Elmar Wadle

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Elmar Wadle (born August 24, 1938 in Pirmasens ) is a German legal scholar and legal historian as well as a judge at the Constitutional Court of Saarland .

Life

Wadle studied from 1957 law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München . After completing his first state examination (1961) and his second state examination (1967), he was in 1973 with a thesis on the constitutional history of the 12th century (III imperial and royal rule under Lothar.) In Heidelberg at Siegfried Reicke and Gotz Landwehr to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . In 1974 he qualified as a professor in Heidelberg with Adolf Laufs and Wolfgang Hefermehl with the script Trademarks and Trademarks . He was initially a private lecturer in Heidelberg, from 1975 scientific advisor and professor at Bielefeld University .

Wadley in 1978 received a call to the chair of German legal history and Civil Law of the University of Saarland . From 1987 to 1988 he was dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics. As an emeritus (since 2006) he continues to work in the research center for the history of intellectual property in Saarbrücken.

He has been a judge since 1989 and vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Saarland from 1995 to 2008 .

Act

The main research interests of Wadle are in particular the law of God and civil peace in the Middle Ages, the emergence of medieval criminal law in the 11th to 15th centuries, intellectual property law , copyright and trademark law in the period from the 18th century to the present day and French law in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has published numerous scientific papers and articles; He is co-editor of the Savigny Foundation's journal for legal history and several other scholarly publications.

Wadle is a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Arminia Heidelberg in the CV and at times (1988-93) its chairman (old gentleman).

Fonts (selection)

  • Imperial estate and royal rule under Lothar III. (1125-1137). A contribution to the constitutional history of the 12th century (= writings on constitutional history. Vol. 12, ISSN  0582-0553 ). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969 (also: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1967).
  • Trademark protection and trademark law. History and shape of German trademark protection in the 19th century. 2 volumes. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977–1983 (at the same time: Heidelberg, University, jur. Habilitation paper, 1973/74);
    • Volume 1: Development (= writings on legal history. Volume 14). ISBN 3-428-03923-8
    • Volume 2: Historical-dogmatic basic lines (= writings on legal history. Volume 30). ISBN 3-428-05391-5 ).
  • Intellectual property. Building blocks for legal history. 2 volumes. Beck, Munich 1996-2003, ISBN 3-527-28788-4 (vol. 1), ISBN 3-406-49802-7 (vol. 2).
  • Peace of mind, punishment, law. Twelve studies on the Middle Ages (= writings on European legal and constitutional history. Vol. 37). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-09912-5 .
  • French law in Germany. Eight contributions to the history of the 19th century (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Law and Economics Department. Vol. 132). Heymanns, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-452-25017-2 .
  • Contributions to the history of copyright law. Stages on a long road (= writings on civil law. Vol. 425). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13647-6 .

literature

  • Thomas Gergen (ed.): Diversity and unity in legal history. Ceremony for Elmar Wadle on his 65th birthday (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Law and Economics Department. Vol. 136). Heymanns, Cologne et al. 2004, ISBN 3-452-25711-8 .
  • Tiziana Chiusi, Thomas Gergen, Heike Jung (Hrsg.): The law and its historical basis. Festschrift for Elmar Wadle on his 70th birthday (= writings on legal history. Vol. 139). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12628-6 .

swell

  1. ↑ "Legal History Colloquium: 65th Birthday of Professor Dr. Elmar Wadle “ , idw-online August 5, 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Wadle, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal historian as well as judge at the constitutional court of the Saarland
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens