Bernd Mertens

Bernd Mertens (* 1967 in Duisburg ) is a German legal historian , lawyer and professor for civil law and German and European legal history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Life and work

Mertens studied law , philosophy and history in Tübingen and Geneva from 1986 to 1991 . In 1995 the doctorate to Dr. iur. in Tübingen with a thesis on monopoly legislation and monopoly processes in the 16th century. After a few years as a lawyer in Cologne and London , he decided to do his habilitation in 2000 , for which he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation and another grant for a research stay in London. The habilitation took place in Tübingen in 2003 with a comparative legal thesis on legislative engineering in the age of codifications.

Since 2004 he has held the chair for civil law, German and European legal history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2006 he was awarded the Science Prize of the German Bundestag . His main research interests lie in the history of legislation and the history of commercial law in modern times as well as in questions of method in lawmaking. Mertens is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte .

Fonts (selection)

• In the fight against the monopolies. Reichstag negotiations and monopoly trials in the early 16th century (Tübingen jurisprudential treatises, volume 81), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-16-146566-6 .
• Legislative Art in the Age of Codifications. Theory and practice of legislative technology from a historical-comparative point of view (Tübingen jurisprudential treatises, Volume 98), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148300-6 .
• Legislation in National Socialism (Contributions to Legal History in the 20th Century, Volume 62), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-150103-6 .
• The revocation of doctoral degrees at the Law Faculty of the University of Erlangen under National Socialism (Erlanger research, special series, volume 15; together with M. Feketitsch-Weber), FAU University Press, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 978-3-930357-99-4 .
• Patrons, Feuerbach, Savigny. On the sovereignty of interpretation and the formation of legends in legal history , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-156575-5 .

Web links

• List of publications Prof. Dr. Mertens. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . 
• Science award 2006 goes to Bernd Mertens. German Bundestag .