Dieter Nörr (1931 in Munich, Germany – October 3, 2017) was a German scholar of Ancient Law.
After receiving his doctorate with a dissertation on criminal law in the Code of Hammurabi (directed by Professor Mariano San Nicolò),[2] Nörr undertook postdoctoral study at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome.
He worked for a year as a post-doctoral assistant at the Institute for Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy under Karl Engisch.
[citation needed] He received his Habilitation at the University of Munich, under Professor Wolfgang Kunkel, in 1959 with a work on Byzantine Contract Law and was promoted to Privatdozent.
After he declined positions at the Universities of Hamburg, Tübingen, and Bielefeld, he returned to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as Professor, Chair of Roman Law, and Director of the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research (and he received emeritus status in 1999).
[3] His brother, Knut Wolfgang Nörr, was also a professor of Legal History, especially Canon Law, at the University of Tübingen.
[4] As director of the Leopold Wenger Institute,[5] for decades he led the famous Wednesday evening seminar where undergraduates would give presentations on passages from ancient law and from the Roman jurists.
Professor Nörr also generously hosted many foreign guest researchers in the Leopold Wenger Institute.
[6] Dieter Nörr's research focus was Roman law and legal philosophy.
Professor Nörr was also co-editor of the Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (Romanistische Abteilung), the leading scholarly journal for Roman law from 1972 to 2001.
[citation needed] • Studien zum Strafrecht im Kodex Hammurabi.