Caroline Meller-Hannich

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Caroline Meller-Hannich (* July 7, 1970 in Bochum as Caroline Hannich ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Meller-Hannich studied law at the Universities of Bochum and Bonn , where she passed her first state examination in 1994. In 1997, Meller-Hannich completed her doctorate with Hans Friedhelm Gaul in Bonn, where she previously worked as a research assistant at his chair for civil procedural law. The following year she passed her second state examination. As a result, she initially worked as a lawyer in Cologne before she returned to her academic career and worked on her habilitation as a research assistant at Eberhard Schilken's chair in Bonn. She graduated in 2005, with which she was awarded the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, civil procedural law and European private law.

Since 2006 she has held the chair for civil law , civil procedural law and commercial law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . She turned down a call to the University of Bochum in 2013 and another to the University of Leipzig in 2019. In addition to the areas of law identified by her chair, her research focuses primarily on consumer law as well as foreclosure and insolvency law and their international implications.

Meller-Hannich is married and has two children.

Works (selection)

  • The seizure restriction of § 852 ZPO - foreclosure in the compulsory portion, the right of the giver to surrender the gift because of emergency needs and the right of a spouse to compensation for the gain . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1998, ISBN 978-3-7694-0282-7 . (Dissertation)
  • Consumer protection in contract law - private freedom and state order . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-16-148726-2 . (Habilitation thesis)
  • Civil procedural law . 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-029194-2 .
  • Class actions, class actions, representative actions - are new instruments of collective redress in civil proceedings needed? Expert opinion A for the 72nd German Lawyers' Conference , CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406715822

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