Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl

Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl (* 1961 ) is a German lawyer , legal historian and university professor .

Life

Meyer-Pritzl completed a law degree at the universities of Göttingen and Geneva . After the first state examination in law, he completed a Diplôme de Droit Comparé from the University of Strasbourg and the second state examination in Hamburg. In 1994 the doctorate to Dr. iur. with a thesis on the subject of bona fides and lex mercatoria in the European legal tradition . After the habilitation with the title Consensus and Error. A dogma-historical analysis of the Roman, natural law and pandectistic doctrines of contract and error in Göttingen , followed the time as a lecturer at the University of Geneva , a substitute professorship in Saarbrücken and Heidelberg , and finally in 2002 the appointment as professor for life at the Christian Albrechts University Kiel . There Meyer-Pritzl holds the chair for civil law, Roman law, European private law history of the modern era and comparative law.

Since 2002 he has also been director of the legal seminar in Kiel and since 2005 a judge at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court. In Schleswig he is still a chairman of the judicial examination office. Together with Robert Alexy , he founded the Hermann Kantorowicz Institute for basic legal research in 2011 . From 2012 to 2014 Meyer-Pritzl was Dean of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

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Meyer-Pritzl's research focuses on legal history and comparative law. He comments in the Historical-Critical Commentary on the Civil Code (Sections 125–129 BGB, Sections 313–314 BGB, Sections 414–419 BGB, Sections 607–609 BGB, Sections 741–758 BGB) as well as the right of inheritance in Staudinger (§§ 1922-2385 BGB). Meyer-Pritzl has been the editor of the university magazine Christiana Albertina for many years .

Publications (selection)

• Bona fides and lex mercatoria in the European legal tradition. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1994 (Diss.). ISBN 978-3-89244-072-7 .
• The verdict in European legal history. In: Judicial law and legal training in the European legal community. Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, pp. 41-58. ISBN 978-3-16-148206-9 .
• Prussian General Land Law. In: The International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, Oxford University Press (USA) 2009. ISBN 978-0-195-13405-6 .
• Formalism and Finalism in European Private Law. In: Ars Iuris. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, pp. 391–419. ISBN 978-3-8353-0420-8 .
• Task and necessity of clarifying testamentary freedom in view of the challenges posed by social law and anti-discrimination protection. In: Festschrift for Dieter Reuter on his 70th birthday . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2010, pp. 204–225. ISBN 978-3-89949-685-7 .
• Gerhard von Beseler (1878-1947) - fighter for Roman law in the German Empire, in the Weimar Republic and during the Nazi era. In: Nationalism and Legal History in the Baltic Sea Region after 1800. Contributions to the 5th Legal History Day in the Baltic Sea Region, 3. – 4. November 2008 in Copenhagen, København 2010, pp. 136–156. ISBN 978-87-574-2436-2
• The Faculty of Law. In: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 350 years of work in the city, country and world. Kiel University Library, Kiel 2016, pp. 291–304. ISBN 978-3-529-05905-6 .
• Robert-Joseph Pothier, Traité des obligations . In: The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture. 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing , Springer, Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-31945-564-8
• Georg Dahm (1904-1963). From national law to international law. In: International Law in Kiel. Research, teaching and practice of international law at the Kiel location since 1665. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, pp. 239–279. ISBN 978-3-428-15217-9 .
• Rudolf von Jhering's years in Kiel: Between the Schleswig-Holstein elevation and the universality of Roman law. In: 350 Years of the Faculty of Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, pp. 111–143. ISBN 978-3-16-156182-5 .

Web links

• Meyer-Pritzl on uni-kiel.de
• Hermann Kantorowicz Institute