Anne Röthel

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Anne Röthel (born May 28, 1968 in Bochum ) is a legal scholar and has held the Chair for Civil Law, European and International Private Law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg since September 2004 .

Life

Röthel studied law and political science in Cologne and Clermont-Ferrand and passed the first state examination in 1993.

In 1997 Anne Röthel received her doctorate within the framework of the graduate school "Environmental and Technology Law" at the University of Trier with a thesis on "Basic rights in the mobile society", supervised by Udo Di Fabio . Later she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Law and Technology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with Klaus Vieweg .

After working for the European Commission , she completed her habilitation in 2003 with a thesis on “Concretizing norms in private law”, funded by the German Research Foundation and awarded the Bavarian Habilitation Award. For her further research, she received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation, before accepting the offer at the Bucerius Law School in August 2004.

Her research focuses on German and foreign family and inheritance law as well as European private law.

In June 2006, she received a call to the University of Zurich to the chair of civil law with emphasis Civil Code , which she refused. She also refused a call to the Ruhr University Bochum for the Chair of German Legal History, Civil Law and Commercial Law from Karlheinz Muscheler in July 2015 .

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