Juristische Fakultät

Prof. Dr. Björn Laukemann, Maître en droit (Aix-en-Provence)

Chair of Civil Law, German and International Civil Procedure Law

NEWS

Publication CPL

In his article ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution and Artificial Intelligence’ for the global research project Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ), Professor Laukemann examines the use of artificial intelligence in various alternative dispute resolution procedures, particularly in relation to platform-based enforcement of rights and general terms and conditions standards, with a view to the European Union's AI Regulation (AI Act), among other things.

The article can be found at:  https://www.cplj.org/publications/9-5-alternative-dispute-resolution-and-artificial-intelligence.

Research focus

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

  • Civil law, in particular property law
  • German, European and international insolvency law, including  corporate restructuring and international private law aspects
  • German, European and international civil procedure law

Further information can be found here.
 

Personal details

September 2022
Visiting professorship

at the University of Vienna

Since February 2021
Professor of the Chair of Civil Law, German and International Civil Procedure Law

at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2019 and 2020
Chair substitutions at the Faculty of Law

at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in the winter semester 2019/20 and summer semester 2020

February 2020
Habilitation at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Award of the Venia Legendi for the subjects ‘Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law’

Since August 2015
International consultant to the American Law Institute

International Advisor for the Restatement of the Law Fourth Property to the  American Law Institute, Philadelphia (USA)

2013-2017
Lectureship

at the Faculty of Law (Faculty V) of the University of Trier for Insolvency Law and International and European Procedural Law

Since April 2013
Senior research fellow

by Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hess at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law

Februar until April 2013
Research stay as a Visiting Scholar

at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge (USA) as part of the project ‘Foundations of Private Law’

2009-2013
Former academic councillor and habilitation candidate at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

at the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law/Chair of Civil Law and Procedural Law, Private International Law and Procedural Law, European Law and Public International Law (Prof. Dr Burkhard Hess)

2004-2011
Lecturer at the Robert-Bosch-Kolleg Stuttgart

on the topics of ‘Commercial and Contract Law’, ‘Product Liability’ and ‘Commercial Law in Business’ (three times a year, together with Prof Dr Burkhard Hess)

2009
Doctorate (Dr iur.) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

on the topic: ‘The independence of the insolvency administrator - a comparative law analysis’

April 2006
Research stay

at the University of Cambridge, St. Catharine’s College (England)

2005-2008
Lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

as part of the Diplôme universitaire de droit allemand (aptitude test for European lawyers)

2001-2003
Legal traineeship (Referendariat)

Stages in Tübingen, Stuttgart, London; Degree: Second State Examination in Law

1998-2003
Student assistant and research assistant at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

at the Chair of Civil Law and Procedural Law, Private International Law and Procedural Law, European Law and Public International Law (Prof. Dr Burkhard Hess)
 

1995-2001
Studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Degree: First State Law Examination

1998-1999
Master's degree in international and European law

Université Aix-en-Provence/Marseille (France)

Publications

Books

  • ‘‘Statisches und dynamisches Sachenrecht: Zuordnungs- und Rezeptionsmuster zwischen Rechtssicherheit und Entwicklungsoffenheit‘ (Habilitation thesis not yet published; publication agreed in the Jus Privatum series by Mohr Siebeck Verlag), approximately 480-500 pages. 

  • ‘Die Unabhängigkeit des Insolvenzverwalters – eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung’, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2010 (Heidelberger Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Bd. 3), 512 pages. Reviews:
  • Foerste, Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess (ZZP) 126 (2013), 248-252.
  • Falk, Juristenzeitung (JZ) 2011, 464 et seq.
  • Riel, Zeitschrift für Insolvenzrecht und Kreditschutz (ZIK) 2010/189, 139.

Editor

  • ‘Wieczorek/Schütze – Zivilprozessordnung und Nebengesetze‘, Großkommentar, co-editor together with SCHÜTZE, Rolf A. & GEBAUER, Martin & HUBER, Stefan.
  • ‘The Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation – Improving Cooperation and Mutual Trust’, Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Volume 10, Baden-Baden: Nomos; Oxford: Hart Publishing 2017, 320 pages, together with Hess, Burkhard & OBERHAMMER, Paul & BARIATTI, Stefania & KOLLER, Christian & Requejo Isidro, Marta & VILLATA, Francesca Clara.

