Matthias Goldmann

Kontakt:

E-Mail: goldmann@mpil.de


Main Fields of Research:

International Organizations; International Public Authority; Global Administrative Law; Legal Theory; Sovereign Debt; Financial Markets

Academic Career:

2011-: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute

2010-2011: New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Legal Theory (Hans Kelsen Scholar)

August 2010: Second State Exam in Law (Land of Hesse)

February 2009: Visiting fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University

Fall 2008: Visiting Student, European University Institute, Florence (Italy) 

2006-2009: Management of the project "The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions"

2004-2011: Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute; Doctoral candidate at Heidelberg University (thesis project)

February - July 2004: Legal Intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania)

January 2004: First State Exam in Law (Free State of Bavaria), Diploma in European Law (University of Würzburg)

1998 - 2004: Studies in Law in Würzburg (Germany) and Fribourg (Switzerland)

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Working Papers:


A Matter of Perspective: Global Governance and the Distinction between Public and Private Authority (and Not Law). Available at SSRN.


On the Comparative Foundations of Principles in International Law: The Move Towards Rules and transparency in Fiscal Policy as Examples. Available at SSRN.


Stress Testing Stress Tests: Challenging the Authority of Indicators of Indicators. (Paper for VIII. GAL Conference, 14-15 June 2012, Rome. Draft, comments welcome.) Available at SSRN.


Sovereign Debt Restructurings as Exercises of International Public Authority: Towards a Decentralized Sovereign Insolvency Law (together with Armin von Bogdandy). Draft paper, comments welcome! Available at SSRN.


The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Democracy: Towards Prudential Regulation Through Public Reasoning. In: German Law Journal 13 (2012), forthcoming. Available at SSRN.



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Recent publications

  • Die Restrukturierung von Staatsschulden als Ausübung internationaler öffentlicher Gewalt: Zur Möglichkeit der inkrementellen Entwicklung eines Staateninsolvenzrechts. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 73, 61-103 (2013). (with Armin von Bogdandy).
  • The Financial Crisis, Democracy, and Global Justice: The View from Amartya Sen’s Theory of Public Reasoning. In: Estudos Avançados de Direitos Humanos: Democracia e Integração Jurídica: Emergênca de um novo Direito Público, Armin von Bogdandy, Flavia Piovesan, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi (eds.), Elsevier, Rio de Janeiro 2012, 55-73.
  • The Diverging Rationalities of Public Finance and International Law: A Plea for a Deliberative Approach, 2012. ESIL Reflection, vol. 1 issue 4.
  • OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: The Aker Kvaerner Case - Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay. In: Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, 3rd ed., Sabino Cassese, Bruno Carotti, Lorenzo Casini, Eleonora Cavalieri, Euan MacDonald (eds.), vol. VII. Istituto di ricerce sulla pubblica amministrazione, Rome 2012, 131-136. (online publication)
  • The Right of Access to Information in the Age of Globalization: The Federal Administrative Court and Extraterritorial Renditions. In: Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, 3rd ed., Sabino Cassese, Bruno Carotti, Lorenzo Casini, Eleonora Cavalieri, Euan MacDonald (eds.), vol. VI. Istituto di ricerce sulla pubblica amministrazione, Rome 2012, 9-13. (online publication)
  • The OECD PISA Program: The High Cost of Low Educational Performance. In: Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, 3rd ed., Sabino Cassese, Bruno Carotti, Lorenzo Casini, Eleonora Cavalieri, Euan MacDonald (eds.), vol. II. Istituto di ricerce sulla pubblica amministrazione, Rome 2012, 85-91. (online publication)
  • Demokratie - Wandel - kollektive Sicherheit: Das Völkerrecht und der Umbruch in der arabischen Welt, in: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. Vol. 72, pp. 441-577. Beck, München, 2012, 136 p. (with Helmut Philipp Aust, Christian Djeffal, Jeannine Drohla, Thomas Kleinlein, Mehrdad Payandeh, eds.)
  • Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In: Governance by Indicators, Kevin E. Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, Sally Engle Merry (eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, 52-85 (with Armin von Bogdandy). (OUP Catalogue)
  • Sovereign Debt Crises as Threats to the Peace: Restructuring under Chapter VII of the UN Charter? In: Goettingen Journal of International Law 4, 153-175 (2012). http://www.gojil.eu goldmann_gojil.pdf ( 96.7 KB)
  • Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing: The View from Domestic Jurisdictions. A Comparative Survey for UNCTAD, 2012. Download from UNCTAD Website
  • We Need to Cut Off the Head of the King: Past, Present, and Future Approaches to International Soft Law. In: Leiden Journal of International Law 25/2, 335-368 (2012). (copyright by Cambridge University Press) goldmann_ljil.pdf (207.2 KB)
  • Soft Law and Other Forms of International Public Authority - The View from Discourse Theory: A Reply to Jaye Ellis. In: Leiden Journal of International Law 25/2, 373-378 (2012). (copyright by Cambridge University Press) goldmann_comment_ljil.pdf ( 51.4 KB)
  • Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In: Indicators as a Technique of Global Governance, Kevin Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, Sally Merry (eds.), OUP, Oxford 2012, forthcoming (with Armin von Bogdandy).
  • Legarsi le mani: il quadro delle misure di riduzione del deficit in Germania. In: Giornale di diritto amministrativo 12, 1309-1312 (2010).
  • Book Review: Jan Klabbers, An Introduction to International Institutional Law, 2nd ed. (CUP 2009). In: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 14, 625-629 (2010).
  • Völkerrecht im innerstaatlichen Bereich (Public International Law in Domestic Legal Orders). Facultas/Nomos, Vienna/Baden-Baden, 2010, 216 p. (with Claudia Fuchs, Thomas Kleinlein, Konrad Lachmayer Christina Binder, eds.)
  • Developing the Publicness of Public International Law: Towards a Legal Framework for Global Governance Activities. In: The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions. Advancing International Institutional Law, Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, Matthias Goldmann (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg 2009, 3-32 (with Armin von Bogdandy, Philipp Dann).
  • Inside Relative Normativity: From Sources to Standard Instruments for the Exercise of International Public Authority. In: The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions: Advancing International Institutional Law, Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, Matthias Goldmann (eds.), Springer, Heidelberg 2009, 661-711.
  • The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions. Advancing International Institutional Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Band 210. Springer, Heidelberg, 2009, 1005 p. (with Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, eds.)
  • Eine Frage der Inkompetenz: Polizeiliche Warnungen vor Sexualstraftätern. In: Kritische Justiz 42/3, 282-292 (2009).
  • Arrest Warrant Case. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009. http://www.mpepil.com
  • The Exercise of International Public Authority through National Policy Assessment. The OECD’s PISA Policy as a Paradigm for a New International Standard Instrument. In: International Organizations Law Review 5, 241-298 (2008 (2009)). (with Armin von Bogdandy). (pre-print on SSRN) iilj_working_paper_2009-2bogdandy-goldmann.pdf (550.3 KB)
  • Freiheit - Sicherheit - Öffentlichkeit. 48. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht 2008. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2009, 290 p. (with Felix Arndt, Nicole Betz, Anuscheh Farahat, Matthias Huber, Rainer Keil, Petra Láncos, Jan Schaefer, Maja Smrkolj, Franziska Sucker, Stefanie Valta, eds.) http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?product=9495
  • A Quantum of Solace: Guzman on the Classical Mechanics of International Law (Book Review of Andrew Guzman, How International Law Works. A Rational Choice Theory, 2008). In: Göttingen Journal of International Law 1, 219-226 (2009). http://www.gojil.eu
  • Inside Relative Normativity: From Sources to Standard Instruments for the Exercise of International Public Authority. In: German Law Journal 9, 1865-1908 (2008). (full text PDF from journal homepage)
  • Developing the Publicness of Public International Law: Towards a Legal Framework for Global Governance Activities. In: German Law Journal 9, 1375-1400 (2008). (with Armin von Bogdandy, Philipp Dann). (full text PDF from journal homepage)
  • The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions. German Law Journal, Special Issue vol. 9, no. 11, S. 1375-2080, 2008, 705 p. (with Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff, Philipp Dann, eds.) journal homepage pdf_table_of_contents_vol_09_no_11.pdf ( 78.9 KB)
  • International Courts and Tribunals, Non-Appearance. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008. http://www.mpepil.com
  • The Accountability of Private vs. Public Governance “by Information”. A Comparison of the Assessment Activities of the OECD and the IEA in the Field of Education. In: Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico 58/1, 41-69 (2008). (pre-print version on SSRN)
  • Symposium: National Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in: Finnish Yearbook of International Law XVI. Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, Boston, 2005 (2007), 3-257 p. (with Cornelia Schneider, Ann Swampillai, Isabelle Walther, Rain Liivoja, eds.)
  • Implementing the Rome Statute in Europe: From Sovereign Distinction to Convergence in International Criminal Law? In: Finnish Yearbook of International Law XVI, 5-29 (2005 (2007)). (pre-print version on SSRN)
  • Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, oder: Netzwerke dogmatisch gedacht. In: Netzwerke, Sigrid Boysen u.a. (ed.), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, 225-246.
  • Book Review: Andreas Fischer-Lescano/Gunther Teubner, Regime-Kollisionen (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2006). In: Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , 377-380 (2007).
  • Translation/Übersetzung: M. Loughlin, Grundstrukturen staatlichen Verfassungsrechts: Großbritannien. In: Handbuch Ius Publicum Europaeum, Armin von Bogdandy, Pedro Cruz Villalón, Peter M. Huber (eds.), Band/vol. 1. C.F. Müller, Heidelberg 2007, 217-272.
  • Pointed Reasoning on Normativity: Young Researchers in Legal Philosophy Meet in Würzburg. In: German Law Journal 8/2, 199-204 (2006). http://www.germanlawjournal.de/article.php?id=800
  • Holding Governments Accountable through Information: Multilevel Education Assessments by Private and Public Institutions. Conference Paper, Second Global Administrative Law Seminar, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy), 2006. (available on NYU Global Administrative Law website)
  • Does Peace follow Justice or Vice Versa? Plans for Post-Conflict Justice in Burundi. In: Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 30/1, 137-152 (2006). (pre-print version on SSRN)
  • Book Review: Oren Perez, Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict (Oxford: Hart, 2004). In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 65/4, 1049-1054 (2005).
  • Sierra Leone: African Solutions to African Problems?. In: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds.), Bd. 9. Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston 2005, 457-515.
  • ICC Case Simulation Exercise: Prosecutor v Five Pilots from Blueland and Whiteland. In: German Law Journal 4, 815-825 (2003). (with Cornelia Schneider). (full text on journal website)
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Presentations

15 Apr. 2013
A Matter of Perspective: Global Governance and the Distinction between Public and Private Authority (and Not Law)
Conference: The Changing German Landscape of Theorizing Public Law
Where / When: New York University School of Law, New York
08 Apr. 2013
Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Policy Innovation
Conference on Innovations in Development Financing
Where / When: New York University School of Law, New York
11 Feb. 2013
Faktizität und Geltung, Chapters 1+2, in a Global Perspective

Presentation at the Masterclass with Jürgen Habermas.

Where / When: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
06 Dec. 2012
Global Justice and Amartya Sen’s Theory of Public Reasoning

Notions of Justice in Global Cooperation. A Workshop with Thomas Pogge

Where / When: Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Käte Hamburger-Kolleg), Duisburg
01 Dec. 2012
The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Democracy: Towards Prudential Regulation through Public Reasoning
American Society of International Law, Biennial Conference of the International Economic Law Interest Group
Where / When: George Washington University, Washington D.C.
20 Nov. 2012
Voluntary Guidelines on Land Governance: The Potential of Soft Law Approaches
First Global Soil Forum
Where / When: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Berlin
12 Oct. 2012
Monetary Union and the Law: Comment on a Paper by Jean-Victor Louis
World Trade Conference 2012
Where / When: World Trade Institute, Bern
13 Sep. 2012
Sovereign Debt Restructurings as Exercises of International Public Authority: Towards a Decentralized Sovereign Insolvency Law

"International Economic Law, Sovereign Debt and Bilateralism". Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law at the 5th ESIL biennial conference.

