Stefan Vogenauer

Stefan Vogenauer (* 1968 in Eutin ) is a German lawyer and director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Eutin, Vogenauer studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel , the University of Panthéon-Assas and the University of Paris V with a grant from the Cusanuswerk . During his time in Kiel he was a student assistant at Hans Hattenhauer . In 1994 he passed the first state examination. He then studied with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service at Trinity College at the University of Oxford. There he obtained the academic degree of Magister Juris . In 1995 Vogenauer started a PhD at the University of Regensburg with the help of a grant from the Cusanuswerk . From 1997 to 2002 he was a research assistant with Reinhard Zimmermann in Regensburg. In 2000 he passed his second state examination there after his legal clerkship. From 2002 to 2003 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. At the same time he was a lecturer at the Bucerius Law School until 2004 . In 2003 Vogenauer accepted a professorship from the University of Oxford and became Professor of Comparative Law and Fellow at Brasenose College . In 2004 Vogenauer became director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford. He was also visiting professor at Louisiana State University , University of Texas at Austin , University of Melbourne , New York University and Stellenbosch University . Vogenauer is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and has been a Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History since October 2015.

For his studies at the University of Oxford he received the Clifford Chance Prize and the Herbert Hart Prize. In 2002 he received the Max Weber Prize on the one hand and the Otto Hahn Medal on the other . In 2012 Vogenauer also received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2016 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

Vogenauer researches primarily in comparative law , in European legal history , in transnational commercial law and in methodology . Further current research focuses are the legal transfer between the legal systems of common law and the legal history of the European Union.

Publications

• The interpretation of laws in England and on the continent: a comparative study of case law and its historical foundations , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2001, 2 volumes, ISBN 978-3-16-147605-1 (series: Contributions to foreign and international private law, Volume 72).
• Henk Snijders, Stefan Vogenauer: Content and Meaning of National Law in the Context of Transnational Law , Munich: sellier european law publishers 2009, ISBN 978-3-86653-874-0 .

literature

• Stefan Vogenauer In: Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Yearbook. 69, 2018, pp. 38–41.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ member entry of Stefan Vogenauer at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 06.11.17
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Stefan Vogenauer. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .