Sonja Meier

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Sonja Meier (* 1964 in Dortmund ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

She passed her first state examination in law in 1990 at the University of Regensburg . This was followed by a Master of Laws at the University of London in 1991. From 1992 to 1996 she was a research assistant with Reinhard Zimmermann in Regensburg. In 1994 she passed the second state examination in law, and in 1997 she did her doctorate in Regensburg on errors and malpractice. The role of unjust reasons in unjustified benefits in English law . Meier was a Faculty Assistant Lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 1998 and a research assistant in Regensburg from 1998 to 2002 . From 2002 to 2009 she was a consultant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2009 she completed her habilitation at the University of Regensburg on the subject of total debt. Development and recourse from a historical and comparative perspective and received the license to teach civil law , Roman law , European legal history and comparative law .

From the winter semester 2009/10 she was professor for civil law and European legal history at the Philipps University of Marburg . Since October 1, 2012, she has succeeded Günter Hager as Director of Department I of the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Awards

Fonts

  • Error and misuse: The role of the unjust reasons in unjustified services in English law (= studies on foreign and international private law. Vol. 68). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999 (dissertation, University of Regensburg, 1997).
  • Total debt: origin and recourse from a historical and comparative perspective (= Jus Privatum. Vol. 151). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010 (habilitation thesis, University of Regensburg, 2009).

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