About the speaker
Ralf Michaels has been a Director at the Institute since 2019. He is also Global Law Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg. He studied law in Passau and Cambridge, earning an LL.M. from King’s College, Cambridge, in 1995, and completed his doctoral degree and second state exam in law in 2000.

Michaels first joined the Institute in 1997 and returned as a research fellow in 2001 before moving to Duke University School of Law, where he taught for 17 years, serving as Arthur Larson Professor of Law from 2012 to 2019. He has held guest professorships at leading universities worldwide and has been a Senior Fellow at institutions including Harvard Law School and Princeton University. He is a member of the Académie internationale de droit comparé and several leading international and German legal associations.

Abstract
In the traditional division of labor private law is responsible for efficiency, and equality is achieved, if at all, by public law, most importantly through tax and transfer. Today, the division itself has become questionable, and the significant reduction in tax rates since the Reagan revolution has made public law ineffective. Can private law come to the rescue?

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