Book Chapters and Edited Volumes

  • ‘Fritz Baur’, in: Festschrift 550 Jahre juristische Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (forthcoming: Tübingen 2027)
  • ‘Antragspflicht bei juristischen Personen und rechtsfähigen Personengesellschaften (§ 15a InsO) und Zahlungen bei Zahlungsunfähigkeit und Überschuldung (§ 15b InsO)’, in: Gerhardt, Walter & Eckardt, Diederich & Windel, Peter A. (eds.), Jaeger, Insolvenzordnung – Großkommentar, 2nd ed. Berlin/Boston 2026, 747–930 (§ 15a InsO) and 931–1065 (§ 15b InsO).
  • ‘Coopération et dialogue entre le juge et les parties : principes dans la procédure civile allemande?’, in: Chainais, Cécile & Hess, Burkhard & Saletti, Achille & Van Drooghenbroeck, Jean-François (eds.), L'office du juge. Études de droit comparé, (coming soon Bruxelles 2027).
  • ‘Principe de concentration et d'accélération dans la procédure civile allemande’, in: Chainais, Cécile & Hess, Burkhard & Saletti, Achille & Van Drooghenbroeck, Jean-François (eds.), L'office du juge. Études de droit comparé, (coming soon Bruxelles 2027).
  • ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution and Artificial Intelligence’ in: Hess, Burkhard & Woo, Margaret &  Cadiet, Loïc & Menétrey, Séverine & Vallines García, Enrique (eds.), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (Part IX Chapter 5: Digital Revolution), 1-136, 13 September 2024, available at: www.cplj.org/publications/9-5-alternative-dispute-resolution-and-artificial-intelligence.
  • ‘Kommentierung der EuInsVO: Art. 36 (Right to give an undertaking in order to avoid secondary insolvency proceedings) und Art. 37 (Right to request the opening of secondary insolvency proceedings)’, in: Brinkmann, Moritz (ed.), European Insolvency Regulation. Article by Article Commentary, Oxford/Baden-Baden 2019, 290-331.
  • ‘Private law enforcement und Geistiges Eigentum: Regulatorische Herausforderungen in einer digitalen Ära’, in: Hess, Burkhard & Jayme, Erik & Mansel, Heinz-Peter (eds.), Europa als Rechts- und Lebensraum, Liber amicorum für Christian Kohler zum 75. Geburtstag am 18. Juni 2018, Bielefeld 2018, 269-286.
  • ‘Instruments to avoid or postpone secondary proceedings, Articles 36 ff EIR’, in: Hess, Burkhard & OBERHAMMER, Paul & BARIATTI, Stefania & KOLLER, Christian & LAUKEMANN, Björn & Requejo Isidro, Marta & VILLATA, Francesca Clara (eds.), The Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation – Improving Cooperation and Mutual Trust, Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Volume 10, Baden-Baden/Oxford 2017, 106-138.
  • ‘L’obligation du juge d’informer les parties dans la procédure civile allemande’, in: Chainais, Cécile & Hess, Burkhard & Saletti, Achille & Van Drooghenbroeck, Jean-François (eds.), L'office du juge. Études de droit comparé, Bruxelles 2018, 99-112.
  • ‘L’acquisition d’information et la production des documents en droit processuel allemand’, in: Chainais, Cécile & Hess, Burkhard & Saletti, Achille & Van Drooghenbroeck, Jean-François (eds.), L'office du juge. Études de droit comparé, Bruxelles 2018, 227-247.

  • ‘The European Certificate of Succession, Portrait of a new instrument in European private international law’, in: Hess, Burkhard & Bergström, Maria & Storskrubb, Eva (eds.), EU Civil Justice - Current Issues and Future Outlook, Oxford 2016, 161-182.

  • ‘Die lex rei sitae in der Europäischen Erbrechtsverordnung – Inhalt, Schranken und Funktion’, in: GEIMER/KAIsSIS/Thümmel (eds.), Festschrift für Rolf A. Schütze zum 80. Geburtstag, Munich 2014, 325-341, see also Max Planck Institute Luxembourg – Working Paper Series 2014/2, available at: www.mpi.lu.

