Prof. Dr. Tristan Rohner

Junior Professorship for Civil Law and Economic Law in the Digital Society

Jungiusstr. 6, 20355 Hamburg

Tel.: +49 40307062963
E-Mail: tristan.rohner(at)law-school.de

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Research Focus

  • Competition law and platform regulation, data law, civil law
  • Methodology, interdisciplinarity, design of rules
  • Intersections with sustainable development

Latest publications

  • Nachhaltigkeit und Recht, Lehrbuch in der Reihe „Grundrisse des Rechts“ (mit Rupprecht Podszun), C.H. Beck, 2024
  • Datenherrschaft: Property Rights im Data Act, EuDIR 2025, 10
  • Follow-On und Stand-Alone im digitalen Binnenmarkt – Eine ökonomische Analyse des digitalen Kartellrechts, des DMA und der DS-GVO in Bauermeister/Schwamberger, Private Enforcement im digitalen Binnenmarkt, Mohr Siebeck, 2025, 175
  • Entflechtung von Digitalunternehmen nach § 32f GWB in Becker, Wettbewerb auf digitalen Märkten, Nomos, 2025, 235
  • Empirische Entscheidungsanalyse – Die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse als Vorbild in Meier/Bartlitz et al., Rechtstatsachen im Zivilrecht, Jahrbuch Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaft Nürnberg 2023, Nomos, 2024

Biography

Tristan Rohner has held the Junior Professorship for Civil Law and Economic Law in the Digital Society since August 2024. He is also an associate researcher at SCiDA - Shaping Competition in the Digital Age and a habilitation candidate under Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He was previously a research assistant there. He received his doctorate from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 2022 with the thesis "Art. 102 AEUV und die Rolle der Ökonomie" (Article 102 TFEU and the Role of Economics), which won several awards.

Tristan Rohner studied law with additional training in economics in Bayreuth. He passed his first state examination in 2014. He completed his legal clerkship in Berlin and passed his second state examination in 2017. From 2020 to 2021, he was an assistant notary at the Rheinische Notarkammer.

Tristan Rohner is a Junior Member of ASCOLA (Academic Society for Competition Law), a member of the Gesellschaft Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaft e.V., a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI) and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Heine Law Review.