Volkmar Gessner
University professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Volkmar Gessner was a German university professor and a socio-legal scholar. Career Gessner studied sociology and law at the University of Munich. He received a doctorate in law from the University of Münster and the habilitation from the faculty of sociology of the University of Bielefeld. After serving as a civil judge in Münster and Recklinghausen, he worked at the Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg, where he headed a social science working group after 1975. In 1980, Gessner was appointed professor of Sociology of Law, Comparative Law and European Legal Policy at the University of Bremen. From 1980 to 1990, he also served as one of the directors of the newly founded Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik in Bremen . From 1997 to 1999, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After his retirement from the University of Bremen in 2003, he served until 2005 as Scientific Director of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain.
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