Dr. Bastian Brunk

Main Fields of Research

Private law; commercial, corporate and capital markets law (especially the law of family companies); sustainability (including the topic of business and human rights); comparative law.

Vita

Bastian Brunk studied law from 2010 to 2016 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, including a one-year Erasmus stay at the Handelshögskolan Göteborg. After sitting for the first state law exam, he was a research assistant initially at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Prof. Dr. Jan von Hein) and then, from 2019, at the Chair for Civil Law and Company Law at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Dr. Gregor Bachmann). 

During this period, Bastian Brunk authored his doctoral dissertation (“Menschenrechtscompliance – Eine Untersuchung menschenrechtlicher Verhaltenspflichten von Unternehmen und ihrer Umsetzung im Gesellschaftsrecht” [Human Rights Compliance. A Study of Human Rights Codes of Conduct for Companies and Its Implementation in Corporate Law], Mohr Siebeck, 2022), which was supervised by  Prof. Dr. Jan von Hein and which led to receipt of his doctoral degree in 2021. His doctoral project was supported by a scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and his dissertation was honoured with the 2022 young researcher prize of the Berufsverband der Compliance Manager (BCM) as well as the 2022 doctoral prize of the German Institute for Compliance (Deutsches Institut für Compliance, DICO). 

After completing his legal clerkship at the Kammergericht in Berlin (2020 to 2022), Bastian Brunk worked as an associate at a Berlin law firm. Since July 2024 he has been employed as a research fellow at the Institute in the working group of Institute Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Holger Fleischer.