Where / When: Valencia, Spain
20 Jul. 2012
Legality and Legitimacy of a European Banking Union
Expert Workshop: "The Development of the European Union in Light of Discourse Theory"
Where / When: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
14 Jul. 2012
The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Democracy: Towards Prudential Regulation Through Public Reasoning
3rd biennial conference of the Society of International Economic Law
Where / When: National University of Singapore, Singapore
15 Jun. 2012
Stress Testing Stress Tests: How to Make Financial Indicators Legitimate and Effective
8th Global Administrative Law Seminar: Indicators in Global Governanc
Where / When: Rome, Aspen Institute
06 Jun. 2012
Sovereign Debt Restructurings as Exercises of International Public Authority: Towards a Decentralized Sovereign Insolvency Law
German-Israeli Workshop on the Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions
Where / When: Tel Aviv University
18 Apr. 2012
Sovereign Debt Restructurings as Exercises of International Public Authority: Towards a Decentralized Sovereign Insolvency Law

IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2012, convened by Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Joseph Weiler

Where / When: New York University School of Law
16 Apr. 2012
IILJ Workshop: Analyzing and Shaping Inter-Institutional Relations in Global Governance
Comment on Papers by Megan Donaldson and Georgios Dimitropoulos
Where / When: New York University School of Law
23 Mar. 2012
Democracy - Change - Collective Security: International Law after the Arab Spring
Chair, Panel: "Is there an Arab International Law in the Arab Spring?"
Where / When: Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
02 Mar. 2012
Principles of Responsible Fiscal Policy: From Discretion to Rules
Responsible Sovereign Financing: The Search for Common Principles. Conference by UNCTAD and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Where / When: Madrid
27 Feb. 2012
The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Democracy: Towards Prudential Regulation through Public Reasoning

 

Where / When: Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, Bonn
16 Jun. 2011
The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Democracy: Improving Prudential Regulation through Public Reasoning

Ph.D. Workshop, 3rd Annual Conference of the Graduate Programme "Global Financial Markets"

Where / When: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
28 May. 2011
International Institutions and the Exercise of Power by Information: OECD Rankings and Blacklisting

Paper presentation at the 4th Research Forum of the European Society of International Law

Where / When: Tallinn
24 Feb. 2011
IILJ Scholars Conference

Comment on a paper by J.B. Heath on WHO emergency measures

Where / When: NYU School of Law, New York
21 Feb. 2011
The Financial Crisis as a Challenge to Democracy: Does Democracy Keep its Promise?

 

Where / When: Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington (VA)
09 Oct. 2010
Conference: Resources of Conflict - Conflicts over Resources

Chair, Panel on "Knowledge as a Resource: Access, Assessment and Legal Consequences"

Where / When: Universität Göttingen
19 Sep. 2010
The New Public Law in a Global (Dis)Order
Comment on papers on new developments in competition law by Daniele Gallo and Gabriele Rossa/Gianluigi Albano/Roberto Cavallo Perin
Where / When: New York University School of Law
13 Sep. 2010
Taming and Framing Indicators. A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD PISA Programme
Conference "Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance"
Where / When: New York University School of Law
06 Jul. 2010
Formalism in International Law
Comment on a presentation by Prof. Jean d'Aspremont (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Where / When: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
12 Jun. 2010
6th Global Administrative Law Seminar

The Financial Crisis and Global Administrative Law: Comment on papers by Elisabetta Cervone, Chiara Orlandini and Martins Paparinskis

