Christian von Bar#
| Membership Number: | 4365 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.elsi.uni-osnabrueck.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1981 University Professor at Osnabrück
- 1981/82 Bodossakis Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
- 1982-1998 Head of an international research group on Pan-European Tort Law
- 1987 Founder and Director of the Institute of Private International and Comparative Law
- 1999-2009 Chairman of the Study Group on a European Civil Code
- 2000 Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford
- 2003 Founder and Director of the European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI)
- 2005 One of the speakers of the “Common Principles of European Contract Law (CoPECL)” network of excellence
- 2009-present Head of an international research group on Pan-European Property Law
- 2010-2015 Special Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission Viviane Reding
Fields of Scholarship
- Private law
- Private international law
- Comparative law
- European tort law
- European property law
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Dr. iuris honoris causa Novi Sad University
- 2013 Dr. of humanities honoris causa University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
- 2012 Dr. iuris honoris causa Silesian University Katowice
- 2011 Professor (Hons), University of Czestochowa
- 2010 Dr. iuris honoris causa Helsinki University
- 2007 Linnaeus Doctor iuris honoris causa Uppsala University
- 2007 Dr. iuris honoris causa Tartu University
- 2006 Lower Saxony State Award
- 2003 Dr. iuris honoris causa Catholic University Leuven
- 2000 Corresponding Fellow of the Académie de Droit Comparé
- 2000 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 1993 Honorary Master of the Bench, Gray's Inn, London
- 1993 Leibniz Prize Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
