Professor Dr. Stefan Huber, LL.M. (Cologne/Paris)

We are holding a second preliminary meeting. This will take place online on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.  

Please notify the office in advance by email (sekretariat.huber@jura.uni-tuebingen.de).

Seminar participants who have already registered are not required to attend this preliminary meeting.

Further information and seminar topics can be found at  

The 16th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers' Meeting will take place here at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from October 9 to 10, 2025.

The conference will address issues relating to the interpretation of transnational law and cross-border enforcement.

The program for this event can be found  here 

„The law is what the courts do“. Whether or not one agrees with this statement by the famous US judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., there is no doubt that reading and critically analyzing court decisions is of paramount importance for lawyers. Examining specific cases and how they are handled by the judiciary sharpens one's understanding of how law is “recognized” or developed based on specific facts.

The event is aimed at students in their third and fourth semesters with a particular interest in civil law issues and takes place every two weeks. Further information and registration can be found at

1. Fulfilment liability of non-contractual parties (habilitation thesis), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017  (Heidelberg Jurisprudential Treatises).

2. Development of transnational model rules for civil proceedings - using the example of the document draft (dissertation), Studies on foreign and international private law, 
Volume 197, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, 517 p., awarded the Serick Prize 2007 of the Rolf and Lucia Serick Foundation.

3. Final report of the comparative law study on essential questions of private construction contract law in Germany, England, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, study commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Weinmann, Filderstadt 2008, 154 pp. (with Burkhard Hess and Thomas Pfeiffer).

4. Magazine IPRax (co-editor since 2022), Gieseking, Bielefeld.

5. Studies on European and International Business Law, Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. (since 2022 with Tim Dornis and Nikolaus Marsch; founded by Herbert Kronke, Peter Hay, Meinhard Hilf and Wolfgang Oehler).  

6. Beck' scher Online-Großkommentar ZPO (commentary code of civil procedure), section editor for “Internationales” (with Beate Gsell), in preparation. 

7. Artificial Intelligence - attribution, contract, responsibility, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2024, 159 + V pages (with Martin Gebauer).

8. Structure of Civil Litigation, coordinator of this part in the work "Comparative Procedural Law and Justice" (general editors: Hess/Woo/Cadiet/Menétrey/Vallines García) Luxembourg 2024, available at https://www.cplj.org/publications.  

9.  The reform of French liability law in the European context, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2021, 190 + VII pages (with Jens Kleinschmidt).

10. Political conflict of laws - subject matter purposes, Sovereign interests, Culture, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2021, 133 + XIX pages (with Martin Gebauer).

11. National, International, Transnational: Harmonious Triad in Law. Commemorative publication for Herbert Kronke on his 70th birthday, 1873 + XXXVIII pages, Gieseking, Bielefeld 2020 (with Christoph Benicke).

12.  Enforcement of rights through Contractual penalty and set-off, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, 121 pages (with Martin Gebauer).

13.  Organisational independence in family law, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, 191 pages (with Martin Gebauer).

14.  Legal positions in rem and traffic protection - continuity and reforms in comparative perspective, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, 187 pages (with Martin Gebauer).

• Review by: A. Kohl Revue de droit international et de droit compare 2016, 293-295.

15.  Privatisation of Private Law - legal organisation without state coercion, Yearbook of the Society Young Civil Law Scholars 2002, Stuttgart 2003 (with Carl-Heinz Witt and others).

16. Commentary on articles 26-28 and 44 of the Brussels I bis Regulation, in: Mailhé (Hrsg.), Commentary on the Brussels I bis Regulation, in publication.

17. Structure of Civil Litigation -  Introduction, in: Hess/Woo/Cadiet/Menétrey/Vallines García (Hrsg.), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice, Part VI:0, Luxemburg 2024 (with Kangnikoé Bado, Aleš Galič, Aluisio Gonçalves de Castro Mendes, Linda Mullenix, Janek T. Nowak, Anna Nylund and Enrique Vallines), available at: https://www.cplj.org/publications. 

18. Procedural Rights, Principles, and Approaches Influencing the Structure of Civil Litigation, in: Hess/Woo/Cadiet/Menétrey/Vallines García (Hrsg.), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice, Part VI:1, Luxemburg 2024 (with Kangnikoé Bado und Aluisio Gonçalves de Castro Mendes), available at: https://www.cplj.org/publications.  

19. Commentaries to Rules 47 - 50 (Case Management) in: Gascón Inchausti / Smith / Stadler (Hrsg.), European Rules of Civil Procedure - A commentary on the  ELI/UNIDROIT Model Rules,  Edward Elgar, Northampton 2023.  

20. Commentary on §§ 343-354a, 358-362 and 383-406 in: Koller/Kindler/Drüen (eds.) Commercial Code, together with Wulf-Henning Roth, Beck, Munich 2023. 

21. Artificial intelligence in civil proceedings, in: Ebers/Heinze/Krügel/Steinrötter (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Beck, Munich 2020, § 19, pp. 592-611 (together with Tim Giesecke).

22. Commentary on Sections 164, 165, 166, 167, 168 and 169 BGB, in: Gsell/Krüger/Lorenz/Reymann (eds.), Beck'scher Online-Großkommentar, Munich 2018 / 2020 / 2022 / 2023.  

23. Enforcement foreign judgements in Germany, in: Dierck/Morvilius/Vollkommer (eds.), Handbook of the Enforcement Law, Beck, Munich.  

a) 3rd ed., in preparation for 2024.
b) 2nd ed., 2016, 9th chapter, pp. 913-1026.
c) 1st ed., 2009, 8th chapter, pp. 735-833.  

24. nforcement 
German judgements abroad, in: Dierck/Morvilius/Vollkommer (eds.), Handbook of the Enforcement Law, Beck, Munich.  

a) 3rd ed., in preparation for 2024. 
b) 2nd ed., 2016, 10th chapter, pp. 1027-1046.
c) 1st ed., 2009, 9th chapter, pp. 834-851.

25. Cross-border Attachment of accounts, in: Dierck/Morvilius/Vollkommer (eds.),Handbook of the Enforcement Law, 11th chapter, 2nd ed., Beck, Munich 2016, pp. 1047-1071 (together with Susanne Geier-Thieme); 3rd ed. in preparation for 2024.

26. International and European legal framework, in: Kronke/Melis/Kuhn (eds.), Handbuch International Business Law - Part K: Co-operation and Company Law, 2nd ed., Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2016, pp. 1293-1310.

27. Private International Law of Corporate Entities, in: Kronke/Melis/Kuhn (eds.), Handbook of International Business Law, 2nd ed., Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2016, pp. 1311-1390.

28. Commercial agency agreement, in: Kronke/Melis/Kuhn (eds.), Handbook of International Commercial Law, 2nd ed., Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2016, pp. 682-719.

29. Commentary on Article 20 Rome II Regulation (conflict of law treatment of recourse claims in the case of majority debtors), in: Budzikiewicz/Weller/Wurmnest (eds.), Beck'scher Online-Großkommentar, Volume on Private International Law, Munich.

a) Third update, February 2020.
b) Second update, March 2019.
c) First update, August 2016.
d) Basic edition, May 2016.

30. Commentary on Article 7 Rome II Regulation (The private international law of non-contractual liability for environmental damage), in: Budzikiewicz/Weller/Wurmnest (eds.), Beck'scher Online-Großkommentar, Volume on Private International Law, Munich.

a) Third update, February 2020.
b) Second update, March 2019.
c) First update, August 2016.
d) Basic edition, May 2016.

31. Commentary on Article 46a EGBGB (Environmental Damages), in: Budzikiewicz/Weller/Wurmnest (eds.), Beck'scher Online-Großkommentar, Volume on Private International Law, Munich.

a) First update, July 2019.
b) Basic edition, May 2016.

32. Commentary on Article 16 Rome I Regulation (conflict of law treatment of recourse claims in the case of majority debtors), in: Budzikiewicz/Weller/Wurmnest (eds.), Beck'scher Online-Großkommentar, Volume on Private International Law, Munich.

a) Fourth update, February 2020.
b) Third update, March 2019.
c) Second update, July 2016.
d) First update, February 2016.
e) Basic edition, September 2015.

33. Commentary on the European Regulation on the Taking of Evidence, in: Gebauer/Wiedmann (eds.), Civil Law under European Influence - The directive-compliant interpretation of the German Civil Code and other laws - Explanations of the most important EC regulations.

a) 3rd ed., under the title: European Civil Law, Beck, Munich 2021, pp.1823-1879.
b) 2nd ed., Boorberg, Stuttgart 2010, pp. 1733-1844.
c) 1st ed., Boorberg, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 1337-1426.

34. Artificial intelligence - attribution, contract, responsibility - an introduction, in: Gebauer/Huber (eds.), Artificial Intelligence - attribution, contract, responsibility, Mohr Siebeck 2024, pp. 1-8

35. Possibilities and limits of taking evidence in (fully) digital video hearings - The use of video technology against the background of the principle of immediacy, in: Reuß (ed.), Göttingen Colloquia on the Digitisation of Civil Procedure Law, in publication.

36. Private International Law of the European Union - Chronicle (with Patrick Kinsch, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout and Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner),
 Journal du droit international (Clunet) 2023, 1376-1469.    

37. The ELI/UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure. Principles of procedure - judicial management of proceedings - access to evidence, ZEuP 2023, pp.777-808.    

38. Decision-making in civil proceedings through artificial intelligence, in: Althammer/Roth (eds.), Procedural Thinking and Artificial Intelligence, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2023, pp. 43-57.       

39. Private international law of the European Union Chronique, Journal du droit international privé (Clunet), 2022, S. 1353-1448 (with Patrick Kinsch, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout and Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner).  

40. Orality and immediacy, ZZP 2022 135 (2022), pp. 183-212.   

41. Freedom and equality in private law: An Introduction, in Gebauer/Huber (eds.): Freedom and Equality in Private Law, pp. 1-7, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2022 (co-edited with Martin Gebauer).

42. Private international law of the European Union - Chronique, Journal du droit international privé (Clunet), 2021, S. 1409-1502 (with Patrick Kinsch, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo und Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout).

43.  Access to German revision, in: Chainais/Drooghenbroeck/Hess/Saletti (Hrsg.), What future for the supreme jurisdictions? - Studies in comparative law on cassation in civil matters, S. 75-87, Bruylant, Brüssel 2021.       

44. The role of the judge in German revision, in: Chainais/Drooghenbroeck/Hess/Saletti (Hrsg.), What future for the supreme jurisdictions? Studies in comparative law on cassation in civil matters, S. 157-184, Bruylant, Brüssel 2021 
( with Burkhard Hess and Jens Kleinschmidt).

45. The style and reasoning of decisions and the relationship between the Federal Court and legal doctrine, in: Chainais/Drooghenbroeck/Hess/Saletti (Hrsg.), What future for the supreme jurisdictions - Comparative law studies on cassation in civil matters, S. 415-426, Bruylant, Brüssel 2021.    

46. Compensation for loss resulting from environmental damage - The situation in German private law, in: Wicker/Schulze/Mäsch ( eds.), The reform of civil liability law in France, Société de législation comparée 2021, S. 213-224.    

47. Political conflict of laws: an introduction, in: Gebauer/Huber (eds.), Politisches Kollisionsrecht - Sachnormzwecke, Hoheitsinteressen, Kultur, Mohr Siebeck 2021, pp. VII-XIX (with Martin Gebauer).

48. Protective jurisdictions in European jurisdiction law - history, current status, outlook, in: Gebauer/Huber (eds.), Political conflict of laws - substantive purposes, sovereign interests, culture, Mohr Siebeck 2021, pp. 101-115.      

49. The Reform of the European Small Claims Procedure: Foreign Body or Puzzle Piece within the System of European Civil Procedure?, in: von Hein/Kruger (Hrsg.), Informed Choices in Cross-Border Enforcement – The European State of the Art and Future Perspectives, Intersentia 2021, S. 87-102.    

50. Private International Law of the European Union - Review, in Journal of International Private Law (Clunet), 2020, S. 1493-1587 (with Patrick Kinsch, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout).

51.  The broad understanding of consumer jurisdiction in the European jurisdiction system, discussion of BGH IX ZR 9/16 and others, IPRax 2020, 408-414.  

52. Transregional legal harmonisation: soft hard law as a modern recipe for success, in: Benicke/Huber (eds.), National, International, Transnational: harmonious triad in law. Commemorative publication for Herbert Kronke on his 70th birthday, Gieseking 2020, pp. 907-919.    

53. Herbert Kronke, in: Benicke/Huber (eds.), National, International, Transnational: Harmonious Triad in Law. Commemorative publication for Herbert Kronke on his 70th birthday, Gieseking 2020, pp. XXXIII-XXXVIII (with Christoph Benicke).

54. The position of companies in investment arbitration (with special consideration of corruption problems) - companies as equal parties to proceedings?, in: Reinisch/Hobe/ Kieninger/Peters (eds.), Corporate Responsibility and International Law, Reports of the German Society of International Law, Volume 50 - 36th Conference, C.F. Müller 2020, pp. 303-338.    

55. Initial Remarks on the Methodological Approaches to Procedural Harmonisation, in: Gascón Inchausti/Hess (Hrsg.), The Future of the European Law of Civil Procedure - Coordination or Harmonisation?,

Intersentia 2020, S. 9-15.    

56.  Assignment of claim, debts and contracts - German report, in: Ancel/Prüm (eds.), Reforming Contract Law, Larcier 2020, S. 797-805 und 853-858.    

57. Private International Law of the European Union - Chronicle, Journal of Private International Law (Clunet) 2019, S. 1414-1509 (with Patrick Kinsch, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout).  

58. Private Enforcement and Alternatives in the Digital Single Market, in: Weller/Wendland (eds.), Digital Single Market, Mohr Siebeck 2019, pp. 175-187.    

59. The reform of the European Small Claims Procedure: a constructive element or a foreign body in the European civil procedure system, in: Fenge/Germelmann/Oppermann/Pereira da Silva (Hrsg.), International Legal Studies, UVHW 2019, S. 87-99.    

60. Comparative procedural law today, in: Hess (ed.), European Insolvency Law - Fundamental Questions of Comparative Litigation, Gieseking 2019, pp. 77 - 109.     

61. L'approche procédurale européenne pour la protection des intérêts collectifs des consommateurs, in: de Codt/Deconinck/Thijs (Hrsg.), 
The Judicial Code at 50. And after? 50 jaar Gerechtelijk Wetboek. Wat nu? - Hommage Ernest Krings and Marcel Storme, Larcier 2018, S. 779-792.     

62. Private International Law of the European Union - Review 2017, Journal of International Private Law (Clunet) 2018, chron. 9 (with Patrick Kinsch, Jean-Sébastien Quéguiner, Lukas Rass-Masson, Sixto Sánchez-Lorenzo and Michael Wilderspin, coordinated by Louis d'Avout).

63. The reform of the European Small Claims Procedure - foreign body or building block in the system of European civil procedural law?, RIW 2018, 625-631.    

64. The tort jurisdiction in European jurisdiction law for so-called "direct financial losses", discussion of ECJ Case C-12/15 (Universal Music), IPRax 2018, pp. 155-158 (with Susanne Geier-Thieme).

65. The German judge: Guarantor of the efficiency of the trial and moderator, in: Chainais/Hess/Saletti/Droogenbroeck (eds.), The Office of the Judge - Comparative Law Studies, Bruylant, Brussels 2018, S. 213-225.    .    

66. The role of the German judge in the field of evidence, in: Chainais/Hess/Saletti/Droogenbroeck (eds.), The office of the judge - Comparative law studies, Bruylant, Brussels 2018, S. 373-385.    

67. Introduction in: Gebauer/Huber (eds.), Organisational freedom in family law, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, pp. 1-8.      

68. Independence, efficiency, specialisation: Current developments in France, in: Christoph Althammer/Matthias Weller, European minimum standards for review bodies, Tübingen 2017, pp. 105-123. 

69. Transnational credit protection law, RabelsZ Vol. 81 (2017), pp. 77-116. 

70. Shareholder lawsuits, third-party liability claims and arbitration proceedings in Germany, in: Hess/Hopt/Sieber/Stark (eds.), Companies in a Global Environment. Supervision, corporate criminal law, directors' and officers' liability and arbitration in East Asia and Germany, Cologne 2017, pp. 433-450.    

71. Discussion of BGH, judgement of 22 October 2015, IX ZR 248/14 (insolvency contestation of the designation of a beneficiary of a term life insurance policy), KTS 2017, pp. 65-76.    

