Oscar Szerkus

Oscar Szerkus is a Berlin-based lawyer and novelist. In 2002 he moved with his parents from Poland to Germany, where he attended high school and college. After graduating from Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty of Law, he started independent research with Prof. Dr. Ignacio Czeguhn on wartime jurisdiction in occupied Poland in WWII. During this time, he retained a position as research assistant in Private International Law with Prof. Dr. Oliver L. Knöfel at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He is the author or co-author of numerous academic papers; in 2018 he published his first novel.