Executive Board
Kamila Maria Staudigl-Ciechowicz
Mag. iur.
Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History and at the Commission for Austrian Legal History
Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz, born in 1984 in Cracow (Poland), studied Law, History and Canon Law in Vienna. From 2005 to 2009 she worked as a student assistant at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna. In 2009 she entered a research position again at the Legal History department, University of Vienna, where she has since been working on the research project “The Vienna Faculty of Law and State 1918–1938” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Since 2010 she has also been working as a researcher at the Commission for Austrian Legal History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests are the history of science – especially (legal) history of universities with a focus on anti-Semitism and the admission of women to studies at universities, contemporary history, the development of private law in the early 20th century, and constitutional history with a focus on the interwar period.
For more information (in German) see her personal website
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/kamila.staudigl-ciechowicz/
PHILIPP KLAUSBERGER
Mag. Dr. iur.
Post-doc research and teaching assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History
Philipp Klausberger studied Law at the University of Vienna and graduated as Magister Iuris in 2004. During his studies he worked as a student assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History, chair Prof. Nikolaus Benke. From 2004 to 2008 he was assistant at the same chair and graduated as Doctor Iuris in 2007 with distinction (Thesis: “Der Versionsanspruch ex alieno contractu – Zum römisch-rechtlichen Ursprung und zu aktuellen Problemen der Haftung für Bereicherung aus fremden Verträgen“).
From 2008 to 2009 he accomplished the nine months court practice which is required for becoming a judge, an attorney or a notary in Austria. Additionally, he worked for Brandl&Talos Rechtsanwälte GmbH, a Vienna law firm specialized in commercial law, to which he is still associated as an off-counsel.
Since 2009 he has been a post-doc research and teaching assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History, chair Prof. Nikolaus Benke, preparing his habilitation. He has been teaching Roman Law and Civilian Foundations of Private Law at the University of Vienna since 2007.
RAMON PILS
Mag. phil. Mag. phil. Mag. iur.
Research and teaching assistant at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History
Ramon Pils studied Law, History and English/Australian Studies at Vienna University and the University of Queensland, Australia. He joined the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at Vienna University in 2006 as a student assistant and has been a research and teaching assistant since 2010. His teaching portfolio includes Legal History classes for Law students as well as Law classes for the Political Science programme. The focus of his research has been on university history of the 19th and 20th centuries and the life and work of the scholar and social reformer Leon Kellner. He is the editor (with Mitchell G. Ash and Wolfram Nieß) of Geisteswissenschaften im Nationalsozialismus: Das Beispiel der Universität Wien (Göttingen 2010).
For more information (in German) see his personal website: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/ramon.pils
Philipp Scheibelreiter
Mag. Dr. iur.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History
Philipp Scheibelreiter studied Law, Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Vienna. His doctoral thesis concerns the “Contractual system of the Delian League” and will be published in 2011. In 2002 he became a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History/University of Vienna, where he started teaching Roman Law in 2004.
In 2002 Philipp Scheibelreiter took part in the Summer School on “Europäische Rechtsgeschichte” at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) at Frankfurt a. M./Germany.
In 2008 and 2010 he received ROM grants from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and went to the Istituto storico presso il Kulturforum in Rome/Italy for doing research in the great Roman libraries. His main interests concern Roman Law, Ancient Greek law, international and comparative law of the antiquity.
Since 2009 Philipp Scheibelreiter has been Assistant Professor and working on his habilitation project, a comparative study of Ancient Greek and Roman Contract Law, which he had the opportunity to present at the Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag 2010 in Münster/Germany.
Christoph Schmetterer
Mag. Dr. iur. Mag. Dr. phil.
Post-doctoral researcher at the Commission for Austrian Legal History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Christoph Schmetterer studied History/Political Science and Law at the University of Vienna. He holds doctor’s degrees in both History and Law. In his diploma thesis and his dissertations he dealt with a variety of different topics. He wrote his historical diploma thesis on “The Austrian Empire and the Outbreak of the American Civil War”, his historical dissertation on “Music in Bruck an der Leitha since 1850” and his legal dissertation on “The legal position of Roman soldiers in the Principate”. From 2002 to 2009 DDr. Schmetterer worked at the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History at the University of Vienna. Since June 2010 he has been a post-doctoral researcher for the Commission of Austrian Legal History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Emanuel van Dongen
LL.M., M.Phil.
Junior Researcher at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law
Emanuel van Dongen studied Dutch Law at Tilburg University and graduated in 2005. He specialized in Roman Law and followed the course ‘History of canon law’ at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. During his studies he worked as student assistant for two years at the Department of Criminal Law. In 2006 he started at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law. In addition to his teaching job, he contributed to the digitalization project of prof. dr. A.M.J.A. Berkvens. In August 2007 he completed the Master Foundations and Methods of Legal Science (Research Master in Law) at Tilburg University. As of 1 September 2007 he is employed as junior researcher at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law. His research is about the consequences of contributory negligence for delictual liability in historical perspective.
Hester van der Kaaij
LL.M.
Junior Researcher at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law
Hester holds a degree in private law from Maastricht University (2011). During her study she worked for three years as a student-assistant at the department of Foundations and Methods of Law. She was on the board of her student association and was a member of the editorial board of the Dutch legal journal Ars Aequi. In January 2011 she started as a PhD researcher under the supervision of prof. dr. Hage. Her research aims to lay the foundations for a general theory of legal acts, which will be suitable for both public and private law. She means to achieve this goal by creating a conceptual analysis on the basis of the institutional theory of law, speech act theories and the Bentham and Hohfeld-inspired assumption that the world of the law can ultimately be described in terms of a relatively limited set of basis concepts. This analysis will then be used in a comparative study of nullities in private and administrative law.
Mariken Lenaerts
LL.M.
Junior Researcher at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law
Mariken Lenaerts studied Dutch Law (VTR Metajuridica) at Maastricht University and graduated in August 2004. Mariken is currently employed as junior researcher at the department of Foundations and Methods of Law. The aim of her research, which will be carried out under supervision of Prof. mr. G.R. de Groot and Prof. mr. C.H. van Rhee, is to find the roots of family law in Europe - for which the National Socialist period will be examined - and to develop a comprehensive understanding of the existing common principles within the field of family law in Europe. In addition to her research project, Mariken teaches several courses at Maastricht University and is a guest lecturer at Hasselt University (Belgium) and the China EU School of Law in Changping (China). She teaches mainly in the field of legal philosophy and legal history.
Janwillem Oosterhuis
LL.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law
Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis (1976) studied theology at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen (Propedeuse) and law at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (Master’s thesis: “Max Weber en zijn invloed op de beoefening van het Romeinse recht”). He followed the Erasmus Programme in Law and Economics in Rotterdam and Hamburg (European Master in Law and Economics, Master’s thesis “Commercial Impracticability in Common Law and Civil Law”).
Upon graduation in 2001 he practised law for three years as trainee at Boekel De Nerée, Advocaten Civil Law Notaries and Tax Advisers (Amsterdam), at the departments Corporate Litigation and Transport and Insurance.
Between 2004 and 2009 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on his PhD-project ‘Specific Performance under European Codifications of the 19th century’. In 2005 and 2006 he spent eight months in Frankfurt am Main, first as scholar at the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte and later as member of the International Max Planck Research School for Comparitive Legal History.
Since August 2009 he is working as Assistant Professor (UD) at the department of Methodes and Foundations. Currently he is finalising his PhD-study. He teaches i.a. Law in Europe, from Gaius to the EU, Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History and States Markets and the European Integration.
Serban Vacarelu
LL.M.
Junior Researcher at Maastricht University, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law
Serban S. Vacarelu joined the Faculty of Law in March 2010. His Ph.D. research involves an interdisciplinary study of the correlation between Cultural Values and Civil Litigation under the guidance of Prof. Dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee and Prof. Dr. Daniel S. Hamermesh.
Serban earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) in 2001, a B.A. in Political Sciences from University of Oradea (Romania) in 2002 and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Louisiana State University (USA) in 2004.
Prior to joining Maastricht University, Serban Vacarelu served as a judicial law clerk and research attorney for the Louisiana Supreme Court (November 2004-February 2010). He is admitted to practice in both Romania and Louisiana.
Stefan Weishaar
M.Sc., LL.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor at Groningen University
Dr. Stefan Weishaar M.Sc., LL.M. (1976) is an associate professor at Groningen University in the Netherlands. After graduating in International Economics (drs. / M.Sc.) (specialization: Competition and Regulation) from Maastricht University he changed faculties and obtained an LL.M. in Comparative, International and European Law (specialization: Globalization and Economic Regulation). He was awarded his Ph.D. degree in December 2007 for the Law and Economics Analysis of the European Green House Gas Emissions Trading System: Allocation and Competition from his alma mater.
Stefan Weishaar was previously associated with the Metro Institute for Transnational Legal Research and the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation and has been working in various Law and Economics research projects focusing on the interaction between Competition law and the environment and on Competition law proper. He also enjoyed an extensive research stay at the Centre for European Studies at Beijing University, Beijing / China. He published widely in international academic journals such as the European Journal of Law and Economics, the European Environmental Law Review, and the European Competition Law Review, and has been participating in conferences worldwide.
Stefan Weishaar’s research interests include Economic analysis of law, particularly regarding Public procurement- and Competition law aspects in Europe and Asia, Emission Trading Systems and competition as well as economic and legal development issues in Albania.