72. The reception abroad of security interests constituted in France, in: Borga/Gout (eds.), The attractiveness of French security interests law, LGDJ, 2016, S. 59-72.    

73. Fulfilment liability of third parties - short summary of the habilitation thesis, AcP 2016, 355.    

74. Introduction, in: Gebauer/Huber (eds.), Legal Positions in Rem and Traffic Protection - Continuity and Reforms in Comparative Perspective, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, pp. 1-7.   

75. The Commission's proposal to reform the EU Dunning and the EU Small Claims Regulation: Further development or paradigm shift?, GPR 2014, pp. 242-249.      

76. The optional nature of the European Evidence Regulation (discussion of the ECJ judgements Lippens and ProRail), ZEuP 2014, pp. 642-661.  

77. Obtaining evidence in arbitration, in: Saletti/van Compernolle/van Drooghenbroeck (eds.), The arbitrator and the state judge - Comparative law studies in memory of Guiseppe Tarzia, Brüssel 2014, S. 127-138.    

78.  Acceleration of proceedings through uniformisation, simplification, standardisation and increased party autonomy: a European perspective, in: van Drooghenbroeck et al (Hrsg.), Time and the Law - A Tribute to Professor Closset-Marchal, Brüssel 2013, S. 335-350.     

79. Transnational Extension of Effect for Court Decisions and Authentic Instruments, in: European Parliament (ed.), Opinion on the Proposal for a European Succession Regulation, Brussels 2012, pp. 41-49. 

80. Litigation in English before specialised chambers for international commercial matters, in: Geimer/Schütze/Garber (eds.), The European and International Dimension of Law - Commemorative publication for Daphne-Ariane Simotta, Vienna 2012, pp. 245-261.

81.  Coordination of European civil procedure instruments, in: Geimer/Schütze (eds.), Law without Borders - Commemorative publication for Athanassios Kaissis on his 65th birthday, Munich 2012, pp. 413-429.

82. The German Approach to the Globalisation and Harmonisation of Civil Procedure: Balancing National Particularities and International Open-Mindedness, in: Kramer/van Rhee (Hrsg.), Civil Litigation in a Globalising World, Den Haag 2012, S. 291–316.

83. The effects of an appeal in German law, in: van Compernolle/Saletti (eds.), Le double degré de juridiction: study comparative law, Brussels 2010, S. 325-338.

84. Forced intervention on appeal in German law - the impact of the 2001 reform, in: van Compernolle/Saletti (eds.), The double degree of jurisdiction: a comparative law study, Brussels 2010, S. 231-246.

85. Foreign brokers before German courts - On the question of attribution of actions in international jurisdiction and conflict of laws (discussion of OLG Düsseldorf of 20 December 2007, I-6 U 225/06), IPRax 2009, pp. 134-140.

86. New European Civil Procedure Law in Germany - The Act to Improve Cross-Border Claims Enforcement and Service, NJW 2009, pp. 1105-1109 (with Gregor Vollkommer).

87. German country report,in: Comparative legal study on core issues of private construction contract law in Germany, England, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland, study commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Weinmann, Filderstadt 2008, pp. 155-207.

88. Compensation instead of restitution? On the relationship between § 281 and § 985 BGB, ZGS 2005, pp. 103-110 (with Martin Gebauer).

89. The European Evidence Regulation (EuBVO) - Overcoming the traditional reservations of sovereignty?, GPR 2004, pp. 115-122.

90. Simple coordination or unification of judicial law - What prospects for intra-Community litigation? in: The Building of an Area of Freedom, Security and Rights in Europe / The implementation of an area of freedom, security and rights in Europe, Heidelberg 2004, S. 37-50.

91. Legal English in competition: 
A experience report from the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, in: Jung, Udo O. H. / Kolesnikova, Angelina (eds.), Specialised Languages and Higher Education: Research - Didactics - Methodology, Frankfurt/Main 2003, pp. 217-228 (with Christoph Benicke and Jens Haubold).

92. Procedural assertion of the claim for an advance on legal costs - reply to Bißmaier, FamRZ 2002, 863-866, in: FamRZ 2002, pp. 1541-1542.

