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Guest Lecture at the Institute
Prof. Dr. Arthur Hartkamp |
The General Principles of EU Law and Private Law |
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Rabel Lecture, MPI for Private Law, Hamburg, 25.10.2010, 17:00 |
On 25 October 2010 Professor Dr. Arthur Severijn Hartkamp from the Radboud University Nijmegen will present the 12th Ernst Rabel Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. The talk is to be titled "The General Principles of EU Law and Private Law".Arthur Hartkamp received his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Amsterdam and subsequently participated in the development of the Nieuw Burgerlijk Wetboek mit, the new civil code of the Netherlands, which went into effect in 1992. From 1991 until 1999 he was a professor in the field of private law at the University of Utrecht before later being called to the University of Amsterdam in 1999. He acted as the advocate-general of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad) from 2001 to 2006 after having served as a general member since 1986. Arthur Hartkamp is currently a professor of European private law at Radboud University Nijmegen. The Ernst Rabel Lecture is an academic highpoint at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law. Occuring in alternating years, the lecture series honours the memory of the Institute's founder and first director, Ernst Rabel, one of the most internationally significant German legal scholars of the 20th century and the father of comparative law in Germany. The Ernst Rabel Lectures consider current and foundational topics which lie in areas of research comprising the work of Rabel and the Institute. The Institute's presentation of the ongoing lecture series is made possible through a foundation led by Frederick Karl Rabel (Bethesda, Maryland), son of Ernst Rabel, as well as the support of the Institute's alumni association, "Friends of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law e.V.". About Ernst Rabel Ernst Rabel was born in 1874 in Vienna. He was a student of Ludwig Mitteis, under whom he completed both his doctorate and post-doctoral work (Habilitation). Rabel taught at the Universitites of Leipzig, Basel, Kiel, Göttingen, Munich und Berlin. With his monograph „Das Recht des Warenkaufs“ (The Law of the Sale of Goods), Rabel established himself as one of the pioneers in international comparative law. In 1926 he founded the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Berlin, now the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and he served as its first director. In 1937 Rabel was forced to resign his post as Institute director and subsequently emigrated to the USA in 1939. Ernst Rabel died in 1955 in Zurich. Individuals interested in attending are asked to complete and return the form found below no later than 11 October 2010. |
Date of publication: 08.09.2010 |
Program Ernst Rabel Lecture 2010 (67.6 KB)
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