Conflictoflaws.net editor Ralf Michaels appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute Hamburg

We are happy to report that one of our editors, Ralf Michaels from Duke University, has been appointed a new Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Succeeding Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. must. Jürgen Basedow, who retired in 2016, Ralf assumed the position part-time in January 2019 and will take on his duties full-time in summer 2019.

Congratulations!

For more on Ralf’s appointment and his research agenda see here.