Moritz Bälz

Moritz Bälz (* 1969 in Tübingen ) is a German law scholar and university professor.

Bälz studied law, Japanese studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and at the Keiō University in Tokyo (1993–1998). From 2001 to 2002 he did his Master of Laws at Harvard Law School, Cambridge / Mass. with a focus on corporate law and Japanese law. Here he also wrote a thesis on international private and procedural law for Arthur T. von Mehren . In the same year he passed the New York Bar Exam. In 2005, Bälz did his doctorate on Japanese corporate law with Harald Baum in Hamburg. In October 2006 he was ICCLP Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics. From 2003 to 2008, Bälz worked as a lawyer (most recently as Principal Associate) at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer , New York and Frankfurt am Main .

His main focus was on finance and corporate law. Since March 2008 he has held a professorship for Japanese law including its cultural foundations at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He was Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies (IZO). Furthermore, he has been a sub-project manager in the Frankfurt LOEWE focus on extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution since 2012 . Bälz is co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Law .

Works

• Handbook of Japanese Commercial and Business Law Harald Baum / Moritz Bälz (eds.), 2009, ISBN 978-3-452-27031-3
• The Split in Japanese Corporate Law, 2005. XX, 284 pages. ISBN 978-3-16-148841-2

Web links

• Homepage of Moritz Bälz on the website of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• Moritz Bälz on the website of the Frankfurt LOEWE focus 'Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution'