Christian Kersting

Christian Kersting (* 1971 in Salzkotten ) is a German law scholar and professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

Life

From 1992, Kersting studied law at the University of Bonn and the University of Lausanne and part-time economics at the University of Hagen . After his first state examination in 1997 in Bonn, he worked as a research assistant at the Bonn Institute for Tax Law before starting his legal clerkship in 1999. In 2000 he joined while still a clerkship at Wolfgang Schön in Bonn his doctorate iur. from; a year later, Kersting passed his second state examination. He then went on to study at Yale Law School , which he graduated with a Master of Laws degree in 2002 .

He then returned to Germany and worked as a speaker at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. At the University of Munich , Kersting completed his habilitation in 2006 under Schön, who now works there, and received the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law, German and European commercial, corporate, accounting and capital market law, comparative law, tax law. As a result, Kersting initially worked as a private lecturer at the University of Munich. In the 2007 summer semester he was a professor at the University of Lausanne. In 2007 he accepted an offer from the University of Düsseldorf , rejecting calls from the Universities of Kiel , Mannheim and the European Business School , where he has held the chair for civil law as well as German and international corporate, commercial and antitrust law ever since. In addition, Kersting teaches the Postgraduate International Tax Law course at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

Works (selection)

According to the denomination of his chair, Kersting's research focuses on commercial and corporate law, capital market law and antitrust law. Furthermore, Kersting has published extensively on commercial and corporate law. In addition, there are comments on the HGB and the AktG in specialist comments .

• The parent company in European company law - Community law requirements and national legal systems . Heymanns, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-452-24697-4 (dissertation).
• Third party liability for information in civil law . CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55916-7 (habilitation thesis).
• with Nicola Preuß : Implementation of the Antitrust Damage Directive (2014/104 / EU) - A legislative proposal from academia . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2705-6 .
• with Klaus-Dieter Drüen : Tax deductibility of cartel fines from the Federal Cartel Office . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-2830-5 .

Web links

• Kersting at his chair at the University of Düsseldorf