  • ‘Les mesures provisoires de l’arbitrage’, in: v. Compernolle, Jacques & van Drooghenbroek, Jean François & Saletti, Achille (eds.), L’arbitre et le juge étatique – Études de droit comparé à la mémoire de Giuseppe Tarzia, Bruxelles ‘Structural aspects of harmonization in European Insolvency Law’, in: Van drooghenbroeck, Jean François (ed.), Hommage au Professeur Closset-Marschal, Louvain-la-Neuve 2013/4, 347-358.

  • ‘Annex Proceedings’, in Hess, Burkhard & Oberhammer, Paul & Pfeiffer, Thomas (eds.), European Insolvency Regulation, Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna Report, Munich 2014 (Beck/Hart Publishing/Oxford/Nomos), 112-152.
  • ‘‘Überlegungen zum ordre public-Vorbehalt der Europäischen Insolvenzverordnung’, in Flitsch, Michael et al. (eds.), Festschrift für Jobst Wellensiek, Munich 2011 (Beck), 813-820 (together with Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hess).
  • ‘L’appel incident dans la procédure civile allemande’, in: v. Compernolle, Jacques & Saletti, Achille (eds.), Le double degré de juridiction – Etude de droit comparé, Bruxelles 2010 (Bruylant), 151-163.
  • ‘Das österreichische Mediationsgesetz’, in: Hess, Burkhard (ed.), Mediation und weitere Verfahren konsensualer Streitbeilegung – Regelungsbedarf im Verfahrens- und Berufsrecht?, Gutachten F zum 67. Deutschen Juristentag 2008, München 2008 (Beck), 75-83.
  • ‘Gutachten zur gesetzlichen Rechtsnachfolge in den Nachlass nach französischem Erbrecht (LG Freiburg, Az. 5 O 248/06)’, in: Gutachten zum internationalen und ausländischen Privatrecht (IPG) 2007/2008, 1 ff.
  • ‘Verfassungsfragen einer Privatisierung durch Beleihung’, in: Hess, Burkhard (ed.), Die Neuorganisation des Gerichtsvollzieherwesens in Deutschland, Baden-Baden 2006 (Nomos), 34-57.
  • ‘L’indépendance et l’impartialité du syndic en droit allemand’, in: v. Compernolle, Jacques & Tarzia, Giuseppe (eds.), L’impartialité du juge et de l’arbitre – Etude de droit comoparé, Bruxelles 2006 (Bruylant), 315-333.

Articles and Comments on Case Law

  • The crisis as a time of crisis for insolvency law?, in: Journal of Insolvency Law (KTS) 2024, pp. 415–463.    

  • Digital self-help in light of property and contract law. Also a discussion of Federal Court of Justice ruling of 26 October 2022, in: Journal of Commercial and Banking Law (WM) 2023, WM 2023, pp. 545–552.  

  • Private enforcement between (digital) self-help and judicial legal protection, Journal for the Entire Field of Private Law (ZfPW) 2022, pp. 357–384.  

  • Procedural protection of legitimate expectations against the insolvency estate? At the same time, a discussion of ECJ, judgment of 13 January 2022, C-724/20, in: Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2022, pp. 567-575.

  • Private enforcement between (digital) self-help and judicial legal protection, to be published in 2022 in Zeitschrift für die gesamte Privatrechtswissenschaft (ZfPW).  

  • Applicable law in the event of a challenge to a payment on a third-party debt in cross-border insolvency proceedings, commentary on the judgment of the ECJ of 22 April 2021, C-73/20 (Oeltrans Befrachtungsgesellschaft), in: ecolex 2021, pp. 645-646.  

  • The publication of judicial decisions, in: Journal of Civil Procedure (ZZP) 2021, pp. 67–91. 

  • Ineffectiveness of a subsequently granted approval of an unauthorised debt collection in insolvency proceedings, comment on the ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 12 December 2019 – IX ZR 27/19, in: LMK 2020, 432776.  

  • Right of disposal of the insolvency administrator in the case of indirect possession of movable property, comment on the judgment of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 11 January 2018 – IX ZR 295/16, in: LMK 2018, 411604.

  • Ownership during test drives with contractors and contractual procurement claims, commentary on the ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 17 March 2017 – V ZR 70/16 (Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main), in: LMK 2018, 402438.  

  • Union legal protection and res judicata in civil proceedings, in: Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess (ZZP) 2017, pp. 439–478.

  • Die Relativierung der res judicata im Europäischen Beihilferecht, zugleich Anmerkung zu EuGH 11.11.2015, C-505/14 (Klausner Holz Niedersachsen), in: GPR 4/2016, S. 172-178.

  • Regulatory copy and paste: The allocation of assets in cross-border insolvencies – methodological perspectives from the Nortel decision, in: Journal of Private International Law, Volume 12, Number 2, August 2016, S. 379-410.

  • Presumption of ownership in cases of possessory servitude, commentary on the ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 30 January 2015 – V ZR 63/13 (Brandenburg Higher Regional Court), in: LMK 2015, 374506. 

  • Right of first refusal on the acquisition of a future co-ownership share in the leasehold property, comment on the ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 11 July 2014 – V ZR 18/13 (Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf), in: LMK 2015, 366438.

  • Joint and several liability for surrender of use in owner-possessor relationships, commentary on the ruling of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 14 March 2014 – V ZR 218/13 (LG Bonn), in: LMK 2014, 361201. 

  • The Evolution of European Insolvency Law Part 3: The EU Parliament’s Report on the Amendment of the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR), in: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable (Blogeintrag v. 21.10.2014, with Robert Arts).

  • The Evolution of European Insolvency Law, Part 2: The EU Commission’s proposal for the amendment of the European Insolvency Regulation, in: Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable (Blogeintrag v. 20.5.2014).

  • Public policy review in cases of fraudulent acquisition of jurisdiction and residual debt discharge in European insolvency proceedings: a creditor perspective, in: IPRax 2014, pp. 258–264.  

  • Avoidance actions against third state defendants: jurisdictional justice or curtailment of legal protection? – Decision of the ECJ delivered on 16 January 2014, Case C-328/12 – Schmidt/Hertel, in: International Insolvency Law Review (IILR) 2014, 101-110.

  • Qualification of a pre-emptive right in compulsory auction (§ 10 (1) No. 2 ZVG) as a right in rem?, comment on the judgment of the Federal Court of Justice of 13 September 2013 – V ZR 209/12 (LG Landau), in: LMK 2014, 355864.  

  • Effective interim legal protection at the interface between arbitration proceedings and state justice, in: ZZP 126 (2013), pp. 175–202.  

  • Preventive protection measures in the conflict between universality and territoriality – Comment on the decision of the European Court of Justice of 22 November 2012, Case C-116/11, Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA et al. v Christianapol sp. z. o.o, in: ecolex 2013, 337-340.  

  • The action for separation in European jurisdiction law – Comment on the decision of the ECJ of 5 July 2012, Case C-527/10, ERSTE Bank Hungary Nyrt v Magyar Allam, BCL Trading GmbH, in: IPRax 2013, pp. 150-153.  

  • Insolvency challenges against third-country defendants, comment on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice, decision of 21 June 2012 – IX ZR 2/12, in: LMK 2012, 339261.  

  • Public policy in European insolvency proceedings, in: IPRax 2012, pp. 207–215.  

  • No modified distribution of the burden of proof to the detriment of rejected court officials, note on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decision of 21 October 2010, V ZB 210/09, in: LMK 2011, 313297.  

  • Statute of limitations in the conflict between insolvency and civil law, in: NZI 2010, pp. 717–719.

  • The replacement of the enrichment debtor – creditor protection in the conflict between insolvency law and civil law, in: KTS 2010, pp. 69–84.  

  • Commentary on the decision of the European Court of Justice (no domestic enforcement in individual cases in the event of main insolvency proceedings in another EU Member State), judgment of 21 January 2010, Case C-444/07 – MG Probud Gdynia, in: LMK 2010, 299062.  

  • The actual procedure. On the effect of main insolvency proceedings opened in breach of Community law, in: JZ 2009, 636-640.  

  • The Austrian Mediation Act: An assessment in light of its regulatory structure and practical application, in: ZZPint 2007, pp. 91–108.  

  • Reversal issues in the case of ‘junk real estate’, in: JA 2007, pp. 341-349, with Martin Gebauer.

  • European insolvency law after Eurofood: Methodological assessment and practical conclusions, in: IPRax 2007, pp. 89–98, together with Burkhard Hess and solicitor Christopher Seagon.  

  • International jurisdiction in insolvency proceedings, commentary on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of 17 January 2006 (Susanne Staubitz-Schreiber), in: JZ 2006, pp. 671-673 ( with Burkhard Hess).

