Reinhard Zimmermann#
| Membership Number: | 3893 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpipriv.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Honorary Professor, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
- 2008 - present Affiliate Professor, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
- 2002 - present Academic Member and Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
- 1998 - 1999 A.L. Goodhart Professor of Legal Science, University of Cambridge
- from 1988 Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg
- 1981 - 1988 W.P. Schreiner Professor of Roman and Comparative Law, University of Cape Town/South Africa
- 1979 Admitted to the Bar in Hamburg
Fields of Scholarship
- 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
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate McGill University, Montréal/Canada
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate University of Lleida/Spain
- 2007 Honorary Doctorate University of Edinburgh/Scotland, UK
- from 2006 Member of Common Room, All Souls College, Oxford
- from 2006 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate University of Cape Town/South Africa
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate University of Lund/Sweden
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate University of Maastricht/Netherlands
- from 2003 Ordinary Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Göttingen/Germany
- from 2002 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- from 2002 Foreign Member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino/Italy
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate University of Aberdeen/Scotland, UK
- from 1999 Ordinary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences/Germany
- 1997 Honorary Doctorate University of Chicago/USA
- 1996 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
