Prof. Dr. Holger Fleischer becomes newest Director
01.04.2009
Prof. Dr. Holger Fleischer , internationally renowned legal scholar and winner of the Leibniz-Prize, is the newest Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Prof. Fleischer's areas of emphasis include German and European company law and securities regulation, commercial law including accounting law, economic analysis of the law and comparative law. Filling the position vacated by Prof. Klaus J. Hopt upon his 2008 transition to Director Emeritus, Prof. Fleischer's work will continue to advance the Institute's focus in the fields of business and corporate law.Prof. Fleischer began his academic career in 1995 as an Assistant at the Institute for Labour and Business Law in Cologne. His post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation) titled "Information Asymmetries in Contract Law: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study on the Scope and Limits of Precontractual Duties of Disclosure" (translated from original German) was voted one of the year's most outstanding legal works in 2002. In the winter semester 1999/2000 he was appointed as Interim Professor at the University of Bayreuth. Subsequently, he held Professorships at the Universities of Göttingen (2000-2003) and Bonn (2003-2009) before assuming his new position in Hamburg as Institute Director. In Bonn he served as Director of the Institute for Commercial Law and Business Law from 2005-2009.
Prof. Fleischer has published approximately 160 scholarly articles, is (co-) editor and author of numerous reference books and commentaries on corporate law, corporate forms and stock market law and is also co-editor of an array of law journals.
In 2008 Prof. Fleischer's exceptional scholarly achievement was acknowledged with the conferral of Germany's highest academic honor, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation.