Thorsten Keizer

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Thorsten Keizer (* 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German legal scholar and has been a professor of civil law and legal history at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen since 2016 .

Career

After studying law in Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg and Bologna , he passed his first state examination in 2000 and then his second state examination in 2007. In 2005 Keizer received his doctorate as Dr. iur .; In 2003 he obtained his Masters in Comparative, European and International Legal Studies at the European University Institute in Florence . In 2012, he completed his habilitation and was awarded the Venia Legendi for the subjects of civil law, German and European legal history, modern history of private law, comparative law and European private law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After acting as professor at the Universities of Freiburg (2013), Jena (2014/2015) and Cologne (2015), Keizer was finally appointed to the University of Gießen, where he has held the chair for civil law and legal history since 2016.

Awards and scholarships (selection)

  • Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (2015)
  • Hermann Conring Prize of the Castor and Pollux Foundation for outstanding research achievements in the field of legal history, legal philosophy and legal theory (2012)
  • Werner Pünder Prize from Clifford Chance Pünder (2005)
  • DAAD scholarship to support studies at the EUI Florence (2002–2003)

Memberships

  • Working group for the recent history of Italy
  • Initiative for the history of labor law by the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labor Law in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
  • Legal History Study Group (Chairman)
  • Rudolf von Jhering Institute for Basic Legal Research at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (member of the board of directors)

Publications

  • Contractual obligation and freedom of contract in the law of labor from the early modern era to the modern age, Frankfurt, M.: Klostermann, 2013, ISBN 978-3-465-04179-5
  • Property rights in National Socialism and Fascismo, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005, ISBN 978-3-16-148757-6

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personal data
SURNAME Keizer, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main