Saskia Katharina Lettmaier (born 1979) is a German jurist trained in Anglo-American and German law. She is currently a professor of Private Law, European Legal History,[1] Private International and Comparative Law at the University of Kiel where she also serves as a director of the University's Hermann Kantorowicz Institute.[2] Since December 2016, she has also served as a judge at the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig-Holstein, the highest court in civil and criminal matters[3] in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.[4] Her research interests focus on the historical and comparative aspects of private law, especially family and inheritance law, and on the intersection between law and culture.[2]