Bernd von Hoffmann

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Bernd von Hoffmann (born December 28, 1941 in Schlackenwerth , Sudetenland , today Ostrov nad Ohří , Czech Republic ; † December 9, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German legal scholar . From 1979 to 2007 he held the chair for civil law , private international law and comparative law at the University of Trier .

Life

Von Hoffmann was born in 1941 in Schlackenwerth in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . From 1960 to 1965 he studied law in Heidelberg, Aix-en-Provence and Munich. In 1966 he completed his studies with the first state examination. From 1966 to 1971 he was a research assistant of Karl Firsching in Regensburg. There he received his doctorate in 1969 with the thesis International Commercial Arbitration (1970) and passed the second state examination in 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. 1977 was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College , Cambridge. In 1979 he completed his habilitation in Regensburg with the right to purchase real estate. A comparative law study (1982).

In 1979 he was appointed to the University of Trier . In 1992 he gave a series of lectures at the Hague Academy for International Law . From 1981 he was German Council for International Private Law, from 1984 on the board of the German Institute for Arbitration , 1987 to 1995 expert appraiser of the German Research Foundation , from 1993 to 1997 he was on the board, from 1997 on the council of the German Society for International Law . In 2007 he retired. Professor von Hoffmann was also head of the Institute for Legal Policy at the University of Trier since 2000 .

Publications

  • International Commercial Arbitration (1970)
  • European Private International Law of Obligations (1975 with Ole Lando and Kurt Siehr )
  • The right to purchase land. A Comparative Law Study (1982)
  • State Enterprises in International Law and IPR (with P. Fischer 1984)
  • Commentary in J. von Staudinger's commentary on the German Civil Code : EGBGB, vol Ic (10th, 11th and 12th editions 1992):
    • International law of obligations II (tort law)
  • Les privatizations en droit comparé et en droit international privé. In: Académie de droit international. Recueil des Cours 135 (1992-IV) (1993)
  • Commentary on Soergel, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, 12th edition, Vol. 10 (1996):
    • Art. 27–37 EGBGB (international contract law)
    • According to Art. 38 EGBGB (international expropriation law)
  • International private law including the basics of international civil procedure law (9th edition 2007 together with Karsten Thorn . Takeover of the work of Karl Firsching )
  • Universality of Human Rights (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The institute mourns the loss of Bernd von Hoffmann ( memento of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), News / Personnel, website of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, December 19, 2011, accessed on May 30, 2012.