Dr Sebastian Stepan advises clients in all areas of private construction law and architecture law. In addition, he assists in issues pertaining to commercial and economic law as well as in the area of intellectual property law, in particular patent, trademark and IT law. He also advises in the field of renewable energies.
- Private construction law
- Architectural law
- Intellectual property rights with a focus on patent, trademark and IT law
- Commercial and economic law
- Energy law
- Litigation
- 2005 - 2012 Law studies at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg and the University of Ottawa, Canada
- 2012 - 2018 Research assistant at the Institut für geschichtliche Rechtswissenschaft (Institute for Historical Jurisprudence) at Heidelberg University
- 2012 and 2013 Research projects at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 2016 PhD (Dr. iur.) at Heidelberg University
- 2016 - 2018 Legal clerkship in the circuit of the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe with stages in Heidelberg und Mannheim
- 2018 Admitted to the German bar
- 2025 Certified Specialist for building and architecture law
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Member of the Board of the Verein zur Förderung der anwaltsorientierten Juristenausbildung (Association to promote lawyer-oriented legal education) at Heidelberg University
- Member of the Heidelberger Rechtshistorische Gesellschaft (Heidelberg Society of Legal History)
- Kommentierung der Erneuerbare Energien Verordnung, beck-online.GROSSKOMMENTAR, Herausgeber: Säcker/Appel/Koch/Ludwigs, 15. Edition 2025 (mit Tödtmann)
- Kommentierung der Verordnung zur Durchführung des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes und des Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetzes (Erneuerbare-Energien-Verordnung – EEV), Berliner Kommentar zum Energierecht, Säcker/Steffens (Herausgeber), 5. Auflage, Berlin 2022 (mit Tödtmann)
- Das Archiv des Q. Cervidius Scaevola, in: Baldus, Christian; Luchetti, Giovanni; Miglietta, Massimo (Hg.); Prolegomena per una palingenesi dei libri‚ ad Vitellium‘ di Paolo; Alessandria 2020
- Scaevola noster. Schulgut in den ‚libri disputationum‘ des Claudius Tryphoninus?, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-155660-9
- “Nel mondo del diritto romano” Roma, 10 y 11 de octubre de 2014 (Tagungsbericht), in: Revista de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos 37 (2015), S. 609-613
- De maestros y discípulos. Observaciones en cuanto al debitum en las obras de juristas clásicos, in: Seminarios Complutenses de Derecho Romano 28 (2015), S. 1069-1084
- „History of Legal Concepts and Historical Individuality of the Classical Roman Jurists“: Conference at Montepulciano, Italy, from June 14 to 17, 2011 or: Should we really think of the fathers of the Civil Law system as interchangea-ble personalities? (Tagungsbericht), in: GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History, 9 (2012)
- Christoph Lundgreen, Regelkonflikte in der römischen Republik: Geltung und Gewichtung von Normen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen; Aloys Winterling (Hrsg.), Zwischen Strukturgeschichte und Biographie: Probleme und Perspektiven einer neuen Römischen Kaisergeschichte: 31 v. Chr. – 192 n. Chr. (Rezension), in: Journal on European History of Law, Vol. 3 / 2012, No. 1, S. 128 f.
- August 2025: Commentary on the Renewable Energy Sources Act by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Tödtmann and Dr. Sebastian Stepan now published in beck-online.Großkommentar
- COVID-19 and construction law: What construction companies and project developers need to consider now - An article by lawyer Dr Sebastian Stepan