Nikolaus Benke

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Nikolaus Benke (* 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian legal scholar . From 2000 to 2018 he was head of the Institute for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna.

Life

Nikolaus Benke was born in Vienna in 1954 . In 1978 he received his doctorate in law , in 1982 he was awarded a Master of Laws (LL.M) at King's College London and in 1989 his habilitation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna , where he worked from 1993 until his retirement in 2019 Was a university professor and headed the Institute for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History from 2000 to 2018.

His main research interests in Roman law are private , constitutional and procedural law as well as legal sources . Other areas of specialization are Roman economic and social history as well as comparative law , in particular the dogma-historical comparison of common law with the continental European tradition.

In addition, Nikolaus Benke researches and publishes in the field of legal gender studies with a special focus on Roman antiquity.

From 2004 to 2011 Benke was a member of the Arbitration Commission (Section 43 University Act 2002) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Since 2013, Benke has been the deputy head of the Gender and Agency research association set up by the University of Vienna .

Works (selection)

  • Roman property law (together with Franz-Stefan Meissel), Manz Verlag (1st edition 1990, 10th edition 2012).
  • Roman law of obligations (together with Franz-Stefan Meissel), Manz Verlag (1st edition 1992, 8th edition 2014).
  • Roman Law of Property (together with Franz-Stefan Meissel), Manz Verlag (2019).
  • Juristenlatein (together with Franz-Stefan Meissel), Manz / CH Beck / Stämpfli Verlag (1st edition 1997, 3rd edition 2009).
  • Antiquity - Law - History. Symposium for Peter E. Pieler (edited together with Franz-Stefan Meissel), Peter Lang Verlag (2009).
  • Commentary on § 21 ABGB (with Peter Barth), §§ 22, 23 ABGB (with Philipp Klausberger) and §§ 26, 27 ABGB (with Peter Steindl) in Fenyves / Kerschner / Vonkilch (ed.), Large commentary on ABGB ("Sound Commentary"), 3rd edition (2014).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Benke . ( univie.ac.at [accessed on March 13, 2018]).
  2. ^ Gender and Agency - Contributors . ( univie.ac.at [accessed on March 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Benke, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna