Holger Fleischer

Holger Fleischer (born May 4, 1965 in Erlangen ) is a German lawyer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and professor at the Bucerius Law School Hamburg.

Career

After graduating from high school, Fleischer began studying law and economics at the University of Cologne . He completed his law studies in 1990 with the first state examination in law. In 1992, Fleischer at the University of Cologne with the investigation "Budget loans and equity compensation in corporate law" Dr. iur. PhD. The following year he obtained a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree during a research stay at the University of Michigan . In 1994 Fleischer finished his studies in economics and obtained a degree in business administration. After the second state examination in 1995, Fleischer became a research assistant to Herbert Wiedemann at the University of Cologne. There he completed his habilitation in 1999 with an investigation into information asymmetry in contract law .

After a substitute professor at the University of Bayreuth , Fleischer accepted a position at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in the summer semester of 2000 . In August 2003 he accepted an appointment at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . At the University of Bonn, Fleischer was initially director of the Institute for Tax Law, and in January 2005 took over the management of the Institute for Commercial and Business Law. Since the beginning of 2009, he has succeeded Klaus Hopt as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

Fleischer is one of the winners of the 2008 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation . In the reason for the award it is pointed out that Fleischer brings together legal history , legal dogmatics , comparative law and economic analysis of law in a unique way in his work on commercial law . His habilitation thesis is just as groundbreaking as his cosmopolitan research approach. Fleischer made a name for himself as a modernizer of younger German civil law studies.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130130063459/http://www.mpipriv.de/de/pub/ueber_uns/geschichte.cfm
2. ↑ Information on the website of the DFG ( Memento from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Publications

• Financial plan loans and equity substitution in company law , Heymann, Cologne / Berlin / Bonn / Munich 1995. ISBN 3-452-23046-5 .
• Information asymmetry in contract law , CH Beck, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-406-46933-7 .
• together with Herbert Wiedemann : Check your knowledge. Commercial law , 8th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-406-52070-7 .
• as editor: Handbook of Management Board Law , CH Beck, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-406-53916-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger Fleischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Fleischer at the MPI for Private Law