Dagmar Coester-Waltjen

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Dagmar Dorothea Josefine Coester-Waltjen (born July 11, 1945 in Celle ) is a German legal scholar .

Career

Dagmar Coester-Waltjen studied law in Freiburg , Munich and Kiel . She did her legal clerkship in various federal states and in Ireland . At the University of Kiel, Coester-Waltjen did his doctorate on "The position of the surviving spouse in Irish inheritance law". She earned the LL.M. at the University of Michigan (United States of America) 1974/1975. This was followed by a time as an assistant at the universities in Augsburg and Munich . In Munich she completed her habilitation on international law of evidence. This was followed by professorships in Konstanz , Hamburg and finally from 1987 in Munich, where she held the chair for civil law , international private law and comparative law . In addition to the Munich professorship, she has held visiting professorships in Freiburg (Switzerland) (1991), Nanjing (China, 1994), New York (1996 and 1999), Oxford (1998 and 2003) and Texas (2003). Since October 1st, 2008, she has been the head of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen and professor for German, European and international private and procedural law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . She is co-editor of the legal education journal .

In 2003 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon , on July 5, 2006 she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. She has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2002 .

She is married to the legal scholar Michael Coester , who taught at the University of Munich before retiring. She has two children with him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (1999). Vol. 1, p. 605.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dagmar Coester-Waltjen becomes director of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg , website of the University of Göttingen, accessed on January 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Membership directory: Dagmar Coester-Waltjen. Academia Europaea, accessed June 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Coester-Waltjen, Dagmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coester-Waltjen, Dagmar Dorothea Josefine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle