Prof. Dr. Stefan Korch

Stefan is a Professor of Corporate Law, Capital Markets Law, and Bankruptcy Law. His research is devoted to corporate and bankruptcy law, capital markets, contracts, and torts, with a special focus on M&A contracts, corporate restructuring, and groups of companies.

Before joining University of Muenster Law School, Stefan was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He also taught corporate law and capital markets law at Bucerius Law School, where he earned his post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) in December 2022 based on his monograph on M&A contracts. Previously, he served as a law clerk (Referendar) at the Nuremberg Court of Appeals and worked for an international law firm in Munich and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Trained in law, economics, and business administration, Stefan holds several degrees, amongst them an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In his PhD thesis (2015), using the example of tort law, he examines how insights on actual human behavior and preferences can be integrated into law and economics. During his doctoral studies, he worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Law School and attended Duke Law School as a visiting scholar and Gibson Dunn fellow.