Dr. Johanna Stark, M.Phil.
Senior Research Fellow
Phone:+49-89-24246-5412
Fax:+49-89-24246-523
Mail: johanna.stark@tax.mpg.de
Room:M8.614.2
Areas of Interest
Private Law, European Private Law, Private International Law, Legal Theory, Legal Philosophy
Academic Résumé
- Studies in Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and University of Oxford (2003-2007, M.Phil.); Studies in Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (2006-2011), First Legal State Examination (2011).
- Research Associate at the Institute of International and Comparative Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (2007-2014, Chair: Prof. Dr. Horst Eidenmüller).
- Academic Visitor at Yale Law School (winter 2012) and at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford (fall 2013).
- Dr. jur. at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (2016).
- Legal Training (‘Referendariat’) / Second Legal State Examination in Munich (2015-2017).
- Senior Research Fellow at the Institute since January 2017.
Academic Prizes / Honours / Memberships etc.
Academic Prizes:
Landeswettbewerb Alte Sprachen, first prize (2003)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich: Award for dissertation (2016)
Award of the Alumni of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (2020)
Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft of the Roman Herzog Institute, second prize (2020)
Otto Schmidt Prize for the promotion of the Europeanization and Internationalization of Law (2020)
Scholarships:
German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes): Student Scholarship
German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes): Ph.D.-Scholarship
Mentee in the LMU-Excellence-Program
Memberships:
Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung e.V.
Gesellschaft junger Zivilrechtswissenschaftler e.V.
"Future Faculty" (Zukunftsfakultät), funded by "Recht im Kontext" and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Current Publications:
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/gastbeitrag-recht-im-angebot-1.4523741
Lectures:
| 15.03.24 | Presentation and Comment on Tsilly Dagan, “The State and the Market – A Parable: On the State’s Commodifying Effects” |
Workshop on “The Normative Foundations of the Market” Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA |
| 23.02.24 | Special Taxes for Special Times? Earmarking Windfall Profit Taxes |
Conference on “The Fiscal Future of the European Union” Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich |
| 23.06.23 | Taxing Excess Profits in the Energy Sector – A Comparative Perspective on Promises and Problems of Recent Policy Initiatives |
Keynote Lecture, Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | Brookes University, Oxford |
| 13.12.22 | Law as a Contested Commodity |
Keynote Lecture, Conference on “Commodification and the Law” Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | European University Institute, Florence |
| 10.10.22 | Comment on: Katharina Göpfarth, “Resolving transactions to eliminate unintended tax consequences” |
Max Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Law Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich |
| 13.05.22 | Rights and Their Boundaries in European Contract Law: Abuse, Proportionality, or Both? |
Presentation, Conference on “Proportionality in Private Law” Speaker: Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | MPI for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg |
| 17.03.21 | Normative Theories and Research in Taxation |
| Speaker: Hongler, Peter / Stark, Johanna | |
| Location | Copenhagen Business School, Online |
| 19.02.21 | Tax Justice Beyond National Borders - International or Interpersonal? |
Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance, University of Florida, Levin Colle of Law | |
| Location | Florida (USA) |
| 26.02.20 | Clawback Provisions in Executive Compensation Contracts |
Business Law Workshops, University of Oxford | |
| Location | Oxford (UK) |
| 25.11.19 | Law for Sale – A Philosophical Critique of Regulatory Competition |
2nd Cambridge-Munich Seminar on Regulatory Competition post-Brexit | |
| Location | Munich |
| 18.11.19 | Comment on Israel Klein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Contemptuous Tax Reporting” |
5th Max Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Law | |
| Location | Munich |
| 15.11.19 | Tax Justice Beyond National Borders – Interpersonal or International? |
Workshop on International Tax Governance and Justice, University of Oxford | |
| Location | Oxford (UK) |
| 01.10.19 | Missbrauch von Gestaltungsrechten |
Aktuelle Stunde am MPI für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht | |
| Location | Hamburg |
| 17.07.19 | Unzulässige Ausübung von Gestaltungsrechten |
Workshop Privatrecht | |
| Location | LMU Munich |
| 08.07.19 | Tax Justice Beyond National Borders – Interpersonal or International? |
Cambridge Centre for Tax Law, Tax Policy Conference 2019 | |
| Location | Cambridge (UK) |
| 03.05.19 | Comment on Dominic de Cogan (University of Cambridge) “Tax, the Constitution and Brexit” |
LMU Cambridge Workshop: "Legal Perspectives on a Post-Brexit Europe" | |
| Location | Munich |
| 20.10.18 | Comment on "Social Comparisons under Uncertainty in Public Finance" by Harald Lang |
9th Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association of the MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance | |
| Location | Munich |
| 15.01.18 | Comment on "The Relationship between Tax Sovereignty's Regulatory Function and State Sovereignty: From the Rise of Nation States to Globalization" by Giulio Allevato (Milan) |
4th Max Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Law | |
| Location | Munich |
| 16.12.16 | Comment on "Incomplete Contracts and Strategic Ambiguity: Evidence from Silicon Valley" by Sarath Sanga (Northwestern Law School) |
Current Issues in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, University of Oxford | |
| Location | Oxford |
| 01.06.15 | Regulatory Competition and its Influence on Law as a Social Practice |
The Institute for Global Law and Policy’s 2015 Conference, Harvard Law School | |
| Location | Cambridge (MA) |
| 11.04.15 | Buttons, Boxes, Ticks, and Trust - The Limits of Consumer Choice |
3rd Law and Economics Conference, Universität Luzern Speaker: Stark, Johanna / Engel, Martin | |
| Location | Luzern |
| 05.02.14 | Form Follows Function - Die Funktionen des Rechts unter dem Einfluss des Rechtswettbewerbs |
Workshop Privatrecht an der Juristischen Fakultät der LMU München | |
| Location | München |
| 21.08.13 | Kontemporäre Paternalismuskonzepte |
Sommerakademie der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | |
| Location | St. Johann, Südtirol |
| 30.11.12 | Commodify This?! The Law Market and Its Effect on Law as Part of Public Infrastructure |
2nd Doctoral Scholarship Conference, Yale Law School | |
| Location | New Haven |
| 22.06.12 | Verbraucher in Europa - Eine Geschichte der Identitätsdiffusion |
13. Graduiertentreffen im internationalen Wirtschaftsrecht, Universitäten Linz/Passau Speaker: Stark, Johanna / Engel, Martin | |
| Location | Linz |
Courses:
| 17.10.22 - 05.12.22 | Einkommensteuerrecht |
Winter Term 2022/23 | Speaker: Stark, Johanna |
| Location | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Language | German |
| 02.11.20 - 12.02.21 | Einkommenssteuerrecht |
WS 2020/2021 | |
| Location | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität |
| 24.04.20 - 24.07.20 | Verbraucherprivatrecht |
| Location | Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 30.01.17 | Workshop Verhandlungsmanagement |
| Location | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |