Peter Schlechtriem

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Peter Schlechtriem (March 2, 1933, in Jena – April 23, 2007, in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German jurisprudential scholar.[1][2]

Biography

Peter H. Schlechtriem was born March 2, 1933, in

Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg for his dissertation on foreign inheritance law. In 1965 the University of Chicago Law School awarded him a Master of Comparative Law. Peter Schlechtriem subsequently returned to Freiburg where in 1970 he completed his Habilitation with a substantial book on the relationship between liability in contracts and tort, written under the supervision of Ernst von Caemmerer
.

In 1971 he was offered professorships at both the University of Erlangen and the

University of Heidelberg. He accepted the chair in Heidelberg, where he headed the Institute for Foreign and International Private Law. In 1977, he accepted a professorship in Freiburg and became the successor of his academic teacher Ernst von Caemmerer. When being offered a chair by the University of Vienna
(Austria) in 1984, he declined.

Work

Peter Schlechtriem's academic work focused on the law of contracts, comparative law and international uniform law. His two textbooks on the German law of contracts, contributions to commentaries and numerous articles have significantly influenced the development of the law in Germany and abroad. His article-by-article commentary on the 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (CISG), published both the German and in English, has been particularly successful. Peter Schlechtriem's writings have been translated into a number of languages.

Peter Schlechtriem served on numerous international commissions. He was a member of the German delegation at the Diplomatic Conference in Vienna that adopted the

National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws
in the United States. From 1990 until 1997, Peter Schlechtriem was President of the German Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung. He served as the first Chairman of the CISG Advisory Council (from 2001 until 2004).

Honours and international recognition

Peter Schlechtriem served as a visiting professor at the

University of Basle, and in 2002 a Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Tartu (Estonia). He became a Fellow of St. Catherine's College in Oxford in 2001. Peter Schlechtriem was a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. On occasion of his 70th birthday in 2003, he was presented with a substantial Festschrift
.

Selected publications

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-107-78280-8
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  2. S2CID 201100771
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  3. OCLC 1034784388.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
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