Prof. Dr. iur. Christiane von Bary

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since October 2025	Professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Zurich
March 2019 – September 2025	Senior Research Fellow at the Chair for Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, Prof. Dr. Anatol Dutta, M.Jur. (Oxford), LMU Munich
2025	Call for a professorship in Civil Law with focus on Family Law an Inheritance Law at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (declined)
January 2025	Habilitation at LMU Munich
March 2020 - September 2025	Member of the Young Academy of the Bavarian Acadamy of Sciences and Humanities
September/October 2020 and March 2025	Visiting researcher at the University of Berne, Chair of Prof. Dr. Stephan Wolf
August – October 2021	Visiting researcher at the Cambridge Family Law Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
2016-2018	Legal Trainee (Referendarin) in Munich and Toronto
2014-2017	PhD at the University of Passau Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dennis Solomon, LL.M. (Berkeley); scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation; prize of the Bar Association Munich (RAK München)
2010-2016	Student assistant, then research and teaching assistant at the Chair for Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law, Prof. Dr. Dennis Solomon, LL.M. (Berkeley), University of Passau
2008-2014	Law Studies at the University of Passau, scholarship of the Max Weber-Programm of the German National Merit Foundation

Expert for the German Bundestag (Rechtsausschuss, 2023)
Expert for the Swiss Parlament (Kommission für Rechtsfragen des Nationalrates, 2026)
Liaison Professor for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (since 2026)