Felix Maultzsch
Felix Maultzsch (* 1975 in Friedrichroda ) is a German legal scholar . Since 2011 he has been professor of civil law, civil procedural law, private international law and comparative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
Life
Felix Maultzsch studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1995–2001), the National University of Singapore (1999), and the New York University School of Law (LL.M. 2002/2003). It was founded in 2005 from the Law Faculty of the University of Jena with the work "Civil sacrifice claims and factual toleration constraints. An investigation to §§ 904, 906 para 2 BGB" PhD (Advisor: Dietrich V. Simon).
In 2004 he passed the New York State Bar Examination and was admitted to the bar as Attorney-at-Law. In 2004–2006 he completed his legal clerkship in the state of Hesse including a stage at the Federal Constitutional Court with judge of the BVerfG Dr. Reinhard Gaier.
In 2010 Felix Maultzsch completed his habilitation with the thesis "Dispute resolution and norm formation through civil proceedings: A comparative study of German, English and US-American law" under the supervision of Günter Hager at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and received the license to teach the subjects Civil law with commercial law, civil procedural law, comparative law, international private law and legal theory.
Maultzsch held the chair for civil law, comparative law and international private law at EBS Law School Wiesbaden in 2010/2011 and has held the chair for civil law, civil procedure law, international private law and comparative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2011 .
His main research interests are in the areas of civil law (especially law of obligations), European private law, comparative law, international private law and comparative procedural law. From 2012–2015 he was sub-project manager of the Frankfurt LOEWE focus on "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution". Since 2014 he has been one of the coordinators of the “International Network of Doctoral Studies in Law” at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main, Lodz, Paris-Nanterre and Vilnius.
Publications (selection)
- Civil law claims to sacrifice and factual compulsions to tolerate: An investigation into §§ 904, 906 Abs. 2 BGB, writings on civil law, Volume 344, 2006, Verlag Duncker & Humblot Berlin, 302 p. (Also Diss. Jena 2005)
- Dispute resolution and norm formation through civil proceedings: A comparative study of German, English and US American law, Jus Privatum, Volume 155, 2010, Verlag Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, XXV & 492 S. (also habilitation thesis Freiburg 2010)
- Fox or hedgehog? - Case and system in law and science. Symposium on the 70th birthday of Günter Hager (Ed.), 2014, Verlag Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, VIII & 123 pp.
- Contractual obligations (with Hartmut Oetker), Springer-Verlag Berlin / Heidelberg, 5th ed. 2018, XXXIX & 937 pp.
Memberships
- Ernst von Caemmerer Foundation (Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors)
- European Association of Private International Law
- European Law Institute (Fellow)
- Frankfurter Juristische Gesellschaft (legal and political science association) eV
- Society for Comparative Law eV
- International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL)
- International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) eV
- New York State Bar
- Association of Civil Procedure Teachers
- Scientific Association for International Procedural Law eV
- Civil Law Teachers Association
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Maultzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Maultzsch on the homepage of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Felix Maultzsch on SSRN
- Felix Maultzsch on the website of the Frankfurt LOEWE focus 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution'
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maultzsch, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedrichroda |