Kai Purnhagen
Kai Purnhagen (* 25. September 1980 in Gießen) is a German Professor of European and International Economic Law. He is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Law and Governance at the Wageningen University and Distinguished International Visitor at the Law School of Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Vita
Kai Purnhagen (1980) studied Law and International Law at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen (State Exam, MJI, with distinction). He continued to study as Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), completing a Research Master degree (LL.M.). Kai enrolled in the PhD programme of the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2007. In his capacity as PhD researcher he participated in various research projects, most notably as part of a research group on collective redress in the European Union, funded by the European Commission. In this time, he also was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and at the Global Legal Studies Center of the UW. Before joining the Law and Governance group at Wageningen University as Assistant Professor, he was Akademischer Rat aZ at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. Kai is also a distinguished international visitor at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Kai writes on European and International Economic Law in the broad sense. His research interests concern European internal market law, regulatory policy, risk regulation, and legal theory, especially behavioural law and economics.
Publications (Selection)
- Towards a European Legal Culture, ed. with Genevieve Helleringer, München, Oxford, Baden-Baden (C.H. Beck), 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-63420-8
- Homo Economicus, Behavioural Sciences, and Economic Regulation: On the Concept of Man in Internal Market Regulation and its Normative Basis, with Jens-Uwe Franck, in: Law and Economics in Europe, ed. Klaus Mathis, New York, Heidelberg, Dordrecht u.a. (Springer), 2014, 329-365, ISBN 978-94-007-7109-3
- Never the Twain Shall Meet, in: Law and Economics in Europe, ed. Klaus Mathis, New York, Heidelberg, Dordrecht u.a. (Springer), 2014, 3-21, ISBN 978-94-007-7109-3
- Europarecht, München (C.H. Beck), 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63911-1
- Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation, ed. with Peter Rott, New York, Heidelberg, Dordrecht u.a. (Springer), 2014