Jan Peter Schmidt How Should We Organize the Liquidation of the Estate of A Deceased Person?
Jan Schmidt is Head of the Centre for the Application of Foreign Law at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Formerly a research assistant at the Institute of European and Comparative Private Law and a Max-Planck-Fellow at the University of Oxford, Schmidt underwent his legal training in Berlin, including work at the German Parliament and the German Embassy in Costa Rica. Schmidt’s main research interests include the law of succession, private law in Latin America and comparative European private law. Schmidt was the 2009 recipient of the Max-Planck-Society’s Otto Hahn medal.
Area of Research
International Private Law
since 2015
Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Centre for the Application of Foreign Law
since 2016
Chair
German-Brazilian Lawyers’ Association
2020
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation)
University of Regensburg (Universität Regensburg)
2009
Dissertation
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhard Zimmermann
1996-2002
Law Studies
University of Konstanz (Universität Konstanz)
1998-1999
Law Studies
Universidad Complutense (Madrid)
2012-2013
Research Assuistant
University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Private Law
- German-Brazilian Lawyers’ Association
Prizes
- Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2009)
Fellowships
- Max-Planck-Fellow, Oxford University (2012-2013)
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Max Planck Society
"The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The more than 15,000 publications each year in internationally renowned scientific journals are proof of the outstanding research work conducted at Max Planck Institutes – and many of those articles are among the most-cited publications in the relevant field." (Source)
Institute
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg is dedicated to performing foundational research and promoting the transfer of knowledge in the fields of comparative and international private law and business law. By analysing similarities and differences in the legal regimes of Europe as well as other parts of the world, the Institute studies the interaction of private rule-making, national legal systems, supranational law and interstate treaties. The research performed at the Institute also serves to lay the groundwork for an international understanding of law and to help develop rules and legal instruments with which the application of national law can be better coordinated in cross-border matters. This is an academic mission of considerable significance particularly within a united Europe and against the background of increasing globalisation and a corresponding internationalisation of law. (Source)
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When a person dies leaving property behind, the law of succession determines what happens to it. In this video, JAN SCHMIDT explores how the desired distribution of assets is actually implemented when an estate is liquidated. Analyzing how the law of succession has developed through history and internationally, Schmidt shows that though questions of succession are extremely complex, there are shared fundamental issues which mean that approaches adopted in other times or jurisdictions can be both learned from and fruitfully drawn upon. The research breaks new ground in bringing a comparative approach to bear on the law of succession, an approach heretofore applied more readily to areas like the law of contract.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10864
Transfer of Property on Death and Creditor Protection: The Meaning and Role of "Universal Succession"
- Jan Peter Schmidt
- Nothing So Practical as a Good Theory: Festschrift for George L. Gretton
- Published in 2017
