Mikael Rask Madsen
Head of Centre, Professor, Professor
Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance
Karen Blixens Plads 16, Building: 6B-4-64
2300 København S
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Primary fields of research
Mikael Rask Madsen’s research is focused on globalization and the role of legal institutions and professionals in these processes, including:
- International Courts and their evolutions and challenges
- The role of legal elites in the globalization
- The development of the legal profession
- Legal knowledge and power
His current research concerns the special interaction between law and global integration, the role and power of lawyers in globalization, the increased importance of supranational legal institutions and more generally, the international transformation of law and authority towards networked expertise.
Mikael Rask Madsen has significant teaching experience from having studied and researched at a number of leading universities, including École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Strasbourg and Sciences Po - L'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Paris. At the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, he directed the Centre for Studies in Legal Culture in the period 2008-11. He is currently the Director and PI of iCourts - the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts.
Teaching
Teaching
Mikael Rask Madsen tutors students in following topics:
- Legal sociology and legal theory
- The Legal Profession
- European law and integration
- Law and globalization
- Human rights
Mikael Rask Madsen teaches the following subjects:
- The Legal Profession
- Theory and method for PhD students
Selected publications
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How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts
Alter, K. J., Helfer, L. & Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, In: Law and Contemporary Problems. 79, 1, p. 1-36 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Challenging Authority of the European Court of Human Rights
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, In: Law and Contemporary Problems. 79, 1, p. 141-178 38 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Force of Law and Lawyers: Pierre Bourdieu and the Reflexive Sociology of Law
Madsen, Mikael Rask & Dezalay, Y., 2012, In: Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 8, p. 433-452Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security
Kauppi, N. (ed.) & Madsen, Mikael Rask (ed.), 2013, London: Routledge. 220 p. (Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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A "Selfie" from Luxembourg: The Court of Justice and the Fabrication of the Pre-Accession Case-Law Dossiers
Šadl, Urška & Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, In: The Columbia Journal of European Law. 22, 2, p. 327-354 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Did the Financial Crisis Change European Citizenship Law? An Analysis of Citizenship Rights Adjudication Before and After the Financial Crisis
Šadl, Urška & Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, In: European Law Journal. 22, 1, p. 40-60 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Law and the Formation of Modern Europe: Perspectives from the Historical Sociology of Law
Madsen, Mikael Rask & Thornhill, C., 2014, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 370 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Making Human Rights Intelligible: Towards a Sociology of Human Rights
Madsen, Mikael Rask (ed.) & Verschraegen, G. (ed.), 2013, Oxford: Hart Publishing. 320 p. (Onati International Series in Law and Society).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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La genèse de l'Europe des droits de l'homme : Enjeux juridiques et stratégies d'Etat (France, Grande-Bretagne et pays scandinaves, 1945-1970). Tome 1
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2011, Presses universitaires de Strasbourg. 260 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics
Christoffersen, J. & Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2011, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 356 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Legal Diplomacy: Law, Politics and the Genesis of Postwar European Human Rights
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2010, Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: A Critical History. Hoffmann, S. L. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 62-81 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The Protracted Institutionalisation of the Strasbourg Court: From Legal Diplomacy to Integrationist Jurisprudence
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2011, The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics. Christoffersen, J. & Rask Madsen, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 43-60 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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European New Legal Realism and International Law: How to Make International Law Intelligible
Holtermann, Jakob v. H. & Madsen, Mikael Rask, 1 Jun 2015, In: Leiden Journal of International Law. 28, 2, p. 211-230 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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La Guerre Froide et la fabrication des droits de l’homme contemporains: Une théorie transnationale de l’évolution des droits de l’homme
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, In: European Journal of Human Rights/ Journal Européen des Droits de l'Homme. 2, p. 197-220 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Transnational fields and power elites: Reassembling the international with Bourdieu and practice theory
Madsen, Mikael Rask, 2016, International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines. Basaran, T., Bigo, D., Guittet, E-P. & Walker, R. B. J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 106-125 20 p. (Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The Legal Profession in the Era of Digital Capitalism: Disruption or New Dawn?
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Regime Entanglement in the Emergence of Interstitial Legal Fields: Denmark and the Uneasy Marriage of Human Rights and Migration Law
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An Unlikely Rights Revolution: Legal Mobilization in Scandinavia Since the 1970s
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