Professor of Labour Law
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt

Email: M.Weiss@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
Website: www.jura.uni-frankfurt.de/ifawz1/weiss


Biography

Born 1940. Professor for Labour Law and Civil Law from 1974 to 1977 at the University of Hamburg/Germany and since 1977 at the Law School of the J.W.Goethe University in Frankfurt/Germany. Visiting Professor in many universities all over the world, particularly in France and in the USA. 2000 - 2003 President of the International Industrial Relations Association. 1998 - 2002 Deputy President of the German Law Association. Faculty member of annually held international seminars in Hungary, Italy and France. Continuous cooperation with the Commission of the European Communities and with the International Labour Organisation. Consultant to many Governments, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe.


Selected Publications in English

Current Issues in Labour Relations: An International Perspective (1989) (together with A. Gladstone et alii); European Employment & Industrial Relations Glossary: Germany (1992); The Changing Face of Labour Law and Industrial Relations (1993) (together with R. Blanpain); Labour Law and Industrial Relations at the Turn of the Century (1998) (together with C. Engels); Employment and Industrial Relations in Europe (1999) (together with M.Gold); Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the Federal Republic of Germany, 3rd edition (2000) (together with M.Schmidt); Changing industrial Relations and modernisation of Labour law (2003) (together with R.Blanpain); Handbook on Employee Involvement in Europe (2004) (together with M. Sewerynski)



Recent Publications

Industrial Relations and EU-Enlargement
In: R. Blainpain/M. Weiss, Changing Industrial Relations and Modernisation of Labour Law
Den Haag/London/New York, 2003, 439 ff.

Contract and Industrial Relations: The German Case
In: P. Auvergnon (Hrsg.), La Contractualisation du Droit Social, Bordeaux 2003, S. 163 ff.

The Social Dimension as Part of the Constitutional Framework
In: R. Hoffmann u.a. (Hrsg.), European Integration as a Social Experiment in a Globalized World,
Düsseldorf 2003, 31 ff.

Recent Developments in German and European Labour Law
In: W. Müller-Jentsch/H. Weitbrecht (Hrsg.), The Changing Contours of German Industrial
Relations, München 2003, S. 157 ff.

La participatione die lavoratori nella Società Europea
Diritto delle Relazioni Industriali 2003, S. 117 ff.

Enlargement and Industrial Relations: Building a New Social Partnership
The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
2004, S. 5 ff.

Employee Involvement in the European Community
in: M. Weiss/M. Sewerynski (Hrsg.), Handbook on Employee Involvement
in Europe, Loseblatt, 1. Aufl. 2004

Germany
in: R. Blainpain/R. Graham (Hrsg.), Temporary Agency Work and the
Information Society, 2004, S. 127 ff.

Trade Unions, Workers' Participation and Collective Bargaining in Germany
and the EU in: J. G. getman/R. Marshall (ed.), The Future of Labor Unions -
Organized Labor in the 21st Century, 2004, S. 201 ff.

The European Community's Approach to Workers' Participation: Recent Developments
in: A. C. Neal (ed.), Social Policy, 2004, S. 39 ff.

The Future of Workers' Participation in the EU
in: C. Barnard et alii (ed.), The Future of Labour Law. Liber Amicorum Bob Hepple QC,
2004, S. 229 ff.

EU Enlargement, Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Tijschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 2004, S. 261 ff.