Jan Peter Schmidt

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Jan Schmidt is Head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Formerly a research assistant at the Institute of European and Comparative Private Law and a Max-Planck-Fellow at the University of Oxford, Schmidt underwent his legal training in Berlin, including work at the German Parliament and the German Embassy in Costa Rica. Schmidt’s main research interests include the law of succession, private law in Latin America and comparative European private law. Schmidt was the 2009 recipient of the Max-Planck-Society’s Otto Hahn medal.