Michael Lehmann (legal scholar)
Michael Lehmann (born April 3, 1949 in Nuremberg ) is a German legal scholar. Since January 1996 he has held the professorship for civil law, commercial and economic law as well as copyright and industrial property rights at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich.
Life
After attending the Jesuit boarding school Kolleg St. Blasien, with a high school diploma in 1967, Lehmann began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the winter semester of 1967/68. During this time, there were interruptions due to language studies in other European countries. In 1971 he finally passed the first state examination in law and devoted himself to economics as a second degree at the State Economics Faculty of the LMU, which he successfully completed in 1976 with a degree in business administration.
From 1972 he worked as a research assistant and scholarship holder and from 1975 as a consultant for the Italian legal community at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Competition and Copyright Law, Munich and at the University Institute for Intellectual Property and Copyright Law. At the same time he was personal assistant to Gerhard Schricker. From 1971 to 1975 he completed his legal clerkship at the Munich Higher Regional Court . In 1973 he received his doctorate under G. Schricker and in 1974 he successfully passed the second state examination in law. In 1980 he completed his habilitation (venia legendi) in civil law, commercial law, business law and comparative law.
After stations in Regensburg and Würzburg, he became professor for civil law, industrial property rights, labor law, commercial law and comparative law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in January 1982. There he finally took over the professorship for civil law, commercial and economic law as well as copyright and industrial property law in 1996. In addition, he works as a scientific consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich.
His research areas mainly include the areas of fairness, copyright, commercial and IT law.
Lehmann is married, has three children and lives in Munich. His mother ran a well-known law firm in Nuremberg, where the later Bavarian Prime Minister Günther Beckstein worked as a young lawyer.
Memberships
- International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
- Association International pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle
- German Society for Commercial Legal Protection and Copyright
- German Society for Law and Informatics
- Civil Law Teachers Association
- Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) eV
Visiting professorships
He was or is a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, Santa Clara, Ferrara, Palermo, Naples and Luxembourg.
Publications
- Advertising with gifts. A legal analysis of abstract value advertising with special consideration of the competition law assessment. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Munich, 1974.
- Contract initiation through advertising. A legal and economic analysis of civil liability for advertising information towards the end consumer. CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 1981.
- Lehmann, Michael: Electronic Business in Europe. International, European and German online law. CH Beck Verlag, p. 687, Munich, 2002.
- Lehmann, Michael / Meents, Jan Geert: Handbook of the specialist lawyer for information technology law. Carl Heymanns Verlag, p. 1708, Munich 2nd edition, 2011.
- Borges, Georg / Meents, Jan Geert: Legal Handbook Cloud Computing. CH Beck Verlag, Chapter 5, Munich, 2014.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lehmann, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |