Mareike Schmidt is Head of a Max Planck Research Group at the Law & Anthropology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her areas of expertise include German and comparative private law, international sales law, products liability law, as well as research on legal education.

With respect to CUREDI topics, her research focuses on cultural and religious diversity in the area of general private law in Germany, i.e. the law of contracts, torts and unjust enrichment as well as property law. In these fields she is currently conducting a systematic study of case law as well as a theoretical analysis, which are the basis for her contribution to the CUREDI database as well as the CUREDI Editorial Board.