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MPI Insights 2025 Download

MPI Insights 2025
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A selection of our research and special events at the institute in 2025.

Felix Janousek

Research Associate


Phone:+49-89-24246-5341
Fax:+49-89-24246-523
Mail: felix.janousek@tax.mpg.de

Room:M8.520

Portrait Felix Janousek

Areas of Interest

EU law and private law, in particular European private law and corporate law

Academic Résumé

  • Law studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, from 2016 on as a student of the Humboldt European Law School (HELS), funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’) (2015-2019)
  • Student assistant at the Chair of Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law at Humboldt University (Prof. Dr. Axel Metzger, LL.M. (Harvard)) (2016-2019)
  • Master‘s program (Master 1) at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’) (2019-2020)
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Martijn Hesselink, funded by German Academic Scholarship Foundation (‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’) (2020-2021)
  • Teaching assistant at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2021)
  • Legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Munich with placements, among others, in the Global Transactions practice group at Freshfields in Munich and at the European Court of Justice in the cabinet of the President of the European Court of Justice, Prof. Dr. Koen Lenaerts (2022 – 2024)
  • Research associate and doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (since July 2025)

Memberships

  • European Law School Students & Alumni e.V.
  • Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung (DAJV)
  • Förderverein Maison Heinrich Heine e.V.

Current Publications

Herrmann, Liza / Janousek, Felix: Referendarexamensklausur “Chatbots auf Shoppingtour”. In: JuS – Juristische Schulung 2026, forthcoming.
Janousek, Felix: Der gordische Knoten des allgemeinen Schuldrechts: Schadensersatz statt, neben oder wegen Verzögerung der Leistung ... oder doch einfacher Schadensersatz? - Eine abgrenzende Darstellung der §§ 280 ff., 311 a II BGB anhand von Fallbeispielen. In: JURA – Juristische Ausbildung, 2022, p. 538 - 546.
Janousek, Felix: Is Multi-Level Private Law in Europe Efficient? – A Functional Analysis of Remedies in Multi-Level European Private Law in the Case of Flight Delays (LL.M. Thesis). 2021.

MPI Insights 2025 Download

MPI Insights 2025
Download

A selection of our research and special events at the institute in 2025.