Denise Wiedemann appointed professor at Kiel University 

Denise Wiedemann, former Institute senior research fellow and head of the Centre of Expertise on Latin America, will begin serving as Professor of Civil Law with emphasis on Family and Succession Law at Kiel University as of 1 April 2026. 

Prof. Dr. Denise Wiedemann, LL.M. (Lisbon) studied law at the University of Leipzig, comparative law and European law in Lisbon, and administration of justice in Meißen. While completing her doctoral project, she was also a visiting researcher at the Centre de recherche de droit international of the Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II). After legal clerkship positions in Brasília and New York, she sat for the second state exam in law in 2018. She was employed as a lecturer at Bucerius Law School as well as at the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg. Among other academic activities, she was a guest researcher and lecturer at the Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law (NORFAM) at Aalborg Universitet and at the Cambridge Family Law Centre of the University of Cambridge. In the winter semester 2024/25 and the summer semester 2025 she was acting professor of civil law and private international law at the University of Leipzig. Thereafter she instructed in private international law as a guest lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.