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Recent publications

• Haftungsrechtliche Stellschrauben bei der Einführung des automatisierten und autonomen Fahrens [Liability law options for the introduction of automated and autonomous driving], Zeitschrift für das Recht der digitalen Wirtschaft (ZdiW) 2022, pp. 26-32 (co-author with Lukas Beinke)

• Sources of law, in: Alain A. Levasseur, J. Randall Trahan, David Gruning (eds.), The legal system of Germany, Bibliothèque de l’Association Henri Capitant, Durham, North Carolina 2022, pp. 11-18

• Digital Platforms and COVID-19, in: Ewoud Hondius, Marta Santos Silva, Andrea Nicolussi, Pablo Salvador Coderch, Christiane Wendehorst and Fryderyk Zoll (eds.), Coronavirus and the Law in Europe, 2020, Intersentia online, available at www.intersentiaonline.com/bundle/coronavirus-and-the (book in print) (co-author with Gerhard Dannemann and Christoph Busch)

• Liability for Self-Driving Cars: Law, Ethics and Protection of the Car Industry, in: Alain Strowel and Christophe Lazaro (eds.), Des Véhicules Autonomes à l'Intelligence Artificielle, Larcier, Bruxelles 2020, pp. 133-152.

Ten selected publications

• Commentary to §§ 312-312i BGB (Consumer contracts), §§ 675-676c BGB (Service contract and payment services), Vor §§ 854-1296 BGB (Property Law), §§ 854-872 BGB (Possession), Vor §§ 903-924 BGB (Property), §§ 903-905 BGB, Vor §§ 929-1011 BGB (Acquisition and loss of ownership), §§ 1030-1089 BGB (Usufruct), Vor § 1204, §§ 1204-1296 BGB (Pledge in movables), in: Reiner Schulze, Heinrich Dörner, Ina Ebert, Martin Fries, Siegfried Friesen Thomas Hoeren, Rainer Kemper, Ingo Saenger, Alexander Scheuch, Klaus Schreiber, Hans Schulte-Nölke, Ansgar Staudinger and Volker Wiese (eds.), Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch Handkommentar, 11th ed., Nomos, Baden-Baden 2022 (similarly 2nd to 9th ed. 2000-2019)

• The ELI Model Rules on Online Platforms, in: Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) 2020, pp. 61-70. (co-author with Christoph Busch, Gerhard Dannemann, Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska and Fryderyk Zoll)

• Incorporation of Standard Contract Terms on Websites - Observations on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Consumer Contract Law, European Revue of Contract Law (ERCL) 2019; Vol. 15(2), pp. 103-129

• Europäisierung des Haftungsrechts [Europeanisation of Tort Law], in: Egon Lorenz (ed.), Karlsruher Forum 2015: Europäisierung des Haftungsrechts und des Versicherungsvertragsrechts, mit Vorträgen von Hans Schulte-Nölke und Jürgen Basedow und Dokumentation der Diskussion, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 2016, pp. 5-65

• No Market for ‘Lemons’: On the Reasons for a Judicial Unfairness Test for B2B Contracts, in: European Review of Private Law (ERPL) 2015, pp. 195–216

• ‘Restatements’ in Europe and the US: Some Comparative Lessons, in: Roger Brownsword, Hans-W. Micklitz, Leone Niglia and Stephen Weatherill (eds.), Foundations of European Private Law, Hart, Oxford, 2011, pp. 11-30

• Arbeiten an einem europäischen Vertragsrecht – Fakten und populäre Irrtümer, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 2009, pp. 2161-2167

• Principles, definitions and model rules of European private law - Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR), Outline Edition, Sellier, Munich 2009, 642 pp. (co-editor with Christian von Bar and Eric Clive)

• EC Consumer Law Compendium – The Consumer Acquis and its transposition in the Member States, Sellier, Munich 2008, 529 pp. (co-editor with Christian Twigg-Flesner and Martin Ebers)

• Das Reichsjustizamt und die Entstehung des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs (IUS COMMUNE, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Bd. 71), Klostermann, Frankfurt 1995, XIX, 378 pp. (Doctoral thesis, Münster 1994)

Full list of publications, 1995-2022