Justus Meyer

Justus Meyer (born April 28, 1963 in Bielefeld ) is a German lawyer and professor at Leipzig University .

Meyer did his Abitur at the municipal high school in Gütersloh and then studied law and economics in Bielefeld and Münster . After the second state examination in law, he became a research assistant to Wolfgang Oehler in Bielefeld and, in 1991, with a thesis on instruction liability, he became a Dr. iur. PhD. He then devoted himself to his habilitation project, which focused on the limitation of liability in the law of commercial companies . In the winter semester 1998/99 Meyer was awarded the venia legendi for civil law, commercial and economic law, European private law, comparative law and modern history of private law.

In 1999 Meyer was offered a position at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) . In the summer semester of 2000 he moved to the TU Dresden , where he held a professorship for civil law, commercial and economic law, European private law and comparative law. In the course of the restructuring of the law faculty at TU Dresden, Meyer moved to the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 2004.

Publications (selection)

• Liability for instructions. Gieseking, Bielefeld 1992. ISBN 3-7694-0235-9
• Limitation of Liability in the Law of Commercial Companies. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg a. a. 2000. ISBN 3-540-67831-X
• Commercial law. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg a. a. 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-32535-2
• Commercial Law - Basic Course and Advanced Course. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg a. a. 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-48817-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Justus Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Justus Meyer at the University of Leipzig