Career
Until his retirement in 2002 he was professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Heidelberg. From 1997 to 1999 he served as president of the Institut de Droit International and is vice president of the Hague Academy of International Law since 2004. Jayme was born in 1934 in Montreal.
In 1973/1974 he was full professor at the University of Münster, afterwards at the University of Munich.
From 1983 to 2002 was full professor of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2004 he is vice president of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law.