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Reiner Schulze

Professor, Chair of German and European Civil Law, University of Münster
Institute for International Business Law
Director, Institute for History of Law
Director, Centre of European Private Law
Dr. jur., Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt
Dr. h.c., University of Miscolc, Hungary,

Reiner Schulze is a professor for civil law and history of law at the University of Münster in Germany. He is the co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP) and the Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte (ZNR). He is member of the Academy of European private lawyers Pavia, member of the board of the Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, member of the network of excellence “Joint Network on European Private Law” (CoPECL) and director of the Centre for European Private Law (CEP). His research focuses on European business and consumer law, co-operative and franchise law, history of European private law and the acquis communautaire.

Schulze studied law and passed his first state exam in Berlin. He received his Ph.D. at the Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe University and passed the second state exam in Frankfurt. He worked as a professor at the law school of the University of Trier before he took his current position in Münster in 1994. He received the doctor honoris causae from the University of Miscolc, Hungary. In 2008 he was made honorary professor at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Schulze co-teaches European Union Law.

Publications

Selected publications:

50 Jahre Römische Verträge, Geschichts- und Rechtswissenschaft im Gespräch über Entwicklungsstand und Perspektiven der Europäischen Integration, together with Christian Walter, Tübingen 2008

Common Frame of Reference and Existing EC Contract Law, Munich 2008

Tort Law of the European Community, together with Helmut Koziol, Vienna 2008

“Acquis-Grundregeln” und Gemeinsamer Referenzrahmen, in: ZEuP 2007, S. 731-734

New Features in Contract Law, Munich 2007

Neues Recht – Neue Chancen für die Genossenschaft, in: ZfgG 2006, S. 253 f.

Deberes precontractuales y conclusion del contrato en el Derecho Contractual Europeo, in: Annuario de Derecho Civil, 2006, S. 29-58

Grundsätze des Vertragsschlusses im Acquis communautaire, in: Zeitschrift für Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht (GPR) 2005, S. 56 ff.

European Private Law and Existing EC Law, in: European Review of Private Law (ERPL) 2005, S. 3 ff.

Symbolische Kommunikation vor Gericht in historisch-vergleichender Perspektive, Berlin 2005

Rechtssymbolik und Wertevermittlung, Berlin 2004

Handbuch der Europäischen Genossenschaft (SCE), Baden-Baden 2004

Rechtsvergleichung als zukunftsträchtige Aufgabe, together with Uwe Sandrock, Bernhard Großfeld, Claus Luttermann und Ingo Saenger, Münster 2004

Information Rights and Obligations. A Challenge for Party Autonomy and Transactional Fairness (Markets and Law), together with Geraint Howells und André Janssen, Aldershot/Hampshire 2004

Das Recht des unlauteren Wettbewerbs in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten, zusammen mit André Janssen, in: 2/2004 The European Legal Forum (ELF-German Edition), S. 77 ff., English Version: The Laws on Unfair Commercial Practices in the EU Member States – A Comparative Overview on the Present Domestic Laws, together with André Janssen, in: 2/2004 The European Legal Forum (ELF-English Edition), 77-85

Schuldrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz e prospettive di unificazione del diritto europeo delle obligazioni e dei contratti, in: Giorgio Cian (Hg.), La riforma dello Schuldrecht tedesco: un modello per il futuro diritto europeo delle obligazioni e dei contratti?, Padova 2004, S. 161 ff.

Streitfragen im neuen Schuldrecht, together with Martin Ebers, Teil 1, in: Juristische Schulung (JuS) 2004, S. 265 ff.; Teil 2, in: Juritische Schulung (JuS) 2004, S. 366 ff.; Part 3, in: Juristische Schulung (JuS) 2004, S. 462 ff.

Richterrecht und Rechtsfortbildung in der Europäischen Rechtsgemeinschaft, together with Ulrike Seif, Tübingen 2003

Informationspflichten und Vertragsschluss im Acquis communautaire, together with Martin Ebers und Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Tübingen 2003

Analysis of National Fairness Laws, together with Hans Schulte-Nölke, veröffentlicht im Internet unter: http://europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/ cons_int/safe_shop/fair_bus_pract/ green_pap_comm/studies/index_en.htm

Casebook – European Consumer Law, together with Hans Schulte-Nölke und Jackie Jones, Oxford/Portland 2002

Casebook – Europäisches Privatrecht, together with Arno Engel and Jackie Jones, Baden-Baden 2000
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