Karl Heinrich Franz von Gareis (24 April 1844 in

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– 15 January 1923 in Munich) was a German legal scholar and Old Catholic writer. He studied law at the universities of Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg, obtaining his

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for

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at Würzburg in 1870. In 1873 he became a law professor at the University of Bern, specializing in private law. Later on, he served as professor at the universities of

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(from 1875), Königsberg (from 1888) and Munich (from 1902). From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the

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. Since 2009 the "Carl-Gareis-Preis" is awarded by the University of Bayreuth Faculty of Law and Economics for outstanding dissertations in the field of legal history or intellectual property.

Published works

In 1887 he published a monograph on concepts and methods in legal science, ''Enzyclopädie und Methodologie der Rechtswissenschaft: Einleitung in die Rechtswissenschaft'', whose third edition 1905 was translated into English by Albert Kocourek, with an introduction by Roscoe Pound, a
''Introduction to the Science of Law: Systematic Survey of the Law and Principles of Legal Study''
(1911, reissued 1968). Other principal writings by Gareis are: * ''Staat und Kirche in der Schweiz'' (1877) * ''Allgemeines Staatsrecht'' (1883) * ''Institutionen des Völkerrechts'' (1888) * ''Die Litteratur des Privat- und Handelsrechts: 1884 bis 1894'' (1896) * ''Deutsches Kolonialrecht'' (1902) * ''Vom Begriff Gerechtigkeit'' (1907) He was also an editor of the journal ''Blätter für Rechtsanwendung''.''Blätter für Rechtsanwendung''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gareis, Karl von 1844 births 1923 deaths People from Bamberg Academic staff of the University of Bern Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Giessen Jurists from Bavaria German Old Catholics