Erich Schanze

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Erich Schanze (born December 27, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German lawyer and former professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Schanze studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Edinburgh . He then studied at Harvard University and obtained a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 1969 . He did his doctorate in corporate law and completed his habilitation on international investment contracts with Hans-Joachim Mertens in Frankfurt. From 1972 to 1987 Schanze was a lawyer in Frankfurt . Numerous visiting professorships or research stays have taken him to American universities ( University of California, Berkeley 1994; University of Chicago 1980 and 1990; Columbia University 1994; Harvard University 1978 and 1994; Stanford University 1978; University of Virginia 2000). In addition, he was a visiting professor at the State University of Saint Petersburg from 1991 to 1994 . From 1995–1998 he was a member of the Harvard advisory group for the creation of a Russian GmbH law.

After professorships at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg , Schanze was professor for civil law, comparative law and international commercial law in Marburg and director of the institute for comparative law there. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Marburg University Senate. Schanze has been teaching law and economics at the University of St. Gallen since 2004 . He has also been a permanent visiting professor at the University of Bergen since 2006 .

In 2006 the University of St. Gallen awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Research focus

Schanze's research focuses in particular on contract and company law, the design practice of "symbiotic" networking of production and sales systems, the law of international economic transactions and, above all, the application of economic methodology to legal problems.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.schanze.com/lebenslauf.html
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-marburg.de/aktuelles/news/2006/20060701
personal data
SURNAME Schanze, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and former professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main