Benno Heussen

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Benno Heussen (born May 18, 1944 ) is a German lawyer , arbitrator (in the legal field) and scientist .

Life

Benno Heussen comes from a Rhenish family of architects whose Protestant branch has retained the Dutch family name Huyssen . His father, Felix Heussen, worked in the architectural office of Ernst Sagebiel in 1940 during the construction of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin and after 1948 in the architecture office of the later Federal President Heinrich Lübke . Heussen grew up in Düsseldorf , attended the Aloisiuskolleg grammar school in Bad Godesberg with his three brothers from 1955 to 1963 , and studied law in Berlin, Freiburg and Munich. In 1972 Heussen was awarded a Dr. jur. at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Peter Lerche with a constitutional opinion.

Heussen is married to Helma Heussen (née Ante) for the second time, he has two daughters from his first marriage and lives in Berlin.

Professional development

After working for the law firms Sieghart Ott and Otto Gritschneder, he was admitted to the Munich bar in 1973, where he and three other partners founded the law firm Heussen Braun von Kessel, who later joined Reiner Ponschab. Since 1992 he has headed the Berlin branch.

The law firm Heussen Braun von Kessel initially merged with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek (1997–2000). After this merger was separated again, there was a merger with PricewaterhouseCoopers Veltins Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, today's HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH. It now has several locations in Germany, and representative offices in New York and Brussels as well as cooperation with HEUSSEN Netherlands (Amsterdam) and HEUSSEN Italy (Rome, Milan).

From 2004–2008 he worked as Of-Counsel (advisor) at HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and supervised a. a. the Christoffel blind mission ProBono. The main focus of activity during this time was national and international arbitration proceedings and advice on conflict management.

Scientific work

From mid-1980, Heussen specialized in computer law and founded the information technology and media working group in his law firm. Together with Wolfgang Kilian , he published the computer law manual at CH Beck in 1990 - it is considered one of the standard works in this area (32nd edition 2013). After teaching positions at the Technical University of Munich , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover ("Uni Hanover"), he became honorary professor at the University of Hanover in 2003.

Until 2012 he was a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Law and Informatics (DGRI) for several years . After the first generation of lawyers who founded legal informatics ( Herbert Fiedler , Wilhelm Steinmüller, Hans Peter Bull, Fritjof Haft , Alfred Podlech, Bernhard Schlink and others, see legal informatics ), he belongs to the second generation of lawyers, who, alongside the university teachers, belong to the second generation Generation ( Maximilian Herberger , Thomas Hoeren , Alexander Roßnagel and others) strive for the theory of practice in this special field (Christoph Zahrnt, Jochen Schneider, Michael Bartsch, Hans-Jürgen Garstka, Frank A. Koch, Peter Bräutigam and others). In his academic work, he advocated open source models alongside proprietary approaches.

Outside of IT law, he has also written numerous books and articles in the field of law and economics - or has been responsible for editing (Beck'sches Rechtsanwalts Handbuch, 10th edition. 2011; Entrepreneur Manual, CH Beck , 2005).

Heussen has written theoretical papers on the organization, tactics and psychology of negotiation. To this end, he held courses in China and Vietnam in 2004/2005 in cooperation with InWEnt . Since 2010 he has dealt with current affairs and publishes regularly on this in the magazine Merkur - German magazine for European thinking .

Heussen has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Foundation (Foundation for the Advancement of Science) since March 2014 .

Participation in arbitration proceedings

In addition to many years of work in arbitration for the International Chamber of Commerce based in Paris (ICC) and - from 1990 - the German Institution for Arbitration based in Cologne (DIS), he founded the German Society for Business Mediation (GWMK) in 1998 together with Reiner Ponschab , today: European Institute for Conflict Management (EUCON).

German Lawyers Association

Heussen was a member of the board of directors of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV) from 1999 to 2007, where he founded the information technology working group and the law firm management working group in 1999.

Honors

Benno Heussen Prize

In 2010 the Office Management Working Group awarded him the Benno Heussen Prize .
In 2014 this prize was awarded for the second time - this time to Dr. Willi Oberlander, Managing Director of the Institute for Liberal Professions at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen.
In 2016 the Benno Heussen Prize was awarded for the third time to Sabine Jungbauer, a specialist trainer for lawyers.
In 2018 Prof. Dr. Matthias Kilian (University of Cologne), Director of the Soldan Institute Cologne, received the award.

Others

At the Lawyers' Day on May 24, 2017 in Essen, Heussen received the honorary badge for his initiatives in the field of management and IT law.

Publications (selection)

  • List of publications: www.brainguide.de (PDF)
  • Interesting times - reports from the inner world of law. 1st edition. Boorberg Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-415-04958-1 .
  • Hitler's sex. - Unpublished secret documents of the US secret service from 1943. vitolibro E-book, 2013, German: ISBN 978-3-86940-501-8 ; English: ISBN 978-3-86940-500-1 . (Ed. and commented together with John David Morley)
  • Machiavelli for quarrel - learn the rules of power. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • (Ed. Kilian / Heussen): Computer law manual . 32nd edition. CH Beck , 2013.
  • (Ed. And co-author): Handbook contract negotiation and contract management. 3. Edition. Otto Schmidt , 2009.
  • (Ed.): Beck'sches Rechtsanwalts Handbuch. 10th edition. CH Beck, 2011.
  • Run law firms. 2nd Edition. CH Beck, 2011.
  • Time management for lawyers. 3. Edition. CH Beck, 2009.
  • Legal levels of responsibility and disposal in rem when providing open source software. In: Multimedia and Law . 7/2004, pp. 445-2004.

Web links

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heuking.de
  2. ↑ http://www.heussen-law.de/news.php
  3. ↑ http://www.jura.uni-hannover.de/honprof.html
  4. ↑ http://volltext.online-merkur.de
  5. ↑ Homepage of the Max Planck Foundation
  6. ↑ https://www.datev-magazin.de/2014-08/nachrichten-aus-der-genossenschaft-2014-08/nachrichten-aus-der-genossenschaft-17/
  7. ↑ https://www.soldan.de/insights/benno-heussen-preis/
  8. ↑ https://anwaltverein.de/de/newsroom/dav-depesche-nr-24-18?scope=modal
  9. ↑ https://anwaltverein.de/de/newsroom/dat-3-17-kanzleimanagement-und-anwaltsforschung-haben-wichtige-impulse-dav-verendung-ehrenzeichen-der-deutschen-anwaltschaft
personal data
SURNAME Heussen, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, arbitrator (in legal matters) and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1944