Vice President of the DFG since 2023

University Giessen
Private Law and International and Interdisciplinary Foundations of Law

Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main

Education

Jahr	Beschreibung
1990 - 1995	Degree in law, University of Munich, First State Law Examination 1995/1
1995 - 1997	Legal clerkship, Munich Higher Regional Court,  Second State Law Examination 1997/1
1999 - 2000	Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA; received license to practice as Attorney-at-Law, New York, USA
2003	Doctorate in law, summa cum laude, University of Munich
2006 - 2008	Master’s degree in philosophy and sociology , University of Munich
2012	Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA
2012	Post-doctoral lecturing qualification, University of Munich

Professional career

Jahr	Beschreibung
1997 - 2013	Research assistant,  2002 - 2009, academic assistant,  2009 - 2013 research associate (DFG) University of Munich
2013 - 2020	Professorship (W3) Civil Law and Labour Law Research Group University of Giessen, 2016 - 2019 Dean of the Faculty of Law
2019	Declined calls to Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Chair of Critique of Law) and to the University of Bonn (Chair of Civil Law and another subject)
Seit 2020	Director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main (formerly MPI for European Legal History)
Seit 2020	Professorship (W3) for Private Law and International and Interdisciplinary Foundations of Law, University of Giessen
Seit 2021	Honorary Professorship, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Academic Impact

Awards and scholarships (selection)

• DFG’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2022)
• Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (2019 - 2020)
• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prize for Outstanding Research in the Area of the Foundations of Law and Economy (2017)
• Juridical Book of the Year (Post-doctoral lecturing qualification thesis, 2015)
• Juridical Book of the Year (Dissertation, 2005)

Memberships, advisory board and review activities, peer reviews (selection)

• Bucerius Law School gGmbH, Hamburg, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)
• European University Institute, Florence, Member of the Research Council (since 2020)
• Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung e.V. (since 2012); Member of the Extended Board (since 2019)
• International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), German Section, (since 2004); Vice Chair (2010 - 2018); Member of the Extended Board (since 2018)
• German Research Foundation (DFG): Proposal reviews (since 2013); member of the Senate and Grants Committee for Research Training Groups (2016 - 2021)

Third-party funding (in addition to the above-mentioned awards)

• Research Grant for Foreign Scholars, Seoul National University School of Law (2017)
• German Research Foundation (DFG), research grant for the project Ethik des Privatrechts als Ausfluss der philosophisch-soziologischen Moderne und ihres Grundproblems der Subjektivität (“Ethics of Private Law as an Outgrowth of Philosophical-Sociological Modernity and its Basic Problem of Subjectivity”)
  (2009 - 2013)
• Alfried Krupp Foundation, conference funding for the launch conference of the Enzyklopädie zur Rechtsphilosophie (“Encyclopaedia on the Philosophy of Law”), together with Thomas Gutmann et al.,
  http://www.enzyklopaedie-rechtsphilosophie.net/ (2011)

Publications (selection)

Books

1. Zum Erkenntnisziel der Rechtstheorie. Philosophische Grundlagen multidisziplinärer Rechtswissenschaft. Würzburger Vorträge zur Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtstheorie und Rechtssoziologie, 76 p., Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018.
2. Der privatrechtliche Diskurs der Moderne (post-doctoral lecturing qualification thesis, Munich 2012). 204, X p., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, unchanged soft-cover edition 2022, Portuguese translation in preparation.
3. Materialisation, flexibilisation, judicial freedom: Generalklauseln im Spiegel der Antinomien des Privatrechtsdenkens (Diss. iur., Munich 2003). 262, XXIII p., Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005.

Essays

1. Selbstreflexion der Privatrechtswissenschaft: Formation, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven. In: Eric Hilgendorf/Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz (eds.), Selbstreflexion der Rechtswissenschaft, 2nd edition, Tübingen 2021, 301 - 325.
2. Granular Norms and the Concept of Law: A Critique. In: Christoph Busch/Alberto de Franceschi (eds.), Algorithmic Regulation and Personalized Law, Munich/Oxford 2021, 137 - 154.
3. Cantus firmus der Moderne: Rechtstheorie in der Berliner Republik. In: Thomas Duve/Stefan Ruppert (eds.), Rechtswissenschaft in der Berliner Republik, Berlin 2018, 121 - 146, Chinese translation 2021.
4. Privatrechtsdogmatik und Bereicherungsrecht: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen rationaler Theoriewahl in der Privatrechtswissenschaft. In: Marietta Auer et al., (eds.), Privatrechtsdogmatik im 21. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Claus-Wilhelm Canaris zum 80. Geburtstag, Berlin 2017, 509 - 546.
5. Eigentum, Familie, Erbrecht: Drei Lehrstücke zur Bedeutung der Rechtsphilosophie im Privatrecht. AcP (Archiv für die civilistische Praxis) 216 (2016), 239 - 276.
6. Der Kampf um die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Rechtswissenschaft – Zum 75. Todestag von Hermann Kantorowicz. ZEuP (Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht) 2015, 773 - 805.
7. Normativer Positivismus – positivistisches Naturrecht: Zur Bedeutung von Rechtspositivismus und Naturrecht jenseits von Rechtsbegriff und Rechtsethik. In: Andreas Heldrich et al. (eds.), Festschrift für Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, vol. 2, Munich 2007, 931 - 962.