Sonja Meier#
| Membership Number: | 5234 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.jura.uni-freiburg.de/de/institute/ipr1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Head of the Institute of Comparative Historical Law at the Universtiy of Cologne
- 2012 - 2022 Director, Institute of Comparative and International Private Law, Dep. I, University of Freiburg (Germany)
- 2009 - 2012 Professor of Private Law and European Legal History, University of Marburg (Germany)
- 2002 - 2009 Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
- 1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor, University of Regensburg
- 1997 - 1998 Assistant Lecturer, University of Cambridge (UK)
- 1992 - 1995 Assistant Lecturer, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative private law
- Plurality of debtors and creditors
- German private law
- Law of obligations in historical and comparative perspective
- Comparative law of unjustified enrichment
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Preis für gute Lehre (Award for Good Teaching), Ministry of Higher Education, State of Bavaria
- 1998 Kulturförderpreis Ostbayern (for the dissertation)
- 1994 - 1997 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
