Ceremonial Inauguration of the Expanded Facilities of the Max Planck Institute

MPI für Privatrecht, Hamburg, 04.06.2007

On 4 June 2007 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg will celebrate the official opening of its newly expanded facilities. Speakers at the academic convocation will include among others the President of the Max Planck Society, Professor Dr. Peter Gruss, and Hamburg's Senator for Science and Research, Jörg Dräger, Ph.D. (Cornell U.). The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Dr. Hein Kötz, Emeritus Director of the Institute. The Institute will be concurrently introducing its research efforts: through short lectures addressing areas of research emphasis, through displays documenting 80 years of Institute history and activity, and with guided tours of its library, holding the largest collection of private law literature in all of Europe.

Accomplished in approximately two and a half years, the facility expansion allows all of the departments of the Institute to be brought together into one single building. An additional conference hall creates space for the numerous international conferences hosted by the Institute. The library's stacks, presently holding nearly 460,000 volumes, have been enlarged in order to accommodate the increasing quantity of legal publications. The domestic and international guest scholars who frequently complete research stays at the Institute will benefit from a significantly enhanced work environment. Simultaneously, the expansion has also provided occasion for the modernisation of previously existing portions of the Institute. For the Institute, this spatial extension represents an important step which will allow it in the future to even better perform its tasks as a center of foundational comparative law research in the fields of European and international private law, economic law and procedural law.

Date of publication: 29.05.2007

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