Christof Kerwer

Christof Kerwer (* 1964 ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

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Kerwer studied from 1984 jurisprudence at the University of Saarland , where he finished 1989, his first state examination. He then completed his legal clerkship, which he completed with the second state examination. From 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the Saarbrücken chair for procedural law, civil law and labor law of Gerhard Lüke . Meanwhile, care Kerwer 1996 with the work of civil procedure , the fulfillment in the enforcement of Saarland University Dr. iur. PhD. For this work he received the Dr. Eduard-Martin Prize of the Saarland University. He then worked as a research assistant for Stephan Weth in Saarbrücken. Kerwer completed his habilitation there in 2003 and received the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, labor law and European law.

This was followed by professorships at the Universities of Cologne and Bielefeld . From 2004 Kerwer initially held a professorship for private law, commercial, corporate and labor law at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . In the 2005/06 winter semester he switched to the full professorship for civil law, labor law and civil procedure law at the University of Würzburg , which he has held since then. He is also a lecturer at the Würzburg Administration and Business Academy.

Kerwer's research focuses primarily on European labor law, civil and labor procedural law, and in the field of civil law, primarily in the law of obligations. In his research he always relates to European law.

Fonts (selection)

• The fulfillment in the foreclosure . Heymann, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-452-23412-4 (dissertation).
• European Community law and the case law of the German labor courts . O. Schmidt, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-504-42653-8 (habilitation thesis).

Web links

• Christof Kerwer at his chair at the University of Würzburg