Erik Jayme

Erik Jayme (born June 8, 1934 in Montreal , Canada ) is a German legal scholar.

Life

Erik Jayme was born on June 8, 1934, the son of the chemist Georg Jayme and a Norwegian mother named Hjordis Jayme in Montréal. Jayme grew up in Darmstadt from 1936 and went to school there. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied law at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Padua . In Munich he also studied art history. In 1960 he received his doctorate in Munich as Dr. jur., followed in 1966 by the LL.M. at the University of Berkeley , 1969 his habilitation in Mainz, where he then worked as a private lecturer.

Jayme was a professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1973 to 1974 , then at the University of Munich, and from 1983 at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . He founded the research into the Lusitan legal family and the German-Lusitan Legal Association (DLJV). Until his retirement in 2002 he was full professor for civil law, international private law and comparative law as well as managing director of the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law at Heidelberg University .

Memberships and honors

Jayme is a member of the Institut de Droit international , of which he was president from 1997 to 1999. Since 2004 he has been Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Hague Academy for International Law . He is the first recipient of the Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize (1989) and an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Ferrara , Budapest , Montpellier , Porto Alegre (UFRGS) and Coimbra , as well as Académicien titulaire of the Académie internationale de droit comparé (Paris) and a member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , external member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam, member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and holder of other international awards.

Publications and editorships

Jayme is among other things one of the editors of the collection of laws and contracts on international private and procedural law published by Verlag CH Beck , named after him and Rainer Hausmann . He is also one of the editors of the journal Praxis of International Private and Procedural Law and the Yearbooks of Italian Law .

Others

Jayme speaks Italian, English, Portuguese and French. Jayme is also an accomplished art collector.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Jayme, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal

[1] Erik Jayme's curriculum vitae

[2] . Erik Jayme / Clemens Jöckle (eds.), From Feuerbach to Fetting. Pictures from a private collection. Catalog of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Kulturhof, Flachsgasse, Speyer (May 22 to June 16, 2002)

[3] The present meets the past on morgenweb.de