Hans Christoph Grigoleit

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Personalized Law: Distinctions and Procedural Observations
Hans Christoph Grigoleit
Hans Christoph Grigoleit is a Professor at the University of Munich, where he holds a Chair for Private Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law and Theory of Private Law. Grigoleit obtained his doctorate and his habilitation at the University of Munich. In his Ph.D. thesis, he dealt with “Pre-Contractual Information Liability”, while his habilitation study concerned “Shareholder Liability”. After a call to the University of Regensburg, he returned to the University of Munich.

The potential of adjusting legal rules to personal characteristics is obvious: while the reason of law coincides with the purposes of its norms, the fulfillment of these very purposes depends, in many ways, on personal characteristics of the individuals to which legal provisions relate.