Gunther Teubner, Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology, Principal Investigator, Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main and Professor, International University College, Torino.
Born 1944, studies of law and legal sociology in Goettingen, Tuebingen and Berkeley; 1967 Referendar, 1970 Dr. jur. Tuebingen, 1971 Assessor, 1974 M.A. (law and society) Berkeley, 1977 Habilitation Tuebingen; 1977-81 Professor of Private Law, University of Bremen, 1981-1992 European University Institute Florence, Italy, 1993-1998 Otto Kahn Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory LSE London, 1998-2009 Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 1998 - 2009 University of Frankfurt. 2007 - Principal Investigator, Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders".
Prof. Teubner was the Visiting Professor of Law Schools Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Stanford, Leyden, Toronto. 2007/2008 Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, 2009/2010 The Hague and Maastricht.