Katharina Boele-Woelki#
| Membership Number: | 4273 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 present Dean Bucerius Law School gGmbH, Hamburg, Germany
- 2016 Professor of International and European Family Law at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 2015 Claussen-Simon Chair for Comparative Law, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
- 2010 Extraordinary Professor for Legal Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
- 2007 - 2015 Director of the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF), The Netherlands
- 2001 Chair of the Commission on European family law (CEFL)
- 1995 - 2015 Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Private international law
- Comparative law
- International and European family law
- Family law
- International contract law
- Methodology of legal research
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Member of the Scientific Committee Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, CH
- 2013 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, GE
- 2014 Elected President of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris, FR
- June 3rd, 2016 Election as member if the curatorium fo the Hague Academy of International Law
- March 23rd, 2016 Honorary doctorate University of Antwerp
- May 29th, 2015 Honorary doctorate University of Lausanne
- January 28th, 2011 Honorary doctorate University of Uppsala
- 2012 - 2017 Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (250.000 €)
- 2016 Appointment as Vice-Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
- 2017 - 2018 Appointment as Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
- July 31st, 2014 Election as President of the International Academy of Comparative Law
