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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA FRSE

Reinhard Zimmermann (*10.10.1952) obtained his state examinations in law in 1976 and 1979; in 1978 he graduated as Dr. jur. from the University of Hamburg. After having held posts in the universities of Hamburg and Cologne, he was called to the W.P. Schreiner chair of Roman and Comparative Law at the University of Cape Town in 1981. He was Deputy Dean and Dean of his faculty as well as Vice-President and President of the Society of South African Teachers of Law. In 1988, Professor Zimmermann accepted a call to the chair of Roman Law, Comparative Legal History and Private Law at the University of Regensburg. Here, too, he has served as Deputy Dean and Dean of his faculty. In 2002, he was appointed Academic Member and Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg. He is honorary professor at the University of Cape Town and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Edinburgh (1990, 1999-2005), Tulane (1991), Berkeley (1994), Stellenbosch (1996-99), Yale (1998) and Cornell (2000). In 1993 he served as Max Rheinstein Professor at the University of Chicago, and he spent the academic year of 1998/99 as A.L. Goodhart Professor of Legal Science and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Professor Zimmermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago and Aberdeen. He is an ordinary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Göttingen and corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Accademia delle Science di Torino. He is corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy. His main areas of interest include the law of obligations in historical and comparative perspective, the relationship between the English common law and the continental civil law, mixed jurisdictions (Scotland, South Africa) and the harmonization of European private law.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA FRSE will give the public lecture about  Comparative Law and the Harmonization of European Private Law.

Suggested Reading:
Martin Gebauer, Grundfragen der Europäisierung des Privatrechts, 1998; Stefan Grundmann (ed.), Systembildung und Systemlücken in Kerngebieten des Europäischen Privatrechts, 2000; Mark van Hoecke, Francois Ost (eds.), The Harmonisation of European Private Law, 2000; Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, Die Stellung der "Unidroit Principles" und der "Principles of European Contract Law" im System der Rechtsquellen, in: Jürgen Basedow (ed.), Europäische Vertragsrechtsvereinheitlichung und deutsches Recht, 2000, pp. 5 ff.; Reinhard Zimmermann, Roman Law, Contemporary Law, European Law: The Civilian Tradition Today, 2001; Jan Smits, The Making of European Private Law: Towards a Ius Commune Europaeum as a Mixed Legal System, 2002; Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei (eds.), The Common Core of European Private Law, 2002; Martijn W. Hesselink, The New European Private Law: Essays on the Future of Private Law in Europe, 2002; Hein Kötz, Alte und neue Aufgaben der Rechtsvergleichung, 2002 Juristenzeitung 257 ff.; Mathias Reimann, The Progress and Failure of Comparative Law in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, (2002) 50 American Journal of Comparative Law 671 ff.; Ugo Mattei, The European Codification Process: Cut and Paste, 2003; Reinhard Zimmermann (ed.), Grundstrukturen eines europäischen Deliktsrechts, 2003; Nikolas Roos, NICE Dreams and Realities of European Private Law, in: Mark van Hoeke (ed.), Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Law, 2004, pp. 197 ff.; Reinhard Zimmermann, Die Principles of European Contract Law als Ausdruck und Gegenstand europäischer Rechtswissenschaft, 2004; Arthur Hartkamp, Martijn Hesselink, Ewoud Hondius, Carla Joustra, Edgar du Perron, Muriel Veldman (eds.), Towards a European Civil Code, 3rd ed., 2004; Nils Jansen, Binnenmarkt, Privatrecht und europäische Identität, 2004; Reinhard Zimmermann (ed.), Grundstrukturen eines europäischen Bereicherungsrechts, 2005.


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