Nils Jansen

Nils Jansen (born February 25, 1967 in Hanover ) is a German lawyer and legal historian . He teaches Roman law , the history of private law as well as German and European private law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

Nils Jansen studied law , philosophy and politics in Passau from 1989 to 1994 . In 1994 he passed the first state examination in law. He then worked as a research assistant for Robert Alexy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1997 for his thesis The Structure of Justice . An essay by Jansen based on the dissertation was awarded the Young Scolar's Prize of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy . The second state examination in law followed in 1998. From 1998 to 2002 Jansen was a research assistant to Reinhard Zimmermann at the University of Regensburg and during this time from 1998 to 1999 Assistant University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge . In 2002 he completed his habilitation in Regensburg with the thesis The structure of liability law .

In 2002 Jansen was appointed to the professorship for civil law, Roman law and history of private law as well as legal philosophy at the University of Augsburg . In 2003 he accepted a professorship for German and European private law, Roman law and history of private law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Since 2006 he has held the chair for Roman law and the history of private law as well as German and European private law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and director of the Institute for Legal History there. This was followed by visiting professorships at Duke University School of Law (2008), at St John's College (Oxford) (2009) and at Stellenbosch University (2015). In 2014 he turned down a call to the Regius Chair of Civil Law at the University of Oxford .

Jansen has been the main applicant since 2007, a board member since 2010 and board spokesman in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster since 2019 .

In May 2015 he was accepted as a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts .

Research priorities

Jansen's research focuses on historical and comparative research on the law of obligations as well as on the historical foundations of European private law and the standardization of European private law. As part of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, he deals with private law in late Spanish scholasticism and with the relationship between law and social differentiation.

Publications (selection)

• The structure of justice , Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5400-3 (dissertation)
• The structure of liability law. History, theory and dogmatics of non-contractual claims for damages , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-16-147988-2 (habilitation thesis)
• Internal market, private law and European identity. A historical and methodical inventory , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148205-0
• Beyond the State: Rethinking Private Law , American Journal of Comparative Law 56/3 (2008), pp. 525–844 (special volume, edited together with Ralf Michaels); expanded and revised published by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149862-6
• The Development and Making of Legal Doctrine , The Comparative Study of the Development of Torts in Europe, vol. VI, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, 2nd ed. Paperback 2014 (Ed.), ISBN 978-0-521-19412-9
• The Making of Legal Authority: Non-Legislative Codifications in Historical and Comparative Perspective , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-958876-3
• Habit. Bid. Law. Normativity in the past and present: an introduction , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011 (edited together with Peter Oestmann ), ISBN 978-3-16-150911-7
• Revision of the consumer acquis? Twelve theses on the Commission's proposal for a Common European Sales Law and the future of European contract law , Center for European Economic Law of the University of Bonn, Lectures and Reports, Vol. 196, Bonn 2012
• Theology, philosophy and jurisprudence in the late scholastic doctrine of restitution. Non-contractual compensation claims in the early modern natural law discourse , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-152425-7
• Commentaries in Law and Religion , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014 (edited together with David Kästle), ISBN 978-3-16-152879-8
• Private law theory today. Perspectives of German theory formation , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017 (edited together with Michael Grünberger), ISBN 978-3-16-155153-6
• Commentaries on European Contract Laws , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018 (edited jointly with Reinhard Zimmermann ), ISBN 978-0-19-879069-3
• Law and social differentiation , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-16-157731-4

Web links

• Website of the chair for Roman law and history of private law as well as German and European private law
• Jansen's profile on the chair's website with a link to the current list of publications
• Nils Jansen on the website of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster
• Literature by and about Nils Jansen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV
2. ↑ News on the website of the Cluster of Excellence
3. ↑ Internet presence of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
4. ↑ Internet presence of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
5. ↑ News on the website of the Cluster of Excellence
6. ↑ Research priorities and current research projects
7. ↑ Selected publications within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
8. ↑ Selected publications within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"