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Publications

Here you will find Martin Löhnig’s publications. The publications by other members of staff can be accessed via the team page.

Academic monographs

  1. Misconceptions regarding the characteristics of the contracting party, Gieseking Verlag, Essays on German, European and Comparative Civil, Commercial and Procedural Law, Volume 203, Bielefeld 2002
  2. Trusts – Representation of Interests and Conflicts of Interest (A Contribution to the History and Dogmatics of German Trust Law), Mohr Siebeck (Ius Privatum Vol. 109), Tübingen 2006
  3. The Judiciary as Legislator – On the Application of National Socialist Law in the Post-War Period, Regenstauf Edition Rechtskultur 2010
  4. Legal Unification through Case Law? On the Case Law of the Reich Court 1879–1899
    1. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012
    2. The Unification of Civil Law through the Case Law of the German Supreme Court (1879–1899), Dykinson, Madrid 2018
  5. ‘In the past, parents had many children; today, children have many parents’ – On the changing image of the family in our legal system, Nomos, Publications of the Regensburg Society for Legal Studies e.V., Baden-Baden 2015
  6. New Times – Old Law: The Application of Nazi Laws by German Courts after 1945, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2017
  7. Droit Local: German Law in France at the Beginning of the 20th Century, Duncker & Humblot (Publications on Legal History, Vol. 213), Berlin 2023
  8. An Intensification of the Class Struggle? Work on a Civil Code for the GDR in 1952–53, Regensburg 2025

Textbooks, practical guides, workbooks

  1. The Rights of Children of Unmarried Parents – Paternity, Custody, Access Rights, Right to a Surname, Maintenance; 1st edition, Berlin 2001; 2nd edition, Berlin 2004; 3rd edition, Berlin 2010 (with A. Gietl and M. Preisner)
  2. Civil Law Protection against Violence: 1st edition, Berlin 2002 (with R. Sachs); 2nd edition, Berlin 2004; 3rd edition, 2016 (with A. Gietl)
  3. Time Limits and Deadlines in Civil Law: 1st edition, Berlin 2003; 2nd edition, Berlin 2006
  4. Case Studies in Civil Law – A Workbook for Beginners: 1st edition, Heidelberg 2003 (with D. Schwab); 2nd edition, Heidelberg 2005 (with D. Schwab); 3rd edition, Heidelberg 2007 (with D. Schwab); 4th edition, Heidelberg 2010 (with D. Schwab); 5th edition, Heidelberg 2012 (with D. Schwab); 6th edition, Heidelberg 2016 (with D. Schwab); 7th edition, Heidelberg 2022 (with Ph. S. Fischinger)
  5. Case Studies in Family and Law of Succession: 1st edition, Munich 2007; 2nd edition, Munich 2010; 3rd edition, Munich 2015 (with M. Leiß); 4th edition, Munich 2019 (with M. Leiß); 5th edition, Munich 2021 (with M. Leiß); 6th edition, Munich 2025 (with M. Leiß)
  6. Law of succession: 1st edition, Cologne 2007; 2nd edition, Munich 2010; 3rd edition, Munich 2016; 4th edition, Munich 2022 (with Ph. S. Fischinger)
  7. Introduction to Civil Law: 17th edition, Heidelberg 2007 (with D. Schwab); 18th edition, Heidelberg 2010 (with D. Schwab); 19th edition, Heidelberg 2012 (with D. Schwab); 20th edition, Heidelberg 2016 (with D. Schwab); 21st edition, Heidelberg 2023 (with Ph. S. Fischinger)
  8. Case Studies in Property Law (with J. Koch): 1st edition, Munich 2008; 2nd edition, Munich 2010; 3rd edition, Munich 2012; 4th edition, Munich 2015; 5th edition, Munich 2017; 6th edition, Munich 2020;Case Studies in German Property Law, Peking University Press 2020; 7th edition, Munich 2022; 8th edition, Munich 2026 (with M. Holle)
  9. Case Studies in Civil Law 2 – A Workbook for the Middle Semesters, 1st edition, Heidelberg 2008
  10. Law of Obligations, Special Part 1: Contractual Obligations: 1st edition, Stuttgart 2009; 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2018 (with A. Gietl)

Editorial team

  • Constance Seminars on Family and Law of Succession (until 2008)
  • Editor of the family law volumes of the Soergel Commentary on the German Civil Code since 2008, and the inheritance law volumes since 2013
  • Derschka/Hausmann/Löhnig (eds.), Festschrift for Hans-Wolfgang Strätz on his 70th birthday, Regenstauf Edition Rechtskultur 2009
  • Kroppenberg/Löhnig/Schwab (eds.), Law – Religion – Constitution: Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Becker on his 70th birthday, Bielefeld 2009
  • Löhnig (ed.), Commentary on the Act on Compulsory Auction and Compulsory Administration (ZVG), Stuttgart 2010
  • Kroppenberg/Löhnig (eds.), Fragmented Families. The Disintegration of a Social Form in the Modern Age, Bielefeld 2010
  • Co-editor of the ‘Rechtskultur Wissenschaft’ series published by Edition Rechtskultur, since 2009
  • Co-editor of the *Journal of Comprehensive Family Law* (FamRZ) published by Gieseking-Verlag, Bielefeld, since 2010
  • Co-editor of the “Schriften zum deutschen und ausländischen law of succession” series published by Wolfgang Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, since 2010
  • Löhnig/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Kroppenberg (eds.), 10th Regensburg Symposium on European Family Law: Lasting Powers of Attorney and Adult Protection in Europe, Bielefeld 2011
  • Löhnig (ed.), *Zwischenzeit – A Legal History of the Occupation Years*, Regenstauf 2011
  • Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Reform and Revolt – A Legal History of the 1960s and 1970s, Tübingen 2012
  • Co-editor of the “Schriften zur Mediation und außergerichtlichen Konfliktlösung” (Publications on Mediation and Out-of-Court Conflict Resolution) published by Wolfgang Metzner Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, since 2012
  • Löhnig/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich (eds.), Children’s Rights in Parental Conflict: 11th Regensburg Symposium on European Family Law, Bielefeld 2013.
  • Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik (eds.), Feuerbach’s Bavarian Criminal Code – The Birth of Liberal, Rational and Modern Criminal Law, Tübingen 2013
  • Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), War and Law, Regenstauf 2014
  • Löhnig/Preisner (eds.), Weimar Civil Law Scholarship, Tübingen 2014
  • Löhnig (ed.), The Parent-Parent Relationship, Frankfurt am Main 2014
  • Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Order and Protest, Tübingen 2015
  • Koch/Löhnig (eds.), The von Liszt School and the Emergence of Modern Criminal Law, Tübingen 2016
  • Dutta/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Löhnig (eds.), Assisted Reproduction and European Family Law: 12th Regensburg Symposium on European Family Law, Bielefeld 2015
  • Dutta/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Löhnig (eds.), Guardianship in Europe, Bielefeld 2016
  • Klippel/Löhnig/Walter (eds.), Foundations and Fundamental Issues of Private Law. Symposium to mark the 80th birthday of Dieter Schwab, Bielefeld 2016
  • Berger/Delivré/Löhnig (eds.), Popular Justice in Times of Transition (19th and 20th-century Europe), Bologna 2017
  • Dutta/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Löhnig (eds.), Divorce without a Court?, Bielefeld 2017
  • Löhnig/Dutta/Gottwald/Grziwotz/Henrich/Reimann/Schwab (eds.), Corporate Succession Law in Europe, Bielefeld (Gieseking) 2018
  • Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The General German Commercial Code of 1861 as a Common Law of Obligations in Central Europe, Tübingen 2018
  • Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), “Unborn Children of Liberalism”? – Civil Legislation in Interwar Central Europe, Tübingen 2018
  • Löhnig (ed.), Divorce without Fault? The Origins and Impact of the 1977 Matrimonial Law Reform, Tübingen 2019
  • Löhnig/Dutta/Gottwald/Grziwotz/Henrich/Reimann/Schwab (eds.), The Execution of Wills in Europe, Bielefeld (Gieseking) 2018
  • Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik/Stuckenberg/Wohlers (eds.), ‘A Mighty Manifestation of Positive Law’: Karl Binding’s Theory of Norms and Criminal Law, Tübingen 2020
  • Gietl/Löhnig (eds.), BeckOK-ZVG
  • Buchner/Löhnig/Waidner (eds.), The Digital Estate, Berlin 2020
  • Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Civil Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. I: From Liberal to Social Private Law? – The Franco-Italian Draft Law of Obligations of 1927, Frankfurt am Main 2021
  • Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig (eds.), Criminal Law between the November Revolution and the Weimar Republic, Tübingen 2020
  • Löhnig (ed.), The Cultural Struggle over Marriage: Reform of European Matrimonial Law after the Great War, Tübingen 2021
  • Löhnig/Moszynska (eds.), A Laboratory for International Legislative Work: The Birth of the Polish Legal System of the Interwar Period in a European Context, Vienna 2021
  • Löhnig (ed.), The Dawn of the Present – Studies in the Legal Contemporary History of the 1980s, Göttingen 2021
  • Löhnig/Masheva (eds.), Commercial Law in South-Eastern Europe – Legislation and Jurisdiction from the Tanzimat Era until the Eve of the Great War, Göttingen 2022
  • Löhnig/Serowaniec/Witkowski (eds.), Pandemic Poland – Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish Law, Göttingen 2021
  • Löhnig/Moszynska/Morawski (eds.), Fair taxes or budget revenues at any price?, Göttingen 2022
  • The Imperial Province of Alsace-Lorraine as a Legal Laboratory, Regensborg 2023
  • Löhnig/Moszyńska/Serowaniec/Wantoch-Rekowski (eds.), Poland in good constitution?, Göttingen 2023
  • Löhnig/Michl (eds.), ‘Prescribed Democracy?’ The Post-War Elections of 1946/47, Göttingen 2023
  • Koch/Löhnig (eds.), Penal Codes of the Interwar Period, 1st edition Tübingen 2024, 2nd edition Tübingen 2025
  • Löhnig/Moszynska (eds.), Reception of the Limited Liability Company (GmbH), Göttingen 2024
  • Klippel/Eisfeld/Löhnig/Pahlow (eds.), Civil Law Scholarship – Building Blocks for a Theory of Civil Law, Tübingen 2024
  • Löhnig/Staudigl-Ciechowicz (eds.), The Silesian Voivodeship: Analysis of a ‘legal interspace’, Berlin 2024
  • Löhnig (ed.), Varieties of Social Civil Procedure, Berlin 2024
  • Löhnig/Papathanasiou (eds.), Feuerbach 2.0? The Greek Criminal Code of 1834, Berlin 2024
  • Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The Law of Breach of Contract in Central Europe, Tübingen 2024
  • Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The German Confederation and National Legal Unity, Tübingen 2024
  • Löhnig/Staudigl-Ciechowicz (eds.), Burgenland as a Legal Interstitial Space, Berlin 2026
  • Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Private Law Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. II: Totalitarian Social Private Law? – The Legal ‘Berlin–Rome Axis’, Frankfurt am Main 2025
  • Löhnig/Papathanasiou (eds.), Georg Ludwig von Maurer – Lawmaker of Greece, Berlin 2025
  • Löhnig (ed.), Northern Italy as a Contact Zone..., Turin 2025

Comments and manual entries

  1. Dauner-Lieb/Heidel/Ring (eds.), Nomos Commentary on the BGB, Volume 4: Family Law: 1st edition, Bonn 2004: Legal relationship between parents and the child in general, Sections 1616–1625 BGB; 2nd edition, Baden-Baden 2010: Sections 1616–1625 BGB (with I. Czeguhn); Sections 1371, 1379, 1380, 1390 BGB; 3rd edition, Baden-Baden 2014: Sections 1616–1625 BGB (with I. Czeguhn); Sections 1371, 1379, 1380, 1390 of the German Civil Code (BGB); 4th edition, Baden-Baden 2021: Sections 1371, 1379, 1380, 1390 of the German Civil Code (BGB)
  2. Frieser (ed.), Specialist Lawyers’ Commentary on Law of Succession: Administration of the estate, Sections 1958–1966 of the German Civil Code (BGB), Liability of the heir for estate liabilities, Sections 1967–2017 of the German Civil Code (BGB), Wills – General Provisions, Sections 2064–2085 of the German Civil Code (BGB), Appointment of Heirs, Sections 2085–2099 of the German Civil Code (BGB): 1st edition, Neuwied 2006; 2nd edition, Neuwied 2008; 3rd edition, Neuwied 2010; 4th edition, Neuwied 2012
  3. Prütting/Weinreich/Wegen (eds.), BGB: Wills – General Provisions, Sections 2064–2086 of the German Civil Code (BGB); Appointment of Heirs, Sections 2087–2099 of the German Civil Code (BGB): 1st edition, Neuwied 2006; 2nd edition, Neuwied 2007; 3rd edition, Neuwied 2008; 4th edition, Neuwied 2009; 5th edition, Neuwied 2010; 6th edition, Neuwied 2011; 7th edition, Neuwied 2012
  4. Staudinger, BGB, Appendix to Sections 1297 et seq. BGB (De facto cohabitation): Revised edition 2007; Revised edition 2012; Revised edition 2015; Revised edition 2018; Revised edition 2023
  5. Staudinger, BGB, Preamble to Sections 1297 et seq. BGB; Sections 1297–1302 BGB; Preamble to Sections 1303 et seq. BGB; §§ 1303–1310 BGB; §§ 1319–1320 BGB: Revised edition 2012; Revised edition 2015; Revised edition 2018; Revised edition 2023
  6. Hausmann/Hohloch (eds.), Handbook of Law of Succession: 1st edition, Berlin 2007: Administration of estates, execution of wills; 2nd edition, Berlin 2010: Administration of estates, execution of wills
  7. Rißmann (ed.), The Community of Heirs, Bonn 2009: Execution of Wills within the Community of Heirs, Administration of Estates within the Community of Heirs; 1st edition 2010; 2nd edition 2013; 3rd edition 2018
  8. Bork/Jacoby/Schwab (eds.), Commentary on the FamFG: 1st edition, Bielefeld 2009, Sections 15–19 FamFG; 49–57 FamFG (with G. Heiß); §§ 111–150 FamFG; §§ 169–180 FamFG; §§ 342–373 FamFG; 2nd edition, Bielefeld 2013, sections 15–19 FamFG; 49–57 FamFG (with G. Heiß); sections 111–150 FamFG; sections 169–180 FamFG; 3rd edition, Bielefeld 2018, Sections 15–19 FamFG; 49–57 FamFG (with G. Heiß); Sections 111–150 FamFG; Sections 169–180 FamFG.
  9. Dauner-Lieb/Grziwotz (eds.), Handbook Commentary on the Law of Compulsory Portions: Sections 2318–2324 of the German Civil Code (BGB): 1st edition, Baden-Baden 2010; 2nd edition, Baden-Baden 2016; 3rd edition, Baden-Baden 2022
  10. Beck’s Comprehensive Online Commentary (BeckOGK), Sections 1741 et seq. of the German Civil Code (BGB) (Adoption), AdVermiG [continuously updated]
  11. Beck’s Online Comprehensive Commentary (BeckOGK), Sections 1 et seq. of the LPartG [continuously updated]
  12. Staudinger, BGB, Sections 2032–2057a BGB (Community of Heirs): Revised edition 2016; Revised edition 2020; Revised edition 2025
  13. Historical-Critical Commentary on the BGB (HKK-BGB), Sections 1741 et seq. BGB (with S. Lettmaier), Tübingen 2018
  14. Soergel, BGB, before §§ 1626 et seq., §§ 1629, 1697a (with M. Preisner); §§ 1638–1649; 1698–1698b, 1712–1717 BGB, 13th edition, Stuttgart 2017
  15. Henn/Pahlow (eds.) Patent Contract Law, 6th edition, Heidelberg 2016: Trusts in Industrial Property Rights, 7th edition, Heidelberg 2024
  16. Dannemann/Schulze, German Civil Code, §§ 1297–1362 BGB, Munich 2022
  17. Staudinger, BGB, §§ 1408–1519 BGB (Contractual Matrimonial Property Law): Revised edition 2023
  18. Beck’s Online Comprehensive Commentary (BeckOGK), §§ 169 et seq. FamFG (cases concerning parentage) [continuously updated]
  19. Rauscher, European Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws, ErwSÜ, 5th edition, Cologne 2026
  20. Rauscher, European Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws, KSÜ, 5th edition, Cologne 2026

