Rainer Arnold (lawyer)

Rainer Arnold (born October 22, 1943 in Marienbad ) is a German law scholar and university professor.

Life

After receiving his doctorate ( the rank relationship between the law of the European Communities and domestic law ) on November 26, 1968 in Würzburg and his habilitation in 1973 in German and foreign public law and international law, he taught as a professor for European and international law in Konstanz and from 1978 as Holder of the chair for public law, comparative law, EC law, business administration law and foreign public law at the University of Regensburg . From 1981 to 1983 he was Dean of the Law Faculty. In 1999 he was appointed to the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law. Since 2000 he has been a permanent visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague , since 2008 he has held the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam “Legal Relations of the EU with Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe”. From 2002 to 2012 he was director of the German-language course on German law (DAAD Bonn) at Lomonossow University in Moscow . He was visiting professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , Université Panthéon-Assas , Strasbourg , Toulouse , Aix-en-Provence , University of La Sapienza , Bologna , Trento , Lisbon , Santiago de Chile and Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi (there also German director of Center for EU Law).

His main research interests are comparative law in constitutional law, with special emphasis on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, European law and European constitutional law.

Web links

• Prof. em. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Rainer Arnold
• Literature by and about Rainer Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library