CANCELLED: PRIVACY Lecture by Michael Stolleis: The Separation of Public and Private Law in the Historical Dimension

Michael Stolleis, born 1941 in Ludwigshafen (Germany). After studies in Heidelberg, Würzburg and Munich, he holds the chair in public law and early modern legal history at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) from 1975 to 2006. He was director of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History from 1992 to 2009.

For his work he received the Leibniz-Prize of the German Community of Science and the Premio Eugenio Balzan, Hegel-Preis Stuttgart, Meyer-Struckmann-Prize University of Düsseldorf, memberships in Academies in Europe (among others Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001) and honorary doctor degrees of Lund, Toulouse, Padova and Helsinki. He is a member of the Order Pour le mérite.

Books (incomplete): History of public law in Germany, 4 vols. 1988, 1992, 1999, 2012 (translated into 5 languages); History of Social Law 2003 (also engl.); Law under the Swastika, Chicago 1997; The Eye of the Law, 2004 (translated into 8 languages); Public Law in Germany, 2014 (translated into 8 languages); Margarethe and the monk. Legal history in stories, 2015.  

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