Christoph A. Kern

Christoph Alexander Kern (* 1975 ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1995, Kern studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1996 at the Otto Hahn Gymnasium Nagold . In 1998/99 he studied at the University of Geneva as a DAAD scholarship holder . In 1999 he returned to Germany and completed his studies at the University of Freiburg with the acquisition of the first state examination. He then worked as a research assistant under Rolf Stürner , where he also received his doctorate in 2004 during his legal clerkship at the Freiburg Regional Court . The dissertation was awarded the Dr. Georg Büchner Prize and the Carl von Rotteck Prize. After acquiring the second state examination in 2005, Kern devoted himself to an LL.M. degree at Harvard Law School , which he completed in 2006 as a Master of Laws . After that he was again employed at Rolf Stürner's chair, where he dealt with his habilitation. In 2011 he acquired the license to teach in the areas of civil law, civil procedural law, international private law and comparative law, as well as commercial and company law.

Kern held his first position as a university lecturer from 2011 to 2012 as a chair representative at the University of Mainz ; In the summer semester of 2012 he was a professor at Heidelberg University . In 2012 he accepted a position at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden, but in 2013 he moved to the University of Lausanne to the chair of German law there . He left Switzerland in 2014 in favor of Heidelberg University, where he has since held the chair for civil law and procedural law at the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law, of which he is one of the co-directors.

The main focus of research lies in particular in civil law, national and international civil procedural law, insolvency law, international private law and the law of financial products.

Works (selection)

• The safety of covered securities . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-16-148509-1 . (Dissertation)
• Rolf Stürner & Christoph A. Kern: German mortgage Pfandbriefe and US cover assets . Association of German Pfandbrief Banks, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811273-8-6 .
• Typicity as a structural principle of private law. A contribution to the standardization of transferable goods . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-151724-2 . (Habilitation)

Web links

• Christoph A. Kern on the website of the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law at the University of Heidelberg