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