Peter Jung (legal scholar)

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Peter Jung (born July 2, 1965 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German law scholar and university lecturer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1984 and subsequent military service , Jung studied law from 1985 to 1991 at the universities of Passau , Toulouse and Göttingen . In Passau, Jung added history to his studies; during his stay in Toulouse, he obtained the degree of Maîtrise en droit . After the first state examination in law in 1991, he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science for summer studies in 1992 before completing his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg from 1993 to 1995 . During his legal clerkship, he began to do his doctorate at the University of Göttingen. The doctorate to Dr. iur. Then took place in 1995 with the work The binding contract under changed business circumstances - a comparative consideration of German and French law . From 1996 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In the same year Jung became secretary and head of the trade and business law section of the Society for Comparative Law . From 1998 to 2002 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation , which enabled him to expand his studies at Harvard Law School in 2001, among other things . In 2002 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg, with the thesis The entrepreneurial partner as the personal core of the legally competent society - a study on the relativity of the legal independence of companies . He then worked there as a private lecturer .

Jung has been teaching as a visiting professor at the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris since 1999 . In 2003 he accepted an appointment at the University of Halle , where he held the chair for civil law , German and European business law . Even after he left Halle, he continued to work there, among other things by supporting the establishment of the Gundling Professorship as an endowed professorship for the German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright .

In 2004 he accepted a position at the University of Basel , where he became full professor of private law.

Research priorities

Jung's main research interests include civil law, in particular the law of obligations , commercial and corporate law , banking and insurance law , competition and antitrust law . He also has an international focus, so his areas of expertise also include private international law , private law of the European Community and French commercial and economic law.

Publications (selection)

  • The binding effect of the contract under changed business circumstances: A comparative consideration of German and French law (= work on comparative law. Vol. 173). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1995, ISBN 3-7890-4063-0 (dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1994).
  • Commercial law. Beck, Munich 1998; 10th edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66017-7 .
  • The entrepreneurial partner as the personal core of the society with legal capacity (= Jus privatum. Vol. 75). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147862-2 (habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 2001/02).

literature

  • Gerfried Fischer : The development of civil law teaching since the re-establishment of the law faculty after reunification. In: Heiner Lück (Ed.): Current contributions to jurisprudence and its intellectual-historical foundations. For the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of the law faculty at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (= Hallesche Schriften zum Recht. Vol. 32). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86977-072-7 , pp. 29-30.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 20th edition (2005). Vol. 1, p. 1580.
personal data
SURNAME Young, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main