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Curriculum Vitae
| Born: |
February 19, 1944 in Füssen/Germany |
| School: |
1950-1963 in Berlin |
| Studies: |
Study of law at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Heidelberg |
| Exams: |
1. state exam (1968);
2. state exam (1972);
Dr. iuris (Heidelberg 1972) |
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Habilitation for civil law, comparative law and private international law (Hamburg 1983) |
Professional activities:
| 1966-1973 |
Scientific collaborator and assistent at the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law of the University of Heidelberg |
| 1973-1983 |
Scientific research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Private Law Hamburg |
| 1983-2009 |
Professor for civil law, private international law and comparative law at the University of Hamburg |
| 1995-2009 |
Part-time judge at the Civil Court of Appeal of Hamburg |
| 1998-2009 |
Director of the Seminar for Foreign and International Private and Procedural Law at the University of Hamburg |
| since 1999 |
Executive Vice-director of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law in Vienna/Austria |
Main subjects of research and lecturing
Law of obligations, esp. tort law and law of damages; international private and commercial law, uniform law, esp. uniform sales law, comparative law
Functions:
| 1973-1975 |
Secretary of the German-French Lawyers Association |
| 1986-1988 |
Dean of the faculty |
| 1988-1993 |
Vice-president of the office for the Integrated lawyers education |
| 1989-1997 |
Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Hamburg |
| since 1995 |
National Correspondent of the Federal Republic of Germany for UNCITRAL |
| since 1997 |
German member of the European Group on Tort Law |
| since 2001 |
Co-speaker (with Prof. Basedow) of the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg |
Selected Tort Law Publications
- Schaden und Ersatz. Eine Rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung zur Ersatzfähigkeit von Einbußen, 379 S. (Beiträge zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht, Bd. 51, Tübingen 1987).
- Einheitliches Schadenesatzrecht - Reformüberlegungen für das österreichische Haftplichtrecht, Gutachten zum 12. Österreichischen Juristentag 1994, 92 S. (Wien 1994).
- Damages for Non-Economic Loss - German Developments in a Comparative Perspective, Internat. Comp. L.Qu. 1990, 675-683.
- European Perspectives of Tort Liability, European Review of Private Law 3 (1995) 427-444.
- Elemente eines europäischen Deliktrechts, ZeuP 1998, 602-614.
- Kollisionsrechtliche Fragen grenzüberschreitender Schäden, in: Koch/Willingmann (Hrsg.), Gorßschäden-Comlez Damages (1998) 129-142.
- Das Schadenskonzept des CISG und transportrechtlicher Konventionen, in: FS Herber (1999) 27-35.
Editor and contributor to various books of the European Group on Tort Law and the ECTIL.
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