Constantin Willems

Constantin Willems (* 1984 ) is a German legal scholar.

Life

After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium Trier in 2004, he studied law at the University of Trier from 2004 to 2009 . During his studies he was a student assistant at Thomas Rüfner , a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and a participant in the 1st International Roman Law Moot Court in Kavala . After the first legal exam in 2009, he worked from 2009 to 2011 as a research assistant at the University of Trier with Thomas Rüfner. After receiving his doctorate in 2011 as Dr. iur. at the University of Trier ("Actio Pauliana and fraudulent conveyances. On the reception of continental creditors' avoidance law in England") he was a lecturer at the Paul Verlaine University - Metz / Université de Lorraine from 2011 to 2014 . From 2010 to 2012 he completed the legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz with stations a. a. at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, cabinet of Judge Egils Levits , at Latham & Watkins , LLP in Brussels and at the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn. After the second state examination in 2012, he was a research assistant from 2012 to 2016, then a senior academic advisor . Currently at the University of Trier with Thomas Rüfner. In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Collegio di Diritto Romano “Diritto romano e economia. Due modi di pensare e organizzare il mondo (nei primi tre secoli dell'Impero) ”at the Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi (CEDANT), Università di Pavia (Italy).

After his habilitation in 2016 at the University of Trier (" Justinian als Ökonom. Decision-making reasons and decision-making patterns in the quinquaginta decisiones"), Venia legendi for civil law, Roman law, European private law history as well as German and European cartel and competition law, he represented the professorship for civil affairs in 2016 Law and Roman Law at the University of Marburg (successor to Ralph Backhaus ), which he received in the same year. Since 2016 he has also been teaching as a visiting professor (professeur invité) at the Université de Lorraine.

His research interests are Roman law and its aftermath in the history of European private law.

Fonts

• Actio Pauliana and fraudulent conveyances. To the reception of continental creditors' right of avoidance in England . Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-428-13800-7 .
• Justinian as an economist. Reasons for decisions and decision-making patterns in the quinquaginta decisiones . Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-412-50898-5 .
• with Benedikt Forschner (Ed.): Acta diurna. Contributions of the IX. Annual meeting of young Romanists . Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10737-5 .

Web links

• Page at the University of Marburg