Walter Schluep

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Walter René Schluep (born June 19, 1928 in Biel ; † March 3, 2006 ) was a Swiss lawyer. He was a professor of private, commercial and European law at the Universities of St. Gallen , Bern and Zurich and President of the Swiss Antitrust Commission.

Career

After studying law in St. Gallen , where he received his doctorate in 1955 with the dissertation "The well-earned rights of the shareholder and their protection under Swiss law" and the subsequent training as a Solothurn advocate (lawyer) and notary, Schluep completed additional legal studies at the University of Munich as well as at Harvard Law School .

In 1964 he completed his habilitation with the thesis "Trademark law as subjective law" at the University of St. Gallen , where he accepted the chair for commercial, economic and European law in 1965 and as co-founder of the local "St. Gallen Institute for European Law, Business Law and Comparative Law "acted. In 1968 Schluep took over the professorship for civil and European law at the University of Bern, from where he moved to the professorship for private, commercial and European law at the University of Zurich in 1973 , where he taught until his retirement in 1995 and beyond that there in 1991 he co-founded the Europa Institut . In practical terms, Schluep acted as a consultant, expert and arbitrator. For four terms of office he was a member of the Swiss Cartel Commission (today: Competition Commission ), which he chaired for fifteen years.

Schluep's first scientific assistant, Federal Councilor Arnold Koller , emphasizes his basic economic idea, according to which "commercial law as the organizational law that constitutes the economy cannot ultimately be value-neutral, but must be committed to overriding goals such as freedom, security and justice" and thus "not only rationally but rather to be designed with a view to these primary goals and to be interpreted accordingly ". Three festivities were dedicated to Schluep.

Fonts (selection)

A bibliography of the writings of Walter Schluep can be found in: Andreas Kellerhals (Ed.): Current questions on business law. On the retirement of Walter R. Schluep. Schulthess, Zurich 1995, p. 287 ff.

  • Innominate contracts. In: Frank Vischer (Ed.): Special contractual relationships (= Swiss private law. Vol. VII / 1/2). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1979, p. 761 ff.
  • Invitation to legal theory. Stämpfli, Bern, and Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the biographical note of the former St. Gallen government councilor Willi Geiger in: Andreas Kellerhals (Hrsg.): Current questions on commercial law. On the retirement of Walter R. Schluep. Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1995, p. 1 ff.
  2. ↑ a b cf. Willi Geiger in: Andreas Kellerhals (Ed.): Current questions on commercial law. On the retirement of Walter R. Schluep. Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1995, p. 2 f.
  3. ↑ Cf. the foreword by Arnold Koller in Peter Forstmoser, Pierre Tercier, Roger Zäch: Innominate contracts. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Walter R. Schluep. Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag Zurich 1988, p. XI.
  4. ↑ Cf. the aforementioned works edited by Andreas Kellerhals and Peter Forstmoser, Pierre Tercier and Roger Zäch as well as Arnold Koller, Martin Zweifel (eds.): "Current issues of commercial and commercial law: on the 50th birthday of Professor Walter R. Schluep ", Schulthess Polygraphischer Verlag 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Schluep, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schluep, Walter René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2006