Freiburg-trained Hayekian lawyers staffed GATT’s legal reform position after Tumlir.

Evidence

In the 1970s Tumlir was joined at GATT by two ­lawyers with whom he would help formulate his Hayekian theory of international order. Frieder Roessler, born in 1939, was a gradu­ate of Freiburg University, where he had studied with Hayek. He arrived at GATT in his early thirties in 1973.141 Ernst-­Ulrich Petersmann, born in 1945, also studied with Hayek at Freiburg. Before joining GATT in 1981, he had worked as an assistant at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg and for three years in the ­legal office of the Foreign Trade Department of the German Economics Ministry. In his habilitation thesis he singled out Tumlir and Hayek for their exceptional influence on his thinking. By the late 1990s Petersmann became one of the most internationally vis­i­ble prac­ti­tion­ers and advocates of the field of international economic law. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 800

Categorization

• XREF: The Freiburg school pipeline into international trade law mirrors the MPS network shown throughout this book — an institutional transmission belt for ordoliberal ideas. — connects to: Hayekian economists occupied the most influential reform positions at GATT. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 799