Society for Comparative Law
The Society for Comparative Law was founded in 1950 as a specialist organization for comparative law, is a registered association and has its seat in Freiburg im Breisgau . She is the successor to the International Association for Comparative Law and Economics , founded in Berlin in 1894 , which ceased its activities after 1933.
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The society is divided into 7 specialist groups, which are responsible for the scientific work and which cover all essential areas of law:
- Section for Basic Research (Fundamentals, Methods, Comparative Legal History and Legal Ethnology) (Head: Stefan Grundmann , Humboldt University Berlin )
- Section for Comparative Civil Law (Head: Martin Gebauer , Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen )
- Section for Comparative Public Law (Head: Uwe Kischel , Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald )
- Section for Comparative Criminal Law (Head: Bettina Weißer , University of Cologne )
- Section for Comparative Commercial and Business Law (Head: Peter Jung , University of Basel )
- Section for European Law (Head: Armin Hatje , University of Hamburg )
- Section for Labor and Social Law (Head: Ulrich Becker , Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law , Munich)
International "Conferences for Comparative Law" are held every two years. The society is the German national group of the International Association of Law (Association Internationale des Sciences Juridiques, Paris) established by UNESCO .
The society publishes several legal literature series.
President
- 1950–1961: Hans Dölle
- 1962–1973: Ernst von Caemmerer
- 1974–1983: Hans-Heinrich Jescheck
- 1984–1989: Rudolf Bernhardt
- 1990–1997: Peter Schlechtriem
- 1998–2005: Uwe Blaurock
- 2006–2013: Jürgen Schwarze
- since 2014: Reinhard Zimmermann