In the winter semester 2025/2026, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren is on a research sabbatical at the European University Institute in Fiesole. There he will be researching the interdependencies between the AI Regulation (AI Act) and general civil law in collaboration with the research group led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Streinz.
The compulsory lectures of the chair, in particular the lecture on commercial and business law, will be taken over by PD Dr. Dimitrios Parashu during this period.
From September 2000 to April 2005, he studied law at the Faculty of Law at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and graduated with a degree in law. He then completed his legal clerkship in Greece from August 2005 to August 2007. At the same time, from October 2005 to September 2007, he took up supplementary studies at the Law Faculty of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover in the field of “European Legal Practice”, which he completed with the title Magister Legum Europae (MLE). From October 2007 to November 2011, he studied for a doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover under Prof. i.R. Dr. Jörg-Detlef Kühne, which he successfully completed with a doctorate in law on November 30, 2011. He also passed the Greek second state examination in November 2007. In May 2023, he habilitated at the Faculty of Law of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover.
