Room:
GD E2/613
Phone:
+49 (0)234 32-22839
Facsimile:
+49 (0)234 32-14599
Email:
peter.windel@rub.de
Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel
was born in 1959. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen, being awarded his first and second state-exams by the Ministry of Justice of the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1991 he earned his Doctor iur. utr. degree and in 1996 his postdoctoral lecture qualification to teach (Habilitation) both civil and civil procedural law from the School of Law of the University of Heidelberg.
He is a member of the Civil Law Teachers Association, the Association of Civil Procedural Law Teachers, the Scholarly Association for International Procedural Law, of the German-Chinese (DCJV) and of the German-Japanese (DJJV).
After being Professor at the University of Bayreuth in 1997 he was called upon to inherit the Chair for Procedural and Civil Law at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1998. From 2006 to 2008 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr University and Vice-Dean from 2008 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014 Professor Windel has been also a member of the Ruhr University’s Senate. He has been Regional Secretary and Delegate for the convent of the State North Rhine-Westphalia by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV) from 2010 to 2019.
In 2009 Professor Windel was appointed PI for Forensic Legal Studies at the School of Law of the Ruhr University. Since 2016 he runs the program International Legal Dialogue. He has published numerous books as well as papers in the fields of substantive and procedural law including bankruptcy and enforcement law in various well renowned legal reviews and journals in German and in English. Some papers have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Albanian and Russian. As a visiting professor, he has given numerous lectures and talks in the People’s Republic of China, on the island of Taiwan, in Japan, France and Turkey.
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