  • Joint and several liability after termination of contract, in: ZInsO 2006, pp. 415-419.  

  • No clean bill of health in the car wash, in: JA 2006, pp. 606–612.  

  • Litispendence in European insolvency law, in: RIW 2005, pp. 104–112.

  • Commissionaire de transport und Transitaire: Auxiliary persons in French transport law, in: Transport Law 1999, pp. 381–389 ( with Stefanie Schneider).  

Legal Studies

  • Advice on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the company law framework of the 28th regime – “EU INC.” (Chapter X on insolvency proceedings: simplified winding-up of innovative start-ups), addressed to the rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs (MEP René Repasi), 23 June 2026 (Source: draft report of 29 June 2026, 2026/0074(COD), 171, available at: www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/JURI-PR-790143_DE.pdf).
  • The simplified liguidation of insolvent microenterprises (Articles 36-57): Comments on a comerstone of the draft directive harmonizing certain aspects of insolvency law. Expert presentation to the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 29 January 2025, Harmonizing certain aspects of insolvency law, manuscript available at:  https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/292969/Porf%20Dr%20Laukemann_Manuscript%20Harmoinisierung%20Insolvency_DE.pdf.  
  • Richtlinienvorschlag zur Harmonisierung bestimmter Aspekte des Insolvenzrechts, COM(2022) 702 final, S. 2 – insbesondere zur Liquidation zahlungsunfähiger Kleinstunternehmen’, Expert presentation to the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 26 June 2023, Harmonizing certain aspects of insolvency law, manuscript available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/hearing-on-harmonising-certain-aspects-o/product-details/20230724CHE12021 and www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/273787/Laukemann_DE.pdf.
  • Nominated by the American Law Institute (Philadelphia/USA) as International Advisor for the Restatement of the Law Fourth Property (from 8/2015).  
  • Project of the EU Commission on the Implementation of the Insolvency Regulation – Improving cooperation and Mutual Trust (JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4679).

  • Co-author of the EU project on the External Evaluation of Regulation No. 1346/2000/EC on Insolvency Proceedings, General Report (JUST/2011/JCIV/PR/0049/A4): ‘Annex Proceedings’, in: HESS, Burkhard & OBERHAMMER, Paul & PFEIFFER, Thomas (eds.), Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna-Report 2013, 166-220 (available at: ec.europa.eu/justice/civil/files /evaluation_insolvency_en.pdf.).

  • Verhältnis des Erbrechtsstatuts zum Sachen- und Insolvenzrechtsstatut‘, in Hess, Burkhard & Jayme, Eric & Pfeiffer, Thomas (eds.), Stellungnahme zum Vorschlag für eine Europäische Erbrechtsverordnung im Auftrag des Rechtsausschusses des Europäischen Parlaments, 36-44 (available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=DE&file=67453).
     

Review

  • Unkörperliche Güter im Zivilrecht‘, hrsg. v. Stefan Leible, Matthias Lehmann, Herbert Zech, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011, Kommunikation & Recht 2012, Heft 7/8, p. IX.  

Conference Presentations ( Selected)

  • Gerichtliche Schätzung und rechtliche Bestimmung des Insolvenzverschleppungsschadens (§ 15a InsO)‘, KTS-Tagung der Insolvenzrechtslehrer/-innen, Heidelberg, 24-25 September 2026.
  • The simplified liquidation of insolvent microenterprises (Articles 36-57): Comments on a cornerstone of the draft directive harmonizing certain aspects of insolvency law’, Expert presentation to the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 29 January 2025, Harmonizing certain aspects of insolvency law, manuscript available at: www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/292969/Porf%20Dr%20Laukemann_Manuscript%20Harmoinisierung%20Insolvency_DE.pdf.

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution and Artificial Intelligence’, Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ), Finale Conference, Luxembourg, 11-12 July 2024.  

  • Die Krise als Krisenzeit des Insolvenzrechts?’, inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tübingen, 5 July 2024.

  • Coopération et dialogue entre le juge et les parties : principes dans la procédure civile allemande?’: Symposium on Les principes directeurs émergents du procès civil – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Vienna, 5-6 June 2024.  

