Stefan Jahn
Dr.iur. | LL.M. (Cambridge)
Researcher (post doc)
Phone
+43 1 4277-29667
Biography
Stefan Jahn studied law at the University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 2021, Dr.iur. 2025), Paris‑Panthéon‑Assas University (Erasmus) and the University of Cambridge (LL.M. 2026). At the University of Vienna, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Antique Legal History and as a University Assistant at the Department of Civil Law. He was a visiting researcher at Kyōto University and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Stefan has been a researcher at the Institute for European Tort Law since 2025.
Main Areas of Research
- Austrian and European tort law
- Other parts of the law of obligations
- Property law
Publications
- „Sorgfaltsmaßstab und quaestio mixta – Überlegungen anlässlich OGH 2 Ob 15/25g, Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht (ZVR) 2025, 318–321 [Standard of care and quaestio mixta: Reflections on OGH 2 Ob 15/25g]
- Verkehrsanschauung und Sozialadäquanz im Haftungsrecht – Grundlegendes zur Bestimmung der gebotenen Sorgfalt in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, in Bartlitz et al (eds), Rechtstatsachen im Privatrecht (2024) 265–295 [Commonly accepted standards and social adequacy in tort law: Fundamentals of determining duties of care in Germany, Austria and Switzerland]
- Comment on OGH 1 Ob 58/23w, Österreichische Jurist:innenzeitung (ÖJZ) 2024, 111 (EvBl 2024/27), 113 [Change of land ownership by construction]
- Schadenersatzrechtliche Entwicklungen in Europa 2022 – Bericht über die 22nd Annual Conference on European Tort Law (ACET), Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht (ZVR) 2023, 431–435 (together with Samuel Loibl) [Developments in European Tort Law 2022: Report on the 22nd Annual Conference on European Tort Law (ACET)]
- Comment on OGH 2 Ob 93/21x, Österreichische Juristen-Zeitung (ÖJZ) 2022, 802 (EvBl 2022/104), 805–806 [Compensation for frustrated expenses]
- Comment on OGH 2 Ob 52/21t and OGH 2 Ob 98/21g, Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht (ZVR) 2022, 306 and 310 (ZVR 2022/142 and 143), 313–316 [Contributory negligence and commonly accepted standards]
Presentations
- 16 June 2026: Kauf bricht Miete, Ars Iuris Annual Conference, University of Vienna [Sale breaks hire]
- 2 June 2025: Rechtskulturen im Dialog: Zum Konzept dinglicher und persönlicher Sachenrechte in der russischen Rechtsentwicklung und im geltenden österreichischen Recht, Legal Lunch Seminar, University of Vienna (together with Anna Novitskaya) [Legal cultures in dialogue: On the concept of real and personal property rights in Russian legal development and current Austrian law]
- 19 February 2025: Die Doppelveräußerung – Altes und Neues zum deliktischen Schutz von Forderungen, 2nd “Mittelbrückenbau-Thesentag”, Vienna University of Economics and Business [Double sale – Old and new perspectives on the tortious protection of claims]
- 9 December 2024: Zur Beeinträchtigung fremder Forderungsrechte, “Juristenrunde” lecture, Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz, Vienna [On the interference with third-party claims]
- 15 September 2023: Verkehrsanschauung und Sozialadäquanz im Haftungsrecht, 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Young Private Law Scholars, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg [Commonly accepted standards and social adequacy in tort law]