Hein Kötz

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Hein Kötz (born November 14, 1935 in Schneidemühl ) is a German lawyer , former director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (MPI-PRIV), former judge , former Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and founding president of Bucerius Law School . He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Life

Kötz his doctorate in 1962 at the University of Hamburg Dr. jur., then (1963) acquired a Master of Comparative Law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1970. He then worked from 1971 to 1978 as a full professor at the University of Konstanz . From 1975 to 1978 he was also a judge at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court.

In 1978 he became director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg; He held this post until 2000. In the meantime, he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Hamburg (1981–1998), was also a member of the board of the Society for Comparative Law (1973–2001) and a member of the Science Council (1986–1984) .

Kötz was Vice President of the German Research Foundation from 1986 to 1989. From 1988 to 1991 he was chairman of the humanities section of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and from 1986 to 1991 a member of the law of obligations commission of the Federal Ministry of Justice.

In 1989 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 1997 Hein Kötz was accepted into the British Academy . Hein Kötz has been President of the International Association of Legal Sciences since 2000 . He was also founding president of the Bucerius Law School Hamburg.

Awards

Bibliography (selection)

  • European contract law, Volume I: Conclusion, validity and content of the contract, participation of third parties in the contract. Tübingen: JCBMohr (Paul Siebeck) 1996. 438 pp.
  • Rights of Third Parties. Third Party Beneficiaries and Assignment in: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Vol. III, Chapter 13). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) / Martinus Nijhoff 1992. 102 pp.
  • (with Norbert Horn and Hans G. Leser): German Private and Commercial Law: An Introduction . Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982. XVI, 355 pp.
  • (Ed., With Wolfgang Eith and Dierk Müller-Gindullis): Commercial and company law with principles from the highest court case law . Munich: CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1979. 437 pp.
  • (Ed., With Wolfgang Eith and Dierk Müller-Gindullis): Civil Code with guiding principles from the highest court rulings . Munich and Frankfurt: CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1977. 710 p .; 3rd edition 1985. 745 pp.
  • Tort law . Neuwied: Luchterhand. 9th edition 2001. 291 p. (Since 9th edition with Gerhard Wagner )
  • Social change in accident law (No. 125 of the series of publications of the Juristische Studiengesellschaft Karlsruhe) Karlsruhe: CF Müller 1976. 51 pp.
  • About the style of supreme court decisions . Konstanz: Printing and Publishing House Konstanzer Universitätsverlag GmbH 1973. 31 p. (Konstanzer Universitätsreden No. 62). Printed in RabelsZ 37 (1973) 245-263, in DRiZ 1974, 146-149 and 183-185 and (in Italian translation) in Rivista di Diritto Civile 1978 I pp. 773-792.
  • (with Konrad Zweigert ): Introduction to comparative law in the field of private law . 3rd edition 1996. 729 S. Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck).
  • (with Konrad Zweigert): The liability for dangerous plants in the EEC countries as well as in England and the United States of America . Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1966. 64 pp.
  • Trust and Treuhand, A comparative representation of the Anglo-American trust and functionally related institutes of German law . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1963. 174 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b British Academy (ed.), Online membership directory, archive link ( memento of April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), access date: April 15, 2014
  2. ^ Membership directory: Hein Kötz. Academia Europaea, accessed July 2, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kötz, Hein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl