(Source: MPI for European Legal History)
We learned that Professor Marietta
Auer has been appointed as the new director of the Max Planck Institute for
European Legal History in Frankfurt. Here the press release from
the MPI:
The Institute is pleased to
announce that Marietta Auer has accepted the Max Planck Society's offer to
become a scientific member and director of the Max Planck Institute for
European Legal History. Marietta Auer's appointment means that a further
full-fledged department with a focus on legal theory will be established at the
Institute, complementing the two existing departments dedicated to ‘European
and comparative legal history’ (Department I, S. Vogenauer) and ‘Historical
Regimes of Normativity’ (Department II, T. Duve). Marietta Auer is expected to
take up her work in Frankfurt September, 1st, 2020.
Marietta Auer (1972) completed
both legal examinations at the University of Munich. There she also earned her
doctorate in law and was later habilitated — both under the supervision of
Claus Wilhelm Canaris. Prof. Auer also had two longer stays at Harvard Law
School, where she received her LLM in 2000 and her SJD in 2012. In addition to
her legal studies, she has an MA in philosophy and sociology (Munich). After
her habilitation in 2012, she received a professorship at the University of
Giessen. There she has held the chair for private law and philosophy of law
since 2013 and has served as dean since 2016. Her research focuses on private
law and legal theory.
The directors, researchers and
staff are all pleased about this strengthening of fundamental legal research
within the Max Planck Society and the intellectual and institutional growth
connected with Marietta Auer's appointment!
Thomas Duve, Stefan Vogenauer
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