Andreas Engert

Andreas Engert (born April 23, 1972 in Heidelberg ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

After graduating from the Elisabeth von Thadden School in Heidelberg in 1991 and completing community service, Engert began studying law at the University of Tübingen in the 1993 summer semester . He graduated in 1997 with the first state examination in law. He completed his legal clerkship at the Tübingen Regional Court in 1999 with the second state examination. In May 2000, Engert graduated from the University of Chicago Law School the title Master of Laws .

After returning to Germany, he initially worked as a research assistant for Andreas Heldrich at the University of Munich . Under his supervision, Engert obtained his doctorate in 2003. iur. In the same year he took up a position as a scientific assistant to Horst Eidenmüller at his Munich chair. There Engert completed his habilitation process with the previously unpublished paper Capital Markets Efficiency and Investment Law - Economic and Legal Structure of the Public Investment Fund after a research stay at Harvard Law School in 2008, whereupon the University of Munich awarded him the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law , German and European commercial and corporate law , corporate tax law , private international law , comparative law and legal theory lent.

After Engert had represented his father's chair in the summer semester of 2009 and a chair at the University of Bonn in the following winter semester , he was visiting professor at the University of Florida in March 2010 . In the summer semester of 2010 he accepted a professorship for civil law, corporate tax law and legal economics from the University of Cologne . In September 2010, however, he switched to the chair for civil law, German and European business law and corporate tax law at the University of Mannheim , which he held until the end of 2018. In the spring of 2019, he accepted an appointment at the Free University of Berlin .

Works (selection)

Engert's research focuses primarily on German and European business law and corporate law.

• The liability for the third party damaging loan . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-51770-9 (dissertation).
• with Gregor Bachmann , Horst Eidenmüller et alt .: Legal rules for the closed corporation . de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026926-0 .

Web links

• Engert's curriculum vitae at his former chair at the University of Mannheim
• Engert at his chair at the Free University of Berlin