Welcome to the Media Page
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is dedicated to completing foundational comparative law research in foreign, European and international private law, commercial law, economic law and procedural law.
Press Releases
Institute Summer Programs Support the Next Generation of International Legal Scholars
Hamburg, 12 August 2010 – With its sponsorship of two summer programs, the Institute reaffirms its commitment to junior researchers from around the globe. On 19 August 2010, students from the China EU School of Law will participate in an introductory seminar on European private law being led by Institute staff members. In the following week, from 23-27 August, Israeli law students will meet with Hamburg’s resident legal experts for the 13th instalment of the now-traditional Hamburg-Tel Aviv Workshop. [more]
Honorary doctorate conferred on Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann by McGill University
Institute Director Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann was awarded an honorary doctorate by McGill University in Montreal on 4 June 2010 and simultaneously recognised by the Canadian university as "one of the world's leading authorities in comparative law and legal history". [more]
The Ban on Majority Ownership: German Soccer's 50 + 1 Rule under National and International Law
16. November 2009, Hamburg - On 30 November 2009 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Social Law will hold a symposium titled "The Ban on Majority Ownership: German Soccer's 50 + 1 Rule under National and International Law". [more]
Record Number of Visitors for the 3rd "Night of Knowledge"
Over 17,000 knowledge-hungry visitors experience science and research first hand - Lecture program at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law captivates listeners [more]Max Planck Institute for Private Law publishes Encyclopaedia of European Private Law
23.09.2009
Compendium to guide scholars and practitioners through the thicket of European Private Law [more]Economisation of Competition Law
07.01.2009
On 23 and 24 January an international conference on competition law will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg [more]Prof. Klaus J. Hopt elected as member of Leopoldina
05.01.2009
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus J. Hopt, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, was selected to become a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [more]Contact
Nicola Wesselburg
Head of Press and Public Relations
Max Planck Institute for Comparative
and International Private Law
Mittelweg 187
20148 Hamburg
Tel.: +49-(0)40-41 90 0 - 377
Fax: +49-(0)40-41 90 0 - 477