Eike Schmidt (legal scholar)

Eike Schmidt (born November 26, 1939 in Hanover ) is a German legal scholar . From 1974 to 2004 he was a professor at the University of Bremen .

Life

Eike Schmidt studied law at the universities of Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1958 to 1962 . From 1962 to 1966 he was a trainee lawyer in Lower Saxony and during that time also attended the Speyer Administration College . He was born in Freiburg in 1966 with the dissertation negligence and justification in civil law doctorate . From 1967 to 1973 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen , he attended the in 1973 with the signature The purpose of civil procedure and its economy - with an analysis of the case law of the Federal Supreme Court on so-called procedural economy habilitated . In 1974 he was appointed professor for legal theory , civil law and procedural law at the University of Bremen. In 2004 he retired from this chair. In addition to his academic activities, he was a judge in civil matters at the Bremen Regional Court from 1978 to 2001 .

In 2004, on the occasion of his 65th birthday, the festschrift Liber Amicorum Eike Schmidt, edited by Gert Brüggemeier, was published .

He continued the textbook on general law of obligations founded by Josef Esser . The work has been published since 1975 under the name Esser / Schmidt . Eike Schmidt is the re-founder and for many years was also the editor of the journal Kritische Vierteljahreszeitschrift für Gesetzgebung and Rechtswissenschaft (KritV) and from 1991 to 1998 co-organizer of the graduate school of the German Research Foundation on the subject of risk regulation and the private law system .