Johannes Platschek (born 1973 in Munich, Germany) is a German legal scholar.
His research interests include Hellenistic Legal History, Roman Civil Procedure, ancient civil law appearing in non-legal sources, and the textual criticism of the Roman jurists writings (Gaius, Justinian's Digest).
He passed his first state legal examination in 1998; his second state legal examination in 2000, and in 2003 he finished his doctorate, summa cum laude, with a dissertation on Cicero's Pro Quinctio under the direction of Professor Dr. Dieter Nörr.
[2] Starting in 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Munich's Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research, where he finished his Habilitation ('Das Edikt De pecunia constituta') in 2009 (in Roman Law, Civil Law, Ancient Legal History, and the history of private law in modern times).
[6] In 2015, he became Professor of Roman Law, Ancient Legal History, and Civil law, and also assumed the position of Director of the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research, at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as the successor to Prof. Dr. Alfons Bürge.