Amsterdam Centre for the Transformative Private Law
Ulrike Babusiaux is a German legal scholar and Professor of Roman Law, Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Zurich.
Babusiaux studied German and French law at the University of Saarland. She obtained the First State Examination in 1999 and the Second State Examination in Law in 2001. In 2005 she received her doctorate from Saarland University under Alfons Burge. Her dissertation on the determination of the will of the parties in classical Roman civil procedure was awarded the Faculty Prize and the Medaglia d'argento of the Seventh Premio Boulvert.
In 2009, Babusiaux habilitated at Saarland University with a thesis on Papinin's Questiones. In the same year, she accepted a professorship at the University of Zurich, where she has since held the Chair of Roman Law, Private Law and Comparative Law. Since 2017, she has also been co-editor of the Savigny magazine.