Prof. Dr. Hannes Rösler

• How Much International Element Is Required for a Jurisdiction Agreement in Civil and Commercial Matters Under Article 25 of the Brussels Ia Regulation?, FS Gounalakis, Nomos 2025, 177
• Hay/Rösler, Internationales Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht, C.H. Beck, 5th ed., 2016
• The Shift in Case Law in U.S. Private Law, RabelsZ 79 (2015), 250
• European Jurisdiction in the Field of Civil Law, Mohr Siebeck 2012

From 1992, Hannes Rösler studied law and social sciences at the University of Marburg and, as an ERASMUS scholar, for one year (1994/95) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was a scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). He passed the First State Examination in Law in Marburg in 1998 (faculty prize). From 1995 to 1996 he was a student assistant and from 1999 to 2000 a research associate at the Marburg Institute for Comparative Law. He received a doctoral scholarship from the State of Hesse’s program for early-career researchers. In 2000, he spent three months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford (Merton College). In 2001, he conducted research at the European Commission in Brussels for six weeks. From 2001 to 2003, he completed his legal traineeship (Referendariat) in Frankfurt am Main. In 2003, he received his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) in Marburg (summa cum laude), passed the Second State Examination in Law in Frankfurt am Main, and worked at UNIDROIT in Rome for four months. In 2003/04, he completed the LL.M. program at Harvard Law School with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2004, he was a visiting scholar at New York University School of Law for eight weeks.

From 2004 to 2013, he was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2006, he spent three months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson College). He initiated and directs the International Media Law Forum (IMLF) of the German-American Lawyers’ Association (DAJV), held annually since 2008, and has been a member of the DAJV board since 2012. In 2012, he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg and was awarded the venia legendi for the subjects listed under areas of interest. He received the Kurt Hartwig Siemers Prize of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation (2012/2013) and the award of the Esche Schümann Commichau Foundation (2013).

Since the summer semester 2014, he has been Professor of Civil Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Siegen (ranked first on the appointment list). Since 2015, he has been a director of the university’s Institute for Media and Communications Law (IMKR). Before that, he held interim professorships at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau (Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law, winter semester 2012/13), Bonn (Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, and European Private Law, summer semester 2013), and Frankfurt (Oder) (Chair of Civil Law, Private International Law, Comparative Law, and European Private Law, winter semester 2013/14). He teaches as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg (since 2006) and Bucerius Law School (since 2018). He has held visiting lectureships in Ankara (2007), Frankfurt am Main (2008 to 2012), Istanbul (2008), Verona (2009), London (2010, 2016), Beijing (2011), Lille (2013, 2014), Porto (2015), and Tirana (2016, 2018). He has lectured in Germany and abroad, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Oman, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. He has advised on legislation in North Macedonia (IRZ) and Vietnam (GIZ). His publications appear in German and English, with translations into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese.