Gerhard Walter (lawyer)

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Gerhard Walter (born February 6, 1949 in Freudenstadt ) is a German lawyer , university professor and author.

Live and act

Gerhard Walter passed his Abitur in 1967 in Tübingen . At the University of Tübingen and in Berlin he studied 1967-1971 jurisprudence . His bar exam and doctorate took place in 1974. His dissertation is entitled The Principle of Immediacy in the Fiduciary Trust.

Until 1979 Walter held an assistant position in Tübingen. There he completed his habilitation in 1978 with a thesis on the free evaluation of evidence . He received the venia legendi for the subjects civil law as well as domestic and foreign procedural law .

From 1979 Gerhard Walter held the chair for civil law, commercial law and civil procedural law at the University of Konstanz . He worked as a part-time judge at the Constance Regional Court . In 1987 he was appointed full professor for civil procedural law and private law at the University of Bern . There he was Director of the Institute for International Private and Procedural Law and Vice Rector for two years .

Walter worked regularly as a visiting professor in Italy, he also worked in the USA, Japan and China. He presided over the disciplinary body for doping cases of Swiss Olympic . In 2009 he resigned as professor.

Gerhard Walter published a number of specialist publications, including a. on marriage law and family law, sales law, arbitration (partly with Karl-Heinz Schwab ) and civil procedure law in Switzerland. Some of the titles have been reprinted several times over the years.

Works (selection)

Authorship

  • Free assessment of evidence. An investigation into the meaning, conditions and limits of free judicial conviction. Habilitation thesis. Mohr, Tübingen 1979, ISBN 3-16-641572-6 .
  • Sales law. Mohr, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-16-645251-6 .
  • With Fritz Baur : Introduction to the Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. 5th, revised and expanded edition. Beck, Munich 1987 / Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987.
  • International civil procedure law in Switzerland. A textbook. Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1995.
  • Alternative draft arbitration - Swiss Code of Civil Procedure, Part Three, Arbitration, Art. 1–40. Draft with explanations. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Geneva / Munich 2004.
  • Our idea of ​​justice put to the test. Reflection on the text of the cantata “ Take what is yours and go there ”, BWV 144 by Johann Sebastian Bach. JS Bach Foundation , St. Gallen 2013.
    • Take what is yours and go. Cantata BWV 144. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation, Nuria Rial (soprano), Markus Forster (alto), Raphael Höhn (tenor). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Gerhard Walter. DVD. Gallus Media, St. Gallen 2014.

Editing

  • International private and procedural law - texts and explanations. Stämpfli, Bern from 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description from the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on January 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt