Karsten Thorn

Karsten Thorn (* 1963 in Trier ) is a legal scholar and has held the chair for civil law, international private and commercial law and comparative law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg since 2004 . After Doris König was appointed judge of the Federal Constitutional Court , Thorn was acting president of the Bucerius Law School from June 2014 to June 2015.

Life

Thorn studied law in Trier and passed the first state examination in law in 1988. He then earned a Masters of Laws from Georgetown University ; The second state examination followed in 1993.

From 1992 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the University of Trier with Bernd von Hoffmann . In 1996 Karsten Thorn received his doctorate with a thesis on the subject of “The acquisition of furniture from the unauthorized”. From 2000 to 2007 he was visiting professor at the Universities of Orléans and Metz . The habilitation followed in 2004 with a thesis on “The coordination of private legal systems through the application of foreign conflict of laws”.

In 2004 he accepted an offer at the Bucerius Law School.

His research interests are in private international law , in particular debt and property law , the International Civil Procedure , in the International Commercial Arbitration , as well as in copyright . At the Bucerius Law School he teaches civil law, international private law, international commercial law, international civil procedural law and comparative law.

Karsten Thorn is co-editor of the journal IPrax , comments on international private law in Palandt and Art. 39 EGBGB in Staudinger .

Since 2005 he has headed the Suzhou Summer Law Institute together with professors from Cornell University Law School and Kenneth Wang Law School at Soochow University , in which around 100 students from Germany, the USA and China take part every year. At the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai he teaches international trade law in an MBA program.

Publications

• Angelika Fuchs / Wolfgang Hau / Karsten Thorn: Cases on international private law with international civil procedure law . 3rd revised edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-54957-8 .
• Bernd von Hoffmann / Karsten Thorn: International private law including the basics of international civil procedure law . 9th revised edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-406-55976-X .
• Robert Freitag (Ed.): Rome I / Rome II regulations . Sellier, Munich, will be published in November 2009, ISBN 978-3-86653-091-1 .

Web links

• Karsten Thorn's website with a list of publications
• Literature by and about Karsten Thorn in the catalog of the German National Library