Current Position

Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Münster, Department of Political Science

Academic Career

2010 - 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford

Wolfson College and Institute of European and Comparative Law

2011 - 2012 Associated Research Fellow at University of Oxford

Department of Political Science and International Relations

2006 Empirical field work in India (Indo-German Chamber of Commerce)

2006  Research Fellow at International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain

1995 - 1996  Research Assistant at German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP)

 Study group ‘Globalisation and World Economy’

2009 Ph.D in Law and Politics from University of Bremen

Collaborative Research Centre ‘Transformations of the State’

Topic:'Institutions and Globalisation. An Empirical Investigation into

Cross-Border Contracts in the Software Industry‘

Supervisor (Law): Prof. Dr. Gralf-Peter Calliess

Supervisor (Political Science): Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt

Grade: Summa cum laude

1994 - 2000 Master in Political Science from Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn

Minor subjects: Constitutional, Social and Economic History, Law

Publications

Books

Dietz, Thomas (2014) Global Order beyond Law, Hart Publishing Oxford.

Dietz, Thomas (2010) Institutionen und Globalisierung: Eine empirische Untersuchung grenzüberschreitender Softwareentwicklungsverträge, Mohr Siebeck.

Dietz, Thomas (2014) International Commercial Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence, Oxford University Press (with Walter Mattli eds.).

Articles with Peer Review

Dietz, Thomas (June 2014) Mapping and Assessing the Rise of International Commercial Arbitration in the Globalization Era: An Introduction, in W. Mattli / T. Dietz (ed.) International Commercial Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence,Oxford University (with Walter Mattli).

Dietz, Thomas (June 2014) Does International Commercial Arbitration Provide Efficient Enforcement Mechanisms for International Trade, in: W. Mattli / T. Dietz (ed.) International Commercial Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence, Oxford University Press

Dietz, Thomas (2012) Contract Law, Relational Contracts and Reputational Networks in International Trade, in: Law & Social Inquiry, 37:1, p. 25-53.

Dietz, Thomas (2009) Relationale Verträge und Reputationsnetzwerke im internationalen Handel, in: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 30:2, p. 163-182 = Wolfgang Kaupen-Award of the German Society of Sociology for the best socio-legal journal article 2010.

Dietz, Thomas (2009) The Emergence of Transnational Cooperation in the Software-Industry, in: V. Gessner (ed.) Legal Certainty beyond the State. Empirical Studies and Theoretical Debates on Institutional Support for Global Economic Exchanges, Hart Publishing Oxford, p. 87 (with Holger Nieswandt).

Dietz, Thomas (2008) Transformation des Handelsrechts? Neue Formen von Rechtssicherheit in globalen Austauschprozessen, in: A. Hurrelmann/S. Leibfried/K. Martens/P. Mayer (ed.) Zerfasert der Nationalstaat? Die Internationalisierung politischer Verantwortung, Campus: Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 143 (with Gralf-Peter Calliess / Wioletta Konradi / Holger Nieswandt und Fabian Sosa).

Dietz, Thomas (2006) Cross-border Cooperation. The meaning of Cognitive and Normative Expectations for the emergence of global Research and Development Cooperation, Transstate Working Papers, 63, Bremen: Sfb 597 “Staatlichkeit im Wandel” (with Holger Nieswandt).

Dietz, Thomas (June 2014) Mapping and Assessing the Rise of International Commercial Arbitration in the Globalization Era: An Introduction, in W. Mattli / T. Dietz (ed.) International Commercial Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence,Oxford University (with Walter Mattli).

Awards

2011 German Society of Sociology, Wolfgang Kaupen Award for the best socio-legal journal article in 2010

Research Grants and Scholarships

2013 Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law

Travel Grant: Second Hiil-UVic Workshop on the Legitimicy of Private

Transnational Governance by Contract, Grant amount: € 1.500

2010 Volkswagen Foundation

Personal Grant, Project: Institutions and Globalisation, Anglo-German

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Grant amount: ca. € 100.000

2010 German Research Foundation (DFG)

Collaborative Research Center 597 ‘Transformations of the State’, sub-project A4: application for continuation of funding 2011-2014,

Project coordinator under supervision of Prof. Dr. Calliess,Grant amount: ca. € 500.000

Other Professional Experience

2002 Research Associate German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)

2000 Project Assistant, Simon Kucher & Partners Bonn, Strategy Consultants

1995 Internship at German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag)

Research Interests