Matthias Weller#
| Membership Number: | 6839 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.jura.uni-bonn.de/professur-prof-dr-weller/professor-dr-weller-magrerpubl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Founding Member of the Law Faculty of the interdisciplinary Bonn Center for Reconciliation Studies, University of Bonn
- 2021 Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture"
- 2018 Director of the Institute for German and International Civil Procedural Law and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Professor for Civil Law, Art and Cultural Property Law, University of Bonn, Germany; Co-chair of the Research Center for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law (together with Christoph Zuschlag, art historian at the University of Bonn)
- 2017 Guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law (3 months)
- 2014 to 2018 Vice Dean EBS Law School, EBS University, Wiesbaden, Germany
- 2012 Chair for Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law and Private International Law, EBS Law School, EBS University, Wiesbaden Germany
- 2008/2009 Member of the Cabinet of Professor Dr Achim Krämer, Attorney admitted to the Bar of the Federal Court of Justice (Civil Division)
- 2007 to 2020 Founding and Co-Chair of the Heidelberg Institute of Art and Law
- 2004 to 2012 Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, University of Heidelberg
- 1998/1999 Joseph Story Fellow of Private International Law, Harvard Law School
Fields of Scholarship
- Civil procedural law
- Reconciliation studies
- Art and cultural property protection
- Transnational commercial law
- International dispute resolution
- Private International law
- International civil procedural law
Honours and Awards
- 1992 - 1998 Scholarship of the National Scholarship Foundation
- 2001 Prize for the best results in the Master of Public Administration at the German School for Public Administration
- 2004 - 2004 Scholarship of the National Scholarship Foundation for PhD
- Prize of the Rolf and Lucia Serick Foundation for the best PhD of the Institute for Comparative Law in 2004, Conflict of Laws and International Business Law, University of Heidelberg
- 2005 Klaus O. Fleck Prize of the Chamber of Commerce Rhein-Neckar
- 2016 Second Prize of the German Association for Legislation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesetzgebung)
- 2019 Special Course at the Hague Academy of International Law
- 2023 Special Course at the Hague Academy of International Law's First Advanced Course in Hong Kong
