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Institute of Law, Department of Civil Law and Labour Law

Uhlhornsweg
Building A5
26111 Oldenburg

Civil law, labour law, comparative law, legal theory.

Professor of Labour Law, retired judge, Association of Civil Law Teachers, Association of Labour Law Teachers, Society for Law and Economics, Association of Labour Courts, German Academic Exchange Service, Association of University Teachers

Born in 1968; Abitur in 1987; studied law and music from 1987 to 1991; First State Examination in 1991; PhD in 1996 (topic: ‘Interest groups as a structural element of effective employee representation within companies’, funded by the North Rhine-Westphalia Graduate Scholarship Programme and the DAAD); second State Examination in 1995; worked as a labour court judge in 1996; Research assistant at the Institute for Labour, Social and Economic Law, University of Münster, 1997; research stays at the University of Iowa (1996) and Columbia Law School, New York (1999, 2001); Habilitation at the University of Münster in 2001 (topic: The Abolition of the Duty of Care, DFG grant); 2001–2006: Privatdozent at the University of Münster; 2002: visiting professor at the University of Erlangen; 2003: visiting professor at Humboldt University of Berlin; and 2005: visiting professor at the University of Konstanz; From August 2006 to September 2009, judge in the Lower Saxony labour courts; in 2007, appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Münster; since October 2009, Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oldenburg

European labour law, economic analysis of labour law, works constitution law, deployment of external staff, contractual and quasi-contractual liability in civil law

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