Curriculum Vitae
Chair
Civil law and German Legal History
Academic functions
University
Professor (Professor for German and European Civil Law); Co-Director of
the Centre for European Private Law; Director of the Institute for
International Business Law, (Department IV); Director of the Institute for
Legal History (Department of the History of German and European Private
Law); Director of the Institute for Co-operative Enterprises.
Curriculum Vitae
Born
Berlin, 1948; Abitur at the Lilienthal Gymnasium, Berlin, 1968; legal
studies and First State Exam, 1973; doctorate in law at the University of
Frankfurt a.M., 1976; Second State Exam, 1978; research assistant for
Gerhard Dilcher at the University of Frankfurt a.M., 1979 - 80;
postdoctoral qualification sponsored by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft 1980 – 82; qualification as professor at the
University of Frankfurt a.M., 1983; deputised as professor in Constance,
Frankfurt, Regensburg and Trier 1984 –1988; Professor for Civil Law,
German and Modern European Legal History, University of Trier, 1989 –
1994; from 1994 Professor for German and European Civil Law and Director
of the Institute for International Business Law, the Institute for Legal
History, University of Münster; Honorary Professorship of the University
of Miskolc, Hungary.
Further activities
Co-editor
of the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privaterecht (ZeuP); Zeitschrift für
Neuere Rechtsgeschichte (ZNR); the Schriften zum Europäischen Privatrecht
and the Schriften zur Europäischen Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte ;
member of the Academy of European Private Law Scientists, Pavia; member of
the Supervisory Committee of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance
Law, Vienna; judge at the Higher Regional Court, Hamm.
Specialist areas of legal research
European
Business and Consumer Law; the general law of obligations (in particular,
breach of performance and tort law); law of co-operative enterprises and
franchising; European history of private law (in particular the 19th
century); history of European Community law.
August 2001
