Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytet Warszawski

Professor of law at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He was between 2015 and 2023 the director of the Georg Simmel Centre which is dedicated to French-German studies (EHESS/CNRS). From 2014 to 2023 he headed the master degree program in Law at EHESS. Since 2023 he is member of the EHESS Presidency and Dean of Research. After studying law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) and the University Paris II Panthéon Assas (Paris) he holds an Ph.D in law (1995) and the Habilitation for Private Law, Philosophy, History and Theory of Law (2003), both at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He was appointed at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt (1996- 2009) and as Professor at the University of Bremen (2010) before being elected at EHESS in 2010. Rainer Maria Kiesow has published in German, French, Italian and English. He is co-founder and co-director of the German journal “Myops. Berichte aus der Welt des Rechts” (C.H.Beck, Munich, 2007 et sqq.), and of the French journal “Grief. Revue sur les mondes du droit” (Dalloz/Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2014 et sqq.). He published among others: “Das Naturgesetz des Rechts” (Suhrkamp, 1997), “Das Alphabet des Rechts” (Fischer, 2004), “L’unité du droit” (Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2014), “Conseiller le législateur. Les débats sur la fabrique de la loi en Allemagne (1860-2010)”, (Société de législation comparée, 2014), Carl Schmitt, “Loi et jugement. Une enquête sur le problème de la pratique du droit”, traduit de l’allemand et présenté par Rainer Maria Kiesow, [1912] (Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019).