Werner Schubert (lawyer)

Werner Schubert (* 1936 in Patschkau ) is a German legal scholar . Until 2001 he held a chair for civil law , Roman law , European private legal history in modern times and comparative law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

Schubert studied law at the universities of Hamburg , Marburg and Münster . In 1966 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "The emergence of the provisions of the BGB on the transfer of ownership and ownership" under Rudolf Gmür . In 1974 he completed his habilitation in Bochum as Hermann Dilcher's assistant with a thesis on “French law in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century”. In 1977 he was appointed to a chair in the history of modern law, Roman law, civil law and civil procedure law in Kiel.

Schubert's research deals with the history of the reception of French law in Germany, the emergence of the civil code , the history of Prussian law, the imperial court and the legislative history of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism .

Schubert gives sources on the emergence of the Civil Code of 1896, on the Prussian law revision , on the imperial justice laws , on the reform of criminal law in the first half of the 20th century, on stock corporation law , on divorce and illegitimate law, as well as on the work of the Academy for German Law and on judgment of the Imperial Court.

Fonts

• The emergence of the provisions of the BGB on the transfer of ownership and ownership. A contribution to the genesis of the BGB. De Gruyter, Berlin 1966 (also dissertation, University of Münster, 1965).
• French law in Germany at the beginning of the 19th century. Civil law, judicial constitutional law and civil procedural law. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1977 (also Habil. Writing, Ruhr University Bochum).

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Schubert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website