Jan Schröder (legal scholar)

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Jan Schröder (born May 28, 1943 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar .

His parents were the former Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder (1910–1989) and his wife Brigitte Schröder (1917–2000). Schröder studied law in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich and Hamburg. In 1969 and 1972 he passed the state law exams. He received his doctorate in 1969 in Hamburg under Eberhard Schmidhäuser and completed his habilitation in 1978 in Bonn under Gerd Kleinheyer . In 1982 he was offered a professorship for civil law and legal history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1989 to 2009 he held the chair for German legal history and civil law at the Law Faculty of the University of Tübingen . In 2009 he retired.

His research focus is in particular modern legal history . He was co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte from 2001 to 2010 and is a full member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University .

Works

  • Theory of science and the teaching of 'practical jurisprudence' at German universities at the turn of the 19th century. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-465-01379-4 .
  • Justus Möser as a lawyer. Heymanns, Cologne etc. 1986, ISBN 3-452-20654-8 .
  • Law in Modern Times. History, theory, method. Selected articles 1976–2009. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150336-8 .
  • Law as science. History of legal methodology in modern times (1500–1933). 2nd edition, Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63011-8 .
  • Law in dictatorships: The legal methodology in the Nazi state and in the GDR. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69606-0 .
  • German and European lawyers from nine centuries. A Biographical Introduction to the History of Law. (Ed., Together with Gerd Kleinheyer) 6th edition, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8252-4526-9 (UTB volume 578).

Individual evidence

  1. Member entry of Jan Schröder at the Academy of Sciences and Literature

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