Profile

Kai Purnhagen is an Akademischer Rat (~Senior Researcher and Lecturer) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he works at the Chair of Civil Law, European and International Economic Law (Thomas Ackermann) and at the Munich Risk and Insurance Center. He is also part of the research group "The Architecture of Post-National Rulemaking: Views from Public International Law, European Public Law, and European Private Law", led by Martijn Hesselink, Deidre Curtin and André Nollkaemper at the University of Amsterdam.

Prior to joining the Munich faculty, he was a post-doc researcher at the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law at the University of Amsterdam. Kai held previous positions as a Lecturer in European Law at the University of Lucerne, as Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI) and was visiting scholar at the law school of the London School of Economics as well as a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison law school.

Kai is interested in issues of European economic law and regulation. Within this field, he focuses on insurance regulation. During the last years, Kai’s research has been centred on the interplay of law and regulation in a variety of regulated markets in Europe such as the financial market, product safety and competition. In particular, he worked on the role of systematisation within the emerging law of EU risk regulation.

Originally from Germany, Kai studied law at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen (JLU) and Madison (WI). He earned a LL M degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a MJI from the JLU, a M Res and a PhD in law from the EUI.