Max Kaser

| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian empire | death_date = | death_place = Ainring, Bavaria, Germany | occupation = University professor of jurisprudence and legal history
(''Roman Law'') | education = | alma_mater = Graz
Munich
Gießen | employer = | party = | notable works = | spouse = Erna Lehnig † 1991 | parents = | children = 1. Wolfgang
2. Eva Gerda | website = }}

Max Kaser (21 April 1906 - 13 January 1997) was a German professor of Jurisprudence who taught successively at the universities of Münster, Hamburg and Salzburg. The principal focus of his scholarship and teaching was on Roman law. He became a member of a number of learned societies. In addition, between 1958 and 1992 he was awarded honorary doctorates by no fewer than ten different universities on three different continents. An eleventh honorary doctorate, from the Jurisprudence faculty at the University of Regensburg, was awarded only posthumously, however, in 1999).

Max Kaser is respected as the author of pioneering writings on the step by step progression from classical legal concepts to modern European civil law. His text books on Roman civil law and modern civil procedure (for many purposes outside Anglo-American common law precepts) break new ground in presenting the historical evolution of legal concepts and principals, incorporating analyses and commentaries on written sources, and using research techniques that he himself (with others) developed. Provided by Wikipedia