Wolfgang Fikentscher

Wolfgang Fikent ( born May 17, 1928 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German jurist and legal anthropologist.

Life

Fikent doctorate (1952) and his habilitation (1957 ) at the University of Munich. At the University of Michigan ( Ann Arbor ), he obtained a Master of Laws. His professional career began as a legal assistant in the legal department from Wacker Chemie ( Burghausen / Munich), then under Allied IG Farben control, and as a teacher at the DGB trade union schools ( Kochel, Niederpöcking ). In 1958 he accepted a position on a full professorship at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. In 1965 he was appointed professor at the University of Tübingen and took over in 1971 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( LMU), the Chair of Civil and Commercial Law, Intellectual Property Law and Private Law, he paused until his retirement in 1996. Since 1996 he teaches with a contract for teaching at the Munich Faculty of Law, in part (1996 - 2000), also at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley, CA, USA, the anthropology of law.

In addition Fikent is nonresident scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law since 1972. In 1977 he was elected as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1994 he received together with Robert D. Cooter from the University of California, Berkeley, the Max Planck Research Award. Fikent was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and the Bavarian Order of Merit. In 1995 he received the Doctor honoris causa of the University of Zurich juris.

Memberships, Fellowships: Human Science Center of the LMU (Munich ); Parmenides Foundation for the Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Munich ); Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences ( NIAS ), Wassenaar (Netherlands ) 1971 /72 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1992/3, 1995 /6, 2002); Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research (since 1992). Visiting Professorships: Georgetown University Law Center (1962, 1966); University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor (1966, 1987); Yale University Law School and Department of Anthropology (1986); Nanjing University (1993); University of California at Berkeley School of Law (1980 /1, 1988, 1992, 1996-2000 ).

Fikent is married and has four children.

Work

The focus of his scientific work are the intellectual property law, competition law, comparative law and legal anthropology. His publications on antitrust law and international economic law were influential on the German, Greek and Taiwanese ( ROC ) legislation and jurisprudence ( PRC ). Fikent is the author of a debt legal textbook. Later Fikent has researched primarily in Germany to the little-known field of legal anthropology. Referring to fieldwork, such as Indians (especially Pueblo residents in New Mexico and Arizona, USA), and Taiwanese aborigines, Fikent tries to determine basic axioms of human rights and economic thinking.

Publications

  • Fair Economy: Crises, Culture, Competition and the Role of Law ( with Philipp Rupprecht hackers and Podszun ) Heidelberg / New York 2013: Springer
  • Law and Anthropology 2009 Munich: CH Beck & Bavarian Academy of Science
  • Modes of Thought 2nd ed Tübingen 2004: Mohr Siebeck
  • Culture, Law and Economics: Three Berkeley Lectures ( Munich writings on European and International Competition Law, Vol 6 ) Bern and Durham 2004: Stämpfli & Carolina Academic Press
  • The freedom and their Paradox " Graefelfing 1997: Resch
  • Democracy, an introduction " Munich 1993: Piper
  • Business Law Volume I World Business Law, European Business Law "," Volume II German Business Law Munich 1983: CH Beck ( translation into Chinese, Beijing, 2010 by Zhang Shiming )
  • Methods of law in comparative representation Volume 1 -5, Tübingen 1975-1977: Mohr Siebeck
  • Competition and Intellectual Property Law 1958 Munich: CH Beck
  • A Theory of Legal Monopolies, LL.M. Paper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan / USA 1953
  • Damages from illegal strike, with special emphasis on political strikes, ungedr. Diss " Munich 1952
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