Prof. Dr. Natascha Ahmad

Natascha Ahmad
+49 661 9640-2537
+49 661 9640-252

Civil law and commercial law, in particular labour law

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 30, Room 204
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

CV

Academic career

  • Professor of Civil Law and Commercial Law, in particular Labour Law
  • Lectureship in Labour Law, Civil Procedure and Civil Law at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
  • Research assistant at the Federal Labour Court
  • Comparative law doctorate in labour law with Prof. Dr. Manfred Weiss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
  • Research assistant at an international commercial law firm, Frankfurt am Main, while working on her doctorate
  • Law studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and Université Paris X, Nanterre

Professional career

  • Presiding Judge at the Hessian Regional Labour Court
  • Judge at the Frankfurt am Main Labour Court
  • Probationary judge at the Labour Courts of Kassel, Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt am Main
  • Freelancer in a law firm specialising in advising works councils and employees, Offenbach am Main
  • Traineeship at the Regional Courts of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt

Teaching Areas

  • Labour law
  • European labour law
  • International Labour Law

Memberships

  • Part-time member of the Hesse Judicial Examination Office (Examination Division II)

Publications

  • NZA 2018, 1234 - 1243 "Questions of compulsory enforcement in labour court judgment proceedings", together with Horcher
  • AuR 2014, 311 - 318 "Collective perception of rights and individual responsibility - a look at labour law in Germany from a national, French and European perspective", together with Jansen
  • Natter/Groß (since 2nd ed.) Commentary on the Labour Court Act Commentary on sections 46, 47 and 48 ArbGG.
  • AuR 2007, 209 - 210 Book review Simone Kühnast "Die Grenzen zwischen tariflicher und privatautonomer Regelungsbefugnis" (The Boundaries between Collective Agreement and Private Autonomous Regulatory Powers)
  • Groß/Thon/Ahmad/Woitaschek (since 1st ed.), Commentary on the Works Constitution Act. Commentary on sections 111 - 113 and 118 of the Works Constitution Act.
  • Legal protection for and by trade unions in the case of employer behaviour contrary to collective agreements in Germany and France (doctoral thesis 2004)

Further Functions

  • Lecturing activities, inter alia, "Conflicts in working life - legal bases and judicial practice" at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences (2019), training of volunteer judges at the Hessian Regional Labour Court for the DGB (2012 and 2018), lecture "Association action, class action and litigation status - collective perception of rights by trade unions instead of individual responsibility?" at the 4th Frankfurt Labour Law Dialogue (2014).
  • Mediator (also in English)
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