On 17 April 2023, Professor Dr Birke Häcker was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Law in Stockholm. As Birke Häcker is a close and long-standing friend of the SCCL, we are particularly happy about this well-deserved award. The promotion will take place in the City Hall (Stockholms Stadshus) on 29 September 2023 with the usual pomp and circumstance. Since January 2023, Birke Häcker is Schlegel Professor of Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn, where she is also Director of the Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law. Her professorship is [...]