Anna Beckers (A.)
Research profile
Anna works in the field of private law and legal theory and legal methodology with a particular focus on sociological approaches to the law.
In private law, Anna's core areas of expertise are international commercial law (business contracts and arbitration), European and comparative private law and corporate law and governance (corporate social responsibility).
Regarding legal theory and methodology, Anna is interested in normative approaches to legal research, particularly social theory and legal sociology.
Publications
Core publications:
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Beckers, A. (2015). Enforcing corporate social responsibility codes: on global self-regulation and national private law. Hart Publishing. International Studies in the Theory of Private Law https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849469029
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Beckers, A., & Teubner, G. (2022). Three liability regimes for artificial intelligence: Algorithmic actants, hybrids, crowds. Hart Publishing.
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Beckers, A. (2021). Globale Wertschöpfungsketten: Theorie und Dogmatik unternehmensbezogener Pflichten. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Privatrechtswissenschaft, 7(1), 220-251.
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Beckers, A. (2017). The regulation of market communication and market behaviour: Corporate social responsibility and the Directives on Unfair Commercial Practices and Unfair Contract Terms. Common Market Law Review, 54(2), 475-515. https://doi.org/10.54648/cola2017033
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Beckers, A. (2020). The invisible networks of global production: Re-imagining the global value chain in legal research. European review of contract law, 16(1), 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1515/ercl-2020-0006
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Beckers, A. (2017). Corporate codes of conduct and contract law: A doctrinal and normative perspective. In R. Brownsword, R. van Gestel, & H-W. Micklitz (Eds.), Research handbook on contract and regulation (pp. 89-137). Edward Elgar Publishing. Research Handbooks in Law https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710668.00010
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Beckers, A. (2018). The creeping juridification of the code of conduct for business taxation: How EU Codes of Conduct Become Hard Law. Yearbook of European Law, 37, 569-596. https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/yey006
Most recent publications:
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Beckers, A., & Teubner, G. (2023). Human-Algorithm-Hybrids as (Quasi-)Organisations? On the Accountability of Digital Collective Actors. Journal of Law and Society, 50(1). http://10.1111/jols.12412
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Beckers, A. (2022). EU Law's Dark Private Legal Space: Researching Private Regulators and the Importance of Legal Doctrine. European Constitutional Law Review, 18(4), 657-681. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1574019622000402
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Beckers, A., & Teubner, G. (2022). Mensch-Algorithmus-Hybride als Quasi-Organisationen? Zur Attribution von Risiko und Verantwortung digitaler Kollektivakteure. Soziale Systeme: Zeitschrift für soziologische Theorie, 26(1-2), 95-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/sosys-2021-0004
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Beckers, A. (2022). L'image juridique évolutive des chaînes de valeur mondiales: Introduction au numéro spécial. Revue internationale de droit economique, (4), 5-18.
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Beckers, A. (2022). A Societal Private Law. European Law Open, 1(2), 380-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/elo.2022.22
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Beckers, A., & Teubner, G. (2022). Three liability regimes for artificial intelligence: Algorithmic actants, hybrids, crowds. Hart Publishing.
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Beckers, A., & Micklitz, H-W. (2021). Une perspective holistique sur la réglementation des chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales. Revue internationale de droit economique, 34(3), 343-359. https://doi.org/10.3917/ride.343.0343
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Beckers, A. (2021). Globale Wertschöpfungsketten: Theorie und Dogmatik unternehmensbezogener Pflichten. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Privatrechtswissenschaft, 7(1), 220-251.
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Beckers, A., Kühlert, M., Liedtke, C., & Micklitz, H-W. (2020). Rechtsrahmen für globale Wertschöpfungsketten: Ausgangslage und Lösungsansätze. Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie. https://www.wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/misc/Impulsbeitrag_Rechtsrahmen_Wertschoepfungsketten.pdf
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Beckers, A. (2020). CSR and the political corporation in law. Journal of Legal Anthropology, 4(2), 119-123. https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2020.040209
Other publications:
Forthcoming:
From Corporate Personality to Corporate Governance: The Transformation of Human Rights Protection in Corporate Governance Structures, in: Nehal Bhuta & Rodrigo Vallejo (eds), Human Rights and Global Governance: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021 (forthcoming)
A. Beckers
Associate Professor
Privaatrecht, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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