Peter Landau
German legal historian and historian
Peter Landau's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Law History
Why Is Peter Landau Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Landau was a German jurist, legal historian and expert on canon law. After going to school in Berlin, where he was born, and Eisenberg, Thuringia, Landau studied law, history, and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, at University of Freiburg, and University of Bonn. After graduating, he served as the assistant of Stephan Kuttner at Yale University. After his doctoral promotion in 1964 and a habilitating in 1964, Landau accepted a call to University of Regensburg where he became a regular professor. In 1970/71 he served as Prorector of that university and in 1978/79 he was the Dean of the faculty of law. His career included research at University of California, Berkeley and a lecturer's post as a visiting professor at University of Chicago . In 1985 he was accepted into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. When Landau rejected calls to University of Frankfurt and University of California, Berkeley, he became professor of German legal history, recent history of private law, church law, civil law, and for philosophy of law and politics at University of Munich. This office included the post as director of the Leopold Wenger Institute for Legal History. While in Munich, Landau served also as the dean of the Legal Faculty from 1993 to 1995.
Other Resources About Peter Landau
What Schools Are Affiliated With Peter Landau?
Peter Landau is affiliated with the following schools:
