Horst Eidenmüller


Horst Eidenmüller is the Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. Hugh's.
Eidenmüller was born in Munich, Germany. He is a graduate of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and of Cambridge. Prior to joining Oxford, Eidenmüller held professorships at the universities of Münster and Munich. He was visiting professor at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Tulane, NYU, and Stanford, as well as fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. Eidenmüller is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Eidenmüller's research focuses on commercial contracts, company law, insolvency law, and alternative dispute resolution. He is known for economic and empirical studies in these fields.

Publications

Regulating the Closed Corporation. de Gruyter, 2013, . German edition under the title Rechtsregeln für die geschlossene Kapitalgesellschaft. de Gruyter, 2012
  • "Recht als Produkt", Juristenzeitung 64, 641
  • "Abuse of Law in the Context of European Insolvency Law", European Company and Financial Law Review 6, 1Ausländische Kapitalgesellschaften im deutschen Recht. C. H. Beck, 2004, Unternehmenssanierung zwischen Markt und Gesetz: Mechanismen der Unternehmensreorganisation und Kooperationspflichten im Reorganisationsrecht. Otto Schmidt, 1999, Effizienz als Rechtsprinzip. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts. Mohr Siebeck, 4th ed. 2015, Negotiating Brexit. Beck-Hart-Nomos, 2017,