Thomas Riehm

Thomas Riehm (* 1973 ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Passau .

Life

From 1993 Riehm studied law at the University of Munich , where he passed his first state examination in 1998. After the subsequent legal clerkship in the district of the Munich Higher Regional Court , he passed his second state examination in 2001. From 1998 to 2005 Riehm worked as a research assistant at the Munich chair of Claus-Wilhelm Canaris . Under his supervision, Riehm received his doctorate in 2006 with a legal theoretical paper on Dr. iur. After working as a lecturer at the University of Paris I from 2005 to 2007, he received a habilitation grant from the DFG . In 2011 Riehm completed his habilitation in Munich and received the venia legendi for the subjects civil law, civil procedural law, European private law, commercial and company law, comparative law and legal theory.

This was followed by a substitute professorship at the University of Augsburg in 2011/12 . From the summer semester 2012 onwards, he held the full chair for civil law, comparative law, European private law and civil procedural law at the University of Marburg . In the 2013/14 winter semester he switched to the chair for German and European private law, civil procedural law and legal theory at the University of Passau , which he has held since then. In the summer of 2019, he turned down an offer at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for a chair in civil law and another subject.

Thomas Riehm received an Ars legendi faculty award in 2018 .

Riehm is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

Riehm's main research interests are in general law of obligations, compensation law and European private law.

• with Stephan Lorenz : Textbook on the new law of obligations . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-406-48605-0 .
• Consideration decisions in the practical application of law - argumentation, proof, evaluation . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-55857-3 (dissertation).
• The principle of fulfillment in kind . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-152454-7 (habilitation thesis).
• Examinatorium BGB general part . CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68003-8 .
• with Hans Christoph Grigoleit : Law of Obligations IV - Tort Law and Damage Law . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70578-6 .

Web links

• Riehm at his chair at the University of Passau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Habilitations and appointments October 2019 on forschung-und-lehre.de, accessed on October 8, 2019./