Academic Functions

Managing Co-Editor of the "Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht“ (ZGR) (peer reviewed journal) (since 2011)

Co-Editor of the "Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht" (ZEuP) (peer reviewed journal (since 2012)

Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law (Private International Law Session) (2011)

Liaison Professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) (since 2012)

Lecturer at the Summer Academy of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation in Italy (2013, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2024)

Member of the Review Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2016-2019, re-elected for a second period: 2020-2023)

Visiting professorships:

• University of Toulouse/France (2009-2011)

• University of Gothenburg/Sweden (2016-2019)

• University of Nancy/France (2017 and 2020)

• Georgetown School of Law/Washington D.C. (2017/2018)

• University of Vienna/Austria (2018)

• Hague Academy of International Law (2011 and 2018)

• Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) (2020)

• National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei (2019 and 2024)

International conference lectures, inter alia in:

• Buenos Aires, Tucumán (Argentina)

• Sydney (Australia)

• Vienna, Salzburg (Austria)

• Brussels, Louvain (Belgium)

• Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre (Brazil)

• Santiago (Chile)

• Cairo (Egypt)

• Bordeaux, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Paris (Sorbonne, Panthéon-Assas), Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulouse (France)

• Budapest (Hungary)

• Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad (India)

• Jerusalem (Israel)

• Bergamo, Bruncio/Altro Adige, Ferrara, Pisa, Milano (Cattolica, Statale and Biccoca), Menaggio (Villa Vigoni), Naples, Rome, Treviso, Venice (Italy)

• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka (Japan)

• Luxembourg 

• Oslo (Norway)

• Krakow, Katowice, Warsaw (Poland)

• Coimbra (Portugal)

• Sevilla (Spain)

• Gothenburg (Sweden)

• Cambridge, London, Oxford (United Kingdom)

• Chicago, Denver, New York, Washington D.C., Winston Salem (USA)

President of the German-French Law Association (since 2016)

Member of the Management Comittee of the European University "4EU+" (University Alliance consisting of the Universities of Copenhagen, Geneva, Heidelberg, Milan, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Prague, Warsaw) (since 2019) 

Member of the Executive Board, Heidelberg University Association Inc., New York (since 2019, re-elected 2024)