Prof. Dr. Frederick Rieländer, LL.M. (Cambridge)

Frederick Rieländer holds the position of Full Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Bremen. He was appointed as Full Professor in 2023, having joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Bremen in 2022 as an Acting Professor. Frederick previously held the positions of Acting Professor at the University of Münster (2022), Acting Professor at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) (2021/2022), Acting Professor at the University of Mainz (2021), Acting Professor at the University of Bremen (2020/2021), Acting Professor at the University of Gießen (2020), and Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Osnabrück (2011–2020). He studied law at the University of Osnabrück. He passed his first state examination in 2011 as best of the year and his second state examination in 2015 as second-best of the state of Lower Saxony. In 2013, Frederick obtained his doctorate at the age of 27 with “summa cum laude”, and in May 2020, his habilitation at the age of 34, both with comparative private law theses supervised by Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christian von Bar, FBA, MAE at the University of Osnabrück. In the meantime, he completed a Master’s Degree at the University of Cambridge (2018/2019), funded through a Cambridge Trust Scholarship.

Frederick has wide-ranging teaching and research interests across the field of private law and private international law, but a particular interest in common European property law, fundamental conflict-of-laws issues concerning digital technologies and international family law. His most notable publications are his books Mehrstufige Belastungen (Mohr Siebeck, 2021) and Sachenrechtliche Erwerbsrechte (Sellier European Law Publishers, 2014). Furthermore, Frederick has published in the most renowned legal journals (i.a. AcP, ICLQ, JPrivIntL, RabelsZ, ZHR, ZVglRWiss, ZZP, JZ, IPRax, FamRZ, RIW and EuZW) and has contributed as author and commentator to leading commentaries and handbooks (e.g. the new beck-online Großkommentar Zivilprozessrecht, the Commentaries on European Business Law as well as Soergel (founder), BGB-Großkommentar).

Frederick participated as Special Reporter in a comparative law research project of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) on “Civil Liabilities of Credit Rating Agencies” in 2022/23. He is also a member of the Working Group on the Law Applicable to Digital Assets der European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL), the European Law Institute, the Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht, the Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung, the Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung as well as the Vereinigung der Zivilprozessrechtslehrer.