Hans Schulte-Nölke#
| Membership Number: | 4363 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://schulte-noelke.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Professor of Law (part time), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Co-ordinator of the Business Law Module in the Dutch-German Master Studies Programme
- 2008 - present Professor of Law, University of Osnabrück, Germany, Director at the European Legal Studies Institute, Chair for Civil Law, European Private and Business Law, Comparative Law, European Legal History
- 2001-2008 Professor of Law, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Director at the Centre for European Legal Practice, Director of the Institute for International Business Law, Chair for Civil Law, European Private Law, Comparative Law, European Legal History
- 2000: Associate Professor of Law, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Chair for Civil Law
- 1998 - 1999 Senior Researcher, Business and Law Research Centre, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1995 - 1997 Senior Researcher, Centre for European Private Law, University of Münster, Germany
- 1989 - 1994 Researcher, Graduate School at the Goethe University and the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main
Fields of Scholarship
- Consumer law
- European private law
- Experience in drafting expert opinions for courts on foreign law
- Contract law
- E-Commerce law
- Expertise in advising and assisting EU institutions, ministries, parliamentary committees in drafting European and national legislation
- Comparative law
- Expertise in organising international research groups
- European legal history
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Appointment as extraordinary professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen (part time)
- 2012 - present Member of the Advisory Committee of the American Law Institute (Restatement Third on Contracts - Consumer Contracts)
- 2011 - present Member of the Council of the European Law Institute (re-elected 2015)
- 2011 Founding Member of the European Law Institute
- 2009 - present: Member of the Advisory Council of the Law Faculty of the Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2010 - 2015 Member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Contract Law
- 2005 - 2009 Co-ordinator of the “Common Principles of European Contract Law (CoPECL)” Network of Excellence of 150 scholars form all EU Member States, funded under the 6th EU Research Framework Programme with 4.3 Mio Euro
- 2004 - 2012 Co-ordinator of the “Consumer Law Compendium” Project of the European Commission (Transposition studies and databases on 8 EU consumer law directives), funded by the European Commission with 1.0 Mio Euro
- 2002 - 2010 Founding Member and Co-ordinator of the Research Group on the Existing EC Private Law (Acquis Group)
