Theodor Baums

Theodor Baums is Professor emeritus for Business Law. His career took him from the Universities of Bonn, Muenster, Osnabrueck to Frankfurt a. M. and as a visiting Professor from U.C. Berkeley, the University of Vienna to Stanford CA and Columbia/New York. He has frequently advised public institutions nationally and on an international level and has numerous articles and books in the fields of company law and corporate governance, the law of corporate finance, antitrust and the history of business law. He has been awarded several prizes for his achievements, inter alia the Order of Merit 1. Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and honorary doctorates.