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In his doctoral dissertation, former Institute research fellow Dominik Krell examines the workings of the Saudi judiciary. Against the background of recent reforms, he offers new insights on the legal reasoning of Saudi judges and considers how their approach is reflected in Saudi Arabia’s laws, legal institutions, and court practice. more

In June of 2023, legal scholars and practitioners met at the Institute to discuss the process by which foreign law enters German court proceedings. The conference proceedings have now been assembled into a volume co-edited by Ralf Michaels, director at the Institute, and Jan Peter Schmidt, head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law. more

How has family law changed as a result of its encounters with transnational fact patterns, civil status registration systems, the digital age, and war? The first issue of the Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law of 2025 is dedicated to addressing several examples of these transformations. more

In her doctoral dissertation, Susanna Roßbach, senior research fellow at the Institute, examines the past, present and future of gender entries in civil registries.  more

Verica Trstenjak, external scientific member of the Institute, has been elected as one of the three vice-presidents serving on the presidium of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). She has been a member of the Academy for more than five years. more

Estate administration covers the entire process from the time of death until the final distribution of the assets, including the satisfaction of the deceased’s creditors. Reinhard Zimmermann, director emeritus, and Jan Peter Schmidt have co-edited, together with Kenneth Reid, a new standard reference work that provides a global overview of this core component of succession law. more

Individuals at the helm of a German company are bound by a large number of rules that are prescribed in various legal instruments. A handbook co-edited by Klaus J. Hopt, Director Emeritus at the Institute, presents this complex network of standards as an integrated corporate governance framework regulating stock corporation law, capital market law and accounting law. more