FA Mann

Gerhard Dannemann read law at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn, qualifying for legal practice in 1988. He held academic positions at the University of Freiburg (1988-1991; Dr. iur,, 1993; Dr. iur habil. 2002), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (1991-1994), University College London (1992-1995), and the University of Oxford (1994-2002, last as Reader in Comparative Law). Since 2003, he is Professor of English Law, British Economy and Politics at Humboldt University, Berlin. He has published notably on comparative law, law of obligations, conflict of laws, public international law, and German émigré scholars. Jason Grant Allen is an Associate Professor of Law at SMU Yong Pung How School of Law and Director of the SMU Centre for AI & Data Governance, publishing widely on law and emerging technology issues and working across the public law/private law divide including the regulation of emerging technologies, and the extension of law into digital contexts. Jason studied Law and German at the University of Tasmania and has been a DAAD Scholar (Universität Augsburg), Poynton Scholar (University of Cambridge) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and has held affiliations and visiting positions at various institutions.

Gerhard Dannemann and Jason Grant Allen: Introduction
Part I 'A German Lawyer of Jewish Extraction' in England: F A Mann's Legal Biography
1: Jason Grant Allen: Ein Bericht aus einer Akademie: Writing About Germany's Lost Jewish Scholars, 80 Years On
2: Frank Mecklenburg: On Being a German Jew in the "Golden Years"
3: Christoph König: Pragmatism Meets Praxisorientierung: F A Mann and a Transnational Biography in Law
4: Reut Yael Paz: Out of Harm's Way: F A Mann's Attempts to Demystify Money, Law, and Judaism
Part II 'A Wealth of Legal Knowledge': The International Lawyer
5: Lawrence Collins: The Influence of F A Mann on English Case Law: The Validity of Acts of State Contrary to Human Rights and International Law and the Enforcement of Foreign Public Law
6: Gerhard Dannemann: Jurisdiction and Private International Law: F A Mann's Unvollendete?
7: Giuditta Cordero-Moss: Delocalisation and Re-localisation in Commercial Law and the Law of Arbitration: The Continued Relevance of F A Mann's Thought
Part III 'The Task of the Jurist to Define': The Legal Aspects of Money
8: Wolfgang Ernst: Before F A Mann: Martin Wolff on Money
9: David Fox: Gold Clauses in the Capital Markets of the Early Twentieth Century
10: Joseph H Sommer: F A Mann's Conservative Revolution
11: Will Bateman: Constitutional Dimensions of Monetary Authority Under the Gold Standard and Bretton Woods
12: María Emilia Buccella, Rosa María Lastra & Jason Grant Allen: El Aspecto Legal del Dinero: F A Mann's Impact in Latin America
13: Simon Gleeson: F A Mann on Cryptocurrency
14: Christian Hofmann: A New and Unsolved Riddle in Monetary Law: The Complex Case of Central Bank Digital Currency
Gerhard Dannemann and Jason Grant Allen: Conclusions