“Risking More Freedom” – Contributions to mark the retirement of Jürgen Basedow

In autumn 2017, Jürgen Basedow retired after 20 years as a Director of the Institute. His current and former research assistants took his retirement as an occasion to dedicate a two-day symposium to a central theme of his work. Entitled “Risking More Freedom” and addressing topics from the law of descent to enforcement, the symposium illuminated the broad range of research areas connected to Jürgen Basedow. The contributions to the symposium have now been published as the volume “Mehr Freiheit wagen” [Risking More Freedom] and ceremoniously presented to Jürgen Basedow by the scholars he has mentored.

Along with introductory and concluding remarks, the publication includes contributions from adherents of the “Basedow School” on civil law and insurance law, labour law and commercial law, conflict of laws and procedural law, and the foundations of law and comparative law. The variety of fields of law in which the authors are working shows the range of their academic teacher’s scholarly interests.

Jürgen Basedow has always understood “risking more freedom“ as a call for greater freedom of choice, for greater entrepreneurial freedom, for private decision-making, and for allowing societal forces to operate. Resonating through the contributions dedicated to Basedow is the quality that his current and former research assistants consider definitive for his research: an invitation to look closely and carefully, and to delve into foreign law. And perhaps not only to look beyond one’s own national borders, but also across the boundaries of academic disciplines.

Anatol Dutta, Christian Heinze (Hrsg.) „Mehr Freiheit wagen“ Beiträge zur Emeritierung von Jürgen Basedow, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, XXV + 483 Seiten

Contributions from Institute researchers