PD Dr. Knut Benjamin Pißler is part-time lecturer at the chair of Chinese Legal Culture and senior research fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg.

Curriculum Vitae

• Studies of law at the Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (1991-1993)
• Studies of law and sinology at the University of Hamburg (1993-1996, Magister Artum 2007)
• First state examination in Hamburg, November 1996
• Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for language studies and research at the University of Nanjing (1996-1997)
• Law clerk in Hamburg (1999-2000)
• Second state examination
• Ph.D.-scholarship awarded for research at the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Nanjing (2000-2002)
• Junior research fellow at the Max Plank Institute of Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (2001-2002)
• Senior research fellow at the Max Plank Institute of Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (since 2002)
• 2003 Ph.D. Hamburg. Scholarship awarded by the Korea Legislations Research Institute (KLRI) for language studies and research at Yongsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea (September 2004 - March 2005)
• Lecturer on Chinese law and governance at the International Center for Graduate Studies (ICGS) of the University of Hamburg (2005-2007)
• Guest lecturer on Chinese business law at the City University of Hongkong (March 2007). Research at the KLRI in Seoul (November 2008- January 2009)
• Lecturer on Chinese law at the University of Göttingen (since 2007) and at the University of Cologne (since 2011)
• 2013 post-docorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Göttingen. Visiting professor at Frei Universität Berlin (Octoer 2014 - Marc 2015)