Heinz-Peter Mansel

Heinz-Peter Mansel (* 1958 ) is a German lawyer and professor for civil law , international private law , comparative law and civil procedural law at the University of Cologne . He is director of the Institute for International and Foreign Private Law at the University of Cologne and co-director of the International Investment Law Center Cologne (IILCC) .

Life

Mansel studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg , Geneva and Munich . In Munich, where he studied ethnology as a second subject , he passed both the first and the second state examination. After completing his doctorate in Munich, he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg under the supervision of Erik Jayme . After a substitute for a professorship at the University of Regensburg and a simultaneous teaching position at the University of Düsseldorf , appointments to the universities of Düsseldorf, Regensburg and Cologne followed in 1999 . He accepted the call to the University of Cologne, where he has held a chair ever since; In 2010 he turned down a call to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Mansel taught as visiting professor at Wuhan University in China (2007) and at the University of California, Berkeley (2008/09) and at the Hague Academy of International Law (1998 and 2008).

At the University of Cologne, Mansel has the binational courses in German and Turkish law with the İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi (master’s course) and the Kemerburgaz University Istanbul (bachelor’s course) as well as in German and Italian law with the Università degli Studi di Firenze (bachelor’s and Master’s course). He has been President of the German Council for International Private Law since 2010 . He is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , the Académie de droit comparé in Paris , the Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile and the Council of the German Society for International Law . He is the chairman of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the German Research Foundation for two terms and was at times its spokesman. In addition, there are further memberships in scientific associations and university bodies. Mansel is a reviewer u. a. for the German Research Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation . He is a member of the Comitato Referees of the Osservatorio del Diritto Civile e Commerciale and the Advisory Board of The Italian Law Journal .

Mansel was an expert in the Legal Committee of the European Parliament on the draft of the European Inheritance Law Ordinance and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the work on the draft of the Law on the Return of Cultural Goods (both 2005). Together with Wolfgang Ernst , Detlef Leenen , Frank Peters and Reinhard Zimmermann , he developed statements on the reform of the statute of limitations , which were incorporated into the work of the federal-state working group “Statute of Limitations” as part of the 2002 reform of the law of obligations .

Marc-Philippe Weller , Michael Stürner and Christine Budzikiewicz completed their habilitation at Mansel .

Works and editorships (selection)

• Direct claims against the liability insurer: applicable law and international jurisdiction . CFMüller, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-8226-2486-1 .
• Personal status, nationality and effectiveness. An international private and procedural law investigation into multi-nationals, an escape clause for the linkage of citizenship and the domestic German conflict of laws . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-406-32786-5 . (Dissertation)
• Heinz-Peter Mansel and Christine Budzikiewicz: The new statute of limitations in legal practice. German lawyer publisher . CH Beck, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-8240-0513-0 .
• Staudinger BGB - EGBGB / IPR: Articles 43–46 EGBGB (international property law) . Sellier / de Gruyter, Munich / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8059-1040-8 .
• Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca, Angelo Davì and Heinz-Peter Mansel: The EU Succession Regulation: A Commentary . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-12730-2 .

In addition, Mansel is co-editor and editor of the journal Praxis des Internationale Privat- und procedural law (IPRax) as well as the series IPG - Expert Opinions on International and Foreign Private Law , co-editor of the Yearbook for Italian Law and other series. In addition, he edited large parts of the short commentary on the BGB founded by Othmar Jauernig and named after him, in particular in legal business theory and German and international contract law . In Wieczorek / Schütze's comment on the ZPO he comprehensively commented on the third party participation regulations. In the major commentary founded by Julius von Staudinger , he presented international property law in one volume.

Web links

• Heinz-Peter Mansel's curriculum vitae on the homepage of his institute at the University of Cologne
• Heinz-Peter Mansel's curriculum vitae on the homepage of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• “Hard work card” for Prof. Mansel , article about Mansel in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger