Johann Braun (legal scholar)

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Johann Braun (born July 20, 1946 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German legal scholar and legal philosopher .

Life

Johann Braun studied law first at the University of Heidelberg and from 1969 at the University of Mannheim , where he passed the First State Examination in 1971. He then completed his legal clerkship in Rhineland-Palatinate and graduated with the second state examination in law. From 1974 on he was a research assistant to Hans-Martin Pawlowski at the University of Mannheim. There he received his doctorate in 1979 and habilitated in 1982 in the subjects of civil procedural law , civil law , legal philosophy and modern history of private law . From 1983 to 1988 he was a full professor at the University of Trier . From April 1, 1988 until his retirement on September 30, 2011, he held the chair for civil procedural law, civil law and legal philosophy at the University of Passau . In 1995 he turned down an offer at the University of Tübingen .

Braun is married and has three children.

Focus

Braun is particularly interested in basic legal research, particularly in the border area between civil law and procedural law . Another focus is the legal examination of German idealism . In this context he is concerned with a. intensely with the life and work of the legal philosopher and universal legal historian Eduard Gans, who died in 1839 . He also dedicates himself to the field of " Fine Arts and Law ".

In 2001, Braun was appointed as a litigation representative for Thuringia and Saxony in the standards control procedure against the Civil Partnership Act . His examination of this topic was reflected in a series of committed publications (including the magazine for legal policy . 2001, 14; JuristenZeitung . 2002, 23 and 294; legal training . 2003, 21). In it he set out what, in his opinion, the legal equal treatment of homosexual partnerships with marriage means for society, and points to an alleged long-standing alliance between the gay and pediatric movement (JuristenZeitung 2002, p. 23 ff). He has the reactions to this in his book Registered Civil Partnerships and Marriage. Positions and arguments described. His book 1968 - Eine Bilanz was published in 2018 by Antaios , which is assigned to the New Right .

Publications (selection)

  • Legal force and restitution. Part 1: The legal remedy according to § 826 BGB against legally binding judgments, Berlin 1979 (dissertation); Part 2: The basics of the current restitution law, Berlin 1985 (habilitation thesis).
  • Legal force and breach of legal force of titles on immoral installment loan agreements, Cologne 1986.
  • Freedom, equality, property. Basic questions of law in the light of the philosophy JG Fichtes, Tübingen 1991.
  • Munich Commentary on the ZPO, Sections 567 - 605 a, 641 i ZPO (= complaint, resumption, document and exchange process), Vol. 2, 1st edition Munich 1992, 3rd edition 2007 (only resumption as well as document and exchange process) , 5th edition 2016.
  • Basic questions of the amendment suit, Tübingen 1994.
  • Art processes from Menzel to Beuys. 18 cases from private law, Munich 1995, 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition 2009.
  • Introduction to Law, Tübingen 1997; 4th edition 2011.
  • Judaism, jurisprudence and philosophy. Pictures from the life of the lawyer Eduard Gans (1797–1839), Baden-Baden 1997.
  • The civil case. Exam teaching for beginners and advanced students, Munich 2000; 5th edition 2012.
  • Philosophy of Law in the 20th Century. The return of justice, Munich 2001.
  • Marriage and family at a crossroads. A criticism of the so-called Life Partnership Act, Regensburg 2002.
  • Registered civil partnership and marriage. Positions and Arguments, Regensburg 2002.
  • Introduction to the philosophy of law. The thought of law, Tübingen 2006; 2nd edition 2011.
  • Delusion and reality. On the internal constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany - Hohenrain Verlag / Grabert Verlag Tübingen 2008.
  • (Ed.) Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. Materialband, Tübingen 2011 (only online on the Mohr Siebeck publishing house).
  • Textbook of civil procedural law. Knowledge process, Tübingen 2014.
  • Deduction and Invention. Interpretation of law in the conflict between the art of obedience, the sense of justice and the search for truth , Tübingen 2016
  • A life in Germany. Looking back on seven decades of Germany, Münster 2018
  • 1968 - A balance sheet , Schnellroda 2018
  • Hambach festivals. National unity and freedom yesterday and today , Privatinvestor Verlag Köln 2019

Legal history and legal philosophical editions:

  • Oskar Bülow, Common German Civil Procedure Law, Tübingen 2003.
  • Eduard Gans, Natural Law and the History of Universal Law. Lecture according to GWFHegel, Tübingen 2005.
  • Eduard Gans, letters and documents, Tübingen 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Campus Passau. The university's magazine. 2012, no. 1, p. 30 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein