Karl von Gareis

Karl Heinrich Franz von Gareis (24 April 1844 in Bamberg – 15 January 1923 in Munich) was a German legal scholar.
He studied law at the universities of Munich, Heidelberg and Würzburg, obtaining his habilitation for private law at the latter institution in 1870. In 1873 he became a law professor at the University of Bern, specializing in private law. Later on, he served as professor at the universities of Giessen (from 1875), Königsberg (from 1888) and Munich (from 1902). From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the German Reichstag.
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.

In 1887 he published a legal encyclopedia, "Encyclopädie und Methodologie der Rechtswissenschaft", that was later translated into English and issued as "Introduction to the science of law; systematic survey of the law and principles of legal study"; translated from the 3rd revised edition by Albert Kocourek, with an introduction by Roscoe Pound (1911). Other principal written efforts by Gareis are:

• Staat und kirche in der Schweiz, (1877)
• Allgemeines staatsrecht, (1883)
• Institutionen des völkerrechts, (1888)
• Die litteratur des privat- und handelsrechts. 1884 bis 1894, (1896)
• Deutsches Kolonialrecht, (1902).

He was also an editor of the magazine "Blätter für Rechtsanwendung".