Reinhard Zimmermann

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult., FBA FRSE


Managing Director

Tel: +49 40 419 00 - 401
Fax: +49 40 419 00 - 402
  r.zimmermann@mpipriv.de
   
Secretary: Angelika Okotokro
Tel.: +49 40 419 00 - 400
  okotokro@mpipriv.de

Main Areas of Research:

Law of obligations and law of succession in historical and comparative perspective

Relationship between the English common law and continental civil law

Mixed legal systems (in particular Scotland and South Africa)

Harmonization of European private law

Curriculum Vitae


Special lectures and conference papers

  • Recent publications:


    Books and special issues of law reviews

    Revision des Verbraucher-acquis (ed. jointly with Horst Eidenmüller, Florian Faust, Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Nils Jansen and Gerhard Wagner), Mohr Siebeck, 2011, 326 pp.

    Comparative Succession Law, vol. 1: Testamentary Formalities (ed. jointly with Kenneth G.C. Reid and Marius J. de Waal), Oxford University Press, 2011, 521 pp.

    50 Jahre Koreanisches Zivilgesetzbuch, Ein Deutsch-Koreanisches Symposium (ed. jointly with Yu-Cheol Shin), Bobmunsa Publisher, 2011, 490 pp.

    Articles

    Contract Formation and Mistake in European Contract Law: A Genetic Comparison of Trans¬national Model Rules, (2011) 31 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 625 - 662 (jointly with Nils Jansen).

    Europäisches Privatrecht – Irrungen, Wirrungen, in: Begegnungen im Recht, Ringvorlesung der Bucerius Law School zu Ehren von Karsten Schmidt anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstags, Mohr Siebeck, 2011, pp. 321 - 350.

    Challenges for the European Law Institute, Edinburgh Law Review 2012, 5 - 23.

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