Reiner Schulze

Reiner Schulze (born October 6, 1948 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer. Since 1997 he has been director of the Institute for International Business Law , the Institute for Legal History and Director of the Center for European Private Law (CEP) at the University of Münster .

Life

Reiner Schulze studied law at the Free University of Berlin . There he completed his first state examination in law in 1973 . In 1976 he was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Frankfurt am Main with his thesis “The police legislation on the economic and labor order of the Mark Brandenburg in the early modern period ”. iur. PhD. This was followed by the second state examination in law (1978) and habilitation, as well as the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law and German legal history (1983).

This was followed by substitute professorships in Konstanz , Frankfurt, Regensburg and Trier (1984–1988). Reiner Schulze received a call from the University of Trier in 1989, where he was ordained professor for civil law , German and modern European legal history . From 1992 to 1993 he was dean of the law faculty at Trier University.

In 1994 Reiner Schulze was offered a chair in German and European civil law from the University of Münster. Since 1997 he has been director of the Institute for International Business Law and the Institute for Legal History and Director of the Center for European Private Law (CEP) at the University of Münster. From 2006 to 2008 he was Dean of the Law Faculty and since 2008 he has been Honorary Professor at Lancaster University . Reiner Schulze is an honorary member of the Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación as well as an external member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and since 2016 a full member of the Academia Europaea .

From 1997 to 2005 Reiner Schulze was a judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court .

Act

His research interests are in the field of European Economic and Consumer Law , the general law of obligations (in particular power fault - and tort law ) Cooperatives - and franchise law , the European Private Law (especially 19th century) and the contemporary history of European Community law.

Reiner Schulze is the (co-) editor of numerous magazines, in particular the Zeitschrift für Europäische Privatrecht (ZEuP), the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte (ZNR), the magazine on the entire cooperative system (ZfgG) as well as the publications on European private law and the publications on European law - and constitutional history .

He is co-editor of the Hand Commentary on the Civil Code .

From 1997 to 2001 he was the coordinator of the TMR network “Common Principles of European Private Law”, since 2000 head of the subproject C 3 “Symbols in court proceedings (15th - 18th century)” in the DFG- funded Collaborative Research Center 496 “ Symbolic communication and social value systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution . From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the EU research network “Uniform Terminology for European Private Law” and coordinator of the EU-Marie Curie Training Site “Harmonization of Business and Consumer Law in the EU”.

Reiner Schulze is a member of the international advisory board of the journal Revista de Derecho Privado, reviewer of the German Academic Exchange Service for the selection of scholarship holders, lecturers or projects of scientific cooperation, participant in the study of the European Commission for an "Annotated compendium including a comparative analysis of the Community consumer acquis ", member of the" European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group) "and full member and member of the Supervisory Board of the" European Center of Tort and Insurance Law ", Vienna.

He is a founding member of the European Law Institute , a non-profit organization devoted to legal research and the improvement of European law with the aim of constructively accompanying European integration in the field of European law.

honors and awards

Reiner Schulze was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Miskolc (Hungary) in 1998.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and commentaries (selection)

• as editor with Larry DiMatteo, André Janssen, Ulrich Magnus : International Sales Law. Nomos / Beck / Hart Publishing, Baden-Baden / Munich / Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2199-3 .
• as editor with Dirk Staudenmayer: Digital Revolution - Challenges for Contract Law in Practice. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2956-2 .
• as editor: Commentary on the Common European Sales Law. Beck / Hart Publishing, Munich / Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-1-849-46365-2 .
• as editor: Common Frame of Reference and Existing EC Contract Law. Sellier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86653-064-5 .
• as editor with Helmut Koziol : Tort Law of the European Community (= Tort and Insurance Law. Vol. 23). Springer, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-77585-1 .
• as editor: New Features in Contract Law. Sellier, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86653-036-2 .
• as editor with Manfred Zuleeg : Europarecht. Manual for German Legal Practice. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1334-3 .
• as editor: Civil Code. Hand comment. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-6281-2 (7th edition ibid 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-6810-6 ).

Articles (selection)

• The New Shape of European Contract Law, In: Journal of European Consumer and Market Law . (EuCML) . No. 4, 2015, pp. 139–144.
• Nuevos Rasgos del Derecho Privado en Europa , In: Silvia Díaz Alabart (Ed.), 100 Años de la Revista de Derecho Privado, 2014, pp. 206-231.
• An optional European sales law system - freedom of choice as an alternative to full harmonization? , In: Jörg-Uwe Hahn, Common European Sales Law, 2012, pp. 69–80.
• with André Janssen : Legal Cultures and Legal Transplants in Germany , In: European Review of Private Law. (ERPL). , Vol. 19, No. 2, 2011, pp. 225-256.
• with Christian Twigg-Flesner : Protecting rational choice: information and the right of withdrawal , in: Geraint Howells et al. (Ed.), Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law, 2010, pp. 130–157.
• The “acquis principles” and the common frame of reference. In: Journal for European Private Law . 15th vol., H. 3, 2007, pp. 731-734.
• Precontractual Duties and Conclusion of Contract in European Law. In: European Review of Private Law. (ERPL). Vol. 13, No. 6, 2005, ISSN  0928-9801 , pp. 841-866.
• European Private Law and Existing EC Law. In: European Review of Private Law. ERPL. Vol. 13, No. 1, 2005, pp. 3-19.
• with Martin Ebers : Disputes in the new law of obligations. 1st chapter. In: Legal Training . Vol. 44, H. 4, 2004, pp. 265-272; Part 2, Vol. 44, H. 5, 2004, pp. 366-371; Part 3, Vol. 44, H. 6, 2004, pp. 462-468.
• The emergence of European Community law. A research task in contemporary legal history. In: Journal for Modern Legal History . Vol. 16, H. 3, 1994, pp. 297-324.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reiner Schulze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reiner Schulze. In: Law Faculty of the University of Münster. Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Reiner Schulze. Academia Europaea, accessed on July 18, 2017 .