Contract Governance

Project Leader

Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein

Participating Scientists

Philipp Karl, LMU Munich

Olga Romanova, LMU Munich

Department

Law

Project Summary

The global financial crisis has revealed significant weaknesses in global governance mechanisms (systems of control and regulation). This crisis is not primarily rooted in ineffective corporate governance, but mainly in the instability of markets. So far, little is known about whether and how contractual behavior can affect global systems of control and regulation. Therefore, the research agenda of contract governance aims at applying the governance approach to contract law. Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein, who is also Professor of Civil Law, German and European Business Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, focusses his research at the Munich Center on Governance (MCG) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University on questions of Contract Governance. As a Schumpeter Fellow he is head of a research group on this topic. In addition to contractual relations, the research of this group focusses on market regulation more generally. The research group organizes various conferences and workshops in order to discuss its new insights in an interdisciplinary perspective with social and political scientists and economists.

Funding

Schumpeter-Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation

Term

2011 - 2016

Research Results

• Möslein, Florian / Riesenhuber, Karl: Contract Governance - A Draft Research Agenda, European Review of Contract Law (ERCL) 5 (2009), p. 248 - 289
• Möslein, Florian: Contract Governance and Corporate Governance im Zusammenspiel - Lehren aus der globalen Finanzkrise, Juristenzeitung (JZ) 2010, p. 72 - 80
• Möslein, Florian: Legal Innovation in European Contract Law: Within and Beyond the (Draft) Common Frame of Reference, in: Micklitz/Cafaggi (Hrsg.), After the Common Frame of Reference - What Future for European Contract Law?, Cheltenham (Edward Elgar), 2010, p. 173 - 200
• Möslein, Florian: "Governance by Default" - Innovation und Koordination durch dispositives Recht, in: Festschrift für Klaus J. Hopt, Berlin (de Gruyter), 2010, p. 2861 - 2880
• Möslein, Florian: Dispositives Recht - Zwecke, Strukturen und Methoden, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck), 2011, XX + 640 pages
• Möslein, Florian: Governance in der rechtswissenschaftlichen Ausbildung: Schlüsselqualifikation für Regelsetzung, Wirkungsanalyse und interdisziplinären Austausch, in: Hof/von Olenhusen (ed.), Rechtsgestaltung -- Rechtskritik -- Konkurrenz von Rechtsordnungen, Baden-Baden (Nomos), 2012, p. 385-396
• Möslein, Florian: Regelsetzung und Ordnungsökonomik, erscheint in: Wegner/ Zweynert (Hrsg.), Perspektiven einer Neuen Ordnungsökonomik, Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck)
• Möslein, Florian / Grundmann, Stefan / Riesenhuber, Karl (eds.): Contract Governance - Dimensions in Law and Interdisciplinary Research, Oxford (Oxford University Press), in Vorbereitung für 2015, ca. 550 pages