Reinhard Zimmermann

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


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

    The Draft Civil Code for Israel in Comparative Perspective, Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 383 pp. (jointly with Kurt Siehr).

    Globalisierung und Entstaatlichung des Rechts (Teilband II), Nichtstaatliches Privatrecht: Geltung und Genese, Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 205 pp.

    Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, Mohr Siebeck, 2009, 2 vol., 1991 S. (ed. jointly with Jürgen Basedow and Klaus J. Hopt).

    Articles

    Der Gemeinsame Referenzrahmen für das europäische Privatrecht - Wertungsfragen und Kodifikationsprobleme, 2008 Juristenzeitung 529-550 (jointly with Horst Eidenmüller, Florian Faust, Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Nils Jansen and Gerhard Wagner).

    Prescription: General Framework and Special Problems Concerning Damages Claims, in: Helmut Koziol, Barbara C. Steininger (eds.), European Tort Law 2007, Tort and Insurance Law Yearbook, Springer, 2008, pp. 26-78 (jointly with Jens Kleinschmidt).

    The Present State of European Private Law, (2009) 57 American Journal of Comparative Law 479-512.

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