Gerhard Wagner (lawyer)

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Gerhard Wagner (born February 24, 1962 in Kassel ) is a German legal scholar and holds a chair for civil law, business law and economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Career

Wagner studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich from 1982 to 1987 and passed the first state examination in 1987. In 1989, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen awarded Wagner a doctorate with a thesis on the influence of public law permits on civil law illegality. iur. PhD. He then worked in the traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Celle and passed the second state examination in 1992. Wagner then worked as an academic advisor and research assistant at the University of Göttingen. In 1994 and 1995 Wagner conducted research at the University of Chicago Law School , where he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1995 . In 1997 he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen under Uwe Diederichsen with an investigation into litigation contracts. From 1999 to 2013 Wagner was professor for German and European private and procedural law, international private law and comparative law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Bonn . In 2008 Wagner turned down calls to the universities of Freiburg, Munich and Zurich after colleagues and students had asked him to stay with a torchlight procession. In the 2013 summer semester, he accepted a position at the Law Faculty of Berlin's Humboldt University.

In 2003, Wagner was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Global Law at University College London , 2006–2008 dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Bonn and 2010–2011 visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Erasmus Chair of Fundamentals of Private Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

Wagner is chairman of the civil law teachers 'association and a member of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association . He is co-editor of the Archives for Civilist Practice and the Journal of European Private Law .

selected Writings

  • Competitive Legal Location Germany - Impetus for Justice and Arbitration , Munich 2017.
  • Tort law (together with Hein Kötz), 13th edition, Munich 2016
  • Mediation law (together with Horst Eidenmüller ), Cologne 2015
  • Litigation contracts - private autonomy in procedural law , Tübingen 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel