Experience and background

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rauscher works as an Attorney at Law (Freelancer) with LK Partners and is director emeritus of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law at the University of Leipzig. After the regular end of his university career, he continues to be active in forensic law, scientific publishing and as an editor.

His expertise includes:

• Family law
• Inheritance and succession law
• Foreign family and inheritance law
• EU-rules on international conflict of laws and civil procedure (EuZPR, EuIPR)
• International conflict of laws with a special focus on international family and inheritance law
• The international law of civil procedure

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rauscher is fluent in German, English and Spanish.

Education

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rauscher studied mathematics, genetics and law in Munich. He wrote and successfully finished his doctorate thesis in the field of European Civil Litigation Law (i.e. “JD”) in 1982. In 1989, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rauscher advanced to the position of a Professor of Law with his widely known volume on German reforms in succession and inheritance law. After visiting Scholarships with the universities of Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main and Marburg, Prof. Rauscher holds since 1993 a full and standing Scholarship as Professor of law with the university of Leipzig.

Publications

Excerpt:

• Verpflichtung und Erfüllungsort” in Art. 5 Nr. 1 EuGVÜ, 1984 (Dissertation)
• Shari’a – Islamic family law of the sunna and the shi’a, 1987
• Reform issues of German law of succession and legitimate portion, 1993 (Haibilitationsschrift)
• The German Civil Code in the unification agreement of Germany (Art 230-235 EGBGB) in: J. von Staudinger’s BGB-Kommentar 2003
• Ancestry (§§ 1589-1600e BGB) in: J. von Staudinger’s BGB-Kommentar, 2004
• Abstammung (§§ 1589-1600e BGB) in: J. von Staudinger’s BGB-Kommentar, 2004
• Parent and custody (§§ 1684ff, 1712ff) in: J. von Staudinger’s BGB-Kommentar, 2006
• The European Execution Warrant, 2004
• Brüssel IIa-VO in: Rauscher, Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht, 2. Aufl., 2006
• EG-VollstreckungstitelVO in: Rauscher, Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht, 2. Aufl., 2006
• Introduction German Code of Civile Procedure (ZPO) in: Münchener Kommentar zur ZPO, Bd. 1, 3. Aufl., 2007
• 11. Buch der ZPO (teilw) in: Münchener Kommentar zur ZPO, Bd. 3, 3. Aufl., 2008
• Family law, Großes Lehr- und Handbuch, 2. Aufl., 2008
• International Conflict of Laws, Textbook, 3. Aufl., 2008
• International Conflict of Laws, Casebook, erscheint in 3. Aufl., 2009

An update is already in progress

Editorship

• European Rules of Civile Procedure, 2 Aufl, 2006
• Münchener Kommentar zur ZPO, 3. Aufl, 2007-2008 (Mitherausgeber)
• Münchener Kommentar zur ZPO – Band FamFG