Hannes Unberath

Hannes Unberath (born June 23, 1973 in Brașov , Romania ; † January 28, 2013 in Fürth ) was a German legal scholar . His main research interests were alternative conflict resolution , the Europeanization of private and civil law in the European Union, and legal philosophy .

Life

Hannes Unberath was born as the third child of the teacher couple Katharina and Hans Unberath in Brașov in Transylvania . Shortly before the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , he came to Germany with his parents.

Unberath studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg with a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria and passed the first state examination in 1997. He then received a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University , where he obtained an M.Jur in 1997/98 . with Clifford Chance Prize and PhD in 2002. From 2000 to 2001 Unberath was Joachim Hruschka's research assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. After the clerkship and Second State Exam in 2002 in Nuremberg, he was a research assistant to Stephen Lawrence at the Institute of International Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he joined in 2006 with a theme of legal philosophy and law of obligations habilitated . In 2003 he was a visiting fellow at University College London .

From 2006 to 2009 Unberath held the chair for civil law , civil procedural law , international private law and comparative law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , and from 2007 to 2009 he was also a judge at the Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Jena.

Since September 2009 he has held the chair for civil law and civil procedural law at the University of Bayreuth , since 2011 chairman of the committee for the award of the Rhodes scholarship in Germany, and also a scientific assistant at the European Institute for Conflict Management eV (EUCON) within the framework of the project EUCON Mediation Process (EMP) .

Hannes Unberath was married and had three children. He died of cancer.

Fonts (selection)

• with Basil S. Markesinis : The German law of torts: A comparative treatise. 4th edition. Hart, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84113-298-5 .
• Transferred loss: claiming third party loss in contract law. Hart, Oxford 2003, ISBN 1-8411-3370-1 (partly also dissertation, University of Oxford).
• The breach of contract. Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149189-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Munich, 2006).
• with Reinhard Greger : Mediation Act: Law of Alternative Conflict Resolution. Comment. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-61709-6 .
• Stefan Arnold (Hrsg.), Stephan Lorenz (Hrsg.), Hannes Unberath: Gedächtnisschrift für Hannes Unberath. Beck, Munich 2015, ( preface / table of contents PDF, 477 kB) ISBN 978-3-406-68055-7 .
• with Reinhard Greger, Felix Steffek: Law of alternative conflict resolution: Mediation Act, Consumer Dispute Settlement Act. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-67689-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hannes Unberath in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hannes Unberath in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Hannes Unberath on the website of the University of Bayreuth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hannes Unberath, obituary notice at nordbayern.de on February 2, 2013 , accessed on February 3, 2013.
2. ↑ Equal law for all Europeans, Prof. Unberath researches the Europeanization of private and civil law , website of the University of Jena, February 26, 2007, accessed on February 2, 2013.
3. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Nils Ole Oermann: Outstanding legal scholar Hannes Unberath (39) died at sevenbuerger.de/zeitung
4. ↑ Hannes Unberath, from Former Chair of the University of Bayreuth ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ^{a b} The Rhodes Community mourns Professor Dr. Hannes Unberath , February 6, 2013 ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Hans-Uwe Neuenhahn: Obituary for Professor Dr. Hannes Unberath, on February 12, 2013 ( Memento from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )