Udo Reifner

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Udo Reifner (born March 21, 1948 in Neukirchen-Vluyn ) is a German consumer lawyer .

Life

Reifner graduated from high school in 1966 and studied law and sociology from 1968 at the Free University of Berlin and later at the University of Marburg . In 1973 he passed the first state examination in law and in 1976 the second at the Court of Appeal. During his legal clerkship, he worked for three months in a law firm of the CGT in Paris. In 1977 he received his doctorate under Uwe Wesel at the Free University of Berlin . From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant at the Science Center Berlin in the empirical legal sociology , where he dealt with the role of legal advice for socially disadvantaged groups. During this time he began his research on the subject of National Socialism and law with a focus on the role of legal advice, jurisprudence and the legal profession in the Third Reich. Since his collaboration with David Caplovitz from 1978, one focus of his interest has been research into overindebtedness. In 1980 he made his diploma in sociology in Berlin .

In 1981 he was appointed professor of business law at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics . As a visiting professor, Reifner taught at McGill University (1986), Université catholique de Louvain (1990), DePaul University in Chicago (1995), University of Birmingham (1997), New York University (2000) and had thereafter permanent Lecturer at the University of Trento . He retired from the University of Hamburg in 2012 and was also appointed associate professor at the University of Trento in Italy, where he has been teaching ever since.

From 1987 to 2016, Reifner headed the non-profit institute for financial services . From 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the board of directors of the Hamburg consumer organization . He founded with Hans-W. Micklitz , Klaus Tonner and Friedrich A. Bultmann run the trade journal Consumer and Law and was its managing editor from 2001 to 2012. In 2003 he was President of the Financial User Group at the EU Market Directorate-General and was a member of the consumer advisory council of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority from June 2013 to 2018 . With a number of consumer activists from the US and Europe, he founded the Coalition for Responsible Credit (ECRC) in 2005 , and became its spokesman.

In June 2016, Reifner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his many years of work for financial consumer protection.

Since 2017 the "Udo Reifner Award" has been given to contributions by academics to the conference of the International Association of Consumer Law .

Focus of activity

For Reifner, consumer protection means curbing the abuse of economic power. In 2017 he summarized this in a three-volume interdisciplinary work on money and the financial crisis. Colleagues from many countries comment on his writings and theses in an interactive commemorative publication on his 70th birthday.

With the European Social Contract Law Group , Reifner and the labor lawyer Luca Nogler from Trento organized an international research network. In it, a contract model is being developed that, as an alternative to the sales contract model, applies equally to employment, residential rental and consumer loan contracts and brings the disciplines together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BaFin's consumer advisory council will begin its work on June 20, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit awarded to Prof. Udo Reifner for many years of work for financial consumer protection. In: iff - institut für finanzdienstleistungen eV June 12, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kathleen Engel: The Norbert Reich and Udo Reifner Awards | International Association of Consumer Law. Retrieved February 21, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ International Association of Consumer Law | L'Association Internationale de Droit de la Consommation. Retrieved February 21, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Festschrift for Udo Reifner. In: iff - institut für finanzdienstleistungen eV Retrieved on June 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ EuSoCo | Website for exchange in the EuSoCo project. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Luca Nogler | Curriculum | Università di Trento. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Reifner, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German consumer lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen-Vluyn