Prof. Wolfgang Däubler

• born May 5th 1939 in Berlin
• German nationality
• married, two children
• primary and secondary school in Biberach and Stuttgart
• BA (Abitur) 1958 in Stuttgart
• 1958 - 1962 law studies at the universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and Berlin
• 1963 - 1966 practical training in different fields of the legal profession including 7 months in France and 6 months at the EEC-Commissions' Legal Service (Referendarausbildung)
• 1965 Dr.jur. University of Tübingen (thesis on a company law subject)
• 1966 admission to bar (Assessorexamen)
• 1967 - 1971 Scientific Assistant at the University of Tübingen
• Since 1971 Professor of German and European Labour law, Civil Law and
• Commercial Law at the University of Bremen
• Please find some further details in "Who is who in the world".

University of Bremen:

• Labour law and Industrial Relations including the European dimension
  Data Protection Law
  Civil law, especially Estate Law, Family Law and Inheritance Law
• Academy of Labour (Akademie der Arbeit) in Frankfurt/Main (since 1972) and
  Social Academy (Sozialakademie) in Dortmund (since 1976): Labour Law (12 hours a year)
• International School of Comparative Labour Law in Trieste/Italy (1971-1976): Different subjects of comparative labour law (2 weeks a year)
• Seminar on Comparative Labour Law, organized Prof. Nagy in Szeged, Hungary, since 1985, one week a year
• Seminar on Comparative Labour Law, organized by the Italian branch of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security (since 1983 - one week a year, together with Bill Wedderburn, Antoine Lyon-Caen, Gino Giugni and Miguel Rodriguez-Pinero)
• Visiting professor 1987 and 1991 (for one month) at the Paris University (Universit, de Paris X Nanterre) and 1998 in Bordeaux - courses on German and comparative labour law
• Visiting professor from January to May 1994 at the University of Texas Law School at Austin - courses on EC-law and Comparative Labour Law
• Visiting professor at the University of Antwerp in March and April 1995; course on German Labour Law
• Visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux in March and April 1998; courses on German Labour Law
• Lectures in Japan (Osaka, Tokyo), Poland (Poznan, Gdansk, Warszawa, Wroclaw and Lodz), Russia (Moscow), Kyrgyzstan (Bischkek), Finland (Helsinki), Tartu (Estonia), Sweden (Stockholm, Uppsala), England (Oxford), France (Strasbourg, Paris), Spain (Madrid, Sevilla, Santander, Valencia, Barcelona, Las Palmas), Portugal (Lisboa, Coimbra), Italy (Roma, Bologna, Firenze, Ancona, Torino, Cagliari), Greece (Athens, Saloniki, Komotini), Turkey (Istanbul), Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba), Uruguay (Montevideo), Brasil (Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte)

Activities outside the university

Member of the Supervisory Board of the "Bremer Landesbank"

Consultation of trade unions, works councils, enterprises and foundations on legal questions, normally labour law

Mediator in conciliation boards (Einigungsstellen) which decide conflicts between management and works councils

Mediator in the metal industry of Nordwürttemberg-Nordbaden (normally the pilot district in collective negotiations)

Radio Service once a month for three hours in Leipzig (listeners can phone and ask labour law questions- the most interesting points are broadcasted afterwards)

Handling of labour law cases at the German Constitutional Court
 

Seminars and Consulting Experiences

I. Ebert Foundation

1989 and 1991 Buenos Aires: consulting trade unions about labour legislation and labour market issues in Argentina (two times 1O days)

1992 Asunci¢n (Paraguay): Consulting members of the assembly elaborating a new Constitution ( one week)

1993 Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Florianopolis and Rio de Janeiro: Consulting Brasilian trade unions about labour legislation and its reform (2 weaks)

1994: Giving a talk on the First National Labour Conference (organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Labour) in Brasilia on "Trends in the labour  law of industrialized countries",published in: Minst,rio de Trabalho, O mundo do trabalho. Crise e mudanca no final do s,culo, Sao Paulo 1994 p. 17 - 48

1994 and 1995: Two seminars on Labour Legislation with Russian experts in Moscow

1995: Seminar in Beijing/People's Republic of China with representatives of the Labour Ministry on advantages and dangers of specialized labour courts

1995: Written evaluation of the draft South-African Labour Code

1995: Seminars in Bombay, Bangalore and New Delhi about "Social Clause" and "Restructuring of enterprises", two weeks

1995: Seminars at the Osaka University and the Japan Institute of Labour in Tokyo about Trends in German Labour Law and EC-Law.

