Prof. Dr. Peter Oestmann

Current affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht und Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte (Prof. Oestmann) (RG3)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
  • Centre for Text Edition and Commentary
  • Centre for Early Medieval Studies

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • German legal history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, especially the history of legal practice
  • Editions of sources of the legal practice

Academic Education

2002Habilitation
1997 - 2002Member of the Graduate School "Europäische Rechtsgeschichte" at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt a.M.
1997Second State Examination in Hamburg
1996Doctor of laws at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
1994 - 1995Member of the Graduate School "Europäische Rechtsgeschichte" at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt a.M.
1992First State Examination at the Leibniz University of Hannover
1987 - 1992Studies in Göttingen

Work Experience

since 2014Member, selection committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
since 2012Principal investigator, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”
since 2012Full member, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
since 2007Principal investigator, Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”
since 2004Professorship in Civil Law and German Legal History, University of Münster
2003 - 2004Professorship in Legal History and Civil Law, University of Bern
1995 - 1997Legal traineeship, Lübeck
1992 - 1994Research assistant, Göttingen

Functions and Memberships

since 2012Member of the "Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste"
since 09/2012Member of the board of the "Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag"
since 2005Scientific Advisory Board of the "Gesellschaft für Reichskammergerichtsforschung"
11/2007 - 10/2017Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity’
01/2008 - 2012Member of the Legal Counsil (DFG)
01/2009 - 12/2011Sonderforschungsbereich 496 (project manager)

Appointments

2011Offer to a Professorship, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (rejected)
2007Offer to a Professorship, University of Kiel (rejected)
2004Offer to a Professorship, University of Münster (accepted)
2003Offer to a Professorship, University of Bern (accepted)

Publications

Oestmann, Peter (2023)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung, 140(1)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Oestmann, Peter (2023)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung, 140(1)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Oestmann, Peter (2023)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung, 109(1)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Oestmann, Peter (2023)
In: Historische Zeitschrift, 316(2)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Oestmann, Peter (2023)
In: Forschung & Lehre, 30(4)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 01/06/2021 - 31/05/2025
Funded by: BMBF - Käte Hamburger International Centre
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/07/2019 - 30/06/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/09/2015 - 31/08/2016
Funded by: Fritz Thyssen Foundation - Stipends
Type of project: Individual project
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Prizes

Aufnahme einer Publikation in die Reihe "Juristische Bücher des Jahres 2012"
Awarded by: Jury deutscher Rechtswissenschaftler
Award given to: Oestmann, Peter
Announced at: 15/12/2012 | Date of awarding: 15/12/2012
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Election as Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Awarded by: North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Award given to: Oestmann, Peter
Announced at: 01/01/2012 | Date of awarding: 01/01/2012
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Friedrich-Spee-Förderpreis
Awarded by: Friedrich-Spee-Gesellschaft Trier
Award given to: Oestmann, Peter
Announced at: 01/01/1997 | Date of awarding: 01/01/1997
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Die rechtliche Stellung der Frau in den altnordischen Rechten
Candidate: Bessing, Johanna | Supervisors: Oestmann, Peter
Period of time: 01/04/2014 - 01/01/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Aufstieg und Niedergang des konkursbeendenden Zwangsvergleichs
Candidate: Wolf, Antonia | Supervisors: Oestmann, Peter
Period of time: 01/04/2014 - 01/01/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Gnadenpraxis des Rates der Stadt Münster im Zeitraum 1543–1652
Candidate: Rodemeister, Björn | Supervisors: Oestmann, Peter
Period of time: until 01/01/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Grund und Urteil – Die Verkehrsauffassung als Argument für die übliche Entscheidung
Candidate: Kensy, Steven | Supervisors: Oestmann, Peter
Period of time: until 01/01/2016
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Die Paarformel „Minne oder Recht“ in den Urkunden des königlichen Hofgerichts zur Zeit von Kaiser Karl IV. und König Wenzel (1346–1400)
Candidate: Meiwes, Anna | Supervisors: Oestmann, Peter
Period of time: until 01/01/2016
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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