Stefan Vogenauer is the Professor of Comparative law at the University of Oxford (England) and the Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. He read law in Germany, France and England and obtained his professional qualification in Germany. Apart from comparative law, his main research interests are in international uniform law, European legal history and legal method. He currently co-organizes a major Anglo-German research project on the emerging European law of contract and its impact on English and German law.

 

At Oxford, Professor Vogenauer has taught classes in “European Private Law: Contract,” “Transnational Commercial Law,” “Roman Law of Contract,” “Problems in Contract and Tort (German and English Law Compared),” “Introduction to Comparative Law” and “The Common Law for Civil Lawyers.”

 

Recent publications include his Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) (Oxford University Press 2009), Reforming the French Law of Obligations: Comparative Observations on the Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription (the ‘Avant-projet Catala’) (Hart Publishing 2009), Content and Meaning of National Law in the Context of Transnational Law (Sellier European Law Publishers 2009) and Ius Commune Casebook for the Common Law of Europe: Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law (Hart Publishing 2010) (all co-edited).