Essays on legal history

  1. The Emergence of the Law of Error in the General Land Law for the Prussian States of 1794, ZRG (Germ) 120 (2003), 200
  2. Spousal Gifts in the General Land Law for the Prussian States of 1794 – The Origin and Continuing Effect of the Provisions, in: Klippel/Hofer/Walter (eds.), Festschrift for Dieter Schwab on his 70th Birthday, p. 179
  3. Entries: Surety, Incapacitation, Mortgage, Sale, Rent, Self-defence, Lease, Pledge, Particular Rights, Gift, Maritime Commercial Law, Trust, Contract for Work and Services, Bill of Exchange, in: Institute for Cultural Studies at the North Rhine-Westphalia Research Centre (eds.), Encyclopaedia of the Modern Era, Stuttgart and Weimar 2005 ff:
  4. The Sources of Regensburg Municipal Law – On the State of Their Cataloguing, in: Schmid (ed.), Regensburg in the Late Middle Ages – An Inventory and New Perspectives, Regensburg 2007, p. 189
  5. Challenges to the Validity of Marriages by the Public Prosecutor (1938–1961), ZRG (Germ) 124 (2007), 323
  6. The Protection of Authors’ Intellectual Property in the Prussian Land Law of 1794, ZNR 2007, 197
  7. ‘On the Ownership of Writings’ – The First German Copyright Law in Articles 577da–577dh of the Baden Provincial Law, UFITA 2007, 783
  8. Everyday divorce proceedings in a court of first instance before and after the ‘collapse’: The Amberg divorce files from 1944–1946, ZRG (Germ) 125 (2008), 501
  9. Interactions between international agreements on patent law and German patent law 1870–1980, in: Klippel/Otto (eds.), Contributions to the History of Patent Law, Tübingen 2015, p. 71
  10. Paragraphs 29 et seq. of the Annex to the Baden Land Law of 1810: The first codification of company law in Germany, in: Gschwend/Pahud de Mortanges (eds.), A History of Commercial Law during Modernisation in Central Europe, Zurich 2009, p. 191
  11. The Reception of French Law in Germany: The First Codification of Company Law in Germany in the Baden Civil Code of 1810, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 2009, 87
  12. Albert Drach and Austrian Restitution Practice after 1945, in: Derschka/Hausmann/Löhnig (eds.), Festschrift for Hans-Wolfgang Strätz on his 70th birthday, Regenstauf 2009, p. 329 (with C. Mayer)
  13. ‘Mixed Marriages’ in Nazi Regensburg, in: Kroppenberg/Löhnig/Schwab (eds.), Law – Religion – Constitution: Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Becker on his 70th birthday, Bielefeld 2009, p. 141
  14. Comparative Legal History – Current State and Prospects, ZNR 2010, 82
  15. ‘Unlawful Suppression of the Sexual Instinct’? – The Legal Discourse on the Criminality of Incest between 1750 and 1850, in: Kroppenberg/Löhnig (eds.), Fragmented Families. Fractures in a Social Form in the Modern Age, Bielefeld 2010, p. 207
  16. On the history of the judiciary in the ‘Third Germany’ – A research outline, in: Perez Juan et al. (eds.), Reflexiones sobre la Justicia en Europa durante la primera mitad del s.XIX, Editoria Universitaria, Alicante 2011, p. 73
  17. French Civil Procedure Law as a Source of Liberal Civil Procedure in 19th-Century Europe, in: H. Roth (ed.), The Europeanisation of Law, Tübingen 2010, p. 141
  18. “Anyone who elevates the freedom of the individual to a demand of all human communities has the right to call themselves an anarchist.” – Erich Mühsam’s ‘The Liberation of Society from the State’, in: Geisenhanslüke/Tommek/Barbey (eds.), Literature and Anarchy, Heidelberg 2012
  19. The Concept of the Family and Family Law in Germany during the Occupation, in: Löhnig (ed.), Zwischenzeit – Legal History of the Occupation Years, Regenstauf 2011, p. 187
  20. Trends in Tort Law: On the Application of the Austrian ABGB by the German Reich Court, ZEuP 2011, 890
  21. “Guardian of the Country’s Political Structure” – On the Role of the Judiciary in Occupied Belgium 1940–1944 (with S. Brahy), ZNR 34 (2012), 246
  22. “The Judiciary is Independent” – On the Reception of French Judicial Organisation Law in Early 19th-Century Poland, Journal on European History of Law, 2012, 2
  23. Two histories of the Bavarian People’s Courts (with M. Preisner), ZNR 34 (2012), 43
  24. On the position of the judge in early constitutionalism, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 2012, 427
  25. “Human Honour” vs. “Civic Honour” – Punishments for dishonour on the threshold of modernity, using the example of Bavarian criminal law history, in: Geisenhanslüke/Löhnig (eds.), Infamy, Regenstauf 2012, p. 37
  26. “An Army of New Small Shareholders”? – The 1965 reform of company law, in: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Reform and Revolt – A Legal History of the 1960s and 1970s, Tübingen 2012, p. 203
  27. Career ambition: a state-funded professional revolutionary? – The 1972 ‘Principles on the Question of Anti-Constitutional Forces in the Civil Service’ (with M. Preisner), in: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), Reform and Revolt. A Legal History of the 1960s and 1970s, Tübingen 2012, p. 297
  28. The Application of Bavarian Legislation on Settlement and Marriage in the 19th Century in Rural Communities around Haßfurt (with C. Scholz Löhnig), in: Hermann/Hecker (eds.), Legal History of Rural Areas in Bavaria, Regenstauf 2012, p. 105.
  29. The reform of the judiciary in the Grand Duchy of Berg: on the adoption of the French judicial system in Germany, Revue historique de droit français et étranger 2012, 255
  30. ‘The “Gift”: A Foreign Element in Current Civil Law?’, in: Czeguhn (ed.), Law in Transition – The Transformation of Law, p. 583
  31. “Incidentally, the nation does not seem to be ready for such a constitution” – The emergence and failure of the Constitution of Cádiz as reflected in the Bavarian press, in: Czeguhn/Puértolas (eds.), The Spanish Constitution of 1812: The Dawn of European Constitutionalism – *La Constitución española de 1812: El comienzo del constitucionalismo europeo*, Regenstauf 2014, p. 39
  32. Civil proceedings between the state and society according to Grolman, in: Eisfeld/Otto/Pahlow/Zwanzger (eds.), Natural Law and the State in the Modern Era, Tübingen 2013, p. 417
  33. How sovereign was the young Kingdom of Bavaria? On the influence of Napoleonic law on Bavarian legal reform at the beginning of the 19th century, in: Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik (eds.), Feuerbach’s Bavarian Criminal Code – The Birth of Liberal, Rational and Modern Criminal Law?, Tübingen 2013, p. 81
  34. Introducing the participation of laypeople in the judicial system in 19th-century Germany – The example of Bavaria, in: Berger/Delivré, Popular Justice in Europe 1750–1870, Bologna 2014, p. 115
  35. Killing Legal Complexity – The Jurisdiction of the German Reichsgericht in the First Years of its Existence, in: Donlan/Heirbaut, The Laws’ Many Bodies, Berlin 2015, p. 249
  36. The evolution of the concept of family and the ‘special protection of family and marriage’ in German law, Journal on European History of Law, 2013/2, p. 9
  37. On the Idea of the Empire in the 17th and 18th Centuries, in: Unger/Styra/Neiser, Regensburg at the Time of the Perpetual Diet, Regensburg 2013, p. 63
  38. Comparative Law and Legal History: A Few Words about Comparative Legal History, in: Adams/Heirbaut (eds.), The Method and Culture of Comparative Law, Oxford (Hart) 2014
  39. Weimar Civil Procedure Law, in: Löhnig/Preisner, Weimar Civil Law Scholarship, Tübingen 2014, p. 135
  40. The Hague Convention on the Laws of War – Failure and Fame, in: Löhnig/Preisner/Schlemmer (eds.), War and Law, Regenstauf 2014, p. 9
  41. Re-Education through Jurisdiction: On Enforcing a Christian-Western Understanding of Marriage in West Germany after 1945, HSE (Historia Social y de la Educación / Social and Education History) 3 (2014), 133
  42. Breaking with bourgeois rules and traditions: The divorce files of East German courts in the late 1940s, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 2015, 538
  43. The Norwegian Constitution of 1814 in 19th-century German journalism, ZNR 2015, 110
  44. The von Liszt School in a totalitarian context, in: Koch/Löhnig (eds.), The von Liszt School and the Emergence of Modern Criminal Law, Tübingen 2016
  45. ‘Human Honour’, ‘Civic Honour’, ‘Social Honour’ – Distinctions in the Concept of Honour in Grolman, in: Geisenhanslüke (ed.), Undignified: Conflicts of Honour from Antiquity to the Present Day, Regensburg 2016, p. 121
  46. On the History of Consumer Law from the Instalment Sales Act (1894) to the Outbreak of the Major Consumer Protection Debates of the 1960s, in: Kannowski/Schmidt-Kessel (eds.), History of Consumer Law, Jena 2017, p. 91
  47. Political Justice in the Federal Republic of Germany’s State Security Criminal Law in the Early 1950s, ZRG (Germ) 134 (2017), 202
  48. ‘People’s Courts’ in Austria (1945–1955), in: Berger/Delivré/Löhnig (eds.), Popular Justice in Times of Transition (19th and 20th Century Europe), Bologna 2017, p. 191
  49. On the history of renunciation of inheritance, Journal on European History of Law, 2017, 6
  50. General clauses in the case law of the Austrian senates of the Reich Court 1939–1945: A study based on the Vienna Reich Court files, BRGÖ 2017, 181
  51. “Heure(s) zéro” versus “Petite période charnière”, in: Goepper/Martin (eds.), ‘L’heure zéro’ (Hour Zero) between myth and reality in society and culture, Deutschland heute 2018 (224), 51
  52. Bulgaria and Herzegovina (1878–1918), in: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The General German Commercial Code of 1861 as a Common Law of Obligations in Central Europe, Tübingen 2018
  53. Outlook: What next?, in: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The General German Commercial Code of 1861 as a Common Law of Obligations in Central Europe, Tübingen 2018
  54. On Some Characteristics of a Central European Era of Codification that Came to an Abrupt End, in: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), ‘Unborn Children of Liberalism’? – Civil Legislation in Central Europe during the Interwar Period, Tübingen 2018
  55. Alternative Legal Publicism? Four Legal Publications from the Long 1970s and Their Reception in Legal Studies and Legal Practice, MTS 60 (2018), 5
  56. Are lawyers still needed, or can we do without them? On the History of the Legal Profession in the 19th Century, in: Andreas Bednarek et al. (eds.), Justice and Building Culture in the 19th Century, Supplement to the Neues Lausitzisches Magazin 19 (2018), p. 86
  57. The “Social Function of Property” in German Law, in: Babie/Viven-Wilksch (eds.), Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property, New York 2019
  58. The Norwegian Constitution of 1814 in 19th-century German constitutional journalism, *Journal on European History of Law*, 2019, p. 40
  59. Transitional Justice: Nazi Labour Law and its application after 1945, in: José Antonio Pérez Juan/Sara Moreno Tejda (eds.), Repression and Public Order during the Second Republic, the Civil War and the Franco Regime, Madrid 2019, p. 375
  60. The First Act on the Reform of Marriage and Family Law from a Transdisciplinary Perspective, in: Löhnig (ed.), Divorce without Fault? The Origins and Impact of the 1977 Reform of Marriage and Family Law, Tübingen 2019, p. 1
  61. The Supreme Court and the Internal Foundations of the German Empire, in: Gabriella Mangione/Lino Panzeri (eds.), Italy and Germany between the 19th and 20th Centuries, Milan 2019, p. 11
  62. Matrimonial Law Reform after 1918 in the Central European Legal Sphere, ZNR 41 (2019), p. 65
  63. Karl Binding: From Student to Full Professor – Influences in His Third Decade of Life, in: Kubiciel/Löhnig/Pawlik/Stuckenberg/Wohlers (eds.), “A Mighty Manifestation of Positive Law”: Karl Binding’s Theory of Norms and Criminal Law, Tübingen 2019, p. 257
  64. Trends in the participation of laypeople in criminal proceedings in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, in: Gerald Kohl/Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal (eds.), Laypeople in the Jurisdiction – History and Current Perspectives, Vienna 2019
  65. Forbidden Love – Relationships between German Women and Foreign Prisoners of War during the First World War in Court, in: Kanzleiter/Schwab (eds.), Family Law between Tradition and Innovation: Festschrift for Elisabeth Koch on her 70th Birthday, Bielefeld 2019, p. 81
  66. Liberal versus Social Private Law in the Weimar Republic, in: Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Civil Law Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. I: From Liberal to Social Private Law? – The Franco-Italian Draft Law of Obligations of 1927, Frankfurt am Main 2022, p. 227
  67. Social Housing Tenancy Law in the Weimar Republic, in: Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Private Law Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. I: From Liberal to Social Private Law? – The Franco-Italian Draft Civil Code of 1927, Frankfurt am Main 2022, p. 317
  68. Drafting a New Civil Code in the GDR: Stalinism, Právněhistorické studie 49/2 (2019), p. 39
  69. Family Law in the SOZ/GDR I: Stalinism, Právněhistorické studie 49/2 (2019), p. 38
  70. The Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s Republic of Poland on the Foundations for the Normalisation of their Mutual Relations as a Turning Point in the History of the Bonn Republic, Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica IXX (2020)
  71. Synthesis, in: Löhnig (ed.), The Cultural Struggle over Marriage: Reform of European Matrimonial Law after the Great War, Tübingen 2020, p. 499
  72. Spanish marriage law in the interwar period: The path from canonical to secular marriage – and back again, in: Löhnig (ed.), The Cultural Struggle over Marriage: Reform of European Marriage Law after the Great War, Tübingen 2020, p. 469
  73. The Judiciary in the Fight against ‘Particularly Reprehensible Modern-Day Criminality’: Usury Courts and Economic Crime 1919–1924, in: Koch/Kubiciel/Löhnig (eds.), Criminal Law between the November Revolution and the Weimar Republic, Tübingen 2020, p. 139
  74. Amnesty Legislation in Germany after 1945, in: Pérez Juan/Moreno Tejada (eds.), Justice and Repression in Totalitarian States: Spain, Germany and Italy (1931–1945), Valencia 2021, p. 501
  75. Introduction, in: Löhnig/Moszynska (eds.), Laboratory for Legislative Work – The Birth of the Polish Legal System of the Interwar Period in a European Context, Vienna 2021, p. 9
  76. A Period of Waiting or a Turning Point?, in: Löhnig (ed.), The Dawn of the Present – Studies in the Legal Contemporary History of the 1980s, Göttingen, 2021, p. 7
  77. Germany: The Reichsgericht 1933–1945, in: Venema (ed.), Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation, Amsterdam 2022, p. 57
  78. Proportional representation based on fixed lists of candidates: The elections in the French occupation zone in 1946–47, taking Baden as an example, in Löhnig/Michl (eds.), Imposed Democracy? The Post-War Elections of 1946–47, Göttingen 2023, p. 35
  79. The Reich High Commercial Court as the Cour de Cassation for Alsace-Lorraine and its case law in civil matters (1871–1879), ZRG (Germ) 140 (2023), p. 333
  80. ‘A body of civil servants in the judiciary that would be unrivalled in any other German state’ – The initial appointment of judges to the Colmar Court of Appeal in 1871, ZNR 43 (2023), p. 174
  81. ‘The Incorporation of Family Law into Contract Law’. Family law as part of private law, in: Klippel/Eisfeld/Löhnig/Pahlow (eds.), Civil Law Scholarship – Building Blocks for a Theory of Civil Law, Tübingen 2024, p. 597
  82. Privatisation of opportunities, socialisation of risks? Emergence and development of the GmbH under German law up to the Second World War, in: Löhnig/Moszynska (eds.), Reception of the Limited Liability Company (GmbH), Göttingen 2024, p. 11
  83. A Forgotten Era of Codification: The Central European Criminal Law Reform of the Interwar Period, in: Koch/Löhnig (eds.), Criminal Codes of the Interwar Period, 1st edition, Tübingen 2024, p. 1 = 2nd edition, Tübingen 2025, p. 1
  84. The Application of the Law on Breach of Contract, Articles 354–359 of the ADHGB, by the Federal and Reich Higher Commercial Courts and the Reich Court, in: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The Law on Breach of Contract in Central Europe, Tübingen 2024, p. 67
  85. Draft of a General Code of Civil Procedure for the German Federal States of 1866 – The Hanover Draft, in: Löhnig/Wagner (eds.), The German Confederation and National Legal Unity, Tübingen 2024, p. 209
  86. Maurer’s Bookcase – Remarks on the Sources of the Greek Criminal Code of 1834, in: Löhnig/Papathanasiou (eds.), Feuerbach 2.0? The Greek Criminal Code of 1834, Berlin 2024, p. 19
  87. Battle Rule or Welfare Institution? German Civil Procedure Law in the Interwar Period, in: Löhnig (ed.), Varieties of Social Civil Procedure, Berlin 2024, p. 13
  88. Eberhard Schmidt’s View of the Judge, in: Koch/Stuckenberg/Wohlers (eds.), Eberhard Schmidt: Historian of Criminal Law, Specialist in Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law Scholar, Tübingen 2024, p. 167
  89. The Administration of the Estate under the Bavarian Code of Civil Procedure of 29 April 1869 in Civil Disputes, with Reference to the Prussian Bankruptcy Code of 1855 and the Imperial Bankruptcy Code of 1877, Journal on European History of Law, 2024, 94
  90. “Businesswomen”: On the Legal Conditions of Women’s Commercial Activity in the Long 19th Century in Central Europe, in: Le Chapelain (ed.), Nineteenth Century Businesswomen, New York 2024, p. 101
  91. “Who Has the Best ABGB?” – On the Continued Validity and Effect of the General Civil Code of 1811, in: Ulrike Harmat (ed.), The Legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Successor States (Continuities and Discontinuities), Vienna 2025, p. 247
  92. North Schleswig/Sønderjylland: On the recent history of private law in an ‘interstitial space’, ZRG (Germ) 142 (2025), p. 198
  93. American Officers, German Young Ladies and Fast Cars: The Application of German Civil Law by the American Court of Appeals for Germany in the Years 1949–1955, ZNR 47 (2025), 53
  94. Social Housing Tenancy Law under National Socialism, in: Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Private Law Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. II: Totalitarian Social Private Law? – The Legal ‘Berlin–Rome Axis’, Frankfurt am Main 2025, p. 283
  95. The clausula rebus sic stantibus in the deliberations of the Academy for German Law and the Working Group on German-Italian Legal Relations, in: Deroussin/Löhnig/Mazzarella/Wagner (eds.), Private Law in the Post-Private Law Era – 100 Years of Social Private Law in Germany, France and Italy. Vol. II: Totalitarian Social Private Law? – The Legal ‘Berlin–Rome Axis’, Frankfurt am Main 2025, p. 119
  96. The Development of German Civil Procedure from the 16th to the 20th Century, in: Dziadzio/Longchamps de Bérier (eds.), Five Centuries of Civil Procedure: The Polish Experience in a European Context, Leiden 2025, p. 140
  97. The Example of Schleswig: Integration of ‘Interstitial Spaces’ into the Empire through the Unification of Civil Law, JEHL 2/2025, p. 79
  98. ‘Certificato di Eredità’ and ‘Certificato di Legato’ in northern Italian local law, in: Löhnig (ed.), Northern Italy as a Contact Zone between Austro-Hungarian and Italian Law, Turin 2025, p. 141
  99. Maurer’s Code of Civil Procedure for the Kingdom of Greece, in: Löhnig/Papathanasiou (eds.), Georg Ludwig von Maurer – Lawmaker of Greece, Berlin 2025, p. 93
  100. The Recent Legal History of Burgenland as Part of an Alternative European Legal History of Modernity, in: Löhnig/Staudigl-Ciechowicz (eds.), Burgenland as a Legal Interstitial Space, Berlin 2026, p. 395
  101. The Limited Liability Entrepreneur: Different Ways to Break the Synchronisation of Liability, Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze 70 (2026), p. 65
  102. The Austrian ABGB in the case law of the VIIIth Civil Senate of the German Reichsgericht 1939–1945, in: Löhnig (ed.), Legal Unification Through Case Law?, Berlin 2026 [forthcoming]

Essays on canon law

  1. On the Origins of the Law of Error in Marriage under Canon Law, *De processibus matrimonialibus* (DPM) 14 (2007), 241
  2. ‘Creating as many faits accomplis as possible’: On the validity and continued validity of the Bavarian Concordat of 1924 (with M. Preisner), ZRG (Kan) 97 (2011), 219
  3. In light of recent events: On the consequences of leaving the Church under the laws of the regional churches (with M. Preisner), AöR 137 (2012), 118
  4. Simply a misjudgement – A comment on the “circumcision ruling” of the Cologne Regional Court (with M. Preisner), DIE ZEIT: Christ & Welt 29/2012
  5. Commentary on the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) judgement of 26 September 2012 – 6 C 7.12 (“Withdrawal from the Church”) (with M. Preisner), NVwZ 2013, 39
  6. On Sharia “peace judges”, “school courts” and the structural characteristics of the rule of law, in: Althammer/Eisele/Ittner/Löhnig, Fundamental Questions and Limits of Mediation, Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 65
  7. Anyone who feels offended is free to leave – On crosses in public buildings, DIE ZEIT: Christ&Welt 22/2013
  8. Commentary on the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) judgement of 28 November 2012 – 6 C 8/12 (Baha’i) (with M. Preisner), NVwZ 2013, 943
  9. “Leaving the Church”: What the Federal Administrative Court ruled on in the Zapp case (and what it did not) (with M. Preisner), in: Georg Bier (ed.), Leaving the Church – A Legal Problem and a Pastoral Challenge, Freiburg (Herder) 2013, p. 93
  10. What the Bishop Is Allowed to Do – Remarks on a Specific Occasion, DIE ZEIT: Christ&Welt 42/2013
  11. Entries: Adoption, Annulment of Marriage, Adultery, Nullity of Marriage, Divorce, Marriage, Marriage Contract, in: Droege/Hallermann/Meckel/de Wall (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Church and Religious Law, Frankfurt am Main 2018
  12. Entry: Imperial Church System, in: Hempelmann/Sarat (eds.), Evangelical Encyclopaedia of Theology and the Church (ELThG), 3rd edition, Holzgerlingen 2020

Essays on current law

  1. General Terms and Conditions for Online Transactions, NJW 1997, 1688
  2. Remuneration in Guardianship Law, FamRZ 1997, 202
  3. Issues arising from the amendment to Section 47(2) of the Administrative Court Rules of Procedure (VwGO), BayVBl 1997, 274
  4. Formal requirements for powers of attorney in contracts under the Consumer Credit Act, VuR 1999, 147
  5. Unauthorised cash withdrawal from a faulty cash machine, JR 1999, 362
  6. The implications of the new Section 284(3) of the German Civil Code (BGB) in family law, NJW 2000, 3548
  7. The law on the limitation of a minor’s liability (with D. Schwab), Responsabilità civile e previdenza 2000, 1215
  8. Changes to residential tenancy law resulting from the Civil Partnership Act, FamRZ 2001, 891
  9. Consumer transactions with spouses – On the relationship between consumer protection and control of the household, FamRZ 2001, 135
  10. Settlement of unnamed or marriage-related gifts following the modernisation of the law of obligations, FamRZ 2003, 1521
  11. The right to rescind a contract on the grounds of mistake following the modernisation of the law of obligations, JA 2003, 516
  12. Recourse for maintenance in cases of care-related maintenance under Section 1570 of the German Civil Code (BGB), FamRZ 2003, 1354
  13. On the doctrine of Section 105a of the German Civil Code (BGB) (with C. Schärtl), AcP 204 (2004), 25
  14. Securing future family law claims – On the dual approach of substantive and procedural safeguards, FamRZ 2004, 503
  15. The limitation period for claims governed by Book Five of the BGB, ZEV 2004, 267
  16. Alignment of the Revision and the Rechtsbeschwerde at any cost? – On the limits of the power to grant leave to appeal under Section 574(1)(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) and the role of a Judicial Modernisation Act (with C. Althammer), ZZP 2004, 217
  17. The insolvency court in the role of the enforcement court – functional jurisdiction and the system of appeals (with C. Althammer), KTS 2004, 525
  18. Reasonable allocation of costs where the main claim is settled following set-off by the defendant (with C. Althammer), NJW 2004, 3077
  19. The subject-matter of the appeal proceedings from the perspective of the appeal on points of law, FamRZ 2004, 245
  20. Reform of the Code of Civil Procedure and the principle of most-favoured treatment (with C. Althammer), NJW 2004, 1567
  21. Between reality and utopia: the principle of good faith in the case law of the European Court of Justice on European civil procedure (with C. Althammer), ZZPInt 9 (2004), 32.
  22. An Analysis of the Requirements for a Claim to the Provision of Accommodation, FPR 2005, 36
  23. Claims for repayment due to material defects and the buyer’s ius variandi (with C. Althammer), AcP 205 (2005), 520
  24. Compensation for household management losses suffered by a member of a joint household, FamRZ 2005, 2030
  25. Time limits in appeal proceedings and legal aid – A review following the entry into force of the Justice Modernisation Act, FamRZ 2005, 578
  26. The requirements for the right to refuse performance under section 275(2) of the German Civil Code (BGB), ZGS 2005, 459
  27. Civil law issues arising from the new Section 238 of the Criminal Code (StGB), FamRZ 2007, 518
  28. Attachment of the claim for the provision of bank statements (on BGH XI ZR 90/05), JR 2007, 73
  29. On the risk of phishing: compensation for unjust enrichment and the right of cancellation under Clause 8(1) of the Standard Terms and Conditions for Banks (with M. Würdinger), WM 2007, 961
  30. Voting restrictions within a community of heirs, FamRZ 2007, 1600
  31. The presumption of ownership and possession in non-marital cohabitation (with M. Würdinger), FamRZ 2007, 1856
  32. New partnerships of parents who retain joint custody – What rights do the new partners have?, FPR 2008, 157
  33. The Act Amending the Law on Challenging Paternity, FamRZ 2008, 1130
  34. De facto cohabitation as reflected in case law since 2006, FuR 2008, 521 (with G. Heiß and M. Preisner)
  35. It is permissible to discriminate against families, FamRZ 2009, 930
  36. Joint divorce proceedings at first instance under the FamFG, FamRZ 2009, 737
  37. Burden of proof and ‘life experience’ in relation to gifts to children-in-law under German law, in: Bilkent University Faculty of Law (ed.), Memorial Volume for Halûk Konuralp, Ankara 2009, Volume 1, p. 645
  38. The new provisions on interim relief under the FamFG, FamRZ 2009, 1101 (with G. Heiß)
  39. Problems with the new procedure in cases concerning parentage, Sections 169 et seq. FamFG, FamRZ 2009, 1798
  40. The new law on limitation periods in family and law of succession, FamRZ 2009, 2053
  41. Late modernity in the choice of first names, FPR 2010, 27
  42. Consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling on the custody rights of a father not married to the child’s mother, FamRZ 2010, 338
  43. On the legal status of the biological father, European Review of Private Law 2010, 384
  44. Family Justice, in Helms/Löhnig/Röthel (eds.), Marriage, Family and Descent: Perspectives on the Future, Frankfurt am Main 2010, p. 33
  45. On the Necessary Reform of Child Maintenance, FamRZ 2010, 2029 (with M. Preisner)
  46. Problems with the lasting power of attorney under German law, in: Löhnig/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Kroppenberg (eds.), Lasting Power of Attorney and Adult Protection in Europe, Bielefeld 2011, p. 15
  47. ‘Other family matters’ as the realisation of the ‘Grand Family Court’, FPR 2011, 65
  48. Abolition of child-related grounds for extension in Section 1570 of the German Civil Code (BGB) by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), FamRZ 2011, 1537 (with M. Preisner)
  49. The child between the family of origin and a parent’s new family, Journal of Family Research, Special Issue 8 (2011), 157
  50. On the scope of the influence of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on German law of parentage, FamRZ 2012, 489 (with M. Preisner)
  51. The consequences of adoption under name law: an anomaly in current name law, FamRZ 2012, 679
  52. The right to information of the putative father, FF 2012, 124
  53. Admissibility and limits of agreements on maintenance for care (with M. Preisner), NJW 2012, 1479
  54. Incidental determination of parentage, FamRZ 2012, 782
  55. Division of assets in de facto cohabitation, in: Herbert Grziwotz (ed.), Notarial Arrangements in the Context of Changing Family Structures, Symposium of the Institute for Notarial Law at the University of Würzburg 2012, p. 70
  56. On the capacity of minors to make a will, in: Damrau, Jürgen/Muscheler, Karlheinz (eds.), Law of Succession and Succession of Assets: Festschrift for Manfred Bengel and Wolfgang Reimann, Munich 2012, p. 231
  57. Securing claims arising from family disputes through attachment, FPR 2012, 508
  58. Proposed solutions for custody arrangements between unmarried parents – a plea for a change of perspective, in: Coester-Waltjen/Lipp/Schumann/Veit (eds.), The Need for Reform in Non-Marital Parent-Child Relationships, Göttingen 2012, p. 29
  59. The Trustee in a Conflict of Interest: Conflict Resolution Strategies under German Trust Law, in: Enrico Ginevra (ed.), Fiducia e i rapporti fiduciari – Tra diritto privato e regole del mercato finanziario, Giuffré, Milan 2012, p. 193
  60. State Duties of Care in Legal Transactions Substituting for Guardianship, in: Coester-Waljen/Lipp/Schumann/Veit (eds.), Perspectives and Reform of Guardianship Law, Göttingen 2013, p. 83
  61. Children’s Rights and Parental Conflict, in: Löhnig/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich (eds.), 11th Regensburg Symposium on European Family Law, Bielefeld 2013, p. 16
  62. Unification of law in the field of family law – paths and dead ends, *International and Comparative Law Review* 12 (2012), p. 95.
  63. Welcome clarity from the Federal Court of Justice – a guide to the further development of current family law doctrine (including a review of the Federal Court of Justice’s decision of 20 February 2013 – XII ZB 412/11), NJW 2013, 2080
  64. Contracts drafted by law firms – tailor-made or standard terms and conditions after all? (with C Jerger), GWR 2013, 239
  65. Rights to information amongst co-heirs, FamRZ 2013, 976
  66. Challenge to paternity by the sperm donor (with M. Preisner), FamFR 2013, 340
  67. The presumed intention of the legislature as a line of argument (with M. Preisner), ZRP 2013, 155
  68. On the bearing of costs for contact between persons who are not the child’s legal parents and the child, FamRZ 2013, 1886 and reply FamRZ 2014, 357
  69. Dealing with post-constitutional injustice, ZRP 2013, 220
  70. The ‘figura paterna’, the German Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, Revista Brasileira de Direitos Fundamentais e Justiça 30 (2015), 15
  71. The rights of the biological but non-legal father under adoption law – revisited (with I. Riege), FamRZ 2015, 9
  72. Duty of disclosure regarding assets between separated spouses and early equalisation of accrued gains in the event of early termination of the community of accrued gains (with I. Plettenberg), NZFam 2015, 49
  73. Civil law aspects of sperm donation de lege ferenda, ZRP 2015, 76
  74. The biological, not legal, mother, FamRZ 2015, 806
  75. Legal issues surrounding medically assisted reproduction under German law (with I. Plettenberg), in: Dutta/Schwab/Gottwald/Henrich/Löhnig (eds.), Artificial Reproduction and European Family Law: 12th Regensburg Symposium on European Family Law, Bielefeld 2015, p. 15.
  76. Consent = Conception? (with M.-V. Runge-Rannow), NJW 2015, 3757
  77. Section 2169(4) of the German Civil Code (BGB) as an exception to the principle of prevention in the law of obligations (with I. Plettenberg), ZEV 2016, 293
  78. Maintenance law in de facto partnerships, NJW 2016, 1487
  79. The Model of Joint Parental Responsibility in Accordance with the Best Interests of the Child (with R. Etzold), NZFam 2016, 769
  80. Children Shuttling Between Parents – The Best Interests of the Child and Equal Shared Parental Responsibility, NZFam 2016, 817
  81. Children’s Dignity, Children’s Rights, the Best Interests of the Child – A Guide (with I. Plettenberg), in: Drerup/Schickhardt (eds.), Children’s Ethics: On the Rise of an Interdisciplinary Research Programme, Münster 2016, p. 89
  82. Figuras paternas, the German Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, Revista de Derecho Privado de la Universidad Externado de Colombia 31 (2016), 377
  83. Fragmented Parenthood in Law, in: Buch/Krell/Will, Parents (For the Time Being) Unknown: Anonymous and Confidential Birth in Germany, Weinheim 2017
  84. Law of Descent: Social, Legal Father vs. Biological, Non-Legal Father?, NZFam 2017, 141
  85. Simple Divorce Maintenance Law? On the DAV’s initiative statement, NJW-aktuell 8/2017
  86. Surrogacy in current case law, NZFam 2017, 546
  87. Claims for compensation in the event of the death of a de facto partner providing maintenance, FamRZ 2017, 1558
  88. Marriage for all – parentage for all?, NZFam 2017, 643
  89. Maintenance for education in the case of multi-stage training, NJW 2017, 2234
  90. Grandparents’ right of access under Section 1685(1) of the German Civil Code (BGB) – Theoretical framework and practice, NZFam 2017, 1030
  91. On the final report of the BMJV’s Working Group on Parentage Law, ZRP 2017, 205
  92. The Act Regulating the Right to Know One’s Parentage in Cases of Heterologous Sperm Donation – Scope of Regulation and Criticism, StAZ 2017, 353
  93. Children with multiple fathers: Current issues in adoption law, NZFam 2017, 879
  94. Conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage – requirements and legal consequences, NZFam 2017, 977
  95. Same-sex marriage in private law, NZFam 2017, 1085
  96. The Federal Court of Justice’s ruling on alternating custody arrangements: Significance and consequences for custody rights, FF 2017, 429
  97. On the parental status of a man consenting to heterologous insemination de lege lata and de lege ferenda (with M. Runge-Rannow), FamRZ 2018, 10
  98. Surrogate mothers, RPsych 2018, 55
  99. Challenge to paternity by the biological father, NJW 2018, 906
  100. Unspecified gifts in the context of the compulsory portion supplement, NJW 2018, 1435
  101. A paradigm shift in the reform of adoption law?, ZRP 2018, 101
  102. Fundamental issues of the execution of wills under German law, in: Löhnig/Dutta/Gottwald/Grziwotz/Henrich/Reimann/Schwab (eds.), The Execution of Wills in Europe, Bielefeld (Gieseking) 2018, p. 7
  103. Joint Parenting for Same-Sex Couples by Operation of Law?, NJW 2019, 122
  104. Towards marriage for no one? Marriage for all, in: Bonk (ed.), Between Rationality and Religion, Regensburg 2019, p. 347
  105. The conversion of a registered civil partnership into a marriage under the Act Implementing the Act Introducing the Right to Marry for Persons of the Same Sex, NZFam 2019, 166
  106. To Each Their Own? – A Proposal for Reform in Custody and Access Rights (with M. Mayr), ZRP 2019, 38
  107. The Significance of Religion in German Family Law, in: C. Mayer et al. (eds.), Family Law and Religion, Bielefeld 2019
  108. 10 Years of the FamFG, NZFam 2019, 893
  109. On the scope of the consolidating effect of Section 262(1) FamFG, NZFam 2020, 1095
  110. Powers of attorney as a means of structuring parental responsibility, NJW 2020, 2150
  111. The ‘Sahyouni Saga’, NZFam 2021, 446
  112. Forfeiture of claims under the law governing the consequences of divorce, NZFam 2021, 945
  113. Towards a paradigm shift in the law of names, ZRP 2022, 12
  114. Information on one’s own parentage, NJW 2022, 1061
  115. Recent developments regarding Section 1628 of the German Civil Code (BGB) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, NZFam 2022, 245 (with M.-V. Runge-Rannow)
  116. Substitution of consent to the naming, NJW 2023, 1215
  117. The biological, but not legal, father in adoption proceedings (with D. Rottmann), NZFam 2023, 1037
  118. The protection of women against violence under the German Protection against Violence Act, in: Valentina Jacometti (ed.), Prevenzione e contrasto alla violenza contro le donne tra diritto e cultura, Turin 2023, p. 275
  119. Economic Pressure and German Law, Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal 43 (2023), 553.
  120. The Key Points of the Federal Ministry of Justice – The Long-Overdue Step Towards Reforming the Law of Descent, NZFam 2024, 247
  121. Replacing the consent of a father unfit to raise a child in adoption cases, NJW 2024, 1308
  122. Challenging paternity – No need to fear the Federal Constitutional Court, ZRP 2024, 189

Training-related articles

  1. Case law on the ‘guarantee by a relative’ in the written exam, JA 1998, 760
  2. Subsequent provision of grounds, JA 1998, 700
  3. Dispatched goods not ordered and related issues following the entry into force of Section 241a of the German Civil Code (BGB), JA 2001, 33
  4. The equalisation of “unspecified gifts” between divorced spouses, JA 2001, 376 (“Classic”)
  5. The new Civil Partnership Act (LPartG) for same-sex partnerships, JA 2001, 650
  6. The statutory law of succession of a spouse, JA 2001, 937 (“Classic”)
  7. Series: Updates on the new law of obligations, JA 2002, 31; 126; 206; 291; 381; 470; 557; 654
  8. Gifts to minors, JA 2002, 466 (“Classic”)
  9. Rescission of contracts under Sections 311(2), 241(2), 280(1) and 249(1) of the German Civil Code (BGB) and avoidance on the grounds of mistake under Section 123 BGB (“Classic”), JA 2003, 553
  10. Problems of surrogation in rem using the example of Sections 1370 and 2019 of the German Civil Code (BGB), JA 2003, 990
  11. Settlement of a legal dispute prior to lis pendens (“Classic”), JA 2004, 122
  12. Defences arising from a security agreement against acquiescence in enforcement (with C. Schärtl), JuS 2004, 375
  13. The protection of the spatial and material sphere of marriage (“Classic”), JA 2004, 611
  14. Maintenance claims by parents against their children in the light of current Federal Court of Justice (BGH) case law, JA 2004, 450
  15. The Federal Court of Justice’s new guidelines for the review of marriage contracts, JA 2005, 344
  16. Legal transactions by spouses under the statutory matrimonial property regime requiring consent: The restrictions on obligations and disposal under Sections 1365 and 1369 of the German Civil Code (BGB), JA 2006, 753
  17. “Please check your change immediately, as later complaints cannot be considered” – What legal scholars think about whilst shopping (with Ph. S. Fischinger), JuS 2007, 512
  18. Management and representation in a community of heirs, JA 2007, 262
  19. Basic cases concerning priority notices: The options available to the holder of a priority notice of conveyance (with A. Gietl), JuS 2008, 102
  20. Basic cases relating to finance leases (with A. Gietl), JuS 2009, 491
  21. The reform of the equalisation of accrued gains, JA 2010, 321
  22. Basic cases on tenancy law (with A. Gietl), JuS 2011, 107 (Part 1) and 202 (Part 2)
  23. The Principle of Accession (with P. Becker), JA 2011, 650
  24. Basic Cases in the Law of General Terms and Conditions (with A. Gietl), JuS 2012, 393 (Part 1) and 493 (Part 2)
  25. The Large Lecture – A Mistake in Law Studies?, in: Kramer/Kuhn/Putzke (eds.), Mistakes in Law Studies, Stuttgart 2012, p. 147
  26. On the Right to a Compulsory Portion for Parents and More Distant Descendants (with P. Becker), JA 2013, 641
  27. Rights to information in family law in the light of current supreme court case law, JA 2015, 641
  28. From examination theory: A case study on Section 899a of the German Civil Code (BGB) (with P. Becker), JA 2015, 736
  29. ‘Hot home cinema system’ – a practice case on the law of sale/family law (with R. Schneider), JA 2015, 255
  30. Challenging testamentary dispositions in exam papers, JA 2016, 801
  31. Who was Otto v. Gierke, actually?, Ad Legendum 2016, 329
  32. The system of claims in the relationship between heir and possessor of the estate, JA 2018, 648
  33. The ‘Playground Case’ – a practice case on the law of torts (with J. Firsching, S. Naczinsky, M. Runge-Rannow), JA 2018, 22
  34. “Children on the Road” – a practice case on the Road Traffic Act (with J. Firsching, S. Naczinsky, M. Runge-Rannow), JA 2019, 23
  35. “The Model Railway” – practice case on the law of succession (with T. Hornberger, M. Mayr, S. Naczinsky), JA 2019, 818
  36. “Energy Transition” – Case study on property law (with K. Klingseis), JA 2022, 16
  37. “As for the rest, I’ll have to think it over…” – Practice case on law of succession (with D. Rottmann, M. Schiller), JA 2025, 13
  38. “The Wind Bride” – Practice case on the property law (with E. Gündüz, W. Kerscher), JA 2025, 977

Decision-making meetings

  1. Since 1998, over 200 analyses of court decisions in the field of civil law, particularly family and law of succession, published in the *Juristische Arbeitsblätter* (JA) as a regular contributor to the case law section.
  2. Numerous commentaries on family and law of succession judgements in the FamRZ, NJW, ZEV, FamFR, NZFam, NotBZ, JR, KTS and JZ.
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