Guido Pfeifer

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Guido Christian Pfeifer (born October 1, 1968 in Karlsruhe ) is a German legal historian and holder of the chair for ancient legal history, European private law history and civil law at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Pfeifer studied law at the Universities of Marburg and Erlangen from 1990 to 1994 . After the first state examination in law, he did his preparatory service from 1994 to 1996 in the district of the Bamberg Higher Regional Court and passed the second state examination in 1996.

In 2001 he was at the University of Munich with a thesis on the Czech Ius regale montanorum the late Middle Ages to Dr. jur. PhD. For this he received the prize of the law faculty of the University of Munich in 2001. In 2005, Pfeifer completed his habilitation with a thesis on the design of legal transactions in loan documents in the ancient Orient. After substituting professorships in Münster, Regensburg and Frankfurt, he was finally appointed to the University of Frankfurt in 2007 to succeed Boudewijn Sirks . From 2011 he was there, alongside Albrecht Cordes and Thomas Duve , a permanent member of the management committee of the LOEWE focus on "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution", an interdisciplinary joint research project within the framework of the Hessian excellence program. This ended in 2014.

After his teacher Gerhard Ries, Pfeifer is the last German lawyer who also deals with research into cuneiform writing . Pfeifer is the academic teacher of Nadine Grotkamp and Vera Langer .

Publications

  • Ius shelves Montanorum. A contribution to the late medieval reception history of Roman law in Central Europe. Ebelsbach 2002.
  • Progress on detours, circumvention and fiction in legal documents of antiquity , Munich 2013.
  • as editors with Philipp Grzimek and Andreas Thier , Continuities and turning points in European legal history, European Forum for Young Legal Historians, Munich 22.-24. July 1988 , Frankfurt a. M. 1999.
  • as editor with Nadine Grotkamp, Extrajudicial conflict resolution in antiquity. Examples from three millennia , Frankfurt a. M. 2017.

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