Panel Discussion "AI in Education and Law"

• at the conference "Usos comerciales de la inteligencia artificial", Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican Republic, 04 December 2025

The UNIDROIT Principles as a means to interpret or supplement domestic law

• as part of the lecture series "Martes de UNIDROIT – Aspectos esenciales sobre los Principios UNIDROIT", Universidad Andina del Cusco, Peru (online), 25 November 2025

Panel Discussion "Ethical AI"

• On invitation of the German-Irish Lawyers and Business Association, Irish Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main, 08 October 2025

Governing Relations: Where Is Contract Law?

• Multi-disciplinary Workshop at the University of Reading, 16 September 2025

UNIDROIT's Responses to the Pandemic

• at the conference "COVID-19 and its Impact on the Changing World of Law", City University Hong Kong, 21/22 June 2025

Contract Validity and Termination

• Round Table Discussion – Part 1, University of Macau, 18 June 2025

• Round Table Discussion – Part 2, Chinese Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, 19 June 2025

Finding the Core: Determining the "Preponderant Part" of Complex Transactions under the CISG

• Expert Round Table, Annual MAA International Commercial Law & Arbitration Conference, Vienna, 11 April 2025

How Is This Still a Thing: The CISG Exclusion Routine

• Freshfields Round Table, Frankfurt, 21 January 2025

Damages in Cases of Corruption

• UNCAC Coalition Victims of Corruption Working Group (online), 29 May 2024

Robojudge vs. Alphazero – Warum Computer besser Schach spielen als Recht sprechen

• Workshop "Der Robojudge", Legal Revolution fair, Nuremberg, 14 March 2024

After Adopting the CISG: The Next Steps

• Conference "Accession to CISG by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Its Impact on the Middle East", Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, 5 March 2024

Lieferkettenvertragsrecht

• German-Dutch Legal Practice Day, CPO Nijmegen, 17 November 2023

Alternativen zur strafrechtlichen Korruptionsbekämpfung

• Trierer Institut für Geldwäsche- und Korruptions-Strafrecht (TriGeKo), Trier University, 25 October 2023

Smart Contracts as a Test for Traditional Connecting Factors in Private International Law

• 9th Journal of Private International Law Conference, Singapore, 5 August 2023

Contracting for Human Rights - How new obligations on corporate sustainability due diligence stir up traditional contract law

• 114th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Oxford Brookes University, 27 June 2023

Digitale Eigenmacht - Der BGH tritt bei smart contracts auf die Bremse

• Conference "Der Vertragsschluss im Zeitalter der digitalen Revolution", Legal Revolution, Nuremberg, 4 May 2023

Ein neuer Konkurrent für Schiedsgerichte? – Die Frankfurter Kammer für internationale Handelssachen

• Keynote speech, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, 28 April 2023

Auf dem Weg zum Robo-Judge

• "Research Day", Frankfurt UAS, 1 December 2022

The UNIDROIT Principles and the Inflexibility of Code as Law: Reconciling Smart Contracts with General Clauses

• Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting, UNIDROIT, Rome, 6 October 2022 (with Pietro Ortolani)

Damages in Corruption Cases

• UNODC Implementation Review Group expert meeting, Vienna, 7 September 2021

Korruption – Verträge im Schatten des Rechts

• 60th anniversary of the Institute for East European Law, Kiel University, 11 October 2019

Unternehmensverantwortung in Lieferketten

• Würzburg University, 20 June 2018

Ethical Standards and Contract Compliance under the CISG

• 9th Annual Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, Vienna, 23 March 2018

Crossed Influences between German Law and EU Law

• Université Catholique de Lyon, 1 December 2016

Die Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts – Ein Anstoß für mehr Rechtswahlfreiheit im internationalen Vertragsrecht?

• Bremen, 8 April 2016

Restitutionary Remedies in Asset Recovery

• 3rd Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, Geneva, 3 November 2014

The Effects of Corruption in International Commercial Contracts

• XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law, Vienna, 21 July 2014

Wachstumsbranche Anti-Korruptions-Compliance

• General Meeting Eurojuris Deutschland, Bremen, 20 September 2013

The Swiss Proposal – Building on Shaky Grounds?

• MAA Annual Schlechtriem Memorial Conference, Vienna, 21 March 2013

The System of Remedies – Core of the CESL?

• Maastricht European Private Law Institute, 15 June 2012

Settlements in Foreign Bribery Cases

• International Corruption Hunters Alliance, Washington, 5/6 June 2012

Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery

• International Corruption Hunters Alliance, Washington, 5/6 June 2012

The CISG – Three Decades of (More or Less) Success

• University of Florida, 11/12 November 2011

Contracts Tainted by Corruption – Emerging Standards and Remaining Gaps in International Arbitration

• Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre, 13–17 June 2011

Unternehmen als Opfer von Korruption

• Erfa-Kreis OWL-Syndici, Osnabrück, 19 May 2011

The Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery – Some Case Examples from Private Law

• World Bank/OECD Conference, Paris, 11 October 2010

Der Korruptionseinwand in internationalen Schiedsverfahren

• DIS40, Hamburg, 12 August 2010

The Corruption Defence in International Arbitration

• 4th Arab Conference for Commercial and Maritime Law, Alexandria, 29/30 May 2010

Damages and Disgorgement in Cases of Corruption

• World Bank Practitioners' Workshop on Asset Recovery, Marseille, 3–5 May 2010

A Legal Framework for International Emissions Trading – an Introduction

• Keynote speech, Bremen, 30 September 2009

Producers' Liability between the Consumer Sales Directive and the Product Liability Directive

• Università degli Studi di Sassari, 22–25 May 2009

Der Siemensskandal unter haftungsrechtlichen Gesichtspunkten

• Kassel University, 13 January 2009

Die zivilrechtlichen Folgen der Korruption

• ZAKS Bremen, 17 September 2008

Combating Corruption by Means of Private Law – The German Experience

• Bremen, 14–15 March 2008

Die Bekämpfung der Korruption als Aufgabe für das Zivilrecht

• Düsseldorf, 7 September 2007

The Use of Comparative Law in the Reform of the German Law of Obligations

• Warsaw University, 11 December 2006