Franziska Elisabeth Seitz

Franziska Elisabeth Seitz serves as a Researcher at the Institute for Private International and Comparative Law, University of Bonn, under the Chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Birke Häcker, MA (Oxford), a position held since April 2025. Her work centers on transnational legal analysis within European academic frameworks.

Her academic credentials include:

• First legal examination passed at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (April 2024)
• Law studies at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn specializing in private international law and comparative law (October 2019–March 2025)
• Foundational law studies at the University of Bayreuth (October 2017–September 2019)

Seitz's research investigates jurisdictional intersections in contract and tort law between German and English legal systems, examining how national doctrines interact with European harmonization initiatives. Her methodology emphasizes doctrinal comparison of civil codes and common law precedents, with practical implications for cross-border dispute resolution in the EU single market.

No scientific awards are documented in available sources.

Information regarding graduate student supervision or externally funded research grants is absent from current records.

She operates within the Institute for Private International and Comparative Law's research ecosystem at Bonn, contributing to collaborative projects on private law unification under Professor Häcker's leadership, with emphasis on empirical analysis of judicial reasoning across jurisdictions.