Professor Dr. Nils Jansen

Current affiliations

  • Lehrstuhl für Römisches Recht (Prof. Jansen) (RG1)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • The law of obligations in historic and comparative perspective
  • Historic foundations of European Private Law
  • Historic and theoretical foundations of the harmonization of European Private Law
  • Private Law in Spanish late Scholasticism (within the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics")
  • Law and social differentiation (within the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics")

Academic Education

2002Habilitation
1998Second State Examination
1994 - 1997Doctorate the Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel
1994First State Examination
1989 - 1994Studies of law, philosophy and politics at the University of Passau

Work Experience

since 2015Ordentliches Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
since 2006Chair for Roman Law, Legal History, German and European Private law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster; director at the Institute of Legal History
2019 - 2022Sprecher des Exzellenzclusters "Religion und Politik"
2014 - 2016Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch
2015Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study
2013Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study
2009Visiting Professor at the St. John's College Oxford
2008Visiting Professor at the Duke University School of Law, USA
2003 - 2006Chair for German and European Private Law, Roman Law and Legal History at the Heinrich Heine-University, Düsseldorf
2002 - 2003Professor for Private Law, Roman Law and Legal History, and Jurisprudence at the University of Augsburg
1998 - 2002Research Assistant at the University of Regensburg
1998 - 1999Assistant University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge

Functions and Memberships

since 2011Fellow at the European Law Institute
since 2010Member of the board in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity’
since 2010Consultant to the European Parliament in matters of European Private Law (Framework Service Contract)
since 2009Election committee for „Juristische Bücher des Jahres“
since 2006Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity’ at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster
since 04/2005Election committee for doctoral students of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
since 2002Member of the Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung e. V.
since 2000Summer School seminars for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2000/2005/2010/2013/2016)
04/2005 - 08/2009Consultant to the Chinese Government with regard to a codification of tort law (as expert of the German Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit [gtz])

Appointments

09/2014Offer to a Regius professor for civil law-Professorship, University of Oxford (rejected)

Publications

Jansen, Nils (2024)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung, 141(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Jansen, Nils (2024)
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte, Germanistische Abteilung, 141(1)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Jansen, Nils (2024)
In: Legal History Review, 92(1-2)
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Jansen, Nils (2024)
In: Kuntz, Thilo ; Miller, Paul B. (eds.), Methodology in private law theory : between new private law and Rechtsdogmatik. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Jansen, Nils (2024)
In: Auer, Marietta; Seinecke, Ralf (eds.), Eugen Ehrlich: Kontexte und Rezeptionen . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-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: 11/02/2016 - 13/02/2016
Funded by: Fritz Thyssen Foundation - Support of Conferences
Type of project: Scientific Event
Duration: 01/04/2013 - 31/12/2025
Funded by: Gerda Henkel Foundation
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2017
Type of project: Own resources project
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Prizes

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: Jansen, Nils
Announced at: 15/04/2015 | Date of awarding: 15/05/2015
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Young Scolar’s Prize; Plenarvortrag auf dem IVR World-Congress in Buenos Aires / La Plata
Awarded by: Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
Award given to: Jansen, Nils
Date of awarding: 01/01/1997
Type of distinction: Best presentation award
Förderpreis der Kieler Doctores Iuris e.V.
Awarded by: Kieler Doctores Iuris e.V.
Award given to: Jansen, Nils
Date of awarding: 01/01/1997
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Fakultätspreis für die Dissertation „Die Struktur der Gerechtigkeit“
Awarded by: Juristische Fakultät der Christian Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Award given to: Jansen, Nils
Date of awarding: 01/01/1997
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Towards an Integrated Approach to Compliance: When Do People Obey Laws?
Candidate: Shubhangi, Shubhangi | Supervisors: Petersen, Niels | Reviewers: Petersen, Niels; Engel, Christoph; Jansen, Nils
Period of time: 01/09/2019 - 24/05/2023
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Forderungsbegriff und Zessionsdogmatik
Candidate: Kämper Lukas | Supervisors: Jansen Nils
Period of time: 01/04/2014 - 01/10/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Der Umfang der deliktischen Haftung nach ARt. 1382 f. Code Civil
Candidate: Woyciechowski, Sarah | Supervisors: Jansen, Nils
Period of time: 01/08/2012 - 21/12/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Verkehrsschutz im englischen common law
Candidate: Rademacher Lukas | Supervisors: Jansen Nils
Period of time: 01/07/2010 - 01/10/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Gewinnausgleich - vergleichende und systematisierende Gegenüberstellung der französichen, niederländischen und englischen Tradition
Candidate: Boosfeld, Kristin | Supervisors: Jansen, Nils
Period of time: 01/09/2011 - 06/01/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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