Lecturer

Dipl-Jur ( Bonn), LLM (Edinburgh), PGCHE (Warwick), FHEA, Rechtsanwalt

Email: christopher.bisping@le.ac.uk  
Telephone: 0116 252 2365

Christopher joined Leicester in April 2008 from the University of Warwick, where he was the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Lektor in German Law. He has worked as a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut for foreign and international private law in Hamburg, Germany, and was a member of the working team on credit securities of the Study Group on a European Civil Code. Christopher was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his achievements in teaching and learning in 2010-11; he was made a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2011.

Research Interests

Comparative Law, Conflict of Laws, Contract Law, Personal Property, Credit and Security

Selected Publications

• “Consumer Protection and Overriding Mandatory Rules in the new Rome I Regulation”, in J Devenney and M Kenny, European Consumer Protection – Theory and Practice, (forthcoming, CUP 2012)
• “Turbulence Ahead – of Volcanic Ash, Frustration and EC Passenger Rights”, (2011) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (LMCLQ) 546
• “The Case Against Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 in Credit Card Transactions”, (2011) Journal of Business Law (JBL) 457
• “Das Leasingrecht in England”, in Martinek/Stoffels/Wimmer-Leonhardt, Handbuch des Leasingrechts (handbook on leasing law), Munich; Beck, 2nd ed, 2008
• “The reform of insolvency law by the Enterprise Act 2002” (with C Jungmann, in German), Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW, Law of International Business) 2003, 930
• “The Classification of Floating Charges in International Private Law“, Juridical Review (JR) 2002, 195

Conference Presentations

• “The right of a fair trial as a principle governing jurisdiction and a prerequisite for the recognition of foreign judgments: recent developments in EU law”, paper presented at Warwick-Giessen conference on fair trial, Coventry, May 2004
• “The extraordinary differences between German and English Law”, paper presented at the German Academic Exchange Service Preparatory Conference in Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, January 2009
• “Consumer Protection and Overriding Mandatory Rules in the new Rome I Regulation”, paper presented at the conference European Consumer Protection – Theory and Practice, University of Leeds, December 2009
• ‘Avoiding the Statutist Trap: The International Scope of the Consumer Credit Act’, Journal of Private International Law Colloquium at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia,October 2010
• “English in German Courts”, paper presented at the Academic Exchange Service Annual Conference in Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, December 2010

Current Teaching

Undergraduate: Contract Law, Conflict of Laws, Commercial Law

Postgraduate: Commercial Conflict of Laws