Gunther Teubner

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Gunther Teubner (2017)

Gunther Teubner (born April 30, 1944 in Herrnhut ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Teubner studied from 1963 to 1967 at the University of Göttingen and the University of Tübingen . He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1970 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the interpretation of general legal clauses. In 1971 he passed the assessor exam . From 1972 to 1974 he did a research stay in the USA, where he obtained his master's degree (law and society) from the University of Berkeley .

In 1977 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen on the subject of organizational democracy and association constitution. Legal models for politically relevant associations . In the same year he received a professorship at the University of Bremen .

In 1981 Teubner moved to the European University Institute in Florence . He taught here until 1993.

In 1993 Teubner took over a professorship for comparative law and legal theory named after Otto Kahn-Freund at the London School of Economics and Political Science .

As a result, Teubner moved to the Faculty of Law at the University of Frankfurt in 1998 , where he retired in 2009 . There he was also Principal Investigator of the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence The Formation of Normative Orders . He also taught at the International University College in Turin.

Teubner provided in particular for the systems theory of law a . a. important contributions in dealing with the considerations of Niklas Luhmann .

Awards

Teubner's work has received several awards, including the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2000 and a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2007 . He has received several honorary doctorates and visiting professorships. In 1989 Teubner became a founding member of the Academia Europaea . In 2013 he was accepted into the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

author

  • Standards and directives in general clauses: Possibilities and limits of empirical social research when specifying good morals clauses in private law. Zugl. Tübingen Diss., 1970. Studies and texts on the theory and methodology of law, Volume 8, Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt 1971.
  • Organizational democracy and association constitution. Legal models for politically relevant associations . Habilitation thesis. Mohr, Tuebingen 1978
  • Law as an autopoietic system . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-518579824
  • Network as a contractual association. Virtual companies, franchising, just-in-time from a social science and legal perspective . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2004, ISBN 978-3-832904609
  • Together with Andreas Fischer-Lescano : regime collisions. On the fragmentation of global law . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006
  • Constitutional Fragments: Social Constitutionalism in Globalization . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2012
  • Digital legal entities? On the status of autonomous software agents under private law . In: Archives for civilistic practice , August 1–2 / 2018, 155–205.

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literature

Web links

Commons : Gunther Teubner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Normative Orders: Principal Investigators. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, accessed on July 13, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gunther Teubner: curriculum vitae. Retrieved October 29, 2012 .
  3. ^ Entry in the Academia Europaea .
  4. ↑ British Academy Welcomes 59 New Fellows announcement of July 18, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2013, again on April 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Teubner, Gunther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teubner, Gunther Curt Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnhut