Patrick C. Leyens

Patrick C. Leyens (* 1974 in Aachen ) is a German legal scholar .

Life

He passed the first state examination in law at the Cologne Higher Regional Court (1999), earned the LL.M. International Business Law at Queen Mary University of London (2000); Second state examination in law, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg , after legal clerkship in Hamburg, New York City and Sydney (2006); Doctorate (2006) and Habilitation (2015), University of Hamburg, each supervised by Klaus J. Hopt . He was an assistant specializing in English law (2001–2006) and speaker for US law (2006–2007), affiliate (since 2007) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law . From 2007 to 2013 he was Junior Professor , Civil Law and Economic Analysis of Law, Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg . Since 2014 he has been an honorary professor at the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, School of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam .

His main research interests are civil law, German and European commercial and economic law, company and capital market law, comparative law and economic analysis of law, in particular corporate governance.

Fonts (selection)

• Information of the supervisory board. Economic-functional analysis and legal comparison to the English board . Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-149199-8 .
• with Jochen Bigus : Deposit protection and investor compensation . Reform considerations from an economic and comparative law perspective . Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149823-7 .
• Information intermediaries in the capital market. Private market access control through auditing, credit rating and financial analysis . Tübingen 2017, ISBN 3-16-154096-4 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. iur. habil. Patrick C. Leyens, LL.M. (London)