1997: Seminars in Beijing, Cheng-du and Shanghai about fundamental structures of labour law

1997: Seminars in Sao Paulo and Brasilia about globalization, organized by the Brazilian Labour Ministry (Sao Paulo) and the Federal Labour Court (Brasilia)

II. International Labour Organization (ILO)

1993: Consulting the Labour Ministry in Santiago de Chile as an ILO-expert about workers' involvement in public enterprises ( 1 week)

III. European Expertise Service (in the Framework of Tacis)

1994 and 1995 consulting the Kyrgyz Government in the elaboration of a new Labour Code; leader of an EES-Team 3 times three weeks in Bischkek

IV. Phare-Programme

November 1996: Report on the Social Dialogue in Germany on a Conference organized by the local representatives of the Phare Programme in Sofia

Since September 1996: Consulting the Slowene Labour Ministry (Ljubljana) in the elaboration on a draft law on individual employment contracts, on a law on collective agreements and on a law on strikes

V. Foreign Languages

English (teaching in English during the stay in Austin/Texas)
Reading: 5; Writing: 5; Conversation: 5

French (teaching in the above mentioned seminars on comparative labour law and as a visiting professor in Paris, Antwerp and Bordeaux)
Reading: 5; Writing: 5; Conversation: 5

Spanish (consulting in Latin America was made in Spanish)
Reading: 5; Writing: 3; Conversation: 4

Russian (good understanding of current language and legal texts, conversation abilities have much improved)
Reading: 5; Writing:2; Conversation: 4

Italian
Reading: 5; Writing: 3; Conversation: 3

Books:

1. Textbook on Labour Law, vol.1, 15th edition 1998, vol.2, 11th edition 1998. The third edition of the first volume was translated into Italian and

published in 1981 (Diritto sindacale e cogestione nella Germania Federale, a cura di Marcello Pedrazzoli, Franco Angeli editore).The 199O edition of both volumes was translated into Spanish by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Security and published in 1994 (Derecho del Trabajo, 1O21 S.)
2. The strike in the public service, 2nd edition, 1971
3. The fundamental right to codetermination and its realisation by collective agreements, 4th edition 1976 (Das Grundrecht auf Mitbestimung und seine Realisierung durch tarifvertragliche Begründung von Beteiligungsrechten)
4. The conception of society in the jurisprudence of the Federal Labour Court, 2nd edition 1975 (Das soziale Ideal des Bundesarbeitsgerichts)
5. Trade union rights on plant level, 9th edition 1998 (Gewerkschaftsrechte im Betrieb)
6. Handbook on the law of collective agreements, 3rd edition, 1993 (Handbuch Tarifvertragsrecht)

A collection of articles has been translated into Portuguese and published in Sao Paulo by Editora LTR under the title "Direito do trabalho e Sociedade na Alemanha", Sao Paulo 1997

II. EC - Law

The book "Sozialstaat EG? Die andere Dimension des Binnenmarktes" (G?tersloh 1989) was published in English by the Bertelsmann Foundation ("Market and Social Justice in the EC - the Other Side of the Internal Market") in 1991.

Another book (Däubler-Kittner-L?rcher, Internationale Arbeits- und Sozialordnung, Köln 199O, 2nd edition 1994) contains a collection of EC-regulations and directives influencing the situation of the worker and of ILO-Conventions. Each regulation etc. has got its own introduction dealing with the main problems arising before German courts.

Some 25 articles deal especially with the so-called social dimension, the importance of EC-Law for national law and possible European collective agreements. A very small article has been published in English: Prospects for a European Social Policy, in: Betten (ed.), The future of European Social Policy, Deventer-Boston 1989, p. 167 - 171
 

III. Data Protection Law

Books:

Gläserne Belegschaften? Datenschutz für Arbeiter, Angestellte und Beamte (Invasion of workers' privacy? Data protection for blue- and white-collar-workers and civil servants), 3rd edition 1993

Kommentar zum Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (Commentary on the Federal Data Protection Law - together with Klebe and Wedde), 1996

Some 1O articles concerning inter alia medical secrecy and data transfer in connection with just-in-time production

IV. Civil Law

Textbook on the German Civil Code ("Das Zivilrecht. Eine Leitfaden durch das BGB") 2 volumes, 1997

Die Vererbung des Geschäftsanteils bei der GmbH (Private company and inheritance law) 1965

V. Other fields

Privatisierung als Rechtsproblem (privatization as a legal problem), Neuwied 198O

Stationierung und Grundgesetz, 2nd ed. 1982 (The stationing of missiles and the German Constitution) Transnationale Konzerne und Weltwirtschaftsordnung (Transnational Corporations and World Economic Order) - together with Karl Wohlmuth, Baden- Baden 1979