  • Harmonisierung bestimmter Aspekte des Insolvenzrechts – insbesondere zur Liquidation zahlungsunfähiger Kleinstunternehmen’, European Parliament – Committee on Legal Affairs: Expert presentation in the Public Hearing on Harmonising certain aspects of insolvency Law, Bruxelles 26 Juni 2023, manuscript available at: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/hearing-on-harmonising-certain-aspects-o/product-details/20230724CHE12021 and www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/273787/Laukemann_DE.pdf.

  • Principe de concentration et d'accélération dans la procédure civile allemande’: Symposium on Les principes directeurs émergents du procès civil – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Rome, 4-5 May 2023.

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution and Artificial Intelligence’, Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (CPLJ), Conference, Luxembourg, 23-24 March 2023.

  • Insolvency Proceedings and the Reform of Brussels Ibis, European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL)’: The Brussels Ibis Reform, Conference of the KU Leuven & MPI Luxembourg, Luxembourg 9 September 2022. 

  • Workshop Insolvenzrecht, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz’: BMWK, 25 February 2022.
  • Interplay of the EU Insolvency Regulation and Brussels Ia, Europäische Rechtsakademie’: Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings in Legal Practice, Webinar, Riga (Latvia) as part of the EU European Social Fund project ‘Justice for Growth’ (3.4.1.0/16/I/001), 13-16 December 2021.

  • Key judgments on cross-border insolvency’, presented at the Academy of European Law: Summer Course on Insolvency Proceedings within the EU, Trier, 12 June 2018.

  • Recast of the European Insolvency Regulation and the NIKI insolvency’, presented at: INSOL Europe, Eastern European Countries’ Committee Conference 2018, Balance of Interests: Restructuring, Insolvency and Second Chance, Riga (Latvia), 31 may to 1 June 2018.

  • Synthetic proceedings’ – EU Project ‘Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation’, presented at the Conference (JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4679), Milano, 8 February 2016.

  • The interplay between main and secondary proceedings’ – EU Project ‘Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation’, presented at the Kick-off Conference (JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4679), Vienna, 17 April 2015.The interplay between main and secondary proceedings – EU Project ‘Implementation of the New Insolvency Regulation’: Kick-off Conference (JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4679), Wien, 17. April 2015.

  • L’acquisition d’information et la production des documents en droit processuel allemand’, presented at the symposium on L’office du juge – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Bergamo, 29 November 2014.

  • German private law in the light of the First World War’, presented at the seminar on The impact of World War I on private law, MPI Luxemburg, 30 July 2014.

  • L’obligation du juge d’informer les parties dans la procédure civile allemande (§ 139 ZPO)’, presented at the symposium on L’office du juge – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Louvain-la-Neuve, November 2013. 

  • The European Certificate of Succession – Portrait of a new instrument in European private international law’, presented at the conference on Civil justice in the EU – Growing and Teething? Questions regarding implementation, practice and the outlook for future policy, The Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University, 17-18 October 2013.

  • Harmonization of European Insolvency Law’, presented at the conference on Exploring Future Avenues of the European Law of Civil Procedure, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, 29 August 2013.

  • Les mesures provisoires en droit allemand sur l’arbitrage’, presented at the symposium on L’instance arbitrale et le juge étatique – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Milan, November 2011.

  • L’appel incident dans la procédure civile allemande’, presented at the symposium on Le double degré de juridiction – Etude de droit comparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Louvain-la-Neuve, November 2010.

  • L’indépendance et l’impartialité du syndic en droit allemand’, presented at the symposium on L’impartialité du juge et de l’arbitre – Etude de droit comoparé, Belgian-German-French-Italian working group on the Harmonisation of Procedural Law, Heidelberg, November 2005.

Awards and scholarships

  • Elite programme for postdoctoral researchers at the Baden-Württemberg Foundation (2011-2012) 

  • Dissertation awarded the 2009 Serick Prize by the Rolf and Lucia Serick Foundation

  • Awarded the Gravenbrucher Kreis's 2nd Science Prize for Insolvency Law for the years 2009-2010 for his doctoral thesis.  

  • Printing costs grant for the dissertation from the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort München (2009)  

  • Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation (1996–2001)  

  • Scholarship from the Bavarian Gifted Education Programme under the BayBFG (1995-2001)  

International research groups

  • 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)  

Memberships

  • Association of Civil Procedure Law Teachers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland 

  • German-French Lawyers' Association (DFJ)  

  • Scientific Association for International Procedural Law  

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