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2023

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World Ranking
49
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gunther Teubner is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and specializes in social sciences with a primary focus on law, political science, and related interdisciplinary fields. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including law, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, safety research, and economics and econometrics.

The core topics addressed in their work cover ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, law and political science, judicial and constitutional studies, comparative constitutional jurisprudence, European and international law studies, international law and human rights, as well as legal principles and applications.

The scientist has contributed to several publications, with recent papers including:

  • Transnational Economic Constitutionalism in the Varieties of Capitalism (2020, Global Perspectives)
  • The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values (2020, Social & Legal Studies)
  • Societal Constitutionalism: Background, Theory, Debates (2021, ICL Journal)
  • Networked statehood: an institutionalised self-contradiction in the process of globalisation? (2021, Transnational Legal Theory)
  • Human-algorithm hybrids as (quasi-)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors (2023, Journal of Law and Society)

Frequent co-authors include Angelo Golia, Herausgegeben Von, Alfons Bora, Michelle Cottier, and Walter Fuchs.

Gunther Teubner has published multiple works in various academic venues, prominently in Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie with seven publications, SSRN Electronic Journal with six, Journal of Law and Society with two, as well as Global Perspectives and Social & Legal Studies with one each.

The scientist has also authored books, including a notable publication titled Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence released by Hart Publishing eBooks in 2021.

Among distinctions, Gunther Teubner was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Regime-collisions: The vain search for legal unity in the fragmentation of global law

    Andreas Fischer-Lescano;Gunther Teubner

  • Law as an autopoietic system

    Gunther Teubner

  • Substantive and reflexive elements in modern law

    Gunther Teubner

  • Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization

    Gunther Teubner

  • Recht als autopoietisches System

    Gunther Teubner

  • Kontext und Autonomie: Gesellschaftliche Selbststeuerung durch reflexives Recht

    Gunther Teubner;Helmut Willke

  • Legal irritants: good faith in British law, or how unifying law ends up in new differences

    Gunther Teubner

  • Juridification of Social Spheres: A comparative analysis in the areas of labor, corporate, antitrust and social welfare law

    Gunther Teubner

  • Global law without a state

    Gunther Teubner

  • Rights of Non‐humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law

    Gunther Teubner

  • Global Bukowina: Legal pluralism in the world society

    Gunther Teubner

  • HOW THE LAW THINKS: TOWARD A CONSTRUCTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY OF LAW

    Gunther Teubner

  • Autopoietic Law: A new approach to law and society

    Gunther Teubner

  • Juridification: Concepts, Aspects, Limits, Solutions

    Gunther Teubner

  • Regime-Collisions: The Vain Search for Legal Unity in the Fragmentation of Global Law

    Gunther Teubner;Andreas Fischer-Lescano

  • The two faces of Janus : rethinking legal pluralism

    Gunther Teubner

  • Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State

    Gunther Teubner

  • Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-Centered Constitutional Theory?

    Gunther Teubner

  • The Self-Reproduction of Law and its Limits

    Niklas Luhmann;Gunther Teubner

  • Law as Medium and Law as Institution

    Jürgen Habermas;Gunther Teubner

  • Transnational governance and constitutionalism

    Christian Joerges;Inger-Johanne Sand;Gunther Teubner

  • Regime-Kollisionen : zur Fragmentierung des globalen Rechts

    Andreas Fischer-Lescano;Gunther Teubner

  • Enterprise Corporatism - New Industrial-Policy and the Essence of the Legal Person

    Gunther Teubner

  • AUTOPOIESIS IN LAW AND SOCIETY: A REJOINDER TO BLANKENBURG

    Gunther Teubner

  • The Anonymous Matrix: Human Rights Violations by ‘Private’ Transnational Actors

    Gunther Teubner

  • After legal instrumentalism? : strategic models of post-regulatory law

    Gunther Teubner

  • The Transformation of Law in the Welfare State

    Gunther Teubner

  • Environmental law and ecological responsibility : the concept and practice of ecological self-organization

    Gunther Teubner;Lindsay Farmer;Declan Murphy

  • Global Private Regimes: Neo-Spontaneous Law and Dual Constitution of Autonomous Sectors?

    Gunther Teubner

  • Breaking Frames: Economic Globalisation and the Emergence of Lex Mercatoria

    Gunther Teubner

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Joerges
Christian Joerges Hertie School
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann Bielefeld University
Hugh Collins
Hugh Collins London School of Economics and Political Science
Markus Roth
Markus Roth Technical University of Darmstadt
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Nicola Lacey
Nicola Lacey London School of Economics and Political Science
Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor Columbia University

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