Where / When: Viterbo, Italy
16 Jun. 2009
The Challenge of Global Governance to the Concept of International Law: Refurbishing Legal Positivism
Global Administrative Law Symposium
Where / When: University of Edinburgh
19 Feb. 2009
The Exercise of International Public Authority through National Policy Assessment - the OECD's PISA Policy
Visiting Fellows Talk
Where / When: Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University
29 Jan. 2009
The Exercise of International Public Authority through National Policy Assessment: The OECD's PISA Policy as a Paradigm of a New Standard Instrument in International Law
Joint conference of the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State" and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (conference homepage)
Where / When: Bremen
06 Dec. 2008
International Soft Law before German Courts
Workshop of the "Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler" (Working Group of Young Researchers in Public International Law) on International Law in the Domestic Realm (in German)
Where / When: Vienna
04 Dec. 2008
Judicial Review of Administrative Action in Germany: Procedure vs. Substance
Commentary on a paper by Dr. Margherita Poto at the workshop "Il sindacato giuridizionale dell'azione amministrativa tra procedura e sostanza", 4-5 December 2008
Where / When: Università di Torino
11 Mar. 2008
Beyond Relative Normativity: Taxonomizing the Instruments of Public Authority
German-Israeli Minerva School: The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions, 10-11 March 2008
Where / When: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
10 Mar. 2008
On the Publicness of Public International Law
German-Israeli Minerva School: The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions, 10-11 March 2008 (together with Philipp Dann)
Where / When: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
09 Oct. 2007
Handlungsformen im Law of International Administration (Standard Instruments in the Law of International Administration)
Workshop on the Law of International Administration.
Where / When: Heidelberg, Max-Planck-Institut
06 Jul. 2007
Ethnic Party Bans in Africa: The Perspective of International Law
Discussant at the Workshop "Managing ehtnic conflict through institutional engineering. Ethnic party bans in Africa", convened by Peter Niesen (TU Darmstadt), Matthias Basedau (GIGA Hamburg), Matthijs Bogaards (Jacobs University Bremen), Christof Hartmann (Universität Duisburg-Essen).
Where / When: Darmstadt
25 Apr. 2007
Governing Officially Supported Trade Finance: The Export Credits Arrangement and Related Instruments

Workshop "The Law of International Administration".

Where / When: Heidelberg, Max-Planck-Institut
19 Apr. 2007
Leistungsmessungen im Bildungsbereich: Rechtsfragen eines Mehrebenensystems
Speyrer Netzwerk Gemeinschaftsaufgaben, 2. Workshop
Where / When: Speyer, Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung
18 Apr. 2007
Implementing Universal Jurisdiction Reasonably: Between Impunity and World Police

Seminar on the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC, hosted by the Finnish Red Cross and the University of Helsinki

Where / When: Helsinki
09 Mar. 2007
Neue Handlungsformen zur Strukturierung transnationaler Netzwerke. Eine Darstellung am Beispiel der OECD (Structuring Transnational Networks by Developing Standard Instruments. The Example of the OECD)
47th Meeting of Young Scholars in Public Law. Conference Theme: "Networks"
Where / When: Berlin, Free University and Humboldt University
07 Jul. 2006
A Legal Conceptualization of Global Governance: The OECD PISA Policy as an Example
Doctoral Meeting: Transnational and European Administrative Law (La Sapienzia - Prof. S. Cassese; SciencesPo - Prof. Dehousse; MPI Völkerrecht - Prof. von Bogdandy)
Where / When: Heidelberg
16 Jun. 2006
Eine rechtliche Fassung von Global Governance: Das Beispiel der OECD PISA-Politik
Presentation at the Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Max Planck Institute for International Law
Where / When: Heidelberg
09 Jun. 2006
Holding Governments Accountable through Information: Multilevel Education Assessments by Private and Public Institutions

Second Global Administrative Law Seminar, Università della Tuscia, Facoltà delle Scienze Politiche

Where / When: Viterbo (Italy)
09 Jun. 2005
Is There A Global Administrative Space? A Constructive Critique
Doctoral Meeting (La Sapienzia - Prof. S. Cassese; SciencesPo - Prof. Dehousse; MPI Völkerrecht - Prof. von Bogdandy)
Where / When: Rome (Italy)
01 Mar. 2005
Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Presentation of Country Reports on the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court produced by the ELSA PINIL project
Where / When: Helsinki (Finland)
14 Feb. 2005
Ne bis in idem - The Interdiction of Double Jeopardy
Afghanistan Fair Trial Workshop
Where / When: Heidelberg
19 Jan. 2005
The Case of Sierra Leone
Seminar "Restructuring Iraq: Possible Models based upon Experience gained under the Authority of the League of Nations and the United Nations" 
Where / When: Heidelberg
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Lectures

6.9.2012
The European Economic and Monetary Union
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Workshop on German Public Law and European Union Law with Students of Tel Aviv University
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