Christian Berger (lawyer)
Christian Berger (born February 14, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig .
After graduating from high school, Berger first completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then studied law in Hamburg and Heidelberg from 1982 to 1987 . In 1990 he was at the University of Bayreuth with a work to the subjective limits of res judicata in the representative action to Dr. iur. PhD. After legal traineeship and second state examination in law, Berger became a research assistant to Wolfgang Brehm at the University of Bayreuth in 1992 , where he completed his habilitation in 1996 (title of the habilitation thesis: "Legal restrictions on disposal").
In 1997 Berger accepted a position at the University of Leipzig. Since then he has held the chair for civil law, civil procedural law and copyright law. Until October 2013 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law in Leipzig and is Managing Director of the Ernst Jaeger Institute for Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Law at the University of Leipzig (founded on February 22, 2009). He is also the director of the Institute for Legal Law at Leipzig University. Berger was a judge at the higher regional court in Dresden.
In 2017, Berger was appointed President of the German Media Arbitration Court.
Publications (excerpt)
- The subjective limits of legal force in litigation. Heymann, Cologne 1992. ISBN 3-452-22122-9
- Legal restrictions on disposal. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998. ISBN 3-16-146881-3
- Property law. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006 (2nd edition; together with Wolfgang Brehm). ISBN 978-3-16-148915-0
- Foreclosure and bankruptcy law. Beck, Munich 2007 (22nd edition of the textbook supervised by Othmar Jauernig up to the 21st edition ). ISBN 978-3406551987
- Jauernig (Ed.), Civil Code. Beck, Munich 2007 (12th edition), commentary on §§ 433-480 (purchase), §§ 1297-1921 (family law). ISBN 978-3406558191
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Berger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the chair for civil law, civil procedural law and copyright law at Leipzig University
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |