Hannes Rösler is a professor for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Siegen, Germany since 2014. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Prior to entering the Max Planck Institute in 2004, he was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Comparative Law in Marburg and a law clerk in Frankfurt am Main. Rösler received a doctorate in 2003 for his book on European consumer law from Marburg University, where he graduated in 1998, following one year of studies at the London School of Economics. In 2004 he received a Master from Harvard Law School. Rösler finished his post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) on the European Court of Justice and European private law at the University of Hamburg in 2012. Rösler has published numerous articles on German and European private and public law in several languages. He has held interim professorships at the Universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Frankfurt an der Oder. He also held visiting positions abroad, i.a., at Oxford University, New York University, University of Cambridge, as well as universities in France, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, China and Japan. For a longer profile with list of publications see http://www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/rechtswissenschaften/roesler/en.
