Josef Bongartz

Josef Bongartz serves as Professor of Private and Business Law at Furtwangen University since 2023. Previously, he held judicial positions at Landgericht Baden-Baden (2022-2023) and Staatsanwaltschaft Mosbach (2020-2022), alongside extensive legal internships across administrative, criminal, civil, tax, and family law domains.

His academic foundation includes:

• State Examination in Law (Staatsexamen) from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Magister Artium in Philosophy, Catholic Theology, and Public Law from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Professor Bongartz's research integrates Business Law, Civil Law, and Civil Procedure with behavioral economics, examining judicial decision-making heuristics in resource-constrained environments. His work critically analyzes mass legal procedures driven by digitalization and artificial intelligence, while maintaining active scholarship in Inheritance Law, Family Law (including parental responsibility frameworks), and Legal History spanning the Early Modern Period to the 20th Century.

His teaching portfolio encompasses Business Law, Commercial and Corporate Law, Arbitration, EU Trade and Consumer Law, Economic Criminal Law and Compliance, and Business Ethics.