Johannes Ungerer

Global Associate Professor of Law
Home Affiliation: Erich Brost Senior Departmental Research Lecturer in German Law, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

Email: jungerer@nd.edu

Dr Johannes Ungerer is the Erich Brost Senior Research Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.

At Oxford, he has taught Contract Law, Tort Law, EU Law, Comparative Law, and the Conflict of Laws in addition to German Law; he is the founder and organiser of the Oxford Comparative Moot in German Law. He also lectured on Private International Law at Humboldt University Berlin.

His research explores private law from comparative, international, and interdisciplinary perspectives across Common Law and Civil Law traditions as reflected in his publications and presentations. He has collaboratively organised conferences on private international and comparative law.

Outside academia, he has been called upon as court expert on foreign law and as industry consultant.

Prior to his permanent Oxford appointment in 2019, he taught and researched at the University of Bonn, where he also completed his PhD in law. He qualified for the German judiciary and bar; his training placements included the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Bundesverfassungsgericht.