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Research

Building Contract Law:

  • Member of the working group on Construction Contract Law and the BMJV
  • Working group leader at the German Court Conference on Construction (Deutscher Baugerichtstag e.V.)

Projects:

  • Legal Pprotection for of the purchaser of a construction service against the insolvency risk of the contractor
  • When does a deviation from the contracting rules for award of public works contracts (VOB/B) cause the privilege to lapse
  • Adaption of the German Federal Procurement Manual to meet new legal developments
  • Adaption of the Guidelines for the Implementation of Federal Construction Projects (RBBau) to meet new legal development

Major publications:

  • Messerschmidt/Voit: Private Building Law
  • Ganten/Jansen/Voit, Beck’scher Großkommentar zur VOB Teil B [Beck’s Major Commentary on the Contracting Rules for Award of Public Works Contracts, Part B]

Pharmaceutical/food law:

  • Member of the joint expert commission of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) and Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)
  • Scientific Advisory Panel on German Federal Law on Food Law and Food Science
  • Advisory Panel on the Scientific Society for Food Law
  • Co-publisher on the journals Pharmarecht [Pharmaceutical Law] and Lebensmittel und Recht [Food and Law]
  • Spokesperson for the research centers for Pharmaceutical Law and Food Law

Projects:

  • Admissibility of substance group clauses in narcotics law
  • Evaluation of the Consumer Information Act
  • Evaluation of the DIN Consumer Council

Major publications:

  • Voit/Grube, Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung [Food Information Ordinance]
  • Treatment of liability law in Dieners/Resse Handbuch des Pharmarechts [Handbook of Pharmaceutical Law]
  • Commentary on product liability insurance in Prölss/Martin, VVG [Insurance Contract Act]

Insurance law:

Projects:

Protection for the purchaser of a construction work against the insolvency risk of the contractor

Major publications:

  • Commentaries in Prölss/Martin VVG [Insurance Contract Act] (product liability, environmental liability, environmental damage, D&O, technical insurance, private health insurance)
  • Bruck/Möller, VVG [Insurance Contract Act] (§86 Insurance Contract Act)
  • Krause-Allenstein, Handbuch Bauversicherung [Handbook of Construction Insurance] (construction completion insurance)

Civil law and law of civil procedure:

Major publications:

  • Musielak/Voit, Kommentar zur ZPO [Commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure]
  • Musielak/Voit, Grundkurs ZPO [Basic Course in the Code of Civil Procedure]
  • Commentary on the law on contracts for work and services in Bamberger/Roth, Kommentar zum BGB [Commentary on the German Civil Code]