Professor Jens Scherpe
- College positions:
Emeritus Fellow
- Subjects: Law
Degrees
1.State Exam (Berlin); 2.State Exam (Hamburg); PhD (Hamburg); MJur (Oxon); MA (Cantab)
Awards and Prizes
Otto-Hahn-Medal for outstanding research achievements of young researchers (awarded by the Max Planck Society in 2002)
DIS Förderpreis 2003/2004 (awarded for PhD thesis by German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) in 2004)
Other positions
- Chair in Comparative Law at the University of Aalborg
- Director of the Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law at the University of Aalborg
- Director, Cambridge Family Law Centre
- Honorary Professor, University of Aalborg
- Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Honorary Fellow, St. John's College, University of Hong Kong
- Academic Door Tenant, Queen Elizabeth Building, Temple, London
- Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape
Research interests
Family Law; Comparative Law; Comparative Family Law; Tort; Private International Law
Teaching interests
Family Law; Comparative Law; Comparative Family Law
Other interests
Travelling; basketball; Liverpool FC supporter
Selected publications
The Future of Registered Partnerships (Intersentia, 2017). Co-authored with Andy Hayward
The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons (Intersentia, 2016)
The Present and Future of European Family Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)
Full publication list can be found here.