[2] Medicus is author of the standard text book on German private Law (Bürgerliches Recht, 23rd edition 2011).
Bürgerliches Recht was translated into Japanese (Doitsu-minpō, 1997) and hailed as “beacon of scholarly writing”.
[2] His book on the General Part of the German Civil Code (Allgemeiner Teil des Bürgerlichen Rechts) was translated into Chinese (De guo min fa zong lun, 2000).
[4] His text books on the law of obligations were translated into Spanish (tratado de las relaciones obligacionales, 1995).
Medicus was elected member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Class for History and Philosophy) in 1980.