Joachim Zekoll

Joachim Zekoll (* 1955) is a German legal scholar and comparator of law . He holds the chair for civil law , civil procedural law and comparative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

In 1983, Zekoll passed the legal state examination as a graduate of the one-stage legal training at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover . A year later followed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of California, Berkeley . Zekoll received his doctorate in 1986 from the Law Faculty of the University of Hanover. His doctoral thesis was published in 1987 under the title US-American product liability law before German courts . From 1986 to 1988 Zekoll worked as an associate attorney in San Francisco . In 1989 he took up a position as an assistant professor at Louisiana State University . This was followed by visiting professorships in Berkeley (1991/92), Freiburg (1995) and Heidelberg (1998/99) and professorships at Tulane University in New Orleans (1992–2001; 2003–2007). He took over his professorship in Frankfurt am Main in 2001. Zekoll has been an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence 243: The Formation of Normative Orders since 2008 and, since 2011, sub-project leader in the LOEWE focus on extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution , a joint research project as part of the Hessian State Excellence Program .

personal data
SURNAME	Zekoll, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar and comparator of law
DATE OF BIRTH	1955