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Private Law Development in Context

German Private Law and Scholarship in the 20th Century

Book | 1st edition 2018 | Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
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While common law is developed by the courts and judges and may well be the prime authorities for the development of law, and while French private law is said to be the origin of the idea of modern codification and grand legislatures, German private law can well be seen as the law where the influence of academia is paramount.

It is perhaps fair to say that no other code is as strongly influenced by scholars as the German Civil Code of 1900. Furthermore, in both the past and the present, courts and scholars in Germany are in constant dialogue about the application and interpretation of German and also EU law. Arguably, this is also one of the reasons why German academia plays such a prominent – some may say excessively dominant – role in the European private law discourse and development.

As a result it seems necessary, indeed vital, to shed more light on professors who were highly influential in the development of German private law in the 20th century. They fostered such concepts and ideas as the birth of modern market and institutional regulation, genuine internationalisation, in particular through comparative law, and Europeanisation of private law, ‘social’ areas of the law, particularly labour and consumer law and fundamental rights’ protection between private parties, and equally the law of competition and enterprise.

This book compiles and puts into perspective portraits of 37 professors of private law from Germany, Austria and Switzerland who completed the core of their academic oeuvre in the 20th century. The individual portraits of the life and work of each professor are written by one of their former ‘Schüler’ and taken together show the thread of the intellectual history of legal thinking in 20th century German private law.

Stefan Grundmann is Professor of European Private Law, Transnational Law and Legal Theory at Homboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the European University Institute, Florence. He is also President of the Society of European Contract Law.

Karl Riesenhuber is Professor of Private Law, German and European Commercial and Economic Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and a judge at the Higher Regional Court Hamm.


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Type of product Book
Format Hardback
EAN / ISSN 9781780683928
Weight 1500 g
Status Available
Number of pages xviii
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Feb 21, 2018
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  • Table of contents and preliminary pages
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 1. The Overall Framework of Private Law Academia and Private Law Development
  • Private Law Scholarship and the Development of Private Law in Germany and Beyond
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Scholarship, Methodology and the Intimate Link to Practice as Driving Factors of 'German' Private Law Development
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Private Law Scholars and Private Law Scholarship: Some Remarks on Their Relationship
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Vorsprung Durch Technik: Private Law Scholarship in 20th Century Germany from a Comparative Perspective
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Core Lines of the Discussion - With Particular Emphasis on Scholarship in Times of National Socialism
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 2. Ernst Rabel and Franz Böhm
  • Ernst Rabel (1874-1955)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Franz Böhm (1895-1977)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 3. Methods - Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Theory
  • Franz Wieacker (1908-1994)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Helmut Coing (1912-2000)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Josef Esser (1910-1999)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Konrad Zweigert (1911-1996)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Gerhard Kegel (1912-2006)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Franz Bydlinski (1931-2011)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Peter Schlechtriem (1933-2007)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 4. Business Law, Economic Theory and Transnational Law
  • Walter Scmidt-Rimpler (1885-1975)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Alfred Hueck (1889-1975)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Hans Carl Nipperdey (1895-1968)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Heinrich Kronstein (1897-1972)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Ludwig Raiser (1904-1980)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Wolfgang Hefermehl (1906-2001)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker (1926)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Wolfgang Zöllner
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Wolfgang Fikentscher (1928-2015)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Marcus Lutter (1930)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Peter Ulmer (1933)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Harm Peter Westermann (1938)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Karsten Schmidt (1939)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Peter Doralt (1939)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Klaus J. Hopt (1940)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Gunther Teubner (1944)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 5. Private Law, Doctrinal Thinking and System Building
  • Leo Rosenberg (1879-1963)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Karl Larenz (1903-1993)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Werner Flume (1908-2009)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Ernst von Caemmerer (1908-1985)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Harry Westermann (1909-1986)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Fritz Baur (1911-1992)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Hans Brox (1920-2009)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Joachim Gernhuber (1923)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Dieter Medicus (1929-2015)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Ulrich Huber (1936)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (1937)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Manfred Wolf (1939-2007)
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber
  • Part 6. Conclusions and Outlook
  • Dogma, Internationalisation and Economy - Three Core Features of the Development in the 20th and 21st Centuries
    Stefan Grundmann, Karl Riesenhuber