Saskia Lettmaier

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Saskia Lettmaier (born March 11, 1979 in Schweinfurt ) is a legal scholar trained in German, English and American law and a professor of civil law, German and European legal history, international private law and comparative law.

Life

After studying English law at Oxford University from 1999 to 2002, which she completed with a first-class honors degree, she completed an LL.M. course at Harvard Law School (2002–2003). In addition to her subsequent studies in German law at the University of Erlangen (2003–2008), she completed her doctorate in 2007 at the Center for British Studies at the University of Bamberg with an English-language thesis on the history of English law of engagement that combines law and literature. The work was published in 2010 under the title Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800–1940 with Oxford University Press. After another research stay at Harvard Law School and the acquisition of a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) under the supervision of Charles Donahue Jr. , she completed her habilitation in 2016 at the University of Regensburg with Martin Löhnig with an English-language comparative law thesis on the history of marriage law. In the same year she was appointed to a W3 professorship for civil law and German and European legal history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as the successor to Frank Schäfer and Hans Hattenhauer . There she also acts as co-director of the Hermann Kantorowicz Institute for Basic Legal Research. Since December 2016 she has also been a judge at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court .

Research priorities

Lettmaier's research focuses on family and inheritance law, especially from a legal historical and comparative perspective, as well as on the cross-references between law and culture.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Saskia Lettmaier: Broken Engagements . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Lettmaier, Saskia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt