Projects

• law of obligations (commentary and textbook)
  
• history of private law (textbook)
  
• history of codification (creation of the German Civil Code, reform of the German law of obligations, Swiss law of obligations)
  
• lecture notes on Roman Law
  
• comparative legal history (commonwealth history of colonial law and its relevance in the age of globalization)

English and Italian publications

For a complete list (including German publications) see here.

• Heineccius and the Foundation of German Legal History, forthcoming
• Historical Interpretation of the German Civil Code: Limits of Legal Theory, forthcoming
  
• Lawful and Unlawful Lies, in: Conference proceedings Lying and Related Fictions, forthcoming
  
• History of Codification as a Digital Humanities Project, in: Tagungsband Napoli - Caserta, forthcoming
• The Polish Contribution to the Revolution 1848/49 in Baden, in: Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica, forthcoming 2020
  
• Domestic Private Law in the usus modernus of Kiel Law Faculty, in: Iurisdictio. Storia e prospettive della giustizia, N. 1-2020 - saggi 5, pp. 201-220
  
• M. Luts-Sootak/F.L. Schäfer (eds.), Law and Economics in Urban and Rural Environment, 9th Conference in Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area, 2020
• Codices iuris Lubecensis: A Comparison of Medieval Manuscripts, in: M. Luts-Sootak/F.L. Schäfer (eds.), Law and Economics in Urban and Rural Environment, 9th Conference in Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area, 2020, pp. 339-370
  
• Transition from Feudal to Modern Society: The Impact of the Abolition of Serfdom on German Private Law, in: Legal Science: Functions, Significance and Future in Legal Systems: Collected conference papers of the 7th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia, 2019, S. 25-34
• L‘interpretazione storica del Codice Civile tedesco: il valore limitato della storia del diritto, in: Revista Aequitas: Estudios sobre Historia, Derecho e Instituciones 13 (2019) 85-104
• G. Dilcher, Die Germanisten und die Historische Rechtsschule: Bürgerliche Wissenschaft zwischen Romantik, Realismus und Rationalisierung, 2017, in: forum historiae iuris 2019.
• The Ivory Tower Meets Everyday Life, review of: D. Kästle-Lamparter, Welt der Kommentare. Struktur, Funktion und Stellenwert juristischer Kommentare in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2016, in: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Rg 26 (2018) 363-365
• Judge Made Law beyond the German Civil Code, in: J. von Hein u.a. (Hg.), Relationship between the Legislature and the Judiciary: Contributions to the 6th Seoul-Freiburg Law Faculties Symposium, 2018, 89-108
  
• Religion and the Drafting of the Saxonian Civil Code, in: Krakowskie Stida z Historii Państwa i Prawa  Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa 2017, 10 (1) 1-16
• Human Dignity: Key Principle of the German Constitution?, in: Collection of Research Papers in Conjunction with the 6th International Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia: Constitutional Values in Contemporary Legal Space II, 16-17 November 2016, 2017, 20-30
• The Decline of Liberal Private Law in Germany during World War I Quaderni Del Dipartemento Jonico, n. 4/2016, 93-104
• Playground of Ideologists? Family Law in West Germany after 1968, in: D. Janicka (Hg.), Judiciary and Society between Privacy and Publicity. 8th Conference on Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area (8th Conference on Legal History in the Baltic Sea Area, 3rd-6th September 2015, Toruń), 2016, 175-211