Biography

Felix Mormann is a research fellow at Stanford's Steyer–Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. He joined the center after two years as Stanford Law School's Kauffman Fellow. Drawing on his background as an internationally trained corporate and energy lawyer, Mormann investigates domestic and international regulation and policy related to clean–energy technologies.

Mormann's research interests lie at the intersection of law and innovation in the context of environmental and energy law and policy. Most recently he has investigated the regulatory and policy challenges of the transition toward a sustainable energy future. His often–comparative research starts from the premise that environmentally sustainable energy solutions require an economically sustainable policy landscape to leverage the necessary investment. Mormann is the author and co–author of several articles published in leading journals in the U.S. and Europe. Sellier European Law Publishers published his doctoral dissertation as a book.

Previously, Mormann was a visiting scholar at University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he conducted research for his doctoral dissertation. Mormann worked as a corporate and energy lawyer for some of Germany's premiere law firms. As a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, he advised international clients from the high–tech sector. Mormann holds a German JD and a JSD from the University of Passau School of Law as well as an LLM from UC Berkeley School of Law. He is admitted to the practice of law in Germany and New York.

Key Works

• Felix Mormann, Enhancing the Investor Appeal of Renewable Energy, 42 Environmental Law (2012 forthcoming).
• Felix Mormann, Requirements for a Renewables Revolution, 38 Ecology Law Quarterly 903 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Satzungsmäßige Gerichtsstandsklauseln für informationsbedingte Kapitalanlegerklagen im europäischen Zuständigkeitsregime (Forum-Selection Clauses for Investment Fraud Claims under the European Union's Brussels-I Regulation), 56 Die Aktiengesellschaft 10 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Zuständigkeitsrechtlicher Schutz vor Kapitalanlegerklagen in den USA (Jurisdictional Protection Against Investor Claims in the USA), Munich: Sellier, European Law Publishers, 2010.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Climate and Energy Seminar

Programs

• Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Research Fellow

Publications & Cases

• Felix Mormann, Enhancing the Investor Appeal of Renewable Energy, 42 Environmental Law (2012 forthcoming).
• Felix Mormann, Requirements for a Renewables Revolution, 38 Ecology Law Quarterly 903 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Zwischen Parteilichkeit und gelebter Demokratie - die Civil Jury im amerikanischen Zivilprozess (Between Partiality and Democratic Glamour - the American Civil Jury), 58 Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft 515 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Die Gerichtsstand-Dreifaltigkeit der ausschließlichen Zuständigkeit für Kapitalanlegerklagen nach § 32b ZPO (The Trinity of Exclusive Jurisdiction for Investor Claims under Section 32b of the German Code of Civil Procedure), 32 Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 1182 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Satzungsmäßige Gerichtsstandsklauseln für informationsbedingte Kapitalanlegerklagen im europäischen Zuständigkeitsregime (Forum-Selection Clauses for Investment Fraud Claims under the European Union's Brussels-I Regulation), 56 Die Aktiengesellschaft 10 (2011).
• Felix Mormann, Zuständigkeitsrechtlicher Schutz vor Kapitalanlegerklagen in den USA (Jurisdictional Protection Against Investor Claims in the USA), Munich: Sellier, European Law Publishers, 2010.
• Harald Lindemann, Felix Mormann, Maklerklauseln und Vorkaufsrechte,(Brokerage Clauses and Rights of Pre-emption) 61 Monatsschrift für Deutsches Recht 1113 (2007).