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Professors and Chairs

The teaching staff of the Faculty of Law consists of the professorial chairs listet below. They are specialized in all major fields of law.


Chairs of Private Law:



Althammer, Christoph, Dr. jur.

Chair of Private Law, German, European and International Procedural Law


Bauermeister, Tabea, Dr. jur.

Assistant Professor of Private Law and Law of the Algorithm-driven Economy


Bernzen, Anna K., Dr. jur

Assistant Professor of Private Law, Business Law and Digitalisation of Law


Fritzsche, Jörg, Dr. jur.

Chair of Private Law, Commercial and Business Law


Hellgardt, Alexander, Dr. jur., LL.M. (Harvard)

Chair of Private Law, Corporate Law and Jurisprudence


Heese, Michael, Dr. jur., LL.M (Yale)

Chair of Private Law, Company Law, European Law and Legal Theory, Insolvency Law


Herresthal, Carsten, Dr. jur., LL.M. (Duke)

Chair of Private Law, Commercial and Company Law, European Law and Legal Theory 


Löhnig, Martin, Dr. jur.

Chair of Private Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law


Maschmann, Frank, Dr. jur.

Chair of Private Law and Labour Law


Mayer, Claudia, Dr. jur., LL.M. (University of Chicago)

Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law


Servatius, Wolfgang, Dr. jur.

Chair of Private Law and Company Law


Zimmermann, Reinhard, Dr. jur., Dr. h.c. mult.

Chair of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Law 


Chairs of Criminal Law:



Christoph, Stephan, Dr. jur.

Assistant Professor of criminal law and criminology


Gierhake, Katrin, Dr. jur., LL.M. (Nottingham)

Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Philosophy of Law


Müller, Henning Ernst, Dr. jur.

Chair of Criminal Law, Juvenile Law and Penal Law


Walter, Tonio, Dr. jur.

Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Commercial Criminal Law and European Criminal Law


Chairs of Public Law: 



Eckhoff, Rolf, Dr. jur.

Chair of Public Law, Financial and Tax Law


Graser, Alexander, Dr. jur., LL.M. (Harvard)

Chair of Public Law and Politics, European and International Law and Comparative Law


Hartmann, Bernd J., Dr. jur, LL.M. (Virginia)

Chair of Public Law and Administrative Law


Kingreen, Thorsten, Dr. jur.

Chair of Public Law, Social and Health Law 


Krämer-Hoppe, Rike, Dr. jur.

Professor of Transnational Norm Development
Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies


Kühling, Jürgen, Dr. jur., LL.M. (Brüssel)

Chair of Public Law, Real Estate Law, Law of Infrastructure and Law of Information


Manssen, Gerrit, Dr. jur.

Chair of Public Law, German and European Administrative Law


Tischbirek, Alexander, Dr. jur. 

Assistant Professor of Public Law, especially Administrative Law, with a focus on Digitalization, Media and E-Government


Uerpmann-Wittzack, Robert, Dr. jur. 

Chair of Public Law and Public International Law


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