Heinz-Peter Mansel#
© Pascal Buenning
| Membership Number: | 6660 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://ipr-koeln.de/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1988 Research Fellow and Lecturer University of Heidelberg
- 1998 Director of Studies in the Session of Private International Law for the Diploma Seminars 1998, Hague Academy of International Law
- 1998 Privatdozent, University of Heidelberg
- 1999 Professor of German Civil Law, Private International Law, Procedural Law and Comparative Law, University of Cologne
- 1999 Director of the Institute for International and Foreign Private Laws
- 2007 Visiting Professor, Wuhan University, China
- 2008 Lecturer Hague Academy of International Law
- 2008 - 2009 Visiting Professor, BerkeleyLaw, University of California, Berkeley
- 2010 Call to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and rejection
- 2018 Visiting Scholar, BerkeleyLaw, University of California, Berkeley
- 2018 - 2020 Vice-Rector for International Affairs at the University of Cologne
Fields of Scholarship
- Private international law
- Comparative law
- Civil procedure law, especially Third Party Proceedings
- Statute of limitations
- Contract law
- Tort law
- Private international procedural law
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2022 Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2020 Honorary doctorate by the istanbul Altinbaş Üniversitesi
- 2017 Hans Kelsen Research Award of the University of Cologne
- 2015 - today Appointed Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Notarial Institute - an institution of the Federal Chamber of Notaries
- 2013 - 2023 Elected Member of the Council of the Society of International Law
- 2012 - 2018 Appointed Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Cologne
- 2012-2022 Appointed Member (2012 – 2016) and Appointed Deputy Chairman (2016-2022) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Awards Committee (as well as for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards)
- 2012 - 2022 Appointed Member (2012-2104) and Chairman (2014-2022) of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for comparative and international private law, Hamburg
- 2010 - today President of the German Council of International Private Law (Scientific Council in connection with the German Ministry of Justice)
- 2007 - today Elected Associate Member Académie internationale de droit comparé
- 2007 - today Elected Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
- 2005 - 2013 Elected Member of the Board of the Civil Lawyers’ Society (Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung - German, Austrian and Swiss Association of Private Law Teachers) (re-elected 2011)
- 2004 - 2011 Elected Member of the Review Board for Jurisprudence of the DFG (German Research Foundation) (re-elected 2007, Spokesperson / Deputy Spokesperson 2008 - 2011)
- 2000 - today Elected Member of German Council of International Private Law (Scientific Council in connection with the German Ministry of Justice)
