Stefan Leible

Stefan Leible (born June 17, 1963 in Bad Schwartau ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Bayreuth . He is currently also President of the University of Bayreuth.

Life

After graduating from the Leibniz Gymnasium in Bad Schwartau in 1982, Leible studied law at the University of Bayreuth from November 1982 as part of a one-stage legal training . After completing his legal internship at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court , he passed the intermediate legal examination in 1987 and then worked as a trainee lawyer at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court. There he passed his second state examination in 1990. He then worked as a research assistant, from 1992 as a research assistant at Ulrich Spellenberg's Bayreuth chair and, in the winter semester 1991/92, as a lecturer at the University of Fulda . In May 1995, Leible did his doctorate under Spellenberg's supervision with a comparative law thesis on Dr. iur. In July 2001 he completed his habilitation, after which the law and economics faculty of the University of Bayreuth awarded him the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, business law, international private law, comparative law and European law.

From October 2001 to June 2002 he represented the chair for civil law, civil procedural law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Jena . From July 2002 he was full holder of this chair after receiving a corresponding call. In 2005 he was called back to his alma mater. Since March 2006 he has held the chair for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the University of Bayreuth. Since January 2007 he has also been director of the Bayreuth Research Center for Economic and Media Law (FWMR), and since October of that year also director of the research center for German and European Food Law (LMR) there. Since July 2013 he has been the President of the University of Bayreuth.

Leible is married and has two sons.

Works (selection)

Leible's research focuses primarily on German and European private and commercial law and comparative private law. One focus here is on the Spanish and Latin American legal system. There is also competition and food law.

• Finance leasing and "arrendamiento financiero" - A comparative legal study of finance leasing of movable assets in Germany and Spain . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-428-08916-1 (dissertation).
• Paths to a European private law . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-16-147839-0 (habilitation thesis).
• with Monika Schlachter : Consumer protection in education and training . Weinmann, Filderstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-921262-47-4 .
• with Robert Freitag : Debt collection in the EU . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-54639-6 .

Web links

• Leible at his chair at the University of Bayreuth