Marietta Auer
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S.J.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), University of Munich, Germany
| Status: | not in residence |
| Email: | mauer@law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
The Ethics of Private Law
After analyzing the relationship between law and morals, the dissertation identifies the normative status of private law and assesses the ethical content of some of its most important doctrinal elements such as contract and property.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Private Law Theory, with Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Legal Positivism and Formalism, with Professor Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Natural Law and Early Modern Moral Philosophy, with Professor Richard Tuck, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
- Ancient Law and Philosophy, with Professor Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Private Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Family Law)
- Legal Philosophy and History, European and Comparative Law
- Corporate, Employment, and Consumer Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2005-Present
- University of Munich, Germany, M.A. (philosophy) 2008
- University of Munich, Germany, Dr. jur. 2003
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2000
Appointments and Fellowships
- University of Munich, Germany, 2001-Present, Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin)
Representative Publications
- Materialisierung, Flexibilisierung, Richterfreiheit: Generalklauseln im Spiegel der Antinomien des Privatrechtsdenkens, 262, XXIV pp., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany (2005)
- Anforderungen an ein modernes Kapitalmarktrecht, with Professor Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, in: Bilgi Toplumunda Hukuk: Ünal Tekinalp'e Armagan (Law in the Information Society: Essays in Honour of Ünal Tekinalp), Vol. I, pp. 1047-1066 (2003)
- Willkür rechtlicher Entscheidungsverfahren? Die Auswirkungen von Arrows "General Possibility Theorem" auf Wahl- und Abstimmungsverfahren des geltenden Rechts, 88 ARSP (Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie) 1-27 (2002)
- Good Faith: A Semiotic Approach, 10 ERPL (European Review of Private Law) 279-301 (2002)
Additional Information
- University of Munich, Germany
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish (basic), Portuguese (basic), Latin, Classic Greek