Bastian Brunk

Dr. Bastian Brunk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law under Prof. Holger Fleischer. His research focuses on private law, corporate law, sustainability, and human rights compliance. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Freiburg (2021) and has held roles at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Berlin law firm. His work has been recognized with multiple awards for his dissertation on human rights compliance in corporate law.

Education:

• Studies in Law (2010-2016), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Erasmus stay at Handelshögskolan Göteborg
• Doctoral dissertation: "Menschenrechtscompliance – Eine Untersuchung menschenrechtlicher Verhaltenspflichten von Unternehmen und ihrer Umsetzung im Gesellschaftsrecht" (2022)

Key Roles:

• Legal Clerkship at Kammergericht Berlin (2020-2022)
• Associate at Berlin Law Firm (Post-clerkship)
• Senior Research Fellow at MPI for Private Law since July 2024

His research emphasizes human rights integration into corporate governance and compliance frameworks, with contributions to comparative private law studies. Awards include the BCM Young Researcher Prize and DICO Doctoral Prize for his groundbreaking work on corporate human rights obligations.