Prof. Dr. Peter F. Schlosser - curriculum vitae

1935

Born: 26 March 1935 at Kitzingen/Main (Bavaria) as son of assistant master Artur Schlosser und non-classical secondary school teacher Lina Schlosser, née Ziegler.

1939/49

Residing at Bad Tölz (Bavaria), entering elementary school and classical secondary school (Gymnasium) of which father was headmaster.

1949

Family moves to Würzburg (Bavaria), where father had become headmaster of the "Mozart Gymnasium".

1953

Matriculation at Siebold-non-classical secondary school.  Beginning studies of business economics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg.

1954

Changeover to studies of legal sciences.

1955/56

Studies at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn.

1957

Erste Juristische Staatsprüfung (First Legal State Examination). Beginning to work as “Rechtsreferendar”.

1958

Three visits of the Faculté International de Droit Comparé in Luxembourg.

1959/60

1 year studies of law and political sciences in Paris as a scholarship holder of the French Government.

1961

Graduation in Würzburg with a dissertation on the subject “Der Grundsatz ‘keine Strafe ohne Schuld’ als Verfassungsgarantie” (The Principle of 'no Punishment without Guilt' as a Constitutional Guarantee). Starting work as a scientific assistant at the Seminar of German and Foreign Procedural Law (director: Prof. Dr. Walther J. Habscheid).

1962

Zweite Juristische Staatsprüfung (Second Legal State Examination).

1965

“Habilitation”  at the Würzburg Julius Maximilians Universität with the thesis “Gestaltungsklagen und Gestaltungsurteile” (Constitutive Judgements and Law Suits Aimed at them).

1967

After 1 1/2 years of a temporary lecturership, call to the professorship for Zivilprozessrecht, Bürgerliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie (Civil Procedure, Civil Law and Legal Philosophy) at the Philipps-Universität of Marburg/Lahn (Hessen)

1969-1973

In regular intervals professorship at the Faculté International de Droit Comparé of Strasbourg.

1969

Marriage with Astrid Schlosser, née Romann. Birth of son "Florian".

1969/71

Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Marburg.

1972

Call to a chair of Zivilprozessrecht und Bürgerliches Recht (Civil Procedure and Civil Law) at the newly founded university of Augsburg (Bavaria).

1972/75

Member of the Commission set up by the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Preparing the Act on Standard Form Provisions in Contracts.

Guest Member of the Commission set up by the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Preparing the New German Law on Divorce.

Rapporteur of the Working Group of the Council of the European Communities for Preparing the Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Convention on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters.

1973

Birth of son “Philipp”.

1977

Call to a chair for Deutsches, Internationales und Ausländisches Zivilprozessrecht sowie Bürgerliches Recht (German, International and Foreign Civil Procedure as well as for Civil Law) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich.

1981-

Member of the board of directors of the German Arbitration Institute. Since that time serving as an arbitrator on multiple occasions.

1982/87

Local board member of the German-American Lawyers Association.

1986/88

Dean of the Law Faculty of the Julius Maximilians Universität München

1989

Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

1989/97

President of the "Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht".

Oct 90

Visiting Professor for international civil procedure at the Chuo University, Tokyo.

1991/94

Member of the Commission set up by the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Elaborating a new  Book 10 (on arbitration) of the Code of Civil Procedure

1992

Honorary member of the Italian civil procedure association.

1996/2002

Managing Director of the Institut für Anwaltsrecht at the University of Munich.

2001

Retirement from the teaching activities of the professorship in Munich ("Emeritierung").

2005

Publication of “Grenzüberschreitungen, Beiträge zum internationalen Verfahrensrecht und zur Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Festschrift (liber amicorum) für Peter Schlosser zum 70. Geburtstag“, 1175 u. XV Seiten, erschienen bei Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen