Michael Adams (business lawyer)

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Michael Adams (born September 30, 1947 in Koblenz ) is a German lawyer and economist . He heads the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Hamburg .

Career

Adams graduated from the University of Bonn with a degree in law in 1970 . Then he was an assistant at the Institute for Civil Procedure Law at the University of Bonn until 1975. At the same time, he studied economics in Bonn, which he completed in 1976. From 1975 to 1977 he was assistant at the chair for civil law and commercial law at the University of Hagen . Then he was an assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Bonn until 1982, where he also received his doctorate . His dissertation from 1979 was on "Economic Analysis of Security Rights". From 1982 to 1986 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bern . In 1984 , Adams completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bern for the subjects of private law and microeconomics. In 1986 he was offered a position at the University of Hamburg as a university professor for business law in the department of economics. From 1994 to 1997 he was a university professor for general business administration at the University of Cologne . Afterwards he went back to Hamburg as a university professor for business law in the department of economics. There he is head of the work area Civil Law and Economic Analysis of Law at the Institute for Economic Law.

Work areas

Adams specializes in economic law analysis, corporate law and finance.

Adams has contributed to several laws, drafts, opinions and opinions. For example with the law on control and transparency in the corporate sector.

Adams is a sought-after interview partner for economic and social law issues, such as Germany ( Manager Magazin ), manager salaries ( SWR television ), and tobacco tax ( Die Zeit ). In a Spiegel interview , he campaigned for Josef Ackermann to be acquitted .

He became known to a wider audience with the book he published, "The Business with Death - The Beginning of the End of the Cigarette Industry".

Publications

( Selection )

  • Economic theory of law. 2nd Edition. 2004.
  • The polluter pays principle as an empty formula. In: Legal journal . 1989, pp. 787-790.
  • The corporate control market and its abuse. In: The corporation. 1989, pp. 333-338.
  • with others: The liability of cigarette manufacturers for damage to health caused by smoking. In: New legal weekly . 51/2004, pp. 3657-3662.
  • with T. Tolkemitt: The state gambling mischief. In: Journal of Banking and Stock Exchange Law. June 2001, pp. 170-184.
  • with T. Tolkemitt: The state lottery system. In: Journal for Legal Policy. 2001, pp. 511-518.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ with T. Baums: Creation of a draft "Transparency and Competition Act". Bundestag printed paper 13/367 of January 30, 1995.
  2. ↑ with H. Siekmann: Draft of a youth addiction protection law to contain children's cigarette packs and "alcopops". Printed matter 15 /; adopted in a modified form by the German Bundestag in April 2004.
  3. ↑ Expert opinion for the government commission "Corporate Governance - Corporate Management - Corporate Control - Modernization of Stock Corporation Law" on the question: "Reform of non-economic associations and mutual insurance associations". September 2000.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Adams. ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at: fintext.de , accessed on December 26, 2007.
  5. ↑ A. Nölting: Now we're paying the bill. In: Manager Magazin. June 27, 2005.
  6. ^ M. Adams: Smoking has to become even more expensive. In: The time . June 5, 2003.
  7. ↑ The judgment is not understood in the whole world. on: spiegel.de , December 22, 2005.
  8. ↑ M. Adams (ed.): The beginning of the end of the cigarette industry. ( Memento of November 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 2007, ISBN 978-3-86150-779-6 .
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Adams. Publications. University of Hamburg

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personal data
SURNAME Adams, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz