Faculty seminar
Since the 2018/2019 winter semester, the Faculty of Law has been organising a regular faculty seminar. At these seminars, members of the faculty present their current research projects before they are published. The participants consist of the faculty’s professors and staff members from the various departments.
The following talks have been given so far:
24 November 2025, 6.00 pm sharp
Prof. Dr Gerrit Manssen
“Protection of Fundamental Rights through Administrative Proceedings? On the Need to Reform the German Administrative Procedure Act”
12 May 2025, 6.00 pm sharp in RW(S) 101
Prof. Dr Manuchehr Kudratov
“Legal Culture and Legal Transplants in Central Asia: Past, Present and Future”
13 January 2025, 6.00 pm sharp (!) in H6
Prof. Dr Bettina Mielke
“Digital Civil Procedure: The Basic Document in the Real-World Laboratory”
21 October 2024, 7.00 pm sharp (!)
Prof. Dr Bernd J. Hartmann, LL.M. (Virginia)
“Equivalence of Living Conditions”
17 July 2024
Prof. Dr Stephan Christoph
“Employees as a compliance risk”
15 April 2024
Dr Cindy Wittke
“International law in Eastern Europe: laboratories, experiments & discourses”
5 February 2024
Prof. Dr Tabea Bauermeister
“Amendments to digital products under Section 327r of the German Civil Code (BGB) – a breach (or not) of the principle of pacta sunt servanda?”
8 January 2024
Prof. Dr Ernst Henning Müller
“Police and judicial prosecution of violent right-wing offences in Bavaria – a research project within the framework of the Bavarian research network ForGeRex”
20 November 2023
Prof. Dr Christian Seiler
Inaugural lecture: “Child maintenance under the various care arrangements, with particular reference to the Federal Ministry of Justice’s policy paper”
12 June 2023
Prof. Dr Anna Bernzen
‘To contract or not to contract: On entering into contracts with platforms’
22 May 2023
Prof. Dr Martin Löhnig
‘German law in France at the beginning of the 20th century: the droit local alsacien mosellan’
6 February 2023
Prof. Dr Rike Krämer-Hoppe
‘Transregional developments in the law’
28 November 2022
Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling, LL.M. (Brussels)
“Data in exchange for services – is that fair? Facebook at the intersection of constitutional, competition, data protection, consumer protection and contract law”
25 July 2022
Prof. Dr Rolf Eckhoff
Farewell lecture: “The veil of ignorance in tax law”
16 May 2022
Prof. Dr Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack, Maîtrise en droit
‘When does discrimination on the grounds of disability occur, and can it be justified?’
17 January 2022
Prof. Dr Alexander Tischbirek
‘“Legal Digital Humanities” as a research programme?’
6 December 2021
Prof. Dr Thorsten Kingreen
“The Constitution and Constitutional Law during the COVID-19 Crisis”
13 January 2020
Prof. Dr Rolf Eckhoff
‘Perceived Tax Fairness’
2 December 2019
Prof. Dr Jörg Fritzsche
‘Data as an economic asset – protection, allocation and access’
28 October 2019
Prof. Dr Claudia Mayer, LL.M. (Chicago)
‘Claims for compensation in the event of breaches of access rights regulations’
3 July 2019
Prof. Dr Katrin Gierhake, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Reading seminar on Immanuel Kant, ‘On the Saying: That May Be True in Theory, but It Doesn’t Work in Practice’
5 June 2019
Prof. Dr Alexander Hellgardt, LL.M. (Harvard)
‘What is the difference between civil law and the other sub-disciplines (criminal law and public law)?’
8 May 2019
Prof. Dr Christoph Althammer
‘The extension of the binding effect of third-party notice beyond the limits of the jurisdiction – a contribution to general procedural law theory’
21 January 2019
Prof. Dr Alexander Graser, LL.M. (Harvard)
‘Strategic litigation – or: What else can be done with the judiciary?’
3 December 2018
Prof. Dr Tonio Walter
‘What is our methodological frame of reference?’
5 November 2018
Prof. Dr Michael Heese, LL.M. (Yale)
“The doctrine of security interests in movable property – Reflections on a contradictory system and its sustainability within a European legal framework”
If you have any questions regarding the faculty seminar, please contact Prof. Tischbirek (external link, opens in a new window).