Prof Thomas Hoffmann is Professor of Private Law at TalTech Law School. He graduated (2005) and also obtained his Ph.D in law at the University of Heidelberg (2006). After his admission to the German bar in 2008 and obtaining an LL.M. in Polish business law from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2009), he worked as Associated Lawyer in the real estate department of Noerr LLP in their offices in Kyiv and Berlin. Consecutively he became research fellow at the Institute of East European Law in Kiel, Germany (2009), where he had a special research focus on international insolvency law. In 2011, prof. Hoffmann relocated to the University of Tartu (Estonia) to be appointed DAAD Lecturer in Law. He became Associate Professor at TalTech Law School at Tallinn University of Technology in 2016 and was elected Professor of Private law at the same institute in 2019.

His online CV is available on Estonian Research Portal https://www.etis.ee/CV/Thomas_Hoffmann/eng/