93. Contractual liability for the breach of a jurisdiction clause (discussion of BGH III ZR 42/19), Revue trimestrielle de droit civil 2020, 941.

94. Comment on BGH, judgement of 18.01.2018 - I ZR 150/15 (questions of presentation and evidence in liability claims for bribery agreements), LMK 2018, issue 8, 407910.

95. Comment on BGH, judgment of 8 February 2011, XI ZR 168/08 (Formal involvement of third parties in arbitration agreement and degree of substantiation of the arbitration defence), LMK 2011, issue 7, 320470.

96. Comment on BGH, judgement of 30 June 2009, VI ZR 310/08 (Questions of the liability privilege pursuant to Section 828 (2) BGB), LMK 2009, issue 9, 288108.

97. Comment on BGH, judgement of 11 October 2007 - VII ZR 235/05 (validity of an assignment of the remuneration claim to which the property developer is entitled to the financing bank), LMK 2008 issue 7, 263524.

98. European Methodology: Convergence and Discrepancy of National and European Private Law - 20th Conference of the Society of Young Civil Law Scholars from 2 to 5 September 2009 in Osnabrück, JZ 2010, pp. 190-192.

99. Opening Conference of the Heidelberg Center for International Dispute Resolution, German Law Journal 2003, No. 3.

100. The draft principles and rules relating to transnational civil procedure: presentation to the German-speaking countries, Rev. dr. unif. 2003, S. 668-671.

101. ALI/UNIDROIT draft for the elaboration of principles and rules for transnational civil proceedings - Presentation for the German-speaking area, IPRax 2003, pp. 555-557.

102. Stone, Peter: Stone on Private International Law in the European Union, 4th ed., Edward Elgar 2018, RabelsZ 86 (2022), S. 502-506.

103. Christoph Althammer / Herbert Roth (eds.), Instrumentalisation of civil proceedings, Mohr Siebeck 2018, ZZP 2020, pp. 534-536.

104. Shelby R. Grubbs, International Civil Procedure, in: Unif. L. Rev. 2004, S. 929–931.

105. Alexis Mourre, European Private Judicial Business Law, in: Unif. L. Rev. 2004, S. 697-699.

106.  Shortening the residual debt discharge procedure, online contribution for the "European Insolvency & Restructuring" forum, TLE-030-2020.

107. Law and Rhetoric - Rhetoric and Law. Insights into an interdisciplinary additional qualification at the University of Tübingen, Business Guide for Young Lawyers, Boorberg, Stuttgart 2022, pp.19-22 (with Olaf Kramer).

1. The Structure of Civil Litigation, presentation of the results of the comparative law working group on this topic at the final conference of the Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ) project in Luxembourg, July 2024.   

2. The principle of cooperation and dialogue between the parties, Lecture at the Groupe Tarzia at the University of Vienna, June 2024.  

3. Moderation of the panel discussion "European elections in turbulent times", University of Tübingen, May 2024.

4. Moderation of the panel discussion "Artificial intelligence - an opportunity for the judiciary?" at the central German event in Halle on the occasion of the European Day of Justice, November 2023.  

5. Possibilities and limits of taking evidence in (fully) digital video hearings, presentation at the Göttingen Colloquia on the Digitisation of Civil Procedure Law, July 2023.  

6. International Succession Law in the Jurisprudence of the ECJ, lecture at the Annual Conference of the Alumni of the Hague Academy of International Law, Tübingen, May 2023.  

7. Oralité, Immédiateté, Présence, Lecture at the annual meeting of the Tarzia working group on the general topic "Les Principes directeurs émergents du procès civil" 
University of Rome Tor Vergata, May 2023.  

8. The enforceability of the decision, interim relief and costs, panel discussion at the event "The Frankfurt Chamber for International Commercial Matters - a new competitor for arbitral tribunals?", Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, April 2023.  

9. Structure of Civil Litigation, Presentation of interim results of Working Group 7 of the project "Comparative Procedural Law and Justice", Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, March 2023 (with Kangnikoé Bado, Ales Galic, Aluisio Conçalves de Castro Mendes, Shiro Kawashima, Linda Mullenix, Janek T. Nowak, Anna Nylund, Majid Pourostad and Enrique Vallines). 

10. Orality and immediacy, Lecture at the conference of the Association of Civil Procedure Law Teachers in March 2022.

11. Proportionality - a new general principle in civil procedure law? Report for the Tarzia Group at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), October 2021.

12. Decision-making in civil proceedings through artificial intelligence, 3rd Regensburg Forum for Procedural Law, September 2021.

13. Predictive analytics in civil justice - a tool for our future jurisprudence?, Participants at the digital fireside chat, organised by recode.law, January 2021.

14. Keynote speech and participant in the panel discussion at the webinar "Digitalisation of the law - Artificial intelligence as a substitute for legal practitioners and the application of law?", organised by the University of Cologne, June 2020.

15.  Civil Justice 4.0, Tübingen, November 2019.

16. The recognition and enforcement of judicial decisions within the European Union - general idea and principles, Vortrag bei der Doshisha Week 2019 - Advance Creativity and Collaboration in Research, Tübingen, November 2019.

17. Guiding principle of recognition and recognition interests, contribution to the Munich Dialogue on Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Criminal Matters, November 2019.

18. Compensation for loss resulting from environmental damage, 
Presentation at the conference "La réforme du droit de la responsabilité civile en France", at the University of Bordeaux, October 2019.

19. La force d'attraction du règlement (UE) n° 650/2012 on succession, report to an round table at the Institut of Comparative Law of the University of Paris II (Panthéons-Assas), Oktober 2019.

20. The Position of Companies in Investment Arbitration - Companies as Equal Parties to the Proceedings? Presentation at the 36th Biennial Conference "Corporate Responsibility" of the German Society of International Law, Vienna, March 2019.

21. Participation in a round table discussion on the assignment of claims, debts and contracts in the context of the conference Should Luxembourg's law of obligations be reformed?, 
University of Luxembourg, November 2018.

22. Expert discussion on the "New Deal for Consumers" at the Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection of Baden-Württemberg, September 2018.

23. Methodological Approaches to Harmonization,  Lecture at the event  "Harmonization of Civil Procedure in the European Union: How far can we go?" at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxemburg (co-organiser: Universidad Complutense Madrid), July 2018.

24. Podium discussion on the "New Deal for Consumers" at the Permanent Representation of the EU Commission in Berlin, June 2018.

25. The revised EU Regulation for Small Claims Proceedings in the System of European Civil Procedure Law, lecture at the event "Cross-border enforcement of claims in the EU - stocktaking and perspectives" at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, April 2018.

26. The office of the judge in the German revision: The relationship between the judge and the parties, Presentation at the conference "What future for the supreme courts?", Rom, März 2018.

27. Modern technology in civil proceedings - opportunities and risks, lecture at the first specialist conference of the Legal Society for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (RAILS), Hanover, March 2018.

28. Hearing in the Legal Committee of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament on the introduction of a model declaratory judgement procedure, January 2018.

29. Access to review in German law, Presentation at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) in the context of the conference "Access to the court of cassation or appeal : 
Positive law and prospective law", March 2017.

30. Comparative procedural law today, Presentation at the Biennial Conference of the Academic Association for International Procedural Law, Vienna, March 2017.

31. The conflict of laws treatment of recourse issues between debtors - fragmented regulations without a uniform concept, lecture at the University of Heidelberg on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law, June 2016.

32. The 2001 German appeal reform: objectives and effects,  Presentation at the Belgian Court of Cassation, Brussels, March 2016.

33. The reception abroad of security interests constituted in France, Presentation at the Colloquium " The attractiveness of French security interests law", University Jean Moulin, Lyon, March 2016.

34. The role of the judge in the field of evidence, Presentation at the Veranstaltung " The judge's office ", Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxemburg, März 2016.

35. The principles of independence and specialisation in the French court system, lecture at the conference "European minimum standards for judicial panels", Regensburg, November 2015.

36. Processual flanking of corporate liability claims - more appearance than reality, lecture at the 5th Thyssen Symposium, Cologne, September 2015.

37. The judge: guarantor of the efficiency of the trial and moderator, Presentation at the University of Bergamo, November 2014.

38. Does a preliminary injunction recommend itself in German civil proceedings in addition to arrest and interim injunction, habilitation lecture with subsequent colloquium at the Faculty of Law of the University of Heidelberg, February 2014.

