Associate Professor Alex Ziegert
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Profile
Areas of interest and expertise
- Sociological Theory of Law
- Comparative Law and Comparative Sociology of Law
- Comparative Structure Analysis of Legal System
- Comparative Family Studies
- Law and Social Control
- Legal Education
Brief biographical details
Born 1944 in Germany, studies in law, sociology, economics, history, Nordic and Slavonic languages and literature, and communication research at the University of Frankfurt (1966-1967) and the University of Münster (1967-1973); awarded Dr. phil by the University of Münster (Germany) in 1975; DAAD-Grant Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology of Law at the University of Lund, Sweden 1973 to 1974; Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld in 1975; Research Officer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg/FRG, from October 1975 to July 1982; Lecturer in Jurisprudence in the Department of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney (appt. August 1982; appt. Associate Professor in Jurisprudence 1989); Head of the Department of Jurisprudence from January 1988 to January 1999; Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) 1998-2002 and Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1992 to 1993.
