Jens M. Scherpe

Jens M. Scherpe is Professor of Comparative Law at Aalborg University. Until August 2022, he was Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge and the Director of Cambridge Family Law. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and the editor of the International Journal of law, Policy and the Family (IJLPF).

He has held visiting positions i.a. at universities in Sydney, Auckland, London, Vienna, Leuven, Barcelona, Padua, Louvain-la-Neuve and Melbourne and currently is Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

He also is Academic Door Tenant at queen Elizabeth Building, London, and has acted as consultant in cases in England, Germany, Hong Kong and Belgium, including Radmacher v Granatino [2009] EWCA Civ 649, Z v Z (No 2) [2011] EWHC 2878 (Fam) and SA v SPH [2011] HKCFI 1649 (HCMC 1/2011) and CACV 99/2012.