Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker

Ernst -Joachim Mestmäcker (born 25 September 1926 in Hameln ) is a German legal scholar.

Life

Mestmäcker his doctorate in 1953 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he was habilitated in 1958. In 1959 he was ordained professor and taught in Washington DC, Saarbrücken, Münster, Bielefeld ( where he founding rector from 1967 to 1969 was at the same time ) and Hamburg. He was also in the years 1965, 1976 and 2000 Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan. From 1979 to 1994 he was a director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

Mestmäcker was 1960-2006 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. From 1960 to 1970 he was Special Adviser to the EEC Commission for competition policy and legislative alignment, 1973-1978 Chairman of the Monopolies Commission established pursuant to § 24 GWB and since 1997 a member and from January 2000 to 2002 Chairman of the Commission on Concentration in the Media ( KEK ). Mestmäcker is a senior member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

His research focuses on the German, European and international business law, with a focus on competition and copyright law.

Mestmäcker is co-editor of the journal ORDO - Yearbook of the order of business and society.

Publications (selection)

  • The teaching of European and national law in the system of undistorted competition. , Gehlen, 1969
  • The return of civil society and their right in: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society, 1991, pp. 24 ff
  • With Heike Schweitzer: network competition, network access and " roaming " on mobile phones. An investigation under the Telecommunications Act, the ARC and the law of the EC. Nomos, Business Law of the International Telecommunications Volume 38, Baden- Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6130-1
  • With Heike Schweitzer: European competition law. C. H. Beck, 2nd edition, 2004, ISBN 3-406-33065-7
  • Economy and Constitution in the European Union. Nomos, 2nd edition, 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1843-4
  • Franz Böhm in: Grundmann / Giant Huber ( ed.), German -speaking civil law teachers of the 20th century in reports of their students. deGruyter, Berlin 2007

Awards

  • Ludwig Erhard Prize for Business Journalism, 1980
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1981
  • Honorary Senator of the University of Bielefeld, 1983
  • Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize of the Ges to promote the Westfälische Wilhelms- Univ. Münster, 1984
  • Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea, 1993
  • Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, 1994
  • Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize, 1997
  • Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1997
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Bielefeld, 2009
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