Mikael Rask Madsen

Primary fields of research

Mikael Rask Madsen’s research is focused on globalization and the role of legal institutions and professionals in these processes, including:

• International Courts and their evolutions and challenges
• The role of legal elites in the globalization
• The development of the legal profession
• Legal knowledge and power

His current research concerns the special interaction between law and global integration, the role and power of lawyers in globalization, the increased importance of supranational legal institutions and more generally, the international transformation of law and authority towards networked expertise.

Mikael Rask Madsen has significant teaching experience from having studied and researched at a number of leading universities, including École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Strasbourg and Sciences Po - L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris. At the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, he directed the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture in the period 2008-11. He is currently the Director and PI of iCourts - the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts.

Teaching

Teaching

Mikael Rask Madsen tutors students in following topics:

• Legal sociology and legal theory
• The Legal Profession
• European law and integration
• Law and globalization
• Human rights

 Mikael Rask Madsen teaches the following subjects:

• The Legal Profession
• Theory and method for PhD students

CV

Education

2005:-Doctor in sociology of law, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1999:-D.E.A. - Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1998:-Master of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

1997:-International Master of Sociology of Law (LL.M.), The International Institute for the Sociology of Law

Employment

2012-:-Director of iCourts - The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts

2010-:-Professor of law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2008-11:-Head of the Centre for Studies in Legal Cultures (CRS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2007:-Research Associate at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, co-funded by the Carlsberg Foundation

2006-2007:-Postdoc Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, financed by the Research Council of Social Science

2005:-Associate researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Collège de France in Paris

• Associate Professor, Renato Treves International Doctoral Programme in Sociology of Law

2005-2006:-Lecturer, The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL)

1999-2005:-Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

 Visiting Scholarship

2012:- External professor, Sciences Po - L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris

2006:-Invited professor, Université Robert Schuman - Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Strasbourg and the Faculty droit, Strasbourg

2005:-Invited professor, Université Robert Schuman - Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Faculty droit, Strasbourg

2003:-Visiting Scholar, University of South Pacific, Department of Law.

2001-2002:-Visiting Student, University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.

1997:-Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society

Administration

2009 -: Member of Steering Group for the Faculty co-location

2009 -: Member of Coordination Committee of European Research at the University of

            Copenhagen (EURECO)

2008 -: Head of the Centre for Studies in Legal Cultures

2007 -: In charge of (together with Henrik Palmer Olsen) of specialized class for PhD students. 

Language skills

• Danish
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish

Knowledge of languages

• Dansk
• Engelsk
• Fransk
• Tysk
• Spansk