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Ralf Michaels
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 138
Citations - 1795
Ralf Michaels is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comparative law & Public law. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 131 publications receiving 1709 citations. Previous affiliations of Ralf Michaels include Harvard University & University of Toronto.
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Global Legal Pluralism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how legal pluralism engages with legal globalization and how legal globalization utilizes legal plurality, and provide an outlook on the future of global legal plurality as theory and practice.
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The Functional Method of Comparative Law
TL;DR: The functional method has become both the mantra and the bete noire of contemporary comparative law, but it is a trifold misnomer: there is not one ("the") functional method but many, not all methods so called are functional at all as mentioned in this paper.
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Comparative Law by Numbers? Legal Origins Thesis, Doing Business Reports, and the Silence of Traditional Comparative Law
TL;DR: The legal origins thesis as discussed by the authors, which states that legal origin impacts economic growth and the common law is better for economic growth than the civil law, has created hundreds of papers and citation numbers unheard of among comparative lawyers.
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The Re-State-Ment of Non-State Law: The State, Choice of Law, and the Challenge from Global Legal Pluralism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the rejection of non-state law by traditional conflict-of-laws doctrine must be understood in combination with other methods the state uses to account for nonstate normative orders which I call incorporation, deference, and delegation.
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The Functional Method of Comparative Law
TL;DR: The functional method has become both the mantra and the bete noire of contemporary comparative law, but it is a trifold misnomer: there is not one ("the") functional method but many, not all methods so called are functional at all.