Profile
Abstract
Konrad Duden is Professor and Director of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law. He studied chemistry and law at the Universities of Munich, Heidelberg and Bilbao.
After completing a Master's degree at the University of Cambridge, he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 2015. His award-winning dissertation dealt with Surrogacy in Private International and Procedural Law. Konrad Duden completed his legal traineeship with stations at the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Commission, among others.
For his habilitation thesis on the significance of digitalisation for property law Konrad Duden received the Science Award by the Deutsche Stiftung für Recht und Informatik. In 2022 he also received the Kurt-Hartwig-Siemers-Prize of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung. Since the winter semester 2022/2023 he has been professor at the University of Leipzig.
Professional career
- since 04/2023
DirectorInstitute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural LawUniversity of Leipzig, Germany - since 02/2023
Full ProfessorChair for Private Law and Private International LawUniversity of Leipzig, Germany - 12/2022
Call to a professorship for Private law and Digitalisation at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder); call declined - 04/2021 - 01/2023
Temporary ProfessorChair for Private law and Private International LawUniversity of Leipzig, Germany - 09/2016 - 12/2022
Senior Research FellowDepartment Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Jürgen BasedowMax Planck Institute for comparative and international private law, Hamburg (on leave after 04/2021) - 11/2012 - 08/2016
Junior Research FellowDepartment Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Jürgen BasedowMax Planck Institute for comparative and international private law, Hamburg - 04/2011 - 08/2011
Junior research fellowChair of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas PfeifferInstitute for comparative law, conflict of laws and international business lawUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany - 08/2008 - 03/2011
Student assistantChair of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas PfeifferInstitute for comparative law, conflict of laws and international business lawUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany
Education
- 07/2021
Habilitation; University of Hamburg, GermanyTopic: digital possession; Venia legend: private law, private international law, international civil procedure, civil procedure, comparative lawSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult Jürgen Basedow - 02/2015
Doctoral degree, University of Heidelberg, GermanyTopic: surrogate motherhood in private international law and international civil procedureSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Erik Jayme - 08/2014 - 08/2016
Legal traineeship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court HamburgDegree: First State Examination in LawClerkships i.a. at the German Federal Constitutional Court (chambers of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz) and the European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, Civil Justice - 09/2011 - 06/2012
Study of law, University of Cambridge, United KingdomDegree: Master of Laws - 09/2007 - 06/2008
Study of Law, Deusto University in Bilbao, SpainDegree: diploma in international and European law - 10/2005 - 07/2011
Study of law; University of Heidelberg, GermanyDegree: First State Examination in LawSpecialisation: private international law and international civil procedure
Panel Memberships
- since 01/2022
Member of the International Society of Family Law - since 01/2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Association of German Civil Status Registrars (BDS) - since 01/2021
Member of the German Society for International Law - since 01/2021
Member of the Association of Teachers of Private Law - since 01/2021
Member of the European Association for Private International Law - since 01/2017
Member of the Academic Association for Family Law - since 01/2017
Member of the German Family Court Conference - since 01/2017
Member of the European Law Institute - 01/2016 - 12/2020
Member of the Young Academy of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz - 01/2018 - 12/2022
Member of the "Future Faculty" of the research network "Law in Context" at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- show detailsDuden, K.; Wiedemann, D.Changing families, changing family law in EuropeCambridge: Intersentia. 2024.
- show detailsDuden, K.Concluding RemarksIn: Duden, K.; Wiedemann, D. (Eds.)Changing families, changing family law in Europe. 2024: Intersentia. 2024. pp. 339–357.
- show detailsDuden, K.Digital repossession als friedliche Eigenmacht: US-amerikanische Lehren für die Zulässigkeit digitaler FunktionssperrenZeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP) . 2024. pp. 21–43.
- show detailsDuden, K.Vorschlag der Kommission für eine neue Verordnung zum Internationalen Abstammungsrecht vom 7.12.2022 (COM[2022] 695 final) – Stellungnahme des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des BDSDas Standesamt (StAZ). 2023. pp. 141–143.
- show detailsDuden, K.Verantwortungsgemeinschaft: Regelungsvorhaben und rechtsvergleichende ImpulseZeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ). 2023. pp. 1838–1847.