Methodology in Private Law Theory

Thilo Kuntz is a Professor of Law at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in Germany, where he holds the Chair in Private Law, Commercial and Corporate Law. In addition, he is Managing Director of HHU's Institute for Corporate Law. He previously held chairs at Bremen University and Bucerius Law School, Germany, and has held a visiting appointment at Notre Dame Law School. His research interests include private law theory, fiduciary law, corporate finance, and corporate governance, with an emphasis on comparative, economic, and historical analysis. Paul B. Miller is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programmes at Notre Dame Law School, where he also serves as Director of the Notre Dame Programme on Private Law. Miller taught previously at McGill University in Montréal and has held visiting appointments at Bucerius Law School, the University of Melbourne, Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, Peking University, and Tel Aviv University. Miller is a private law theorist whose work focuses primarily on philosophical questions in equity, fiduciary law, trust law, and corporate law. His books include Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law, The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, and Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence and serves (with John Oberdiek) as the General Editor for Oxford Private Law Theory and the associated series, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, both published by Oxford University Press.