Biography
Stefan Jahn studied law at the University of Vienna (Mag.iur., 10/2016–3/2021) and at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris (Erasmus, 9/2019–1/2020). During this time, he also gained diverse professional experience, particularly as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Roman Law and Antique Legal History of the University of Vienna (3/2018–6/2019, 3/2020–6/2021). Subsequently, he continued working for the University of Vienna as a University Assistant at the Department of Civil Law (4/2021–2/2025). This included research stays at Kyoto University (7–8/2022) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (3–5/2024). Since March 2025, Stefan has been pursuing his research activities at the Institute for European Tort Law and the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law.
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
- 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]