Reinhard Zimmermann

Dr. jur. 1978; Chairs in Cape Town, Regensburg, Cambridge, Hamburg, Edinburgh; Director Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (since 2002); Visiting Professor Chicago, Yale, Auckland, Oxford et al.; Leibniz Prize 1996; FBA, FRSE, Academy of Sciences Bavaria, Austria, Netherlands et al.; LL.D. h.c. mult.; President German National Academic Foundation (since 2011).