39. Der Ordre-public-Vorbehalt im europäischen Zivilprozessrecht, keynote speech at the event "Current Issues in Private International Law of the European Union - The actuality of international private law of the European Union", University of Cologne, October 2011.

40. Introduction to Arbitration - How to Teach Transnational Commercial Law?, Treffen der Dozenten für Transnationales Wirtschaftsrecht, Internationale Hellenische Universität Thessaloniki, Oktober 2011.

41. Insolvency risk of the contractual partner: Discharge through third party liability, presentation at the Habilitation Colloquium at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, May 2011.

42. The role of the state judge during arbitration proceedings, Presentation at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, November 2010.

43. European Civil Procedure Law - Brussels I, training event of the Higher Regional Court of Innsbruck for Austrian judges, November 2010.

44. The impact of European civil procedure on Turkish-German business relations, Guest presentation at Ankara Universitesi, October 2010.

45. The Brussels I Regulation – recent case law and proposals for reform, Guest presentation at the Koç Üniversitesi Istanbul, December 2009.

46. Cross-border Enforcement, Presentation at the Summer Course on European Private Law of the Academy of European Law Trier, June 2009.

47. Comparative legal impulses for a reform of German construction contract law, Presentation at the Heidelberg Evening of the Rhine-Neckar Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the University of Heidelberg, November 2008.

48. The comparative method in the legislative process, Presentation at the 40th Joint Seminar of the Law Faculties of the University of Heidelberg and the University of Montpellier, July 2008.

49. The Brussels I Regulation, Presentation followed by a workshop on Cross-border Litigation in Civil and Commercial Matters at the Summer Course on European Private Law of the Academy of European Law Trier, June 2008.

50. Future Perspectives of Transnational Civil Litigation, Presentation at the the Summer Academy on International Dispute Resolution of the Heidelberg Centre for International Dispute Resolution, June 2008.

51. Current developments in judicial co-operation in civil matters, Lecture at the conference "Recent Developments in Community Law" of the Academy of European Law Trier, June 2008.

52. French and German procedural law in the context of the communitarisation of judicial law, Joint event organised by the bar associations of Karlsruhe and Nancy, July 2006.

• Member of the German Council for Private International Law
• Coordinator of the working group "The structure of civil litigation" of the research project "Comparative Procedural Law and Justice" (CPLJ) under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law  
• Member of an international working group to monitor ECJ case law on European conflict of laws and civil procedure law (annual reports in the Journal du droit international - Clunet)  
• Member of an international working group on comparative procedural law (Groupe Tarzia; regular publication of the results) bei Brylant  
• Member of a working group of the Association Henri Capitant for the development of  Code européen des affaires
• Referent der Europäischen Rechtsakademie as well as the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN)
• Participation in the EU-funded ERA/EJTN project "Better applying European cross-border procedures: legal and language training for court staff in Europe"
• Visiting lecturer and guest speaker at various foreign universities, including the Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, the Université de Bordeaux, the Université catholique de Louvain, the Università degli Studi di Milano, the Università degli Studi di Bergamo, the Universitè du Luxembourg, the Ankara Üniversitesi, the Uniwersytet Jagielloński Krakow, the Koç Üniversitesi Istanbul and the International Hellenic University Thessaloniki 

• Member of the Management Board of wissenschaftlichen Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht  (seit 2023)  
• Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung (Secretary of the Civil Law Section from 2013 to 2022)
• Association of Civil Procedure Law Teachers
• Civil Law Teachers Association
• German Association for International Law
• Transnational Commercial Law Teachers
• Lawyers of German and French law
• German Jurists' Convention
• Juristische Gesellschaft Tübingen (Chairman of the Executive Board since WS 2023/2024)
• Member of the advisory board of ELSA Tübingen e.V. https://elsa-tuebingen.de/

• Coordinator of the specialisation area "Civil Procedure Law"
• Coordinator of the study programme "Recht und Rhetorik" (with Olaf Kramer)
• Member of the Board of the University Centre for Francophone Worlds
• Member of the Structural Commission of the University of Tübingen
• Participation in various DAAD selection procedures; member of the LL.M. selection committee since 2021
• Reviewer for the German Research Foundation
• Reviewer for the German National Academic Foundation