Professor Dr Drs. h.c. Manfred Weiss was born in Tuttlingen (Germany) on 1 June 1940. He graduated in Law at the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1964 and was a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society of the California University in Berkeley (California/USA) from 1965 to 1966. From 1970 to 1972 he was assistant professor and from 1972 to 1974 associate professor at the Law School of the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. Since 1974 he has been full professor for labour law and civil law, first (from 1974 to 1977) at the Law School of the University in Hamburg and th...