Knut Benjamin PISSLER is the Vice Director of the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies.

He has headed the China Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law since 2002. He is also Professor of Chinese Law at the University of Göttingen, where he was appointed in 2017.

PISSLER completed degrees in law at the University of Würzburg and in law and sinology at the University of Hamburg. After passing the first state law examination in Hamburg in 1996, he received a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for language studies and research at the University of Nanjing. Pißler passed the second state law examination in Hamburg in 2000. He then conducted doctoral research at the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Nanjing until 2002 with support from a DAAD PhD scholarship.

In 2013 PISSLER completed his post-doctoral thesis at the law faculty of the University of Göttingen. He has lectured Chinese Law at the University of Cologne from 2011 to 2018, was Visiting Professor of Sinology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2014/2015 and Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York in October 2015. In November 2017 he was a visiting lecturer on civil procedure law at the University of Nanjing.

PISSLER is Vice President of the German-Chinese Jurists’ Association (DCJV), the co-editor of the “Schriften zum chinesischen Recht” series on Chinese law, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs and the Editorial Boards of the China-EU Law Journal and the German Journal of Chinese Law (Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht). He is also a founding member of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS).

Knut Benjamin PISSLER(中文名：朴法眼)是中德法学研究所的副所长。

自 2002 年以来，他一直担任马克斯-普朗克私法研究所中国法部负责人。他还是哥廷根大学中国法教授，并于 2017 年被任命为该校教授。

PISSLER 在维尔茨堡大学获得法学学位，在汉堡大学获得法学和汉学学位。1996 年，他在汉堡通过了第一个国家法律考试，之后获得了德意志学术交流中心 (DAAD) 的奖学金，在南京大学进行语言学习和研究。2000 年，他通过了汉堡的第二次州法律考试。之后，在德意志学术交流中心博士奖学金的资助下，他在南京大学中德法律研究院从事博士研究，直至 2002 年。

2013 年，PISSLER 完成了哥廷根大学金沙威尼斯欢乐娱人城的博士后论文(Habilitation)。他曾于 2011 年至 2018 年在科隆大学讲授中国法，2014/2015 年在柏林自由大学担任汉学客座教授，2015 年 10 月在纽约哥伦比亚大学金沙威尼斯欢乐娱人城担任客座法学教授。2017 年 11 月，他在南京大学担任民事诉讼法客座讲师。

PISSLER是德中法学家协会（DCJV）副会长，《中国法学丛书》（Schriften zum chinesischen Recht）的联合编辑，《中国时事杂志》编辑顾问委员会成员，《中欧法学杂志》和《德国中国法学杂志》（Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht）编辑委员会成员。他还是欧洲中国法律研究协会（ECLS）的创始成员。