Horst Eidenmüller

Horst Eidenmüller (born 23 October 1963) 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 (LLM 1989). Prior to joining Oxford, Eidenmüller held professorships at the universities of Münster (1999-2003) and Munich (2003-2015). He was visiting professor at Cambridge (2007), Oxford (2009-2014), Harvard (2011), Tulane (2011), NYU (2013 and 2015), and Stanford (2015), as well as fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (2008-2009). Eidenmüller is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2008) and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2016).

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. Provided by Wikipedia