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Wolfgang Hermann Wernher Ernst (born 1956 in Bonn, [1] Germany) is a German lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. [2]
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Wolfgang Hermann Wernher Ernst (born 1956 in Bonn, [1] Germany) is a German lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. [2]
Ernst studied from 1976 to 1980 at the University of Bonn and the Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. [1] [3] He took his comprehensive examination in 1981 in Bonn and continued his studies 1981–82 at Yale University to achieve a Master of Laws (LL.M.). [1] In 1982 he continued his studies in Germany and was admitted to the bar in 1985. [1] From 1986 to 1990 he was a lecturer at the Institute of Roman Law at the University (Institut für Römisches Recht der Universität Bonn) and attained his Habilitation in 1989. [1] [3] [4]
From 1990 to 2000 he lectured at the University of Tübingen as ordentlicher Professor for Roman and private law. [1] [3] [4] In 1994–95 he served as dean of the faculty and later as associate dean. [1] From 2000 to 2004, Ernst taught civil law as director of the Institute of Roman Law in Bonn. [1] In 2002–03 he held the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science as visiting fellow at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. [4] As of 2004, Ernst taught Roman and Civil law at the University of Zurich. [1] [3] He held further visiting assignments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010) and as Herbert Smith Visitor (2012) in Cambridge. [1] In 2015, the Prime Minister announced Ernst as successor of Boudewijn Sirks and the second German legal scholar after David Daube as Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford.
Wolfgang Ernst is married with four children. [1]
Ernst's research extends over several areas, covering Roman Law, history and theory of default rules in contract law, legal history of social choice, money in the western legal tradition and reciprocity versus altruism in contract law. [4] 2017, the University of Edinburgh awarded the degree of LL.D. honoris causa onto Ernst. [5]
In 1995, during his time in Tübingen, Ernst received the Landeslehrpreis Baden-Württemberg. [1] He delivered the Peter Chiene Lecture at the University of Edinburgh in 2003, [3] the memorial lecture in honour of the Austrian lawyer Joseph Unger at the University of Vienna, [6] and in 2014 the MacCormick Lectures in Edinburgh. [3]
Sixty-seven works of Wolfgang Ernst are held in 221 publications and three languages. [7] A selection is: [4]
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