: Comparative Observations on ‘Global Supply Chain Liability’, in: Sophie Schiller (ed.), Le devoir de vigilance (LexisNexis 2019), 157-183 [co-authored with Benedikt Reinke]. Pre-print: TLI Think! Paper 4/2019.
• Can Transnational Law Be Critical?, in: Emilios Christodoulidis & Ruth Dukes (eds.), Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory (Edward Elgar, 2^nd edition 2026).