Günter Roth (lawyer)

Günter H. Roth (born April 13, 1941 in Augsburg ) is a German-Austrian lawyer and professor at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

From 1960, Roth studied law and business administration at the universities of Munich , Lausanne and Würzburg as a Bavarian state scholarship holder . He completed his law studies in 1964 with the first state examination in law. In 1967 he was at the University of Würzburg, with one of Walther J. Habscheid supervised work on the reservation of public policy towards foreign judgments Dr. jur. PhD. After the second state examination in law, Roth became a research assistant at Habscheid at the University of Würzburg in 1968 . In 1970 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard and Berkeley Universities . In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the University of Würzburg with an investigation into the trust model of investment law . Also in 1972 he became a university lecturer in Würzburg. On March 1, 1974, Roth accepted a position at the University of Hamburg (Faculty of Law I, Professorship for Private Law and Legal Sociology).

Since April 1, 1978, Roth has been Professor of Commercial and Securities Law at the University of Innsbruck. From 1983 to 1993 he was director of the Institute for Commercial and Securities Law, and since 1999 director of the Institute for Corporate and Tax Law. He has been retired since October 1, 2009.

Between 1993 and 1999 Roth was Dean of the Faculty of Law.

Roth was visiting professor at the University of North Carolina (1973), the University of Georgia (1983), the University of British Columbia (1985), the Humboldt University Berlin (1992) and the Free University of Bozen (2001 / 02). From 1976 to 1978 he was also a judge at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court .

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In his early years, Roth's academic focus was on civil law, legal sociology and legal economics, later on commercial and company law, and here again mainly on GmbH law and its European dimension. His concern was the preservation of continental European legal traditions in conflict with Anglo-American-inspired deregulation and creeping European leveling. His last publication, a critique of the ideology that dominates European law jurisprudence, was only published online in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Literature (selection)

• The reservation of public policy towards foreign court decisions. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1967.
• The trust model of investment law - an alternative to a stock corporation? Althenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1972. ISBN 3-7610-3130-0 .
• Munich commentary on the BGB, commentary on §§ 242 (later 241, 242, 313), 398 - 413 up to the 6th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2012. ISBN 3-406-66542-4 .
• GmbH law (since the 3rd edition together with Holger Altmeppen ). 8th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2015. ISBN 3-406-53424-4 .
• Commercial and corporate law (since the 7th edition continued by Marc-Philippe Weller ). 8th edition, Vahlen, Munich 2013. ISBN 3-8006-2661-6 .
• Outline of Austrian securities law. 2nd edition, Manz, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-214-14681-5 .
• The ECJ and the sovereignty of the member states (together with Peter Hilpold ). Linde, Vienna 2008. ISBN 3-7073-1335-2 .
• Requirements for freedom of establishment for corporation law. CH Beck, Munich 2010. ISBN 3-406-59657-5 .
• The Spirit of Corporate Law (together with Peter Kindler ). CH Beck, Munich 2013. ISBN 3-406-65511-1 .
• Right and right attitude in the European integration process. SSRN, 2017/18, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2962985.
• Complete list of publications up to 2010 in: Festschrift for Günter H. Roth on his 70th birthday ( Holger Altmeppen , Hanns Fitz, Heinrich Honsell , eds.). CH Beck, Munich 2011, p. 905. ISBN 3-406-61786-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Institute for Corporate and Tax Law at the University of Innsbruck