Prof. Dr. Thorsten Keiser
Max Planck Fellow Group
Curriculum Vitae
1974
born in Frankfurt/Main
Study of law in Frankfurt/M, Heidelberg and Bologna
2000
First State Examination in Law
2002 to 2004
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
2007
Second State Examination in Law
2005
Doctorate as Dr. iur.
2003
Master in Comparative, European and International Legal Studies – European University Institute Florence;
2007 to 2011
DFG Research Fellow – University of Frankfurt/M
2011 to 2014
researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
2012
Habilitation and venia legendi for the subjects Civil Law, German and European Legal History, Modern History of Private Law, Comparative Law and European Private Law - University of Frankfurt am Main;
2013
Substitute professor at the University of Freiburg
2014
Fellowship at LOEWE research focus on judicial and extrajudicial conflict resolution – University of Frankfurt/M.,
2014/2015
Interim professor in Jena
2015
Interim professor in Cologne
Since 2016
Chair for civil law and history of law at the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen
Research Communication
Yearbook 2012 The modernization of private law in Latin America and Europe