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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 to 2017 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 Privatrecht" (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 (1996-2005).
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.
Major publications
Articles
- Precontractual Duties and Conclusion of Contract in European Law, due to be published in: ERPL 2005.
- Consumer Law and European Contract Law, in: Tonheukels, van der Grinten (Eds.), Liber Frans van der Velden, Aldershot 2005.
- Symbolische Kommunikation vor Gericht in historisch-vergleichender Perspektive, in: Reiner Schulze (Ed.), Symbolische Kommunikation vor Gericht in der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin 2005.
- European Private Law and Existing EC Law, in: European Review of Private Law (ERPL) 2005, p. 3-19.
- Grundsätze des Vertragsschlusses im Acquis communautaire, in: Zeitschrift für Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht (GPR) 2005, p. 56-64.
- Streitfragen im neuen Schuldrecht, with Martin Ebers, part one, JuS 2004, p. 265-272; part two JuS 2004, p. 366-371; part three, JuS 2004, p. 462-468.
- Gemeinsame Prinzipien des Europäischen Privatrechts, in: Gemeinsame Prinzipien des Europäischen Privatrechts/ Studien eines Forschungsnetzwerks/Common Principles of European Private Law/ Studies of a Research Network, Gianmaria Ajani, Reiner Schulze (Eds.), Baden-Baden 2003, p. 11-21.
- Schuldrechtsreform und Gemeinschaftsrecht, with Hans Schulte-Nölke, in: Die Schuldrechtsreform vor dem Hintergrund des Gemeinschaftsrechts, Hans Schulte-Nölke, Reiner Schulze (Eds.), Tübingen 2001, p. 3-24.
- Allgemeine Rechtsgrundsätze und Europäisches Privatrecht, in: ZEuP 1993, p. 442-474.
Commentary
- Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Handkommentar, editorship, Heinrich Dörner, Ina Ebert, Jörn Eckert, Thomas Hoeren, Rainer Kemper, Reiner Schulze and Ansgar Staudinger (Eds.), 4th edition, Baden-Baden 2005.
Books
- Handbuch der Europäischen Genossenschaft (SCE), Baden-Baden 2004.
- Richterrecht und Rechtsfortbildung in der Europäischen Rechtsgemeinschaft, Ulrike Seif (co-editor), Tübingen 2003.
- Informationspflichten und Vertragsschluss im Acquis communautaire, Martin Ebers and Hans Christoph Grigoleit (co-editors), Tübingen 2003.
- Europäisches Vertragsrecht im Gemeinschaftsrecht,Hans Schulte-Nölke (co-editor) with Ludovic Bernardeau, Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Rechtsakademie Trier, Volume 22, Köln 2002.
- Die Schuldrechtsreform vor dem Hintergrund des Gemeinschaftsrechts, Hans Schulte-Nölke (co-editor), Tübingen 2001.
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