Kai-Oliver Knops

Kai-Oliver Knops (born May 31, 1966 in Viersen ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

Kai-Oliver Knops comes from a family of lawyers and studied in Cologne , Trier and Heidelberg . After legal clerkship in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate and as a research assistant in the Bundeshaus (Bonn) , he initially worked at the Cologne Regional Court , later as a lawyer at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and as a specialist lawyer for banking and capital markets law at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg . In 1999 Knops received his doctorate with a thesis on real estate credit (first reviewer Peter Derleder , second reviewer Norbert Reich ). In 2007 he was charged with a thesis on the personality of the contract habilitation and received venia legendi for the subjects Civil Law , Banking Law , Capital Market Law , reorganization law , commercial law and civil procedure . From 2007 to 2009 he was research director at the Institute for Financial Services eV in Hamburg and editor of the magazine “ Konsum und Recht” . From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the board of directors of the Hamburg consumer center . In October 2008, the University of Hamburg appointed him to the chair for civil a. Business law, in particular banking, capital market and consumer law. Before the European Court of Justice, he represents parties in fundamental questions of civil law such as in proceedings relating to so-called junk real estate . From 2011 to 2013 he was Research Director at the Hanseatic Institute for Renewable Energies. From 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the consumer advisory council at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority .; In 2015 he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Board for Market Watchdog Finances at the vzbv and in 2016 in the joint working group of the BMJV and BMF on the subject of “prepayment penalty”. He has been a member of the SPD since 1986 , is a member of the board of the working group of social democratic lawyers in Hamburg and, since 2008, a liaison professor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

Fonts (selection)

• Commentary on § 357a BGB and §§ 491–505 BGB, in: Beate Gsell / Wolfgang Krüger / Stephan Lorenz / Jörg Mayer (eds.): Beck'scher online large- scale commentary on the BGB (BeckOGK BGB). Publishing house CH Beck, Munich.
• Commentary on §§ 308-309 BGB u. § 307 BGB (banking and insurance terms and conditions), in: Soergel : Volume 4, Law of Obligations 2, (§§ 305-310, UKlaG) . Comment. 13th edition. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-015803-0 .
• Commentary on Art. 38 GR Charter, in: Hans von der Groeben / Jürgen Schwarze / Armin Hatje (eds.): European Union Law. 7th edition. Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8329-6019-3 .
• Commentary on §§ 535, 576-576 b, 578-579 BGB, in: Jürgen Herrlein , Roland Kandelhard (Ed.): Tenancy Law: Comment. 4th edition. Verlag für die Rechts- und Anwaltspraxis, Herne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89655-488-8 .
• Commentary on §§ 3–5, 8 and 9 VVG, in: Bruck / Möller (ed. Von Baumann / Beckmann / K.Johannsen / R.Johannsen): Insurance Contract Act: Grosskommentar. 9th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-89949-135-7 .
• (with Udo Reifner , Michael Knobloch) Residual debt insurance and liquidity assurance (= series of publications by the Institute for Financial Services, Vol. 14). Books-on-Demand (Norderstedt), 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-6475-9 .
• (with Niklas Korff, Malte Lassen) Banking and Capital Market Law. , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-17-021776-8 .
• Consumer protection in the establishment, termination and takeover of real estate loan relationships: loan establishment and termination, early repayment penalty, replacement borrower creation, redemption and assumption of land charges. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-540-67336-9 (= dissertation , University of Bremen, 1999).

Editing

• (with Lars Brocker , Herbert Roth) Law and Social Justice - Festschrift for Heinz Georg Bamberger on his 70th birthday. CHBECK, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-70747-6 .
• (with Heinz Georg Bamberger , Gerrit Hölzle) Changing Civil Law - Festschrift for Peter Derleder on his 75th birthday. Springer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-45872-3 .
• (with Peter Derleder , Heinz Georg Bamberger) German and European banking and capital market law. , 3rd edition 2017, Springer, Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-642-45050-1 .
• (with Heinz Georg Bamberger, Georg Maier-Reimer) right of restructuring financing. Springer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-24365-6 .

Web links

• Website of the chair of Kai-Oliver Knops

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BaFin's consumer advisory council begins its work on June 20, 2013 , website of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority , June 14, 2013, accessed on June 20, 2013.
2. ↑ Market watchdogs appoint advisory boards to provide impetus , website of the Bundesverband e. V. (vzbv), September 23, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2015.
3. ^ Homepage of the ASJ Hamburg