Hans-W. Micklitz

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of Economic Law

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 556 / 306
Fax [+39] 055 4685 200
Email Hans.Micklitz@eui.eu 

Secretary/Administrative Assistant: Marlies Becker 

EUI Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze - Italy

On leave from the University of Bamberg; appointed in October 2007, contract until September 2012

Research and Supervision 

• European Economic Law
• European Private Law
• Consumer Law
• German Law

Languages 

German, English, French, Italian

Current Seminars at the EUI 

• Autonomy and Regulation in Private Law 
• European Private Law and External Relations Law  (with M. Cremona ) 
• The WHY Seminar II - Questioning Mainstream Legal Assumptions  (with M. Poiares Maduro )
• I Grandi Filosofi Italiani del Diritto  (with D. Patterson )

Current Research Projects 

• The ‘visible hand’ of European private law  (43 Kb)

Tensions between Efficiency (competition) and Governance (regulation), Market Model and Social Model, Economic and Social Approach

Levels of Research (substance of ‘visible’ European private law, process of law-making, regulatory instruments, law enforcement)

• The Different Models of Social Justice in Europe

Social, Political and Economic Factors

Legal-philosophical Background

• Judicial Co-operation between National Courts and European Courts 

Judicial Activism and Legal Politics

The Pillars of the European Legal Order (organised law enforcement, judicial co-operation and political legitimacy)

• Administrative and Judicial Enforcement (with Prof. Cafaggi) 

Institutional Strategies to Ensure Consumer Protection

Collective Judicial Enforcement (remedies, institutional players, transborder dimension)

Enforcement in Action (the many faces of law enforcement in the EU Member States)