Friedrich Meili

Friedrich Meili (born April 2, 1848 in Hinwil , † January 15, 1914 in Zurich ) was a Swiss legal scholar .

life and work

Friedrich Meili graduated from high school in Zurich and then studied law in Zurich , Leipzig , Berlin , Jena and later also at the École de droit in Paris. He was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Zurich in 1879.

In 1880 he became a private lecturer and from 1885 an associate professor at the University of Zurich. In 1890, a professorial office for international private law , modern traffic law and comparative law was created for Meili . In 1895 his teaching assignment was expanded to include the areas of Swiss and Zurich private law as well as Swiss debt enforcement and bankruptcy law .

Friedrich Meili was a member of the expert commission for the editing of the Swiss Civil Code and for the revision of the Code of Obligations . 1905–1912 he was also President of the Zurich Court of Cassation and from 1907 a member of the Arbitration Court at the Central Office for International Rail Transport in Bern . As a delegate of the Federal Council , he took part in the Hague State Conferences on Private International Law and in 1910 in the International Conference on Air Transport in Paris. Meili is considered a pioneer of telephone and telegraph law, automobile liability law and aviation law and has written numerous publications.

In 1887, Meili hired Emilie Kempin-Spyri , the first female lawyer in Europe, to work as a substitute in his law firm.

literature

Marianne Runge: Friedrich Meili (1848–1914). Life picture of a versatile Zurich lawyer . Zurich 1978.

Web links

Bruno Schmid: Meili, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Overview of Friedrich Meili's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1880 to summer semester 1900)
Entry on Friedrich Meili in Kalliope

Individual evidence

^ AE: Nekrolog Prof. Dr. Friedrich Meili . In: Annual report of the University of Zurich . tape 1913/14 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1914, p. 63–65 ( archiv.uzh.ch [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Meili, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hinwil
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1914
Place of death	Zurich

[1] AE: Nekrolog Prof. Dr. Friedrich Meili . In: Annual report of the University of Zurich . tape 1913/14 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1914, p. 63–65 ( archiv.uzh.ch [PDF]).