Editors

Series Editor
  • Kai Purnhagen
Editorial Board Member
  • Alberto Alemanno
  • Mads Andenaes
  • Stefania Baroncelli
  • Franziska Boehm
  • Anu Bradford
  • Jan Dalhuisen
  • Michael Faure
  • Jens-Uwe Franck
  • Geneviève Helleringer
  • Christopher Hodges
  • Lars Hornuf
  • Moritz Jesse
  • Marco Loos
  • Petros Mavroidis
  • Hans Micklitz
  • Giorgio Monti
  • Florian Möslein
  • Dennis Patterson
  • Wolf-Georg Ringe
  • Jules Stuyck
  • Bart van Vooren

About the Editor

Kai Purnhagen, Professor of Law, Chair of Food Law, University of Bayreuth, Campus Kulmbach and faculty of law. Co-Director Research Center for Food law and distinguished international visitor at the Rotterdam Institute for Law and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam Law School. Purnhagen works in the regulation of markets, preferably the food market as a reference area, drawing on insights from neighboring sciences, preferably natural science, philosophy, and (behavioral) economics. He has broad expertise in international and EU law, especially in internal market, competition and trade law, private law, as well as in WTO law. Purnhagen is the scientific director of a project on the regulation of food innovations, which is funded by the German Research Foundation, the Upper Franconia Foundation and the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety. He is a member of the Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation of the think tank Reimagine Europa as well as of the "Expert Group on General Food Law and Sustainability of Food Systems". Purnhagen served at Wageningen University, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, University of Amsterdam, and the University of Lucerne. He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.J.I. from the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen and a State Exam in Law from the State of Hessen. Previous positions include a Fellowship at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting scholarship at the London School of Economics.