Christian Kirchner

Christian Kirchner (born March 16, 1944 in Potsdam ; † January 17, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and economist .

Live and act

After completing his Abitur at the Holbein-Gymnasium Augsburg , Christian Kirchner initially did an apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank AG in Augsburg and then studied law and economics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Between 1971 and 1973 Kirchner studied at Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1972 . Between 1975 and 1977 Kirchner studied Japanese language and culture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Kirchner received his doctorate in 1974 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main to Dr. iur. In 1977 Kirchner received his doctorate, also from Frankfurt University. rer. pole. In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University with the award of venia legendi in the subjects of civil law , commercial and economic law , international private law and comparative law . From 1984 to 1993 Kirchner held the professorship for civil, commercial and corporate law in the law faculty of the University of Hanover . Kirchner has taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 1993 , where he held the chair for German, European and international civil and economic law and institutional economics at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics. In May 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen for " his services as a pioneer of economic theory of law and functional comparative law in German-speaking countries in general and in the legal areas of accounting, competition and company law and network regulation in particular in science and practice "awarded.

Kirchner published in the field of economics a. a. on network industries, financial markets, telecommunications, transportation, external corporate accounting and corporate governance . In the legal field, his focus was on competition and antitrust law , the law of sector-specific regulation (in particular telecommunications and rail-bound goods and passenger transport), corporate and corporate law and corporate law , accounting law and corporate governance. Kirchner's legal methodology is strongly influenced by the economic theory of law , in the field of economics he is a representative of the new institutional economics .

Kirchner was u. a. Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute for Japanese Studies , member of the board of the Society for Comparative Law and head of the specialist group there for basic research, member of the German-Japanese Lawyers Association, and member of the American Law Institute . He was also a member of the Railway Advisory Board and the Legal Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG.

Fonts

• Order ethics. in: Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie 14, 1995, pp. 189–211 (together with Karl Homann).

• Economic theory of law. Berlin 1997.

• Transplant Act. A critical analysis from a legal, economic and ethical point of view. , together with Charles B. Blankart and Gilbert Thiel, Aachen 2002.

• § 13 Europe as an economic community. in: Europawwissenschaft, ed. by Gunnar Folke Schuppert, Ingolf Pernice and Ulrich Haltern, Baden-Baden 2005, pp. 375–427.

• § 3 The economic theory. in: European methodology. Basic questions of the methods of European private law, ed. by Karl Riesenhuber, Berlin 2006, pp. 23–48.

• Public Choice and New Institutional Economics. A Comparative Analysis in Search of Co-operation Potentials. in: Public Economics and Public Choice, Contributions in Honor of Charles B. Blankart, ed. by Pio Baake and Rainald Borck, 2007, Berlin, pp. 19–37.

• Ordnungsökonomik and constitutional economics. in: From Order Theory to Institutional Economics, Review and Development Options of a Marburg Research Program, ed. by Alfred Schüller and Stefan Voigt (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Research Center for the Comparison of Economic Control Systems), pp. 88–102.

• On the consequentialist method of interpretation, the contribution of jurisprudence to the reciprocal methodological approach of economics and jurisprudence. in: Internationalization of Law and its Economic Analysis, ed. by Thomas Eger, Claus Ott, Jochen Bigus, Georg von Wangenheim, Festschrift for Hans-Bernd Schäfer on his 65th birthday, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 37–50.

• Institutional Deficits in the International Financial Markets Crisis, Combined Effects of Deficits in Corporate Governance and in Financial Reporting. in: Festschrift for Klaus J. Hopt on the occasion of his 70th birthday on August 24, 2010 “Company, Market and Responsibility”, Volume 2, ed. by Stefan Grundmann, Brigitte Haar, Hanno Merkt, Peter O. Mülbert and Marina Wellenhofer, Berlin, New York, 2010, pp. 2095–2212.

Web links

• Website of the chair for German, European and international civil and business law and institutional economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin

literature

• Joachim Rückert , Wolfgang Kilian , Harald Koch : Christian Kirchner (1944–2014). In: JuristenZeitung 4/2014, pp. 191–192.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original dated February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Homepage of the chair of Christian Kirchner. Retrieved January 18, 2011.  
2. ↑ Dies academicus 2010 - Honorary Senator and Honorary Doctorates . Press release of the University of St. Gallen on May 29, 2010. Accessed on January 18, 2011.
3. ↑ Publications ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Homepage of the chair of Christian Kirchner. Retrieved January 19, 2011.  
4. ↑ Institute Adds 49 Elected Members ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The ALI Reporter - Summer 2005. Retrieved January 19, 2011  
5. ↑ Obituary notice FAZ January 25, 2014 page 7