Max Kaser
Introduction


**Max Kaser** (21 April 1906 \- 13 January 1997\) was a German [professor of Jurisprudence](/wiki/Jurisprudence "Jurisprudence") who taught successively at the [universities of Münster](/wiki/University_of_M%C3%BCnster "University of Münster"), [Hamburg](/wiki/University_of_Hamburg "University of Hamburg") and [Salzburg](/wiki/University_of_Salzburg "University of Salzburg"). The principal focus of his scholarship and teaching was on [Roman law](/wiki/Roman_law "Roman law"). He became a member of a number of [learned societies](/wiki/Learned_society "Learned society"). In addition, between 1958 and 1992 he was awarded [honorary doctorates](/wiki/Honorary_degree "Honorary degree") by no fewer than ten different universities on three different continents. An eleventh honorary doctorate, from the Jurisprudence faculty at the [University of Regensburg](/wiki/University_of_Regensburg "University of Regensburg"), was awarded only posthumously, however, in 1999\).

Max Kaser is respected as the author of pioneering writings on the step by step progression from [classical legal concepts](/wiki/Roman_law "Roman law") to modern [European civil law](/wiki/Privatrecht "Privatrecht"). His text books on Roman civil law and [modern civil procedure](/wiki/Zivilprozessrecht_%28Deutschland%29 "Zivilprozessrecht (Deutschland)") (for many purposes outside [Anglo\-American common law precepts](/wiki/Common_law "Common law")) break new ground in presenting the historical evolution of legal concepts and principals, incorporating analyses and commentaries on written sources, and using research techniques that he himself (with others) developed.


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