Research

The chair's research focuses on the following areas of law, with a particular emphasis on comparative and European aspects:

• Civil law, in particular property law
• German, European, and international insolvency law, including corporate restructuring and international private law aspects
• Civil procedural law: comparative procedural law, (cross-border) access to justice, digital enforcement of rights before and outside of courts (including through the use of artificial intelligence), internal corporate and platform-based dispute resolution

• Member of the “Digital Revolution” working group of the global research project “Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ)”
• American Law Institute, Philadelphia (USA), International Advisor for the Restatement of the Law Fourth Property (seit 8/2015)
• Member of a Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on comparative procedural law (since 2006), with regular publication of findings by Bruylant

• Association of Civil Procedure Law Teachers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
• German-French Lawyers Association (DFJ)