Matthias Casper

Matthias Casper (born December 23, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German economist , lawyer and university professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

Career

From 1985 to 1992 Casper studied economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen , parallel to his military service and vocational training as a banker , and graduated in 1992 with a degree in economics . From 1989 to 1993 he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the University of Cambridge . After the first state examination in 1993 and the second state examination in 1995, he was a research assistant at the Institute for German and European Company and Business Law from 1995 to 2001 (chair Peter Ulmer ).

In 1998 he completed his doctorate on a subject related to stock corporation law. In 2001/2002 Casper received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . In July 2002, he completed his habilitation through the law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a thesis on option contracts . She granted him the license to teach civil law, commercial, corporate and capital market law as well as business law.

After two professorships in Heidelberg and Münster, he has held the chair for civil law, corporate, banking and capital market law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster since the 2003/2004 winter semester . There he was initially director of Department I of the Institute for Labor, Social and Business Law; since 2010 he has been director of the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law and also head of the research center for banking law. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures, where he heads a project on Islamic Finance. Casper turned down a call to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2009 and another call to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 2012.

Casper is married and has three children. He is a nephew of the former president of Stanford University , Gerhard Casper .

Research priorities

Caspers research interests are in corporate law (especially in GmbH- and company law ), the banking law (in particular in the area of payments and the exchange - and check law ) and in the capital markets . He also deals with Islamic compliant financing ( Islamic Finance ). Casper is also co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft (ZBB) and the German Law Journal .

Publications (selection)

• Casper: Healing Void Resolutions in Corporate Law , 1998
• Casper: The Option Agreement , 2005
• Baumbach / Hefermehl / Casper: Bill of Exchange Act, Check Act, Card Payments , 23rd edition 2007
• Casper / Janssen / Pohlmann / Schulze: On the way to a European class action? , 2009
• du Plessis / Großfeld / Luttermann / Saenger / Sandrock / Casper: German Corporate Governance in International and European Context, 2nd edition 2011
• Casper / Oberauer / Wittreck: What remains of usury - Interest prohibitions in historical and intercultural comparison , 2014
• Casper / Reuter / Gabriel: The Critique of Capitalism in Christianity - Positions and Discourses in the Weimar Republic and the early Federal Republic , 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Casper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Matthias Casper on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (2009). Vol. 1, p. 580.