Jan Dirk Harke

Jan Dirk Harke (* 1969 in Düsseldorf ) is a German lawyer and professor for civil law , Roman law and European legal history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . Until 2016 he was a judge at the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg.

From 1991 to 1994, Harke studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg , where he worked as an assistant at the chair of Joseph Georg Wolf after the first state examination . After the legal clerkship at the regional court in Freiburg , the second state examination and doctorate followed in 1998. Harke's doctoral thesis on the method of the famous Roman lawyer Publius Iuventius Celsus was awarded the Dr. Georg Rössler Foundation honored in the Association of Lawyers at the Federal Court of Justice.

From 1998 to 2000, Harke was employed as a lawyer in the Berlin office of a large international law firm. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation and under the supervision of Ulrich Manthe (Passau), he wrote a habilitation thesis on the error in classical Roman contract law. The habilitation from the Law Faculty of the University of Passau took place in January 2003.

In the 2002/03 winter semester, Harke was a deputy professor at the University of Regensburg before being appointed to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in May 2003 . In 2016 he accepted a position at the University of Jena.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Dirk Harke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harkes chair at the University of Jena