Main Focus
- Canon law
- Early medieval legal and constitutional history (with a focus on the Leges Langobardorum)
- History of scholarship in the High and Later Middle Ages
- Law and regions in the pre-modern era
Projects
Completed Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2009
Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) in Frankfurt am Main
2008
Scholarship from the Görres Society
2006–2007
Research Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg (Munich)
2003–2005
Scholarship from the Görres Society
2001–2006
Research assistant at the Chair of German Legal History at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
1999–2001
Administrator of a research assistant position at the Chair of German Legal History (Prof. Dr. Harald Siems) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
1993–1998
Research associate at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Heinz Holzhauer (University of Münster) as part of the DFG Priority Program “The Origins of Public Criminal Law”
1995
Doctorate in Canon Law
1993
Licentiate in Canon Law (JCL)
1991–1992
Studied in Paris (Gratianus Fellow, Paris XI and Institut Catholique)
1991
Bachelor’s degree in canon law (JCB)
1990–1995
Studied canon law at KU Leuven
1989–1990
Studied in Münster
1989
Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Medieval Canon Law in Berkeley
1988–1989
Studied in Oxford (Diploma in Legal Studies)
1985–1988
Studied at the University of Münster (History, Theology, Philosophy)