Klaus Schurig

Klaus Schurig (born May 1, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German legal scholar . From 1981 to 2007 he held the chair for civil law , international private law and comparative law at the University of Passau .

Life

Schurig was born in Berlin in 1942 . He grew up in Essen . After studying law at the University of Cologne , he was a trainee lawyer in the OLG districts of Hamm and Düsseldorf . At the same time he worked at the Institute for International and Foreign Private Law at the University of Cologne as a research assistant , later as a research assistant.

In 1974 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the right of first refusal (The right of first refusal in private law (1975)) . From 1976 to 1978, the German Research Foundation granted him a scholarship . In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne under Gerhard Kegel (collision norm and substantive law (1981)) . In 1980/1981 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1981, he received a call to the Chair for Civil Law , Private International Law and Comparative Law of the University of Passau , where he remained by 2007. In 1985 he turned down a call to the chair for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Vienna . Until 2007 he was also the managing director of the Institute for International and Foreign Law at the University of Passau.

Schurig's academic student Dennis Solomon followed him to the chair in 2008.

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Schurig researches mainly in international private law, especially in the area of ​​international family law, international public liability law, the norms of interference in international private law and the preliminary issue in conflict of laws. He is also particularly interested in Anglo-American common law .

Fonts

• The right of first refusal in private law. History, dogmatics, selected questions. In: Writings on civil law . tape 23 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975.
• Conflict of Laws and Law. On the structure, location and method of international private law. In: Writings on international law . tape 23 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981.
• Gerhard Kegel and Klaus Schurig: International Private Law . 9th edition. Beck, Munich 2004.
• Klaus Schurig: EGBGB Art. 10 (pp. 342–418), before 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 16 Appendix, 17 (pp. 539–922), before 25, 25, 26 (pp. 1273–1392 ), 220 (pp. 2382-2417), 236 (pp. 2825-2852) . In: Soergel. Civil code with introductory law and subsidiary laws . 12th edition. Kohlhammer, 1996.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Schurig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Schurig's curriculum vitae on the homepage of the chair for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Passau