Michael Coester

Michael Coester (born July 10, 1942 in Hanover ) is a German legal scholar and former professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

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After graduating from high school in 1962 and the subsequent military service, Coester studied law at the University of Freiburg . There he passed the two state examinations in law in 1968 and 1971 and then worked as a research assistant for Manfred Löwisch . Meanwhile Coester support in 1973 from the University of Freiburg with the labor work "principle of supremacy of the collective agreement" Dr. iur. PhD. He then worked for a year as a lawyer in Celle, but then became a research assistant to Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger at the University of Augsburg . After a research stay at the University of Michigan , where he obtained a Master of Laws , Coester completed his habilitation in 1981 under the supervision of Sonnenberger.

After a substitute professor at the University of Augsburg, Coester took up a professorship for civil law and commercial law at the University of Göttingen in 1983 . In 1994 he moved to the University of Munich , where he held the full professorship for civil law, labor law, international private law and comparative law from 1997 and later became a member of the Senate. In 2007 Coester retired. From 1997 to 2007 he was also the representative of the University of Munich at Venice International University . He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Nanjing , Michigan, Tel Aviv , the University of Oxford and in Beijing , among others .

Coester's research focuses primarily on private international law and comparative law, with a particular focus on family law in international comparison. Among other things, he comments on a large part of family law in the Staudinger and is the editor of individual volumes; In the Munich commentary he comments on the international private law standards Art. 13 and 17b EGBGB. He is also a board member of the German Family Court Conference and is a board member of its children's rights commission. Within family law, Coester places a sub-focus on child law, among other things. In relation to this, he is an advocate of more parental autonomy in upbringing and strives to improve the legal status of the illegitimate child father.

Coester has been married to Dagmar Coester-Waltjen since 1972 . She was Peter Schlosser's research assistant and accompanied Coester on his research stay in Michigan.

Fonts (selection)

• Primary principle of the collective agreement . Publishing company law and economy, Heidelberg 1974, ISBN 978-3-8005-6306-7 (dissertation).
• The best interests of the child as a legal term: the judicial decision on parental custody when the family community breaks down . Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 978-3-7875-0214-1 (habilitation thesis).
• with Udo Steiner : Children's high-performance sport . CF Müller, Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 978-3-8114-7384-3 .
• with Friedhelm Zubke : The illegitimate child and its parents: legal and sociological aspects . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1991, ISBN 978-3-472-00724-1 .

literature

• Rudolf Streinz : Professor Dr. Michael Coester on his 75th birthday , in ForumFamilienrecht 2017, p. 309f.
• Barbara Veit : “Appreciation” , in Modern Family Forms: Symposium on the 75th Birthday of Michael Coester , De Gruyter, Berlin 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Coester in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Coester at his former chair at the University of Munich
• Michael Coester at Beck-Verlag