About the Speaker

Konstanze von Schütz is an Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, specializing in private law and private law theory, with a focus on property law. Her work explores how private law reflects and shapes human relationships, drawing on comparative law, legal history, and philosophy.

Her current research includes a comparative study of “public property” and an analysis of standardization in property law. Her dissertation, “Connecting Independent Owners,” offers a theoretical account of limited property rights in common law. Konstanze’s writing appears in leading journals such as the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and the McGill Law Journal. She frequently presents her work internationally in English, French, and German.

Before McGill, Konstanze was a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute and a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Private Law. She co-chairs the Young Property Lawyers’ Forum and holds degrees from Bucerius Law School, the University of Toronto, and Germany’s legal qualification exams. She practiced law in Germany, specializing in intellectual property and litigation.

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