Ulrich Haas

Ulrich Haas (born October 29, 1964 in Sorengo , Switzerland) is a German law scholar and university professor .

Life

Haas attended the European Schools in Varese and Luxembourg. He first studied economics and computer science in the United States of America , then from 1983 law at the University of Lausanne and in Regensburg. In July 1988, Haas passed the first state examination in law at the University of Regensburg . In 1990 the doctorate to Dr. iur. with the work The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign and International Arbitral Awards , 1992 the Second State Examination in Law. Haas was initially a research assistant at the University of Regensburg with Peter Gottwald . In July 1996 the habilitation followed with the thesis of managing director liability and creditor protection - entrepreneurial behavioral obligations of the GmbH managing director to protect third parties .

From 1996 to 1997, Haas was a substitute professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1997, Haas was appointed to the chair for civil law , civil procedural law and commercial law . In April 2001, Haas moved to Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as a university professor , also due to his work as head of the joint doping commission of the DSB and NOK .

In August 2007, Haas was appointed full professor at the University of Zurich , where he will also be teaching from autumn 2007. Haas is a member of the Civil Law Teachers Association .

In April 2011, the Spanish professional cyclist Alberto Contador and the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) nominated Ulrich Haas as judge before the International Sports Court (CAS) . This caused astonishment in cycling circles, as Haas was a member of the CAS judges panel, which on May 31, 2010 had confirmed the two-year doping ban for Alejandro Valverde .

Between January 2014 and February 2015, Haas was a member of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission , which on behalf of the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world cycling association, investigated its involvement in the doping scandal in cycling and made recommendations for the further fight against doping.

Focus of work

At Haas specialist areas include bankruptcy and procedural law , inheritance law , corporate law and sports law . Since 2002 he has worked as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS) , at the German Sports Arbitration Court of the German Institution for Arbitration in Cologne and at the Basketball Arbitration Tribunal (BAT) in Geneva .

Publications (selection)

• The recognition and enforcement of foreign and international arbitration awards. Berlin 1991: Duncker and Humblot. ISBN 3-428-07197-2 .
• Managing director liability and creditor protection: entrepreneurial conduct obligations of the GmbH managing director to protect third parties. Munich 1997: Beck.
• Raising and maintaining capital in the GmbH (with Herbert Sernetz ). Cologne 2003: RWS-Verlag. ISBN 3-8145-0329-5 .
• Sport: the book for the TV series ARD-Ratgeber Recht (with Dirk-Reiner Martens). Munich 2004: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag. ISBN 3-423-58055-0 .
• The legal and organizational basis of the fight against doping in the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-Baden 2004: Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-8329-0435-2 .
• Reform of the corporate law creditor protection: Expert opinion E for the 66th German Lawyers Association . Munich 2006: Beck. ISBN 3-406-54732-X .
• Sports law: an introduction to practice (with Dirk-Reiner Martens). Stuttgart 2011: Boorberg. ISBN 978-3-415-04735-8 .

literature

• Gerfried Fischer : The development of civil law teaching since the re-establishment of the law faculty after reunification. In: Heiner Lück (Ed.): Current contributions to jurisprudence and its intellectual-historical foundations. For the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of the law faculty at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (= Hallesche Schriften zum Recht. Vol. 32). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86977-072-7 , p. 23.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Haas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Haas Chair at the University of Zurich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer 2013, p. 23
2. ↑ Membership overview on zlv-info.de (as of October 21, 2018).
3. ^ "Contador nominates Germans for CAS procedures" In: Rad-Net on April 13, 2011
4. ^ The UCI publishes Cycling Independent Reform Commission report. uci.ch, March 9, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2015 (English). 
5. ^ Dataset at the German National Library