Diederich Eckardt

Diederich Eckardt (* 1961 in Minden ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Trier .

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Eckardt studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne from 1981 until his first state examination in 1986 . In 1990 he passed his second state examination and then worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn. There he became a doctor of insolvency law in 1993 under the supervision of Walter Gerhardt. iur. PhD. In 2003 he also completed his habilitation in Bonn with the previously unpublished book Legal Force and Decision-making Reasons and received the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, international civil procedural law, insolvency law and comparative procedural law.

This was followed by substitute professorships at the Universities of Bonn, Siegen and Heidelberg . Eckardt has held the chair for civil law and civil procedure law at the University of Trier since the summer semester 2005 and was dean of the Trier law faculty from 2009 to 2010. In 2009 he was one of the co-founders of the Rhineland-Palatinate Center for Insolvency Law and Restructuring Practice and has been its managing director ever since. Eckardt's research focuses primarily on German, international and European civil procedure and insolvency law, comparative procedural law and civil property law.

Eckardt is married and has one daughter.

Fonts (selection)

• The avoidance action for disadvantageous creditors: For the avoidance period according to § 41 KO (§§ 3,12 AnfG, 10 GesO, 165 EInsO) and the requirement of timely legal enforcement of the legal consequences of the avoidance . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 978-3-7694-0249-0 (dissertation).
• Mortgage liens in bankruptcy proceedings . 15th edition. RWS, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-8145-7805-7 .

Web links

• Diederich Eckardt at the University of Trier
• Diederich Eckardt at RWS-Verlag
• Homepage of Diederich Eckardt