Birgit Weitemeyer

Birgit Weitemeyer (* 1964 in Göttingen ) is a German legal scholar and has held the Chair of Tax Law and Director of the Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg since 2007 .

Life

After training as a specialist assistant in tax and business consulting professions , she studied law in Kiel and passed the first state examination in 1991 . In 1994 Birgit Weitemeyer was a participant in the graduate school "National and International Environmental Law " at the University of Kiel with a thesis on "Regulatory measures in bankruptcy proceedings. Environmental Law and Insolvency ”.

Following her legal clerkship in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and New York, she passed the second state examination in 1996. She then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Business and Tax Law at the University of Kiel until 2002. From 2002 to 2004 she represented chairs at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. The habilitation followed in 2003 with a thesis on "The corporate taxation of public companies with special consideration of their hidden profit distributions ". From 2004–2007 Weitemeyer held the chair for civil law, foreign and international private law and comparative law at the Technical University of Dresden .

Birgit Weitemeyer researches mainly in civil law (tenancy and real estate law), commercial and company law, in tax law and in the law of non-profit organizations. She is co-editor of the new magazine for tenancy and housing law . She also comments on part of the Staudinger tenancy law .

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Weitemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website - with a list of publications
• Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations