Institutes and Chairs

Institutes

The Faculty of Law currently comprises 21 chairs as well as additional professorships which are assigned to a total of nine institutes. In addition, there are several specialised research units and research centres about which you can find out more here.

Institute for Legal History

  • Chair of Civil Law, Roman Law and Ancient Legal History (Prof. Dr. Spengler)
  • Chair of Civil Law, German and European Legal History (Prof. Dr. Mertens)

Institute for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Criminology

  • Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, International Criminal Law and International Law (Prof. Dr. Safferling)
  • Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Philosophy of Law (Prof. Dr. Kudlich)
  • Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Commercial and Medical Criminal Law (Prof. Dr. Jäger)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kett-Straub

Institute for German and International Private Law and Civil Procedural Law

  • Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law, Insolvency Law and Voluntary Jurisdiction (Prof. Dr. Stamm)
  • Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law (Prof. Dr. Rohe)
  • Chair of German, European and International Private and Commercial Law (Prof. Dr. Freitag)
  • Prof. Dr. Robert Sieghörtner
  • Prof. Dr. Ali Yarayan

Institute for Commercial and Labour Law

  • Chair of Civil Law and Labour Law (Prof. Dr. Caspers)
  • Chair of Civil Law, Trade, Corporate and Business Law (Prof. Dr. Schmolke )
  • Chair of Civil Law, Labour and Social Law (Prof. Dr. Klumpp)
  • Chair of Private Corporate Law (Prof. Dr. Hoffmann)
  • Chair of Tax Law (Prof. Dr. Fischer)

Institute for German, European and International Public Law

  • Chair of German and Bavarian Constitutional and Administrative Law (Prof. Dr. Geis)
  • Chair of Public Law and European Law (Prof. Dr. Wegener)
  • Chair of Public Law and International Law (Prof. Dr. Krajewski)
  • Chair of Tax Law and Public Law (Prof. Dr. Ismer)
  • Chair of Public Law, International Law and Human Rights (Prof. Dr. Dr. Wiater)
  • Professorship of Public Law, Immigration Law and Human Rights (Prof. Dr. Anuscheh Farahat)
  • Prof. Dr. Angelika Emmerich-Fritsche
  • Prof. Dr. Daniel Krausnick

Institute for Philosophy of Law and General Political Science

  • Chair of Public Law and Philosophy of Law (Prof. Dr. Funke)
  • Professorship of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law (Prof. Dr. Sieckmann)
  • Professorship of Public Law (Prof. Dr. Laura Clérico)

Hans Liermann Institute for Canon Law

  • Chair of Canon Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law (Prof. Dr. de Wall)

Institute for Law and Technology

  • Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law (Prof. Dr. Hofmann)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Chrocziel
  • Prof. Dr. Frauke Henning-Bodewig
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Regenfus

Lawyers‘ Law and Practice

  • Institute for Lawyers‘ Law and Lawyers‘ Practice (Prof. Dr. Stamm)

 

Private lecturers

  • PD Dr. Hilde Farthofer
  • PD Dr. Beate Grün
  • PD Dr. Christoph Schreiber

 

Honorary professors

  • Prof. Dr Axel Adrian
  • Prof. Dr Klaus Armbrüster
  • Prof. Dr. Siegfried Beck
  • Prof. Dr Manfred Bengel
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Chrocziel
  • Prof. Dr. Laura Clérico
  • Prof. Dr. Frauke Henning-Bodewig
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Kastner
  • Prof. Dr. Robert Sieghörtner
  • Prof. Dr Hans-Werner Steckhan
  • Prof. Dr. Eric Wagner
  • Prof. Dr. Ali Yarayan

 

Professors emeriti (since 1996)

  • Prof. Dr. Richard Bartlsperger
  • Prof. Dr. Reinhard Greger
  • Prof. Dr. Harald Herrmann
  • Prof. Dr. Walter Leisner
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Link
  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Streng
  • Prof. Dr. Winfried Veelken
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Vieweg
  • Prof. Dr. Max Vollkommer
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Reinhold Zippelius

 

Deceased professors (since 2001)

  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Blomeyer
  • Prof. B. Sharon Byrd, LL.M., J.S.D.
  • Prof. Dr. Georg Crezelius
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Dauses
  • Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Gössel
  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Hruschka
  • Prof. Dr. Heinrich List
  • Prof. Dr. Rudolf Max Littauer
  • Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Ludwig
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c Karl Heinz Schwab
  • Prof. Dr Burkhardt Ziemske