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Biography

Konstanze von Sch眉tz is an Assistant Professor at 海外直播b站鈥檚 Faculty of Law.聽聽

Her research and writing focus on private law and private law theory, particularly the law of property. Konstanze鈥檚 work seeks to account for the ways in which private law expresses and implements ideas about how people can relate to one another under its rules and institutions. In canvassing the rationales that underlie and animate private law concepts and ideas, she draws on insights from comparative law, legal history, as well as legal and political philosophy to illuminate the doctrine.聽

Konstanze鈥檚 current research projects include a comparative study of 鈥減ublic property鈥� in different jurisdictions, as well as an inquiry into the different dimensions of standardization in the law of property. Her dissertation, 鈥淐onnecting Independent Owners鈥�, puts forth a comprehensive theoretical account of lesser and limited property rights in the common law.聽

Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in, among others, the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, the 海外直播b站 Law Journal, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and has been included in edited collections. She has been invited to present and discuss her work (in English, French, and German) with audiences working in a range of different jurisdictions and methodological approaches to private law.聽聽

Prior to joining 海外直播b站 Law, Konstanze was a Visiting Researcher and recipient of the Helmut Coing scholarship at the鈥�聽 in the fall of 2022. In 2021-22, she was the Private Law Fellow at Yale Law School鈥檚 . Since 2022, she is co-chairing the Young Property Lawyers鈥� Forum ().听听听

Konstanze trained in Germany and Canada. She holds an LL.B. from Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), the two German 鈥淪taatsexamina鈥� (State Examinations in Law), and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto. She practiced as Associate Lawyer in the areas of Intellectual Property and Litigation in Germany.鈥疉s part of her training, she clerked at the Higher Regional Court of Appeal of Hamburg.聽

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• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, 海外直播b站, incoming聽

• Wainwright Junior Fellow, Faculty of Law, 海外直播b站, 2023聽聽

• Visiting Researcher (Helmut Coing-Scholarship), Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt a.M. (Germany), 2022聽

• Private Law Fellow, Center for Private Law, Yale Law School, New Haven (US), 2021 - 2022聽

• Associate lawyer, CMS Hasche Sigle, Hamburg (Germany), 2014 - 2015聽聽聽

• Judicial clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Appeal, Hamburg (Germany), 2012 - 2014聽聽

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• Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, exp 2023聽

• LL.M., University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, 2016聽

• Second State Examination in Law (~ Bar Exam), Hamburg (Germany), 2014聽

• First State Examination in Law, Hamburg (Germany), 2011聽

• LL.B., Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Germany), 2010聽

Areas of Interest聽

Private Law, especially Property Law, Private Law Theory, Comparative Law, Legal Theory, Equity & Trust Law & Legal History.

Selected Publications聽

鈥淏enjamin N. Cardozo鈥檚 Equitable Method and Judicial Lawmaking鈥檚 Auxiliary Role鈥� (forthcoming, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities)聽

(2022) 66:4 海外直播b站 Law Journal 721鈥�758聽

(2020) 68:3 American Journal of Comparative Law 695鈥�700聽

in Verena Klappstein & Maciej Dybowski, eds, Ratio Legis - Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives (Springer, 2018) 161鈥�186聽