research stay in Edinburgh as part of the dissertation, grand-aided by the PhD scholarships of the German Historical Institute London and the Gerda Henkel Foundation

2006-2009

legal clerkship (Referendariat)

lecturer at the Chair of Legal History, Ecclesiastical Law, Legal Theory and Private Law, Prof. Dr. Andreas Their M.A., Faculty of Law, University of Zurich

doctoral thesis in legal history: “Scutage and Army-tax. A comparative study of the development of feudo-vassalic legal structures through the commutation of vassalic military services into money-payments in Norman and early Angevin England and the Staufen Empire” (“Schildgeld und Heersteuer. Eine vergleichende Studie zur Entwicklung lehnsrechtlicher Strukturen durch die Umwandlung vasallitischer Kriegsdienste in Geldabgaben im normannisch-frühangevinischen England und staufischen Reich”)

supervisor: Dr. Andreas Thier M.A., Chair of Legal History, Ecclesiastical Law, Legal Theory and Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Zürich

grade: summa cum laude

The dissertation was awarded with the prize of the German Legal History Conference (2014), the Professor Walter Hug Prize (2014) and the Orelli annual award of the faculty of law at the University of Zürich.

postdoctoral research fellow in the project “Regulating early modern finance markets. The beginnings of governmental regulation of credit markets in the Holy Roman Empire between 1500 and 1800” (“Die Regulierung frühneuzeitlicher Finanzwirtschaft. Zu den Anfängen hoheitlich-normativer Steuerung des Kreditwesens im Heiligen Römischen Reich zwischen 1500 und 1800”), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation; project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thier M.A.