Harald Koch (legal scholar)

Harald Koch (* 1943 ) is a German lawyer and former professor at the University of Rostock and the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

After studying law in Bonn, Tübingen and Hamburg, Koch passed the first state examination in Hamburg in 1967 . He then completed his legal traineeship there  and passed the 2nd state examination in 1971 . Koch was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and was established in 1972 with a comparative law work at Konrad Zweigert doctorate . From 1973 to the end of 1974 he was on a DFG research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley . He then returned to the University of Hamburg as a research assistant, where he completed his Habilitation on comparative procedural law .

In 1978 Koch took over a first professorship for business law at the University of Hamburg and in 1980 he was appointed to a professorship for civil law and procedural law at the University of Hanover . There he taught civil law, civil procedural law, international private law and comparative law until 1992 and was then appointed to the re-established law faculty of the University of Rostock . There he became director of the Institute for International Law and the Institute for Legal Law and worked from 1994 until his retirement in 2008 as a judge at the Rostock Higher Regional Court in its 2nd civil senate. Several guest professorships took him to the Universities of California (Berkeley) , Virginia (Charlottesville) and Tulane (New Orleans) in 1984, 1994, 1997 and 2002 .

After his retirement, the Humboldt University in Berlin appointed him a senior professorship, where he taught international civil procedure law, international commercial and corporate law, comparative law and Anglo-American law until 2014 and was a member of the board of directors at the Institute for Legal Law.

Works (selection)

• Enrichment and error (Diss. 1972)
• Litigation in the public interest (habilitation thesis 1983)
• IPR and comparative law (together with Magnus and Winkler v. Mohrenfels, 4th edition 2010)
• Consumer procedural law (2nd edition 2019)
• Modern claims management for major claims (together with A. Willingmann, 2002);
• Civil Procedure in Germany (with F. Diedrich, 2nd ed. 2006).

Web links

• Literature by and about Harald Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harald Koch on the website of the Humboldt University in Berlin