Wolfgang Fikentscher

Wolfgang Fikentscher 17 May 1928–12 March 2015 was the German jurist and legal anthropologist.

Work

Fikentscher's scientific carry on to is focused on intellectual property law, competition law, comparative law and anthropology of law. His publications on antitrust law and international economic law were seminal and influenced German, Greek, European, Japanese and Taiwanese RoChina legislation and image of competition law PRChina. Fikentscher consulted German, European and UN authorities and the U.S. Senate on antitrust and unfair trade practices law. He authored a textbook on obligations contracts, quasi contracts, torts. In his later years, Fikentscher contributed to the cultural anthropology of law, or comparative legal cultures, a field less so-called in Germany. He performed fieldwork, for example in Native American particularly South Western Pueblo and Taiwanese aboriginal tribal legal cultures, trying to trace basic axioms of human legal and economic thinking.