Birke Häcker#
Membership Number: | 5802 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LAW |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.jura.uni-bonn.de/en/institut-fuer-internationales-privatrecht-und-rechtsvergleichung/prof-dr-birke-haecker |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - Schlegel Chair in Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law, University of Bonn
- 2023 - Director, Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, University of Bonn
- 2018 - 2022 Director, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford
- 2016 - 2022 Professor of Comparative Law and Professorial Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford
- 2011 - 2016 Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich
- 2011 - 2016 Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2015 Research Associate, from 2011 Lecturer in Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
- 2007 - 2008 Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
- 2001 - 2008 Fellow by Examination, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Common Law: History, Spread and Coherence
- English, German and European Private Law
- Comparative Law and Theory
- European Legal History
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2019 Honorary Bencher of The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London
- 2016 Therese von Bayern Prize 2015, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
- 2001 Fellowship by Examination ('Prize Fellowship'), All Souls College, University of Oxford