University of Mannheim Creates Germany’s First Chair of Transport Law

After more than 20 years of preparation, the University of Mannheim has successfully created the only chair of transport law at a German university. Prof. Dr. Andreas Maurer, LL.M., an expert on this specialist subject, was appointed to the chair.

The new chair strengthens not only the profile of the Department of Law at the University of Mannheim, but also Mannheim and Baden-Württemberg in general, since the transport sector is a key element for the economic success of these locations. Mannheim harbor is one of the most important inland ports in Europe. In addition, the land of Baden-Württemberg is in the center of the Rhine-Alpine Corridor, a European freight route from Genoa to Rotterdam which was created in transnational cooperation and links economically strong regions in Europe.

Against this background, assigning the law on national and international freight and passenger transport a prominent position at a university seems particularly relevant. Currently, the complex and extensive law relating to transport economics is represented only to a very limited extent  in research and teaching, although the transport industry is the third largest economic sector in Germany, after the automotive industry and the trade business.

To create the chair, the University of Mannheim and the Department of Law worked closely together with the land of Baden-Württemberg, the Wilhelm Müller Foundation as well as the society to promote the law of inland waterways transport (Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Binnenschifffahrtsrechts) at the University of Mannheim.

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