Sebastian Martens

Sebastian Martens (born February 18, 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

From 2000 to 2004 he studied law at the University of Konstanz (first state examination on January 13, 2004). In 2005 he completed a master's degree at the University of Oxford ( Worcester College ). From 2004 to 2008 he was a research assistant with Reinhard Zimmermann at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law . After completing his doctorate in 2007 on the subject of a lack of will caused by third parties in Regensburg ; PhD scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation ; Otto Hahn Medal 2007 and Dieter Rampacher Prize 2007 of the MPG; Joachim Jungius Prize 2011 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law from 2008 to 2015. From 2006 to 2008 he was a trainee lawyer at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court with stations in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and New Delhi ; Second state examination in 2008 before the GPA North. In 2009 he did a research stay at Cambridge University ( Wolfson College ). After completing his habilitation in 2012 at the University of Regensburg with the right to teach the subjects of civil law, legal theory, Roman law, history of private law and comparative law (habilitation thesis on the subject of "Methodology of Union Law"), he represented chairs in Passau , Osnabrück , Kiel and Münster from 2012 to 2015 . In 2014 he accepted the chair for civil law, Roman law, European private law and European legal history at the University of Passau .