He was
Professor of
Private Law at the
University of Bremen from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1991 he was associated with the
European University Institute in
Florence,
Italy. From 1993 to 1998 he was the
Otto Kahn Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory at the
London School of Economics, and since 1998 he has been Professor of Private Law and
Legal Sociology at the
University of Frankfurt. Since 2007, Teubner has been Principal Investigator at the Frankfurt Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders". In 2007/2008 he was Fellow at
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, in 2009/2010 at the universities of The Hague, and Maastricht. In 2011 he has taken up an "ad personam" Jean Monnet Chair at the
International University College of Turin. ==References==