Dirk A. Verse

Dirk Axel Verse (born December 5, 1971 ) is a German lawyer and professor at Heidelberg University .

Life

Verse graduated from the German School in Paris in 1990 . He then began to study law at the University of Bonn , which he completed in 1995 after a stay abroad in Singapore at the University of Regensburg with the first state examination in law. As a result, Verse worked for one year as a research assistant to Reinhard Zimmermann in Regensburg before doing research at the University of Oxford for a year as a scholarship holder . There he acquired the title Magister iuris . From 1997 to 1999, Verse completed his legal clerkship in Regensburg in Brussels. At the same time he returned to Zimmermann's chair. There he completed his doctorate in 1998, which was awarded the East Bavarian Culture Prize.

After his second state examination in 1999, Verse initially worked as a lawyer at Hengeler Mueller in Düsseldorf from 2000 to 2002 . In 2002 he returned to his academic career and worked as a research assistant for Mathias Habersack on his habilitation. He graduated from the University of Mainz in 2006 . He was awarded the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, commercial and economic law and comparative law. Verse then returned to Hengeler Mueller for a year before he was appointed to the full professorship for civil law, commercial and economic law, and comparative law from the University of Osnabrück in 2007 . In September 2011 Verse moved to the University of Mainz to take the chair for civil law, commercial and economic law, and comparative law, which he has held since then. From September 2012 to September 2018 he was together with Peter O. Mülbert and the retired Uwe H. Schneider Director of the Institute for German and International Law of Savings, Giro and Credit Systems at the University of Mainz. In 2015 Verse turned down a call to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In the 2018/19 winter semester he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he succeeded Werner F. Ebke as director of the Institute for German and European Company and Business Law.

Verse's research focuses primarily on German and European business law, with a focus on corporate and capital market law as well as comparative law.

Works (selection)

• Uses in the owner-owner relationship - a critical view from a historical and comparative legal perspective . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-16-147120-9 . (Dissertation)
• The principle of equal treatment in the law of corporations . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-16-149074-3 . (Habilitation thesis)
• Mathias Habersack & Dirk A. Verse: European company law . 4th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60883-4 .
• Marcus Lutter , Gerd Krieger & Dirk A. Verse: Rights and duties of the supervisory board . 6th edition. Publishing house Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-504-31717-1 .

Web links

• Verse at his chair at Heidelberg University
• The law to combat late payment in business transactions , essay by verses at zip-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Institute for German and European Company and Business Law: Institute for German and European Company and Business Law. Retrieved October 4, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://www.igw.uni-heidelberg.de/lehrstuehle/prof_vs/index.php4
3. ↑ Institute for German and European Company and Business Law: Institute for German and European Company and Business Law. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .