Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lohsse

Current affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, Bürgerliches Recht und europäisches Privatrecht (Prof. Lohsse) (RG2)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • The law of obligations and property law (in comparative and historic perspective)
  • Antique Roman Law (especially Roman inheritance law)
  • Roman Law in the Middle Ages (Glossators)
  • Harmonization of European Private Law
  • Reception of continental European civil law in East Asia

Academic Education

2011Habilitation, Law Faculty, University of Bonn
2006Doctor of laws (Dr. iur.), Law Faculty, University of Bonn
2005Second State Examination, LJPA Düsseldorf
2003 - 2005Legal traineeship, LG Köln
2000First State Examination
1995 - 2000Studies of Laws in Bonn and Edinburgh

Work Experience

since 2014Teilprojektleiter im Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne“
since 2012University Professor, WWU Münster
since 2012Geschäftsführender Direktor des Centrums für Europäisches Privatrecht
2007 - 2012Research Assistant / Lecturer at the Institut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, University of Bonn
2010Guest Professor at the University of Nanjing
2006 - 2007Deputy Director at the Deutsch-Chinesisches Institut für Rechtswissenschaft, University of Nanjing (PR China)
2000 - 2006Research Assistant at the Institut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, University of Bonn
1998 - 2000Student Assistant at the "Institut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte", University of Bonn

Functions and Memberships

since 07/2013European Law Institute, Fellow
since 2012Executive Director of the Centre of European Private Law (CEP) of the University of Münster
since 2012German Consultant in the „Netzwerk deutschsprachiger Zivilrechtswissenschaftler in Ostasien“
since 2006Consultant in the Translation Committee of the Project „Repräsentative Deutsche Rechtsliteratur der Gegenwart“
since 2006Consultant as foreign expert in the Translation Committee of the Project „Repräsentative Deutsche Rechtsliteratur der Gegenwart“, Peking
since 2006Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the „Archiv für chinesisch-deutsches Privatrecht“, Peking
2010 - 2012Collegium Junger Romanisten
2009 - 2012North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Admission to the Young colleague of the academy

Appointments

2012Offer to a Professorship for Bürgerliches Recht und Römisches Recht (W3) , University of Passau (rejected)
2012Offer to a Professorship for Deutsches und Europäisches Privatrecht und ein Grundlagenfach (W3) , University of Münster (accepted)
2012Offer to a Professorship for Römisches Recht, Bürgerliches Recht und Neuere Privatrechtsgeschichte (W3) , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (rejected)

Publications

Lohsse, Sebastian; Schulze, Reiner, Staudenmayer, Dirk (eds.) (2023)
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Type of Publication: Conference proceedings
Lohsse, Sebastian; Schulze, Reiner; Staudenmayer, Dirk (eds.) (2022)
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Type of Publication: Conference proceedings
Lohsse, Sebastian (2022)
In: Isola, Lisa (eds.), Klauselgestaltungen in Römischen Testamenten : Akten einer Internationalen Tagung zum Römischen Testamentsrecht. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Type of Publication: Conference report (book contribution)
Lohsse Sebastian (2021)
München: C. H. Beck.
Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Zwilling Moritz, Lohsse Sebastian (2021)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung, 138(1)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
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Projects

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: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2017
Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/12/2014 - 31/12/2019
Funded by: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/11/2014 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
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Prizes

Auszeichnung der Dissertation mit dem Preis der Jur. Fakultät der Universität Neapel „Federico II“ im Rahmen des VIII. Premio Romanistico Internazionale „Gérard Boulvert“
Awarded by: Universität Neapel „Federico II“
Award given to: Lohsse Sebastian
Date of awarding: 01/01/2010
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Preis des Präsidenten der Italienischen Republik für die beste wissenschaftliche Arbeit an der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät im akad. Jahr 2006/07
Awarded by: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn im Einvernehmen mit dem Botschafter der Republik Italien
Award given to: Lohsse Sebastian
Date of awarding: 01/01/2008
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
1. Platz European Law Moot Court
Awarded by: Universität Bonn
Award given to: Lohsse Sebastian
Date of awarding: 01/01/1999
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Best Speaker Award für die besten Plädoyers unter allen Teilnehmern des European Law Moot Court
Awarded by: Universität Bonn
Award given to: Lohsse Sebastian
Date of awarding: 01/01/1999
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Muirhead Prize in Civil Law
Awarded by: University of Edinburgh
Award given to: Lohsse Sebastian
Date of awarding: 01/01/1998
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
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Doctorates

Versari in re illicita
Candidate: Schmitz, Hannah | Supervisors: Lohsse, Sebastian
Period of time: 01/08/2013 - 01/08/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Die regula catoniana in der antiken Jurisprudenz
Candidate: van Berkum, Tobias | Supervisors: Lohsse, Sebastian
Period of time: 01/05/2014 - 01/05/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster