Harald Siems

Harald Siems (* 1943 ) is a German legal scholar , legal historian and former professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München .

Life

Siems studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he passed his first state examination in law. He then worked as Hermann Nehlsen's assistant at the Leopold Wenger Institute at the University of Munich . There Siems received his doctorate in 1979 with a thesis on Lex Frisionum for Dr. iur. In 1990 the habilitation followed, also under the supervision of Nehlsen, with which Siems was awarded the Venia legendi for the subjects of German legal history, Bavarian legal history and civil law.

From 1991 Siems held a chair at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 2003 he moved to the University of Munich, succeeding Peter Landau , where he held the chair for learned law, German and European legal history and civil law until his retirement in October 2008. Susanne Lepsius was the successor to this chair .

Publications (selection)

• Studies on the Lex Frisionum . Universitätsverlag, Munich 1980 (dissertation).
• On the development of church asylum between late antiquity and the Middle Ages . In: Behrends, Okko; Dießelhorst, Malte (Hrsg.): Libertas: Fundamental and constitutional grants in antiquity and the present . Ebelsbach 1991, p. 139-186 .
• Trade and usury reflected in early medieval legal sources . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 978-3-7752-5163-1 (habilitation thesis).
• Asylum in the church? Changing positions of church asylum in the Middle Ages . In: Dreher, Martin (ed.): The ancient asylum. Cultic principles, legal structure and political function . Cologne u. a. 2003, p. 263-299 .
• Rule and consensus in the 'Lex Baiuvariorum' and the 'Decreta Tassilonis' . In: Epp, Verena; Meyer, Christoph HF (ed.): Law and consensus in the early Middle Ages . Ostfildern 2017, p. 299-361 .

Web links

• Siems at his former chair at the University of Munich
• Author profile at Beck-Verlag