Horst Eidenmüller

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Horst Eidenmüller (born October 23, 1963 in Munich ) is a German lawyer and holds a chair in commercial law at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

Life

Eidenmüller studied law in Munich and Vienna from 1983 to 1988 . At the University of Cambridge in 1989 he completed a master's degree ( Master of Laws ). In 1992/93 Eidenmüller was a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and at Harvard Law School . In 1994 he received his PhD from the University of Munich with his work Efficiency as a Legal Principle. iur. doctorate and awarded the Bavarian Habilitation Award. After his habilitation in 1998 at the LMU Munich with an investigation into corporate restructuring between the market and the law , he was a full professor at the University of Münster from 1999 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2014 he held the chair for civil law, German, European and international corporate law at the University of Munich. From 2007 to 2011 he held a research professorship here as part of the Excellence Initiative. Since 2015 he has held a Chair in Commercial Law at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

His main research areas include civil law theory, corporate and insolvency law , economic analysis of law , negotiation management and mediation . His work is characterized by the interdisciplinary handling of legal problems, which draws heavily on the knowledge of economics and psychology.

Eidenmüller has taught as a visiting professor at Cambridge (2007), Oxford (2009-2014), Harvard (2011), Tulane (2011), at NYU (2013 and 2015) and Stanford (2015) and was a 2008/2009 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg to Berlin . Eidenmüller is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In addition to his academic work, Eidenmüller also works as a mediator and arbitrator as well as in mediation training.

He is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

  • Efficiency as a legal principle. Possibilities and limits of the economic analysis of the law. 4th edition, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153974-9 .
  • Corporate restructuring between market and law: mechanisms of corporate reorganization and cooperation obligations in reorganization law. Verlag Otto Schmidt, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-504-06114-6 .
  • Foreign corporations under German law. (together with Andreas Engert, Markus Rehberg, Gebhard Rehm), CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3406525919 .
  • Comments on the preliminary to § 217 InsO, § 217 InsO, § 218 InsO, § 221 InsO, § 222 InsO and § 230 InsO, In: H.-P. Kirchhof / H.-J. Lwowski / R. Stürner (Ed.): Munich Commentary on the Insolvency Code. Volume 2: Sections 103-269, 2nd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-55-092-8 .
  • Contract and procedural law in commercial mediation . Verlag Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-504-06117-0 .
  • Mediation in the economy (together with Christian Duve and Andreas Hacke), 2nd edition, Verlag Otto Schmidt, Cologne 2011, ISBN 3-504-06256-8 .
  • Negotiation management (together with Christian Bühring-Uhle and Andreas Nelle), CH Beck and dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-54527-6 .
  • Abuse of Law in the Context of European Insolvency Law. In: European Company and Financial Law Review 6 (2009), p. 1 f.
  • together with Andreas Engert and Lars Hornuf: Incorporating under European Law: The Societas Europaea as a Vehicle for Legal Arbitrage. In: EBOR 10 (2009), p. 1 f.
  • The spinning case: The doctrine of the business basis according to the case law of the Reichsgericht and in the light of the modernization of the law of obligations. In: Legal training 2001, p. 824 f.

literature

  • Peter Reuter: The time was now ripe for Oxford. In: INDat report. No. 2, 2015, ISSN  1615-1828 , pp. 38–41.

Web links

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  1. ^ Oxford University Gazette. No 5071, October 2, 2014 ( online ( Memento from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
personal data
SURNAME Eidenmüller, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich