Vertrag - Prozess - Restrukturierung

On 24 February 2026, Reinhard Bork will celebrate his 70th birthday - an occasion for this scholarly Festschrift containing ninety contributions honoring him as an outstanding academic teacher for whom scholarship, teaching, transfer of knowledge into practice and university self-governance have always been equally important. Many of the contributors deal with formative stages and themes of his work: from his Habilitation thesis and his commentary in Stein and subsequent role as co-editor, to the major textbook on the General Part of the German Civil Code (BGB), his co-editorship of the Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP), his co-editorship of the KTS book series, his commentary on the Insolvency Code (InsO), as well as research stays in Oxford, and much more.
In thematic terms, the Festschrift reflects the extraordinary breadth of his scholarly work and traces the major lines of his oeuvre: civil law and legal foundations, civil procedure, insolvency law, and restructuring. These four sections structure the volume and interlink the assembled contributions into a genuine comprehensive survey of legal scholarly questions to which the celebrant has been particularly devoted. Repeated emphasis is placed on Reinhard Bork's style-the precision and clarity that characterize his writings and likewise defined his teaching. Always principled in argumentation and free from fashionable simplifications, this "methodological integrity" accounts for the particular accessibility of his texts and explains both their lasting success and his personal impact at home and abroad.