Poul Fritz Kjær

Presentation

Poul F. Kjaer’s research focuses on European Integration, Governance and Political Economy and Global Governance from a legal theory and historical sociology of law angle.

From 2013 to 2017 he directed the European Research Council project ‘Institutional Transformation in European Political Economy – A Socio-legal Approach’ and is currently funded by a Semper Ardens Grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.

Poul F.  Kjaer holds a PhD From the European University Institute in Florence and a Habilitation from the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He has been visiting fellow at several research institutions including the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University.
 

Primary research areas

• European Integration, Governance and Political Economy
• Sociology of Law
• Global Governance
• Social Legal and Constitutional Theory
• Historical Sociology