Markus Roth (lawyer)

Markus Roth (* 1968 ) is a German legal scholar and professor of civil law, labor law, German and European commercial and economic law at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Roth studied law at the University of Konstanz and graduated in 1994 with the first state examination in law. After his legal clerkship in the district of the OLG Hamburg , he passed the second state examination there in 1997. From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law . In 2000 , Markus Roth received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Hamburg . From 2000 to 2002 he was an assistant at the University of Bremen and from 2002 to 2009 a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law. In 2007 he was also a Fellow in Cambridge . In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg. In 2008 he was also secretary of the commercial law department at the German Lawyers' Association . For his habilitation in 2009 he was awarded the Future Prize of the German Institute for Retirement Provision.

In 2008 and 2009 Roth was initially visiting professor at the University of Marburg and has been a full professor ever since . His main research interests are corporate law (stock corporation law and partnership law), corporate governance, private pension provision, labor law, banking and capital market law, civil law, and comparative law.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Roth on the homepage of the Phillips University of Marburg