Stefan Korch follows call to the University of Münster
Stefan Korch, senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, habilitated through Bucerius Law School in December 2022. Almost simultaneously, he was offered professorships on the faculties of the University of Münster and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Stefan has now accepted the University of Münster’s offer, where he will join the law faculty as professor for corporate law, capital markets law, and bankruptcy law.
Stefan has been a member of the Institute since 2017, when he joined Professor Fleischer’s research group as a senior research fellow. Before joining the Institute, he served as a law clerk (Referendar) at the Court of Appeals Nuremberg and worked for an international law firm in Munich and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. From 2010 till 2016, he worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Law. He then, as a doctoral student, attended Duke Law School in the United States as a visiting scholar and Gibson Dunn fellow. In his PhD thesis (2015) he examines how insights on actual human behaviour and preferences could be better integrated into law and economics using the example of tort law.
From 2018–2021 he taught corporate law and capital markets law at Bucerius Law School, where he was habilitated in December 2022 on the basis of his monograph on M&A contracts. He was granted venia legendi (formal university teaching privileges) in the fields of contracts, torts, corporate law, capital markets law, bankruptcy law, law of data, and comparative law. During winter term 2022/2023 he served as acting professor for civil law, in particular for transnational business law, at Leuphana Law School, Lüneburg. He turned down the faculty’s offer of a regular professorship there in January 2023.
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