Wolfgang Ernst (legal scholar)

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Wolfgang Ernst (* 1956 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer. The specialist in Roman law has been Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford since October 1, 2015 . Ernst is the second German in this position after David Daube .

Career

Ernst studied at the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt from 1976 to 1980 until the first state examination in law . He received his doctorate in Bonn in 1981 and moved to Yale University for one year (1981/82) , where he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.). From 1982 to 1985 he completed his legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in law. From 1986 to 1990 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Roman Law at the University of Bonn and completed his habilitation in 1989.

From 1990 to 2000 he taught at the University of Tübingen as a full professor for Roman and civil law . In 1994/95 he was dean and then vice dean . From 2000 to 2004 he was a full professor for civil law and director of the Institute for Roman Law at the University of Bonn. In 2002/03 he was visiting professor as Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at the University of Cambridge . He was a visiting fellow at Magdalene College . Since 2004, Ernst has taught as a full professor for Roman and civil law at the University of Zurich . Further visiting professorships led Ernst to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010) and as Herbert Smith Visitor to Cambridge (2012). In 2015 he moved to Oxford University, where he teaches in particular Roman tort law and Roman and civil contract law.

Wolfgang Ernst is married and has four children.

Research interests

Wolfgang Ernst conducts research in various areas, including Roman law, the history and theory of default in contract law, the legal history of “social choice”, money in the western legal tradition and reciprocity vs. Altruism in Contract Law.

Honors

In 1995, during his time in Tübingen, Ernst was awarded the state teaching award. In 2003 he gave the Peter Chiene Lecture at the University of Edinburgh ( On locatio conductio ), in 2013 the commemorative lecture in honor of the Austrian lawyer Joseph Unger at the University of Vienna and in 2014 the MacCormick Lectures in Edinburgh with the lecture The Ayes have it ': The Legal History of Public Choice . In 2017 Ernst was honored with an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) from the University of Edinburgh. In the same year, the University of Vienna also awarded him an honorary doctorate.

bibliography

24 works by Wolfgang Ernst are offered by over 700 libraries in 83 publications and three languages. A selection of his writings are:

  • Pliny, epist. 8, 14. In: Meditationes de iure et historia. Essays in Honor of Laurens Winkel (= Fundamina. Special edition). University of South-Africa, Pretoria 2014.
  • The Glossators' Monetary Law . In: John W. Cairns, Paul J. du Plessis (Eds.): The Creation of the Ius Commune. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2010.
  • Nisi aliud actum est. In: Tomasz Giaro (Ed.): Roman Law and Legal Knowledge. Studies in Memory of Henryk Kupiszewski. University of Warszawa, Warsaw 2011.
  • Fritz Schulz (1879–1957). In: Jack Beatson, Reinhard Zimmermann (Ed.): Jurists Uprooted. German speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-Century Britain. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004.
  • The defense of the non-fulfilled contract: On the historical development of synallagmatic contract execution in civil proceedings. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000.
  • Legal recognition by majorities of judges , Mohr Siebeck, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l CV of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the University of Zurich; Retrieved March 25, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Announcement of the MacCormick Lecture Series (Old College), MacCormick Lectures 2014 ; accessed on March 26, 2015
  3. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of January 21, 2015, Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford University: Wolfgang Ernst ; Retrieved March 25, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Professor Wolfgang Ernst on the All Souls College website, accessed on April 10, 2015
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Ernst. October 2, 2015, accessed May 5, 2019 .
  6. ^ Peter Chiene Lectures on the website of the "Center for Legal History" of the University of Edinburgh; Retrieved January 19, 2016
  7. ↑ Press release of the University of Zurich of March 8, 2013; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst gives Joseph Unger lecture in Vienna ( memento from November 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ; Retrieved April 10, 2015
  8. ↑ John Cairns (2014) 303 Years of Civil Law in Edinburgh: A Celebration ; The Edinburgh Legal History Blog; accessed on October 7, 2015
  9. ↑ Honorary Graduates in 2017 on the University of Edinburgh website; accessed on March 1, 2017
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Ernst, LL.D. honoris causa, Edinburgh, July 2017 on The Edinburgh Legal History Blog; accessed on July 16, 2017
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Ernst, Prof. Dr. Dr.hc University of Vienna, December 13, 2017, accessed on May 28, 2018 .
  12. ^ Entry on Wolfgang Ernst on WorldCat ; accessed on March 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn