Helmut Grothe

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Helmut Grothe (born May 23, 1960 in Wülfrath ) is a German legal scholar and professor at the Free University of Berlin , where he is director of the Institute for International Private Law, International Civil Procedure Law and Comparative Law.

Career

With a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, Grothe studied law with additional training in economics at the University of Bayreuth and at the University of Osnabrück , where he was a student assistant at Karl-Ulrich Meyn . He then worked as a research assistant in the Osnabrück law firm, auditor and tax consultant firm Wenk, Schindhelm und Partner until 1988. In 1986 he passed the first state examination. As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he received his doctorate in 1988 under the supervision of Christian von Bar . In 1991 he passed his second state law examination. Then Grothe was a research assistant at the Institute for International Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Osnabrück, from which he was given a leave of absence for three years to take up a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) . In 1998 he completed his habilitation under the supervision of Christian von Bar. He then was a deputy professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1998, Grothe has held a chair in civil law, international private and procedural law and comparative law at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2005 he has been the director of the Institute for International Private Law, International Civil Procedure Law and Comparative Law. From 2009 to 2010 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Free University of Berlin. In 2011 and 2013, Grothe was visiting professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies .

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/einrichtungen/zivilrecht/lehrende/grotheh/index.html