Bernd H. Oppermann

Bernd H. Oppermann (born February 29, 1956 in Büdingen ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover .

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After graduating from high school in 1971, Oppermann studied law , physics and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1981 he passed his first state examination in law in Frankfurt. He then completed postgraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he obtained a Master of Laws in 1982 . From 1983 to 1985, Oppermann did his legal clerkship at the Frankfurt am Main regional court . In the meantime, he received his doctorate degree from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1985 with a legal theoretical treatise supervised by Dieter Simon . iur. PhD. In 1986 Oppermann passed his second state examination. He then worked at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for Science, Further Education and Culture until he became junior professor at the University of Hamburg in 1987 . Oppermann completed his habilitation there in 1992 with a thesis supervised by Rainer Walz and received the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, business law and legal theory.

As of 1992, he was deputy professor at the universities of Hanover and Frankfurt an der Oder . Since 1994 he has held the full professorship for German, European and international civil and commercial law at the University of Hanover. From 2000 to 2004 he was first dean and then vice dean of the Hanover Faculty of Law. In 2010 he was made an honorary professor by the University of Lublin and in 2013 by the University of Rouen as an honorary doctorate.

Oppermann's research focuses primarily on the Europeanization and internationalization of private legal relationships, German and European antitrust and competition law, comparative law, particularly with regard to theories and methods, and German rental and residential property.

Fonts (selection)

• The reception of North American legal realism through the German topic discussion . Frankfurt am Main 1985 (dissertation).
• Injunctural rights and material justice in the competitive process. For the creation and enforcement of injunctive relief in competition law and in special commercial legal protection . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 978-3-16-146100-2 (habilitation thesis).
• with Peter von Wilmowsky : Integration in European civil and commercial law . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 978-3-7890-6426-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd H. Oppermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oppermann at his chair at the University of Hanover