Thomas C. Lundmark

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Thomas Craig Lundmark (born December 5, 1949 in San Diego ) is a Californian attorney and legal scholar who researches primarily in the areas of comparative law and legal theory and methodology . Until March 2015 he was Professor of Common Law and Comparative Legal Theory at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and was HK Bevan Chair in Law at the University of Hull . He is also a faculty member of the Swiss International Law School .

biography

Lundmark studied comparative literature at San Diego State University and Uppsala Universitet , graduating in 1972 with a bachelor's degree. He received his Juris Doctor degree (JD) from the University of California , Berkeley in 1976 . He spent a year as a Fulbright scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1995 he was with the work of natural aesthetics, recreation and property rights in the US and Germany (landscape, recreation, and Undertakings in German and American Law) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn doctorate .

From 1977 to 1991 Lundmark worked as a lawyer in a private law firm and later with San Diego County , before teaching for three years as Fulbright Senior Professor at the Universities of Bonn and Rostock . In 1997 he was the first American to be appointed to a professorship in law at a German university, the University of Münster .

In addition to his professorships in Münster and Hull , Lundmark was part-time professor of law at the Syddansk Universitet in Odense from 2016 to 2017 .

Memberships

Selected Works

  • Monograph Charting the divide between common and civil law (OUP 2012)
  • Talking law dictionary with CD-ROM , LexisNexis Germany 2007
  • Power & Rights in US Constitutional Law , 2d ed OUP 1999
  • Eva Braun: Her Life and Times 1912-1945 , Birch Grove Publ, 2018

Important essays

  • Interpretation of case law , Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1–2, 2020, pp. 28–31,
  • Legal Science and European Harmonization , 2014 130 Law Quarterly Review 68
  • Verbose Contracts , 2001, 49 American Journal of Comparative Law 121-132
  • Stare decisis (before the Federal Constitutional Court) , 1997, 28 Legal theory 315.

Research and interest areas

Lundmark is currently researching a book called Sentimental Jurisprudence, which extends Adam Smith's observations and ideas into The Theory of Moral Sentiments while incorporating modern research from neuropsychology . He also develops innovative research in the field of legal fairy tale research and analyzes the relationships between law, morality and folk tales. He hopes to use his interest and expertise in literature and law to uncover metapprinciples in fairy tales and thereby establish a new, critical legal theory. The results will be made available to the general public and for use in schools as a novel introduction to law and to promote community engagement.

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personal data
SURNAME Lundmark, Thomas C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lundmark, Thomas Craig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego