Abbo Junker

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Abbo Junker (* 1957 in Wetter an der Ruhr ) is a German legal scholar and professor at the University of Munich .

Life

Junker studied law and business administration at the Universities of Münster and Geneva . He completed his law studies in 1981 with the first state examination in law. Junker then worked as a research assistant in Geneva before receiving a doctoral scholarship for Geneva and Washington DC. He did his doctorate in 1987 with Bernhard Großfeld in Münster. From 1988 to 1991 he was a research assistant there; In 1992 he completed his habilitation, which was accompanied by the award of the venia legendi for civil law, business law, labor law and international private law. In 1993 he took over a professorship in Göttingen , which he held until 2006. Between 1996 and 1997 he was dean of the local law faculty. In 2006 he followed a call to Munich and since then has held the chair for (international) labor law, comparative labor law and civil law as well as director of the Center for Labor Relations and Labor Law (ZAAR). His main research interests are international private and procedural law, as well as labor law, with particular attention to its international connections.

Junker is a member of the German Council for International Private Law, the board of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security [German Section] and the Advisory Board of the Scientific Association for International Procedural Law.

Junker is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

  • Discovery in German-American legal traffic, Washington DC 1987 (dissertation)
  • International labor law in the group, Tübingen 1992 (habilitation)
  • Basic course in labor law, 14th edition, Munich 2015

There are also numerous articles in magazines such as Der "Europäische Betriebsrat" in a comparative law perspective , in JZ 1990, pp. 1100–1106 or European regulations on collective bargaining agreements , in EuZA 7 (2014), 1–16.

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personal data
SURNAME Junker, Abbo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Weather on the Ruhr