Peter Schlechtriem

Peter Schlechtriem (born March 2, 1933 in Jena ; † April 23, 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Peter H. Schlechtriem was born on March 2, 1933 in Jena and studied law in Hamburg and Freiburg. After the two state examinations, he received his doctorate in 1964 at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on foreign inheritance law supervised by Horst Müller, acquired a Master of Comparative Law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1965 and completed his habilitation again in 1970 in Freiburg under Ernst von Caemmerer with a comparative law study on the competition of claims in contracts and offenses.

In 1971, calls to the Universities of Erlangen and Heidelberg followed , from which he accepted the one to Heidelberg. Peter Schlechtriem headed the Institute for Comparative and International Private Law there, until he followed a call to Freiburg in 1977 to succeed his teacher Ernst von Caemmerer . He turned down an offer to Vienna in 1984.

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The focus of the academic work of Peter Schlechtriem was the law of obligations, comparative law and international uniform law. His textbooks on the law of obligations, his commentaries, monographs and essays have greatly influenced science and jurisprudence. The major commentary on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, which he oversees, enjoys a special status. His writings have been translated into numerous languages.

Peter Schlechtriem has worked on many international bodies and commissions. He was a member of the German delegation for the drafting of the UN sales law in Vienna; he was involved in the creation of the new civil codes of Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Russia as an expert and advisor; As a member of the Commission for the Reform of German Law of Obligations, he had a decisive influence on this piece of legislation. He was a member of the German Council for International Private Law, the UNIDROIT Working Group for the drafting of the UNIDROIT Principles II, the Study Group for a European Civil Code and, in the USA, an advisor to both the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. From 1990 to 1997 he was President of the Society for Comparative Law .

Honors

His international work was recognized in numerous guest professorships and honors. He was visiting professor in Chicago, Harvard, Wellington, Friborg, Zurich and Oxford. In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel and in 2002 that from the University of Tartu. In 2001 he became a fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Schlechtriem was a member of the International Academy for Comparative Law. An extensive commemorative publication was dedicated to him on his 70th birthday in 2003.

Works (selection)

• Schlechtriem, Contract Regulations and Non-Contractual Liability (Habilitation Thesis), Frankfurt am Main 1972
• Schlechtriem / Schwenzer, Commentary on the Uniform UN Sales Convention - CISG -, 4th edition, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-406-51565-1
• Schlechtriem / Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods, 2nd ed., Oxford / Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-53144-6
• Schlechtriem, Internationales UN Sales Law, 4th edition, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-16-149277-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Schlechtriem in the catalog of the German National Library