Johannes Platschek

John Platschek (born 1973 in Munich) is a German legal scholar.

He studied from 1993 law at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, where he was the first or second legal state examination in 1998 and 2000. After his doctorate in law. (2003, summa cum laude), he worked from 2004 as an assistant at the Leopold Wenger Institute for History of Law and his habilitation in 2009 for Roman Law, Civil Law, Ancient Legal History and history of private law in modern times.

In September 2009 he became Professor of Roman Law, Civil Law and Modern Private Law at the University of Göttingen. After a short time lecturer at the German-Chinese legal institution of Nanjing University in September 2011, he was accepted in December 2011 as a lecturer at the Scuola di Scienze giuridiche Dottorato in the University of Milano-Bicocca. By February 2012, he was a university professor of Roman Law, was appointed Romanistische foundations of modern rights and Ancient Legal History at the University of Vienna.

To Platschek research interests include the Hellenistic Legal History, the Roman Civil Procedure, the ancient civil law in non-legal sources and the textual criticism of the Roman jurists writings ( Gaius, Digest ).

Writings (selection )

• The ius Verrinum in the case of Heraclius of Syracuse. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Romanistische Department. Tape 118 (2001), pp. 234-263
• Studies on Cicero's speech for P. Quinctius. Munich 2005 (Dissertation)
• Augsburger inscriptions and Roman economic organization. Roman Legal (and other ) associations in the Roman Museum Augsburg. In: Christoph Becker, Hans G. Herrmann (Eds. ): Economics and Law - Historical developments in Bavaria. Münster 2009, pp. 1-19
• The edict De pecunia constituta. The Roman fulfillment of commitment and their embedding in the Hellenistic credit transactions. Munich 2013 ( habilitation thesis )