Karl von Gareis

Karl Heinrich Franz von Gareis (24 April 1844 in Bamberg – 15 January 1923 in Munich) was a German legal scholar and Old Catholic writer.

From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the German Reichstag.

[1] Since 2009 the "Carl-Gareis-Preis" is awarded by the University of Bayreuth Faculty of Law and Economics for outstanding dissertations in the field of legal history or intellectual property.

[2] In 1887 he published a monograph on concepts and methods in legal science, Enzyclopädie und Methodologie der Rechtswissenschaft: Einleitung in die Rechtswissenschaft, whose third edition 1905 was translated into English by Albert Kocourek, with an introduction by Roscoe Pound, as Introduction to the Science of Law: Systematic Survey of the Law and Principles of Legal Study (1911, reissued 1968).

Other principal writings by Gareis are: He was also an editor of the journal Blätter für Rechtsanwendung.