Thomas Rüfner

Thomas Rüfner (born March 20, 1971 in Bonn ) is a German legal scholar and specialist in Roman law .

Life

As a high school graduate at the Vinzenz-Pallotti-Kolleg in Rheinbach near Bonn, Thomas Rüfner took part in the Certamen Carolinum in Aachen and was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . In 1990 Rüfner received the Abitur certificate and won the 10th Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas in Italy. From 1991 he studied law at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen , where he passed the first state examination in 1996. A doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung then enabled him to spend one year researching in Graz and Rome. During his legal clerkship at the Tübingen Regional Court (1997–1999), Rüfner obtained his doctorate in 1998 with the dissertation Justifiable Things? On the history of the res, quae pondere numero mensura constant (published Berlin 2000), which was awarded the faculty award.

After the second state examination (1999), Rüfner worked as a research assistant for Wolfgang Ernst in Tübingen and Bonn. In 2004 he qualified as a professor with the writing of jurisdiction and compulsory summons. To the place of the Roman form process . The following year he was appointed to succeed Hans Wieling at the University of Trier and was appointed W3 professor. Guest lectureships took him to the German-Chinese Institute for Law in Nanjing in 2006 and 2008 . In 2008 he turned down a call to the University of Göttingen and was appointed judge at the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz in the second main office . In the terms of office 2010/11 and 2013/14 he was dean, 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2012/13 vice dean of the legal department.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2012, Volume 3, p. 3317

Web links

• Thomas Rüfner's chair at the University of Trier
• Literature by and about Thomas Rüfner in the catalog of the German National Library