Dr. Mareike Schmidt, LL.M. (Tsinghua, China)
Photo: UhH/Jura
Principal Investigator of the project "Change in and through law – digital transformation and climate change"
Address
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Law
Rothenbaumchaussee 33
20148 Hamburg
Office
Rechtshaus
Room: A225
Office hours
- Please contact me for an appointment (mareike.schmidt@uni-hamburg.de).
Fax: +49 40 42838-6262
"Change in and through law – digital transformation and climate change"
Centre for Legal Education (ZerF)
CV
- 2001-2007 Studies of Law in Würzburg and Berlin (Humboldt University)
- 2008 LL.M. in Chinese Law, Tsinghua University Beijing
- 2008-2012 Research Assistant at the Chair of Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer, University of Basel
- 2012 Dr. iur. (PhD equivalent)
- 2014 Professor Walther Hug Prize for my doctoral thesis on Product Recalls and Redress („Produktrückruf und Regress“)
- 2012-2015 Research Assistant at the Centre for Legal Education (ZerF), University of Hamburg
- 2013-2016 Legal Traineeship in Hamburg, Pretoria, Tbilisi
- 03/2016-08/2023 Assistant Professor for Private Law and Legal Education, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg (November 2018: positive evaluation)
- 10/2021-03/2022 Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Law as Culture“, Center for Advanced Study
- Since 09/2023 Principal Investigator of the project "Change in and through law – digital transformation and climate change"
Full CV - German (PDF)
Publications and lectures
Fields of research and projects
- products liability law
- international sales law
- law of international arbitration
- pluralistic societies in private law
- comparative private law
- teaching methodologies in law
Teaching
- Non-Contractual Statutory Obligations (torts, unjust enrichment)
- Contract Law II
- International Sales and Contract Law (in English)
- Introduction to Comparative Law
- Hamburger Examenskurs (HEX) on Property Law
- Seminar "Studying and Experiencing US Law in Chicago", Summer 2016
- Seminar "Vielfalt im Privatrecht“ (Diversity in Private Law), Winter 2017/2018
- Seminar on Products Liability Law, Summer 2018
- Seminar on Fundamental Rights in Private Law, Winter 2019/2020
- Seminar on Contract Law in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, Winter 2020/2021
- Seminar on Product Liability Law for a Digital Age, Summer 2023
Distinctions, scholarships
- Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Law as Culture“, Center for Advanced Study
- Hamburg Teaching Prize 2018
- Hamburg Teaching Prize 2017
- Professor Walther Hug Prize for the dissertation “Produktrückruf und Regress” (Product Recall and Redress) (2014)
- Crédit Suisse Award for Best Teaching (2011)
- Best Thesis Award for master’s thesis “Compensation Standard for Urban Demolition and Resettlement,” Tsinghua University, Beijing (2008)
- Full scholarship for LL.M. studies, DAAD (2007/2008)
- First Place, Werner Melis Award for the Best Respondent Memorandum for Claimant, 12th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (2005)
