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for Comparative and International
Private Law

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- › Basedow Jürgen
  URL: http://www.mpipriv.de/ww/en/pub/staff/basedow_juergen.cfm

Jürgen Basedow

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., LL.M. (Harvard Univ.)

Director

Tel:	+49 40 419 00 - 316
Fax:	+49 40 419 00 - 309
	basedow@mpipriv.de

Secretary:	Gisela Schmitz-Krause
Tel.:	+49 40 419 00 - 315
	schmitz@mpipriv-hh.mpg.de

Current Information:

New: Jürgen Basedow, The Court of Justice and Private Law: Vacillations, General Principles and the Architecture of the European Judiciary, in: European Review of Private Law 3 (2010) 443-474.

Main Areas of Research:

Private International Law, European Private and Economic Law, especially Competition Law, Transport and Traffic Law, Insurance Law

Academic Career:

- Born on September 29. 1949 in Hamburg, Germany, Studies in law and sociology at the universities of Hamburg, Geneva/Switzerland and Pavia/Italy. 1977 Visiting Research Fellow at the Asser Institute for International Law at The Hague (Dr. Voskuil), 1977-1978 Research Assistant at the Institute of Comparative Law at Paris (Prof. René Rodière); 1974 and 1979 First and Second State Examination in Law at Hamburg, Dr. iur. (Univ. of Hamburg), 1980-1981 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., LL.M., 1979-1986 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, 1986 Dr. iur. habil. (Univ. of Hamburg).

- 1987-1995 Professor of Private Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law, International Litigation and International Economic Law at the University of Augsburg, 1993-1994 Dean of that Faculty, 1995-1997 Professor of Private Law, Private International Law and International Economic Law at the Free University of Berlin, since 1997 Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and Professor at the University of Hamburg.

- Visiting Professor: Univ. of Ferrara (1989, 1991), Univ. of Genoa (1989, 1991), Univ. of Lyon III (1992, 1997), Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pa. (1993), Univ. of Verona (1999), Univ. of Rotterdam (2000), Univ. of Paris II (2001), Univ. of Tunis II (2002), Univ. of Oxford (2003); 1997 Course on International Competition Law (in French) at the Hague Academy of International Law; Marco Polo Fellow at the Silk Road Institute of International Law of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (2008).

- Membership in Governmental Advisory Committees: 1988-1991 Vice Chairman of the German Deregulation Committee (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs), 1988-now German Council of Private International Law (Federal Ministry of Justice), 1992-1993 Committee on the Licensing of Mass Consignments (Federal Ministry of Post and Communications), 1992-1996 Committee on Transport Law (Federal Ministry of Justice), 1996-2002 Referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) for Comparative Law, Private International Law and International Litigation, 1997-2000 Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Transport, 2000-2008 Member of the German Monopoly Commission www.monopolkommission.de, 2004-2008 its Chairman, 2000-2004 Committee on Insurance Law (Federal Ministry of Justice), 2004-2005 Think Tank on Private Enforcement of DG Competition of the European Commission, 2005-2010 Advisory Board of the German Supervisory Authority for Financial Services (BAFIN).

- Membership in Academies: Titular Member (since 1998) and Secretary General (since 2006) of the International Academy of Comparative Law www.iuscomparatum.org, 1998-now Member and President (2006-2008) of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, 1998-2000 Member of the German-American Academic Council, since 2000 Member of the Group Européen de droit international privé (GEDIP) www.gedip-egpil.eu and since 1999 Member of the Project Group "Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law", Member of the Executive Board (2005-2009) and of the Advisory Board (since 2009) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht www.dgvr.de, 2000-now Member of the Academia Europaea, Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 2007), Member of the Scientific Council Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (since 2007), Chairman of the Board of the Deutsch-Türkische Juristenvereinigung (since 1999) www.dtjv.de, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2007) and of the Executive Board (since 2009) of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, Member of the American Law Institute www.ali.org (since 2008), Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea www.iflos.org (since 2009).

- Honours: 1979 Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society; 1987 Kurt Hartwig Siemers Award, Hamburg Scientific Foundation; 1989 Award of the Stinnes Foundation; 2002 honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) awarded by the University of Stockholm; 2008 honorary professorate at Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.

- Academic administration: 1993-1994 Dean of the Faculty of Law, Univ. of Augsburg; 2000-2003 Chairman of the Humanities Section, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Science; 2004-2006 Acting Director of the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen.