Nucleus-Professorship in Emerging Field

The Chair for Global Legal History, Private Law, and Computational Legal Theory is one of the nucleus-professorships created in an emerging field in pursuit of the University of Hamburg's excellence strategy. 

One of these interdisciplinary and international emerging fields that have the potential to develop into core research areas pursued at the University of Hamburg is the "Law in Global Contexts".

According to the Goals of the University of Excellence nucleus-professorships shall "[...] bring new ideas and contribute to the further development of tomorrow's clusters of excellence."

For the emerging fields pursued at the University of Hamburg, cf. FAQ about the Excellence Strategy.

Other nuclues-professorships at the University of Hamburg are held by:

• Prof. Dr. Ulf Schmidt
  Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics and Society
  Faculty of Humanities, Department of History
• Prof. Dr. Jan Recker
  Professorship for Information Systems and Digital Innovation
  Faculty of Business Administration
• Prof. Dr. Stefano Panzeri
  Department of Excellence for Neural Information Processing
  UKE, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg
• Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich
  Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, esp. Empirische Gesundheitsökonomie
  Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences