Jan von Hein Jan von Hein is a professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds a chair in German, Comparative and Private International Law and serves as a Director of the Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Department III. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Trier from October 2007 to March 2013, a senior research fellow at the Max- Planck-Institute for Comparative and Private International Law (Hamburg; 1998–2007), and a Joseph Story Research Fellow at Harvard Law School (1997–98). Von Hein holds both German state examinations and a Ph.D. as well as a Habilitation in Law from the University of Hamburg. Since 2009, he is a member of the German Council for Private International Law, a select group of law professors acting as advisors to the Federal Ministry of Justice; since 2014, he chairs the Council’s 2 nd Commission, dealing with matters of international commercial law. Von Hein received the 1998 Otto-Hahn-Medal for outstanding scientific achievements from the Max- Planck-Society for his doctoral dissertation and he was awarded the 2008 research prize of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut for a monograph on the reception of U.S. corporate law in Germany. The latter book was also honoured as one of the legal books of the year by two leading German periodicals, the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) and the Juristenzeitung (JZ). Von Hein is the volume editor of one of the leading commentaries on German private international law, the Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch (vols. 10 and 11, 6th ed. 2015), as well as the author of a standard commentary on the Brussels I-Regulation ( Kropholler/von Hein , Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht, 9th ed. 2011). Apart from that, he has published numerous law review articles, mainly on private international law, international civil litigation and comparative corporate law. .