Academic Career

Legal Studies in Hamburg and Freiburg

1981
Admittance to the Bar (Hamburg)

1984
Doctorate in Hamburg

1985-2020
Research Fellow at the Institute

1988
Research Stays in Japan (Kyoto)

1989/90
Research Stays in the USA (U.C. Berkeley)

1990/91
Research Grants from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (Univ. Kyoto)

2004
Professorial Dissertation (Habilitation) in Hamburg

since 2010
Professor at the University of Hamburg

since 2003
Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels

2005
Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo

2006
Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne

since 2008
Coordinator of the academic exchange with the University of Kyoto

2008-2011
Senator of the Max Planck Society

2015
Guest Professor at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

Memberships

Member of the Board of Trustees of the German-Japanese Association of Jurists
Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO), Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Member of the Advisory Board of the Australian Network of Japanese Law (ANJeL)
Adviser to the Board Director Training Institute of Japan (BDTI), Tokyo
Member of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé
Member of the German Society of International Law
Member of the Association of Comparative Law
Member of the Association of Professors in Civil Law
Member of the European Law Institute
Member of the German Association of Banking Law
Member of the East Asian Law and Society Association
Member of the Editorial Boards of The Asian Business Lawyer

Evaluator

Evaluator for the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Evaluator for the German Academic Exchange Service

Awards

Conferral of the 2019 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the DFG for many years of successful dedication to academic and cultural exchange between Germany and Japan
2019 Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for efforts toward promoting mutual understanding and goodwill between Japan and Germany
Conferral of the 2010 Award of the Stiftung zur Förderung japanisch-deutscher Wissenschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen (JaDe) for exceptional service and performance in the area of academic and cultural exchange between Japan and Deutschland

Festschrift

Moritz Bälz, Marc Dernauer, Christopher Heath, Anja Petersen-Padberg (eds.), Business Law in Japan: Cases and Comments. Intellectual Property, Civil, Commercial and International Private Law. Writings in Honour of Harald Baum, Alphen aan den Rijn 2012 (Kluwer Law International) XXIV, 824 pp.