Carsten Herresthal

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Carsten Herresthal (born September 5, 1972 in Dreieich or Frankfurt am Main ) is a German legal scholar and professor at the University of Regensburg .

Life

Herresthal studied law at the University of Munich from 1993 until his first state examination in 1998 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He then completed a postgraduate master’s degree at Duke University's Law School , where he obtained a Master of Laws degree in 1999 . That same year he was in the state of New York as a lawyer admitted. He then returned to Germany, where he did his legal clerkship in the district of the Munich Higher Regional Court and passed his second state examination in 2001. At the same time he took up a position as a research assistant for Claus-Wilhelm Canaris at his Munich chair. Under Canaris' supervision, Herresthal received his doctorate in 2005 with a legal theory paper on Dr. iur. In 2010, under the supervision of Canaris, he completed his habilitation in Munich with the previously unpublished work Market and Contract in Integrated Statehood - The Consequences of European Integration for Freedom to Do Business in Private Law and received the Venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, commercial law and corporate law, labor law, European law and legal theory.

After a substitute chair at the University of Regensburg in the summer semester 2010, he was appointed to the previously represented chair for civil law, European private law and company law for the following winter semester, which he has held since then.

Herresthal is married and has four children.

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Herresthal's research focuses primarily on the general part of the BGB and the relationship between German private law and European law and European private law itself.

Individual evidence

  1. Own information on the chair website
  2. Information from Canaris

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