RESEARCH PROFILE

Main research areas are European Union law, employment law, sociology of law, social theory and comparative law. Professor Rogowski is currently conducting research on governance of employment and social policies in the European Union. He has a special interest in applying social systems theory to the study of law and industrial relations. He is the author of the concepts of reflexive labour law (with T. Wilthagen) and autopoietic industrial relations, which he applied in comparative empirical studies of labour market regulations in the European Union, in particular employment protection and fixed-term contracts. Professor Rogowski has a longstanding interest in studying the judiciary, the legal profession and legal advice. He has carried out empirical research on the impact and implementation of decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in Germany (with Th. Gawron). He has conducted comparative studies of German labour courts and British employment tribunals as well as on German corporate lawyers. He is currently engaged in a research project on legal advice as a means of mobilising citizens against corruption.

BACKGROUND

Dr. iur (EUI, Florence), LL.M (Wisconsin), Ass.iur (Berlin).

Ralf Rogowski has worked at Warwick since 1993. He taught previously at Lancaster University and at the Free University in Berlin. He is currently the Director of the Law and Sociology Programme and was Co-Director of the Social Theory Centre until 2009. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Wisconsin, Madison; Konstanz; and Maastricht and a longstanding Research Associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin. From September to December 2006, he was Senior Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law. Since 1996 he has been general editor of the book series Studies in Modern Law and Policy (Ashgate).

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• ALACs - Promotion of Participation and Citizenship in Europe through the "Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs)" of Transparency International, Funded by: European Commission, FP7 Collaborative Project, Project Start Date: 01/10/2009 Project End Date: 30/09/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Ralf Rogowski, Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside(2012) Transforming European Employment Policy: Labour Market Transitions and the Promotion of Capability (978 1 84980 256 7) Cheltenham: Elgar
• Rogowski, R.(2009) 'Reflexive regulation of labour and employment conflict resolution' in Soziologische Jurisprudenz: Festschrift für Gunther Teubner zum 65. Geburtstag am 30. April 2009, 573 - 586, Editors: Calliess, G. -P., Fischer-Lescano, A., Wielsch, D. and Zumbansen, P. (9783899495010), Berlin: De Gruyter Recht
• Rogowski, R.(2008) The European social model and transitional labour markets: law and policy Editors: Rogowski, R. (9780754649588) Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate
• Rogowski, R. (2008) 'Governance of the European social model: the case of flexicurity' Intereconomics: review of European economic policy 43 (2), 82 - 91 (0020-5346)
• Rogowski, R(2007) 'Flexicurity and Reflexive Coordination of European Social and Employment Policies' in Flexicurity and Beyond. Finding a new agenda for the European Social Model, 131 - 153, Editors: H. Jørgensen, P.K. Madsen (8757417083), Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• EU Human Rights Policiy, Date of Completion: 2002
• The Equality Act 2010
• EU Directive on Race Discrimination