Peter W. Heermann

Peter W. Heermann (born July 30, 1961 in Hanover ) is a German legal scholar . Since September 2000 he has held the chair for civil law , commercial and economic law, comparative law and sports law at the University of Bayreuth .

Life

After graduating from the Goethe Gymnasium in Hanover and completing basic military service in Munster, Heermann studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1982 to 1987 . He spent his legal traineeship from 1988 to 1991 - with a temporary leave of absence to prepare a dissertation on competition law completed in 1989 - in Giessen , Frankfurt am Main and Madison / Wisconsin (USA).

After studying law at the University of Wisconsin (Law School Madison), Heermann was awarded the degree of Master of Law (LL.M.) in 1992 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1997 with a thesis on bank contract law. After substituting a chair, Heermann was appointed university professor for civil law and secondary areas (preferably corporate law ) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1999 .

In September 2000 Heermann accepted a call to the University of Bayreuth and took over the chair of Civil Law VI. In the meantime (2001–2005) he was a part-time judge at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court in the 3rd civil senate, responsible a. a. for competition law. He is an arbitrator at the German Sports Arbitration Court as well as the presiding judge of a chamber at the Permanent Court of Arbitration for the German Ice Hockey Federation. V.

Since April 2006, Heermann has also organized, together with colleagues from Bayreuth, a DFG graduate college on the subject of “ Intellectual Property and the Public Domain”, which expired in 2015 after nine years.

In addition to his regular teaching commitments, Heermann has been giving regular lectures on sports law at the University of Bayreuth since 2010 as part of the part-time training course “MBA Sport Management” . Since 2015 he has also been the scientific director of an extra-occupational further education course “LL.M. Sports Law (University of Bayreuth) ”, where he conducts numerous courses himself.

From October 2014 to October 2018 Heermann was chairman of a chamber of the permanent court of arbitration of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB). Since December 2016 he has also been an assessor in the ethics chamber of the sports court at the German Football Association (DFB).

Peter W. Heermann is married, has four children and lives in Bayreuth .

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SURNAME	Heermann, Peter W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover