Wolfgang Hermann Wernher Ernst (born 1956 in Bonn, Germany[1]) is a German lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford.
[1][3] He took his comprehensive examination in 1981 in Bonn and continued his studies 1981–82 at Yale University to achieve a Master of Laws (LL.M.).
[1][3][4] From 1990 to 2000, he lectured at the University of Tübingen as ordentlicher Professor for Roman and private law.
[1][3] He held further visiting assignments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010) and as Herbert Smith Visitor (2012) in Cambridge.
[1] In 2015, the Prime Minister announced Ernst as successor of Boudewijn Sirks and the second German legal scholar after David Daube as Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford.