Reiner Schulze#
| Membership Number: | 4375 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - 2013 President of the European Law Faculities Association (ELFA)
- 2010 - present: Chairman of the German fraction of the Association Henri Capitant
- 1996 - 2005 Judge at the Higher Regional Court, Hamm
- 1994 - present: Professor for German and European Civil Law and Director of the Institute for Legal History, University of Münster
- 1989 - 1994 Professor for Civil Law, German and Modern European Legal History, University of Trier
- 1984 - 1988 Deputy professor at the universities of Constance, Frankfurt, Regenburg, Trier
- 1979 - 1983 Researcher at University of Frankfurt a.M.
Fields of Scholarship
- German law of obligations (esp. contract, tort and unjust enrichment)
- European contract law
- European tort law
- German legal history
- European legal history
- International commercial law
- Comparative law
Honours and Awards
- Honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) from the University of Miskolc
- Member of the Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación ("Académicos Honorarios")
- Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ("Straniero")
- Officer of the Order Oranje Nassau (awarded for services to the German-Dutch Jurists Association)
