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AFB Welcomes New President at Bucerius Law School

Law Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Katharina Boele-Woelki began her tenure as President of Bucerius Law School on October 1st, 2015. Boele-Woelki had already joined Bucerius Law School as the Claussen Simon Foundation Professor of Comparative Law, effective September 1st, 2015.

Prior to her arrival at Bucerius Law School, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Katharina Boele-Woelki was a professor of private international law, comparative law, and family law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Boele-Woelki studied law at the University of Göttingen and the Freie Universität Berlin and completed doctoral work at the FU Berlin. She taught and conducted research in the Netherlands beginning in 1982 and served as a member of the Faculty of Law at Utrecht University starting in 1990.

She is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and was elected as President in 2014; she also served as President of the Dutch Association of Family Law and a member of the board of the Dutch Association of Comparative Law. She is a member of the German Society of International Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht) as well as the Academic Association for Family Law (Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Familienrecht). In 2007, she established the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF). She has been the Founding Chair of the Commission on European Family Law since 2001.

Boele-Woelki serves as an editor to several Dutch, South African and European journals and book series including the European Family Law Series. She has organized prestigious international conferences, delivered numerous guest lectures at various universities around the world, was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City and has served as a reporter, speaker, expert and panel member at many international conferences.

AFB is pleased and proud to welcome such an experienced and accomplished individual into her new role as President of Bucerius Law School.