Eva Schumann (lawyer)

Eva Schumann (born July 19, 1967 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a German lawyer and legal historian . She teaches as a professor for German legal history and civil law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

life and work

Schumann studied law in Tübingen and Berlin . After her legal clerkship and second state examination in Stuttgart , she worked as a research assistant for Bernd-Rüdiger Kern from 1992 , first in Tübingen, then from 1994 in Leipzig . In 1997, she was with a thesis on the right of non-marital families in quite a historical perspective doctorate . 2003 habilitation they are in Leipzig. The following year, she accepted an offer from Göttingen to succeed Wolfgang Sellert and has since headed the Department of German Legal History at the Institute for Fundamentals of Law.

She has been a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2007 . She is chairman of the research commission “Function of the Law in Past and Present” and in this capacity has published several anthologies with the research results of this commission.

In 2007 Schumann organized a lecture series on the subject of “Continuities and caesuras” with the participation of u. a. Joachim Rückert , Ralf Frassek , Werner Heun , Ewald Grothe , Peter Derleder , Joachim Perels and Helmut Kramer . The anthology that was subsequently published received positive reviews. Schumann himself contributed an investigation into the history of the law and political science faculty. It demonstrated three turning points in the faculty's history: from 1933, the Göttingen teaching staff, which consisted of an above-average number of Jewish legal scholars, was largely replaced by a group of young lawyers close to the Nazi ideology ( Wilhelm Saure , Georg Erler , Wilhelm Ebel , Ulrich Scheuner and others), all of whom were removed from service after 1945 and were in turn replaced by unencumbered persons ( Werner Flume , Ludwig Raiser , Hans Thieme and others) or formerly expelled from the faculty ( Gerhard Leibholz , Julius von Gierke , Herbert Kraus ); From 1954 onwards, however, she established a new turning point she called “ renazification ” with the appointment of numerous members of the former Kiel school , e. B. Friedrich Schaffstein , Ernst Rudolf Huber and Franz Wieacker . Even later, Schumann dealt with the legal history of the Nazi era , u. a. in a public lecture on the work of the Academy for German Law (2018).

In current law, she mainly conducts research on medical and family law . Her approach is to develop answers to legal questions from a perspective of legal history and comparative law . Her inaugural lecture in Göttingen represents an interdisciplinary approach to euthanasia , in which she also pointed out possible reform proposals.

Schumann made several comments on family policy . She is of the opinion that since the 7th Family Report of the Federal Government in 2006 a new family policy has been introduced in Germany, in the course of which criteria for evaluating economic processes are increasingly being transferred to the family. She has addressed this process in the media as the “ economization of the family”. Furthermore, she prepared an expert opinion for the 72nd German Lawyers' Conference in 2018, which asks about the need for reform with regard to shared parental responsibility . The considerations expressed by Schumann also found attention outside the legal world.

Publications (selection)

• The illegitimate family. Proposals for reform of family law with a presentation of the historical development and taking into account international and constitutional law. Munich 1998 (dissertation).
• Compensation for injustices in the early Middle Ages. The consequences of injuries to the person in Lombard, Alemannic and Bavarian law. (Habilitation thesis, unpublished).
• As editor: continuities and caesuras. Jurisprudence and lawyers in the »Third Reich« and in the post-war period. Göttingen 2008.
• Economization of the family. In: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 2011. Berlin 2012, pp. 444–481.
• As editor: Justice and proceedings through the ages. Scholarly literature, judicial practice, and pictorial symbolism. Ceremony for Wolfgang Sellert on the occasion of his 80th birthday , Berlin 2017 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , New Series, Vol. 44).
• Family models in the Federal Republic. In: Winfried Kluth (Hrsg.): The family as an economic factor - studies on the models of family policy and their constitutional framework. Halle-Wittenberg 2018, pp. 9–60.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Schumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann on the website of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann on the website of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.
2. ^ Research commission "The function of the law in the past and present" on the website of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.
3. ↑ Publications of the research commission “The function of the law in the past and present”.
4. ↑ Lecture series "Continuities and caesuras" . Lecture announcement on the website of Schumann's chair.
5. ^ Friedrich-Christian Schroeder : Human swamp. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 25, 2010, accessed on April 23, 2019.
6. ↑ Wolfgang Form: Review by Schumann (Ed.): Continuities and caesuras. In: H-Soz-Kult , October 1, 2009, accessed April 23, 2019.
7. ^ Eva Schumann: The Göttingen Law and Political Science Faculty 1933–1955 . In this. (Ed.): Continuities and caesuras. Jurisprudence and lawyers in the »Third Reich« and in the post-war period. Göttingen 2008, pp. 65–121.
8. ↑ Michael Caspar: Schumann on lawyers under National Socialism . In: Göttinger Tageblatt , January 7, 2018, accessed on April 23, 2019.
9. ^ The "Academy for German Law." Video recording of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann.
10. ↑ Euthanasia from a legal historical, interdisciplinary and comparative law perspective . Press release of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, January 25, 2006, accessed on April 23, 2019.
11. ↑ Lecture by Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann: The economization of the family. Announcement of the lecture on the website of the Higher Regional Court of Celle , accessed on April 23, 2019.
12. ^ Franziska Brüning: Interview with Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann: The economization of the family. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 19, 2016, accessed on April 23, 2019.
13. ↑ Shared parental responsibility after separation and divorce - need for reform in custody, access and maintenance law? Item on the agenda on the website of the German Legal Conference, accessed on April 23, 2019.
14. ↑ E.g .: Annette Wilmes : Reform of the child rights: What problems separated families struggle with today. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Zeitfragen from March 25, 2019, accessed on April 23, 2019.