Claus-Wilhelm Canaris

Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (1 July 1937 – 5 March 2021) was a German jurist. Until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of Private Law, Commercial law and Labour law at LMU Munich.

Life Canaris was born in Liegnitz, Germany. His father was Constantin Canaris. Canaris went to school in Königsberg, Miesbach and Düsseldorf. He studied law, philosophy and Germanistics at the University of Paris, the University of Geneva, and LMU Munich, where he passed the first state exam (erstes Staatsexamen) in 1961.

Memberships and honours 1989: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1990: Member of the philosophical-historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 1990: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lisbon 1994: Member of the Academia dei Giusprivatisti Europei, Pavia 1997: Honorary Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 1998: Research fellowship of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London 1999 to 2006: Secretary of the philosophical-historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Vice-President in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005 2000: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2003: Member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venezia 2005: Doctor honoris causa of the University of Verona 2006: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 2008: Member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milano 2009: Member of the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich 2012: Doctor honoris causa of the Pontifícal Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Works Die Feststellung von Lücken im Gesetz, Berlin 1964, 2nd edition 1983 Systemdenken und Systembegriff in der Jurisprudenz, entwickelt am Beispiel des deutschen Privatrechts, Berlin 1969, 2nd edition 1983 Spanish: El sistema en la jurisprudencia (1998) Italian: Pensiero sistematico e concetto di sistema nella giurisprudenza sviluppati sul modello del diritto privato tedesco (2009) Portuguese: Pensamento sistemático e conceito de sistema na ciência do direito (2008) Die Vertrauenshaftung im deutschen Privatrecht, München 1971 Bankvertragsrecht, Berlin und New York, 1975, 2nd edition 1981, 3rd edition 1988 volume 1 Schweigen im Rechtsverkehr als Verpflichtungsgrund. in: Festschrift für Willburg zu 70. Geburtstag, Graz 1975, S. 77ff Recht der Wertpapiere, 12th edition, München, 1986 Handelsrecht, 24th edition, München 2006 Lehrbuch des Schuldrechts volume II/2, 13th edition, München 1994 Die Bedeutung der iustitia distributiva im deutschen Vertragsrecht, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1997 Heft 7, München 1997 Grundrechte und Privatrecht, Berlin New York, 1999 Schuldrechtsmodernisierung 2002, München 2002. Methodenlehre der Rechtswissenschaft, 3rd edition, 1995