Claus D. Zimmermann

Status: DPhil candidate
Joint supervisors: Professor Dan Sarooshi and Professor Jean-Marc Sorel
College: Worcester College
Email: claus.zimmermann@law.ox.ac.uk

Start date: October 2007
Projected end date: June 2011

DPhil topic and short description:

A Contemporary Concept of Monetary Sovereignty

The central focus of my research is twofold. In a first step, I examine to what extent the concept of monetary sovereignty and, intrinsically linked, the nature of international monetary law, have evolved over time. In a second step, I consider how the contemporary concept of monetary sovereignty as proposed by this thesis and the ongoing hybridization of international monetary law inform the analysis of the following three key issues: a) the suitability of the existing multilateral code of exchange rate conduct for fostering global monetary and financial stability, b) selected contemporary challenges linked to the increasing regionalization of monetary sovereignty, and, c) the necessary reorganization of financial supervision.

Short Bio:

Before coming to Oxford, Claus Zimmermann earned an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School (2007) and master’s degrees in international economic law and public economics from the University Paris 1 “Panthéon-Sorbonne” (2006). He has been a visiting researcher at Stanford Law School and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Department of Government. He has undertaken internships with the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat, the IMF Legal Department, UNCITRAL, the German Federal Ministry of Justice, and a big French law firm. During his time at the Oxford Law Faculty, he has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant for European Competition Law & Policy, student convenor for the European Law Discussion Group and a Supervising Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.