Peter Schüren

Peter Schüren (* 1953 ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

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Schüren studied law and politics at the University of Freiburg from 1974 . There he passed his first state examination in law in 1978; after the subsequent legal clerkship, the second state examination followed in 1981. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Labor Law at the University of Freiburg with Manfred Löwisch . After conducting research at the University of California, Berkeley fomenting 1982 from the University of Freiburg with a labor paper on job sharing Dr. iur. PhD. Subsequently he worked there at the Institute for Labor Law as a university assistant. This activity was only interrupted in 1984 by a temporary employee position in the labor law department of Robert Bosch GmbH . In 1988, after a research stay at the University of Michigan Law School , Schüren completed his habilitation with the publication “Legitimation of collective bargaining norms” published in 1990 and received the Venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, labor law, social law and comparative law.

This was followed by substitute professorships at the Universities of Bayreuth , Cologne and Münster . In 1989 he was appointed professor at the University of Münster and has held the chair for civil law and labor law there ever since. He is also the managing director of the Institute for Labor, Social and Business Law (Department I) at the University of Münster. From 1998 to 2000 he was dean of the Münster law faculty.

His research focus is on labor law. Here he is primarily devoted to questions of the deployment of external staff, needs-based forms of working hours and structural questions of collective representation of interests. Among other things, he is co-editor of the series Studies on German and European Labor Law and editor and co-author of a commentary on the Temporary Employment Act .

Publications (selection)

• Job sharing. Labor law design taking into account American experience , 1983, ISBN 3-8005-6845-4 (also Diss. Univ. Freiburg)
• (as editor): Temporary Employment Act. Commentary , 1994, ISBN 3-406-38002-6 ; 5th edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-63895-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schüren in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Schüren at his chair at the University of Münster
• Peter Schüren at Beck-Verlag