Rainer Walz (legal scholar)

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Wolfgang Rainer Walz , as author W. Rainer Walz (born June 23, 1942 in Berlin , † July 16, 2006 in Moorrege ) was a German lawyer and university professor.

Education and academic career

Since April 2002 Walz has held the Chair of Tax Law and Director of the Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

After attending school in French-speaking Switzerland and in Fulda , Walz studied law in Cologne and Tübingen from 1962 to 1967 . In 1968 he graduated with an LL.M. at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1972 Walz passed the second state examination in law. From 1969 to 1972 he was a research assistant , later assistant to Friedrich Kübler at the Universities of Gießen and Konstanz (doctorate in 1972 with Ludwig Raiser, University of Tübingen). From 1976 to 2002 he held the chair for civil law, commercial and economic law in the Faculty of Law II (Reformed Legal Education) at the University of Hamburg .

Honors

The Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, has been awarding the W. Rainer Walz Prize , donated by the Humanist Foundation, Frankfurt, since 2007 . The prize, endowed with € 5,000, is intended for scientists who have made a significant scientific achievement in the field of foundation law or other law of non-profit organizations as part of their thesis. The prize was awarded for the first time on November 7, 2008.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] W. Rainer Walz Prize on the Bucerius Law School website