Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner
Chair of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wagner has held the position of Professor of Private Law, Business Law, and Economic Analysis of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2013. At Humboldt-Universität, he is the founder and academic director of the English-language LL.M.-program „International Dispute Resolution“.
Before joining the Humboldt faculty, Wagner served as executive director of the Institute of Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution at the University of Bonn. In 2003, he was a Visiting Fellow at University College in London, UK. During 2010-2011, he was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, and in 2018 Visiting Scholar at New York University School of Law. From 2009 through 2014 he also served as Professor of Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 2008 through 2011 he was Honorary Professor of Law at Renmin University School of Law, Beijing, China.
From 2015-2019 Wagner was president of the Private Law Teachers’ Association (Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung), and from 2012-2021 Board Member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS). He is a member of the European Law Institute, member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as well as a corresponding member of North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. In 2013, Wagner was awarded the Prize of the Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Since 2015, he has served as an External Academic Member of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.
Wagner has published widely in the fields of contracts, torts, litigation and arbitration.
For more information: https://plone.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/ls/wgn/wagner
Publications:
- Algorithmisierte Rechtsdurchsetzung, AcP 1 (2022), S. 56-103
- M&A-Streitigkeit vor DIS-Schiedsgerichten, Verlag C.BECK, München 2022 (zusammen mit Siegfried H. Ersing, Günter Pickrahn und Karl Pörnbacher)
- Introduction to German Law (Herausgeber, gemeinsam mit Joachim Zekoll), 3. Aufl., Wolters Kluwer, Alphen aan den Rijn 2019
- Deliktsrecht 14. Aufl. 2020
- Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation (Hrsg., zusammen mit Ken Oliphant), Springer Verlag, Wien/New York 2011
darin: Wagner, New Perspectives on Employers' Liability – Basic Policy Options, S. 561 – 598 - Revision des Verbraucher-acquis (zusammen mit Horst Eidenmüller, Florian Faust, Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Nils Jansen und Reinhard Zimmermann), Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2011
darin: Wagner, Zwingendes Vertragsrecht, S. 1 – 52 - Kommentierung der §§ 823 – 852 BGB (Unerlaubte Handlungen) sowie des Produkthaftungsgesetzes
in: Münchener Kommentar zum BGB, Verlag C. H. Beck, München 8. Aufl., 2020 - Kommentierung der §§ 630a – 630h BGB (Behandlungsvertrag)
in: Münchener Kommentar zum BGB, Verlag C. H. Beck, München, 8. Aufl., 2019 - Herausgeber der Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht
Verlag C.H. Beck, München (gemeinsam mit Jürgen Basedow, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Reiner Schulze, Marc-Philippe Weller und Reinhard Zimmermann)