Professor Dr. Frank L. Schäfer, LL.M. (Cambridge)

• Graduated at Heidelberg University with Mag iur and first state examination.
• LLM at Cambridge University, specialising in Law of Restitution, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Private Law and Political Theory.
• Doctorate with Professor Dr Dr hc Adolf Laufs at Heidelberg University with a topic at the crossroads of legal doctrine, methodology, history of private law, comparative law and European private law (law of unjustified enrichment)
• Fellow of the International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History at Frankfurt University and the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History (now Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory).
• Habilitation with Professor Dr Dr hc Joachim Rückert at Frankfurt a.M. with a topic at the interface of German legal history, history of private law and scholarship as well as history of methodology; venia legendi civil law, German legal history and history of private law in modern times (history of German legal studies, so-called juristische Germanistik, including history of German legal history)
• 2007 Professor in Kiel at the Chair of Civil Law, European and German Legal History and Comparative History of Law. Four years as managing director of the Dr Otto Bagge Memorial Foundation.
• 2015 Professor in Freiburg im Breisgau at the Chair of German Legal History and Civil Law.
• 2016-18 Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law.
• Since winter semester 2023/24 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law.

Vice Dean, Chairman of the Freiburg Society for Legal History, Treasurer of the Friends of the Faculty of Law, deputy member of the Investigation Commission for Safeguarding Honesty in Academia and of the Uniseum Commission, deputy BAFöG representative.

private law
law of obligations: in particular, credit law, unilateral contracts, mandate, negotiorum gestio, unjustified enrichment and private insurance law
property law: possession, pledge on chattel and rights

foundations of private law
history of private law: codifications
history of scholarship: German legal studies (juristische Germanistik)
comparative law: common law
legal theory: private autonomy

history of injustice
national socialism
colonial and slavery law

digital humanities

narratology

In detail here.

Federal Bar Association (BRAK) (history of Federal Bar Association and Imperial Bar Association), DFG (printing cost subsidies, edition of the materials on the Saxon Civil Code of 1863/65: sources and digital humanities, GRK 1767), Dr Otto Bagge Memorial Foundation, Freiburg Society for Legal History (Freiburg town law, etc.), Petersen Foundation.

Bari (University of Bari Aldo Moro), Bern (University), Caserta (SNA), Changsha (Central South University), Frankfurt am Main (IMPRS), Freiburg im Breisgau (University), Halle an der Saale (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Hamburg (conference), Hannover (BRAK), Herborn (IMPRS), Kiel (Christian Albrechts University), Copenhagen (University), Cracow (Jagiellonian University), Lille (Université de Lille), Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University), Nanjing (University), Osaka (Metropolitan University), Reutlingen (BRAK), Riga (University of Latvia), Shanghai (ECUPL & Fudan University), Schleswig (Higher Regional Court Schleswig-Holstein), Seoul (SNU), Tallinn (conference), Taranto (University of Bari Aldo Moro) und Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University).

Freiburg Society for Legal History, Friends of the Law Faculty Freiburg, Breisgau-Society for History Schau-ins-Land, Heidelberg Society for Legal History, Museum for Legal History Karlsruhe, Society for Private Law Teachers.

amongst others federal and state academic organisations, European universities, American Journal of Legal History; see also: research.