Ursula Stein (legal scholar)

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Ursula Stein (* 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German legal scholar with a focus on German and European corporate law as well as international commercial and business law. Since 1993 she has been a professor at the TU Dresden .

Life

Stein studied languages ​​and law in Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main , passed her first state examination in 1975 and her second state examination in 1978 and subsequently worked as a lawyer specializing in business consulting in Frankfurt am Main from 1978. At the same time as her work as a lawyer, she was assistant at the chair for commercial and business law, civil law, comparative law and international private law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where she did her doctorate in 1983 under Hans-Joachim Mertens in the field of corporate law .

Until 1985 she was a member of the research group "Law of Raw Materials Development in Developing Countries" at the Frankfurt Institute for Foreign and International Business Law and in 1985 and 1986 she completed a year of study and research as a Jean Monnet Research Fellow of the European Union at the European University Institute in Florence . This was followed by a position as a university assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

After Stein had given guest lectures at the University of Ferrara in the winter semester 1991/92 , she took over a professorship at the Würzburg University in the winter semester 1992/93 and qualified as a professor in January 1993. For this scientific work she was awarded the Baker & McKenzie Prize in the same year excellent.

After her habilitation Ursula Stein taught at the Technical University in Dresden in the summer term 1993 and took over on October 1, 1993 the Department of Civil, Commercial, Corporate and Business Law of the Law Faculty . The legal scholar has been a scientific advisor to the Chinese legislature in corporate and commercial law as well as legal training in China since 1997. She is also director of the German-Italian Institute for Comparative Legal Cultures in Europe .

Fonts (selection)

  • The factual organ. , Frankfurt (Main) 1984.
  • Lex mercatoria: reality and theory. , Frankfurt (Main) 1995.
  • together with Hans-Joachim Mertens The right of the managing director of the GmbH , Frankfurt (Main): 1997, ISBN 3-11-015550-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Stein in the database of the German National Library, accessed on November 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main