Former Fellows
Former employees of the Institute who have been appointed to a professorship:
| Name | Institution | Main Fields of Research | Current Contact Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz, LL.M. (Harvard) | Goethe University Frankfurt | Japanese Law, Comparative Commercial Law and Company Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Becker | Technische Universität Dresden | Company and Corporate Group Law, (Commercial) Arbitration Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Eckart Bueren, Dipl.-Volksw. | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Civil law, competition and cartel law, capital markets law, commercial and company law, economic analysis of law, comparative law. Fellow responsible for Switzerland with expert opinions for courts and public authorities | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wenzel Bulst, LL.M. (Yale) | University of Bielefeld | Economic law with a focus on digitisation | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Gregor Christandl, LL.M. (Yale) | University of Graz | Comparative succession law, comparative law of obligations, European private law, comparative private law, private international law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Sofie Cools, LL.M. (Harvard) | KU Leuven (Belgium) | European and Comparative Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Economic Analysis of Law | Link |
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Dr. Katrin Deckert, Maître de conférence
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Université Paris Nanterre | French and German Civil and Commercial law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Walter Doralt | University of Graz | Private Law, Commercial and Company Law, Private International and Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law | Link |
| Prof. Elena Dubovitskaya, Candidate of Legal Sciences (Lomonosov Moscow State University) | Justus Liebig University Giessen | Civil law, company and commercial law, capital market law, Russian law, intellectual property law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Konrad Duden, LL.M. (Cambridge) | Leipzig University | Civil Law and Private International Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Anatol Dutta, M. Jur. (Oxford) | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich | International private and procedural law, comparative law, with an emphasis of family and succession law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ehricke, LL.M. (London), M.A. | University of Cologne | Competition Law, EU-Business Law, Energy Law, Insolvency Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel | MPI for Research on Collective Goods | Behavioural Law and Economics, Business Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas M. Fleckner, LL.M. (Harvard), MPA (Harvard), Attorney-at-Law (New York) | Humboldt University of Berlin | Private Law, Commercial, Corporate and Securities Law, Roman Law and European Legal History | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Matteo Fornasier, LL.M. (Yale) | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Private Law, Private International Law, Employment Law, Comparative Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Gunnar Franck, LL.M.oec. | Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung | Civil law, in particular general civil law and family law, international private and procedural law, procedural and notarisation law, civil status law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Samuel Fulli-Lemaire | Université Strasbourg | Private International Law, Comparative Law, Family Law, Contract Law | Link |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mateusz Grochowski | Tulane University Law School | Contract theory, European private law (especially Consumer law), Polish private law, Comparative law and methodology, Digital markets, Intersections of private law and fundamental rights | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur. Jan von Hein | Universität Freiburg | International and European Corporate and Financial Law, International Tort Law, International Civil Procedure | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Elke Heinrich-Pendl | Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien | Corporate and Business Law, European Private Law, Civil Law and Comparative Law | |
| Prof. Dr. Christian Heinze, LL.M. (Cambridge) | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Private International Law, European Private Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Porperty | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur. Alexander Hellgardt, B.A., LL.M. (Harvard) | Universität Regensburg | Civil Law, business law, foundations of law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur., Phillip Hellwege, M.Jur. (Oxford) | Universität Augsburg | German and European Private Law, Comparative Law and Legal History | |
| Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Kieninger | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | German and European Private Law and Private International Law | Link |
| Dr. iur. Jan Kleinheisterkamp | London School of Economics - Departement of Law | International Contracts, Arbitration, Conflict of Laws, Trade, Investment Treaty Disputes, European State Aids | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Jens Kleinschmidt, LL.M. (Univ. California, Berkeley) | Universität Trier | Private Law, Civil Procedure, Private International Law, Comparative Law and European Private Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Korch, LL.M. (Harvard) | University of Münster | Civil law, Corporate law, Capital market law and Insolvency law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Gabriele Koziol | Kyōto University | Link | |
