Prof. Peer Zumbansen

Peer Zumbansen holds the Elizabeth Carmichael Monk Chair in Business Law at McGill’s Faculty of Law and directs the McGill Business Law Platform. In 2026, he is Senior Fellow at the DFG-funded Reflexive Globalization Centre at Humboldt University, Berlin. From 2022 to 2025, he served as the Academic Lead of the CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance under McGill University’s Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI). Educated in Germany, France and the U.S. and admitted to the German bar, Zumbansen has held numerous visiting appointments, including at Yale Law School, the University of Michigan, Melbourne Law School, UCD Dublin, Tilburg Law School, the Université de Paris Dauphine, and others. A founder and co-editor-in-chief for 15 years of www.germanlawjournal.com, he launched the SSRN e-journal for the Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network (CLPE) at Osgoode Hall Law School and the “TLI Think! Papers SSRN series while serving as the inaugural Director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute from 2014-2020 at King’s College London. At McGill, he launched the ‘Business Law Platform’ and the ‘Business Law Meter’ blog and is the founder and editor in chief of the McGill Law Legal Studies Research Paper series with SSRN. In 2023 he launched the annual McGill MLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy (TBLSA), an interdisciplinary policy writing institute in Montréal, co-taught in collaboration with a cohort of colleagues across the globe. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law and the forthcoming Advanced Introduction to Transnational Law (Elgar). Recent publications: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=109516.