Dr. Jakob Jochmann

Main Fields of Research

Civil law; company and capital markets law; law and economics; empirical legal research; comparative law

Vita

Jakob Jochmann studied law at Humboldt University of Berlin and at King’s College London. In 2020, he passed the First State Examination in Law. In 2025, he obtained his doctorate from Humboldt University of Berlin with a dissertation in company and capital markets law entitled “Institutionelle Investoren und Nachhaltigkeit – Rechtliche Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Probleme des ESG-Stewardships in der börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaft” [Institutional Investors and Sustainability. Legal Possibilities, Limits, and Challenges of ESG Stewardship in Publicly Listed Companies]. After his legal traineeship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court, he passed the Second State Examination in Law in 2026.

From 2016 to 2024, Jakob Jochmann worked at Humboldt University of Berlin under Prof. Dr. Lars Klöhn at the Chair of Civil Law and Business Law, first as a student assistant and later as a research assistant. Since 2026, he has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, where he is a member of the working group of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Holger Fleischer.

During his studies and doctoral research, Jakob Jochmann received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He has been honoured with the Douglas Stanton-Ife Exam Prize at King’s College London, the Humboldt University Law Faculty’s teaching award for the best civil law tutorial, and the Humboldt University Law Faculty’s Karlheinz Quack Award for the best dissertation in business law.