ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Gerhard Wagner

Gerhard Wagner (b. 1962) is Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Law and Economics at the Law Faculty at Humboldt-University at Berlin. Before joining the faculty of Humboldt-University, he held a chair at the Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bonn from 1999-2012. He was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Global Law, University College, London, UK, and served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School during the academic year 2010/11. Since 2009 he is also the holder of the Erasmus Chair of Fundamentals of Private Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Professor Wagner is a member of the European Center of Tort and Insurance Law, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the European Law Institute. His research focuses on German and European private law, and there on contracts and torts as well as consumer and commercial law. He has published widely in German and English, covering topics such as the harmonization of European legal systems, products liability, medical malpractice, securities litigation, antitrust damages, and liability for breach of contract.