| Prof. Dr. Christoph Kumpan, LL.M. (Univ. of Chicago), Attorney at Law (New York) | Bucerius Law School | Civil law, German and European commercial company and capital market law, civil procedural law and comparative law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Patrick C. Leyens, LL.M. (London) | Universität Bremen | German and European corporate and commercial law, securtities regulation, comparative law, law and economics, especially corporate governance | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Johannes Liebrecht | Universität Zürich | Private Law, Legal History, Legal Theory | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Jan D. Lüttringhaus, Maîtrise en droit (Aix-en-Provence), LL.M. (Columbia) | Universität Hannover | Private Law, Private International Law, Procedural Law, Commercial Law, Insurance Law, Comparative Law | Link |
| Assoc Prof. Dr. Brooke Adele Marshall | University of Oxford | Private international law, international civil procedure, comparative law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Sebastian A.E. Martens, M. Jur. (Oxon.) | Universität Passau | German and European Private Law, Comparative Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Sonja Meier, LL.M. (London) | University of Cologne | German and European Private Law, Civil Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective, espececially Plurality of Debtors and Creditors and the Law of Unjust Enrichment in England | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Hanno Merkt, LL.M. (Univ. of Chicago) | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | Civil Law: Contract Law and Tort Law, Commercial Law including Accounting and Transportation Law, German and European Corporate Law, German and European Capital Markets Law, Private International, Economic and Civil Procedure Law, Comparative Law, US Corporate and Capital Markets Law, Law and Economy | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law, Information Technology Law and Private International Law | Link |
| Research Assistant Prof. Dr. Lena-Maria Möller | Qatar University | Contemporary Islamic and Middle Eastern law; Muslim family law; private international law; comparative law; law and popular culture in the Middle East | lena-maria.moeller@qu.edu.qa |
| Prof. Dr. Katharina Pistor, LL.M. (London) | Columbia Law School, New York | Comparative corporate law, financial market regulation and comparative legal and institutional economics. | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Oliver Remien | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | Civil Law, European Business Law, Private International Law and Procedure, and Comparative Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur. Wolf-Georg Ringe, MJur (Oxon) | Universität Hamburg | International Commercial Law, Corporate Governance, Securtities Law and the Conflict of Laws | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Hannes Rösler, LL.M. (Harvard) | Universität Siegen | Civil law, commercial and economic law (including IP law), media and information law, civil procedure, private international law, European law, legal sociology and comparative law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur. Markus Roth | Phillipps Universität Marburg | Retirement Provision Law (Private Insurance Law, Investment Law and Employee Sponsored Contribution Plans), German and European Commercial and Economic Law with an emphasis on Corporate Law, Banking Law, Financial Law and Civil Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. iur. Giesela Rühl, LL.M. (University of California, Berkeley) | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Civil Law, European Private Law, Commercial Law including Insurance Contract Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, Law and Economics | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Lena Salaymeh | Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford University | Comparative Legal History, Comparative Law, Islamic Law and Legal Theory, Jewish Law, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Decolonial Thought | Link |
| Dr. iur. Jens Martin Scherpe, M.A. (Cantab.), MJur (Oxon) | Aalborg University | Comparative Law, Family Law, Law of Tort, Conflict of Laws | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Klaus Ulrich Schmolke, LL.M. (NYU) | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | German and European business law, corporate and capital markets law, comparative law | Link |
| † Prof. Dr. Heike Schweitzer, LL.M. (Yale) | Universtität Mannheim | Competition Law (European, German, US, International), Regulated Industries (telecommunications and media, energy, postal sector), Public enterprises and enterprises charged with services of general interest, State aid law, Public Procurement Law, Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, capital market law (EU, German, English, US in comparative perspective), Contract law (EU, German, English, US in comparative perspective) and Mergers & Acquisitions | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Anneken Kari Sperr | Universität Bergen, Norwegen | National and European Administrative Law, Family Law and International Private Law, Comparative Law (Private and Public including Procedural Law) | Link |
| Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, MJur | Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte | Comparative Law, European Legal History, Legal Method | Link |
| Dr. iur. Frauke Katharina Wedemann | Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster | German and European Commercial and Company Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law, Legal Challenges of an Aging Population | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Julius Weitzdörfer | FernUniversität in Hagen | Japanese Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wurmnest, LL.M. (Univ. of California, Berkeley) | Universität Hamburg | Civil Law and Commercial Law including Maritime Law | Link |
| Prof. Dr. Nadjma Yassari, LL.M. (London) | Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SICL) | PIL, International and National Private Law of Islamic Countries with emphasis on the Near and Middle East, Iran and Afghanistan | Link |