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Horst Eidenmüller is a Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at St. Hugh’s College. He previously served as a Visiting Professor (2009–2015) and was appointed to his current Chair in 2015. His academic journey includes an LLM from Cambridge University (1989), a PhD from Munich University (1994), and a Habilitation (1998). He taught at the University of Münster (1999–2003) and Munich University (2003–2014), where he held a research professorship under the German Research Foundation’s excellence scheme (2007–2011).
His research focuses on contract law, company law, bankruptcy law, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), emphasizing economic and empirical analysis. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, NYU, Stanford, and Columbia, and served as a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (2008–2009). He advises the EU and German government on corporate and insolvency law reforms, and has acted as arbitrator/mediator in over 100 commercial disputes.
Eidenmüller lectures on Corporate Insolvency Law, Comparative Corporate Law, and Commercial Dispute Resolution (mediation/arbitration). He is a Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute and a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His recent work explores AI’s impact on legal systems, including automated negotiations and judicial dispute resolution in digital contexts.
