Burkhard Hess

Burkhard Hess (born July 17, 1961 in Worms ) is a German civil lawyer and law professor.

Career

Burkhard Hess, son of the German studies specialist Johanna Heß and the numismatist Wolfgang Heß , graduated from high school in Marburg in 1980 and then studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1981/1982 . He continued his law studies at the Université de Lausanne (1982–1983) and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (1983–1986). In 1985 he obtained the Diplôme Supérieur de Droit Comparé from the Faculty of International Law at the University of Strasbourg . In January 1987 he passed the first state examination in lawfrom. In 1987 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law ( International and European Law ) at LMU Munich with Bruno Simma . From 1987 to 1992 he completed his legal clerkship in the district of the Munich Higher Regional Court , which he completed with the second state examination. Hess interrupted his legal clerkship to work as a research assistant at the chair for civil law and civil procedural law , international civil procedural law and general procedural theory at the LMU (January 1988 - February 1990) with Peter Schlosser . During his legal clerkship, he did his doctorate on the subject of state immunity in distance crimes in December 1990. After completing the legal clerkship, he became a research assistant at the chair for civil law at the University of Munich from 1991 to 1995.

In the winter semester of 1995/1996, he was a substitute professor at the University of Erlangen and in January 1996 he completed his habilitation on intertemporal private law. In April 1996 he was appointed professor for civil law and social law at the University of Erlangen and in October 1996 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen to the chair for civil law and civil procedural law, international private and procedural law. From October 2000 to September 2002 he was dean of the law faculty at the University of Tübingen. In July 2002, he was appointed to the position of a C-4 professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in August 2002 to a chair for civil law and procedural law at the LMU Munich. Hess has been a professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg since April 1st, 2003. As managing director of the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law, he holds the chair for civil law and procedural law, international private and procedural law. Since April 2006 he has been professor invité at the Sorbonne . Since the summer semester of 2012 he has been the founding director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg (city) . In 2015, Hess was elected to the Academia Europaea . He is a member of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's selection committee for freedom in awarding new scholarships.

Research and Teaching

Since he was a visiting professor at the University of Beijing in August 2000 for “Comparative Procedural Law”, he has been traveling regularly to China and lecturing there. In 2003/2004 he carried out a comparative study on European enforcement law (property transparency, temporary legal protection , cross-border attachment of bank accounts) on behalf of the European Commission . In September 2007 he completed the study "JLS C4 / 2005/03" carried out jointly with Peter Schlosser and Thomas Pfeiffer on behalf of the EU Commission. The study examines and evaluates according to Art. 73 EuGVVO applies the regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters in the 24 member states of the EU (all except Denmark). It is available on the EU Commission's website.

Research focus is currently European procedural law, collective redress, compensation for Nazi forced labor and sports law . Since June 2008, Hess has headed the doctoral program on international dispute resolution for the Faculty of Law at Heidelberg University and together with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law .

With regard to the Cologne Commentary on the Investor Model Proceedings Act published by Hess, Fabian Reuschle and Bruno Rimmelspacher in 2008 , Joachim Jahn remarked that this was one of the rare cases in which a comment was urgently needed, but he was very much needed in relation to the lawsuits against Deutsche Telekom just missed the cheapest release date.

Memberships

Hess is a board member of the Scientific Association for International Procedural Law, a member of the World Association for Procedural Law, the International Law Association , the German Council for International Private Law, the German Society for International Law, the Civil Law Teachers 'Association and the Civil Procedure Law Teachers' Association.

Fonts (selection)

(Ed.): Judicial reforms in Luxembourg and Europe / MPI Luxembourg , Baden-Baden: Nomos 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1588-6 (= Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law: Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law , Vol. 1).
with Paul Oberhammer and Thomas Pfeiffer (eds.): European insolvency law. The Heidelberg-Luxembourg-Vienna report on the application of regulation no. 1346/2000 / EC on insolvency proceedings (external evaluation JUST / 2011 / JCIV / PR / 0049 / A4) , Munich: Beck; Oxford; Portland, Or .: Hart; Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65501-2 (Beck, other publishers).
European civil procedural law. A textbook , Heidelberg: Müller 2010, ISBN 978-3-8114-3304-5 .
Mediation and other procedures for consensual dispute resolution - need for regulation in procedural and professional law? Expert opinion F for the 67th German Lawyers' Conference , Munich: Beck 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57456-6 .

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Hess, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	17th July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Worms

[1] MPG founds institute in Luxembourg, MPG press release June 2012 .

[2] Official website of the EU Commission: Final version of the report on the application of the EuGVVO (PDF; 2.1 MB)

[3] Homepage of the doctoral college for international dispute resolution

[4] Longingly awaited - A legal commentary - not only - on the telecommunications process. In: FAZ , April 14, 2008 .