James Maxeiner
Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director, Center for International & Comparative Law
B.A., Carleton College
J.D., Cornell Law School
LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
Dr. jur., Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich
Expertise
Contact Information
Telephone: (410) 837-4628
Room Number: LC 202A
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Debbie Pinkham, (410) 837-4634, (on campus x4634), LC 400
Courses Taught
Spring 2010
International Business Transactions
Professor Maxeiner began his career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC. He was awarded the Max Rheinstein Fellowship at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich Germany. While there he did a doctorate of juridicial science at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität under Professor Wolfgang Fikentscher. On his return to the United States Professor Maxeiner practiced law in New York City. His practice was principally in the areas of intellectual property and international commercial litigation. He left litigation practice to become Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Dun & Bradstreet, then the world's leading supplier of business information. Professor Maxeiner teaches and writes in the areas of commercial law, electronic commerce and intellectual property law, as well as international & comparative law.
Selected Publications
Professor Maxeiner's Articles on SSRN
Forthcoming
Uniform Law and its Impact on National Laws Limits and Possibilities, U.S. National Report, Intermediary Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Mexico City, 13-15 November 2008, forthcoming in Am. J. Comp. L, (2009) Draft available at SSRN.
Books
Practical Global Civil Procedure: United States-Germany-Korea, forthcoming Carolina Academic Press as civil procedure volume in Contextual Approach Series for late 2009.
Educating Lawyers Now and Then: An Essay Comparing the 2007 and 1914 Carnegie Foundation Reports on Legal Education and a Reprint of the 1914 Report The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law Schools by Josef Redlich (Vandeplas Publishing 2007). Partly available at SSRN.
Advertising Law in Europe and North America, 2nd ed. (with Peter Schotthöfer) (Kluwer 1999).
Policy and Methods in German and American Antitrust Law: A Comparative Study (Praeger 1986)
Articles and Essays
Learning from Others: Sustaining the Internationalization and Globalization of U.S. Law School Curriculums, 32 Fordham J. Int'l L. 501 (2008)
Some Realism About Legal Certainty in the Globalization of the Rule of Law, 31 Houston J. Int'l L. 101 (2008)
Guiding Litigation: Applying Law to Facts in Germany, forthcoming in Papers of Common Good Forum The Boundaries of Litigation, Brookings Institution, Washington DC April 15, 2008. Also available at SSRN.
Legal Certainty and Legal Methods: A European Alternative to American Legal Indeterminacy?, 15 Tulane J. Int'l & Comp. L. 541-607 (2007) Partly available at SSRN.
Legal Indeterminacy Made in America: American Legal Methods and the Rule of Law, 41 Valparaiso U.L. Rev. 517-589 (2006)
The New Japanese Law Schools (with Keiichi Yamanaka), 13 Pacific Rim L. & Policy J. 303 (2004) Available at SSRN.
Standard Terms Contracting in the Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives, 28 Yale J. Int'l L. 109 (2003)
Different Roads to the Rule of Law: Their Importance for Law Reform in Taiwan (in English and in Chinese), Tunghai Univ. L. Rev. No. 19, 159 (December 2003)