Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag, Maître en droit (Bordeaux) completed his studies at the Universities of Göttingen, Bayreuth and Bordeaux. In 2000, he received his doctorate from the University of Bayreuth with a thesis on conflict of laws and his habilitation in 2005 with a thesis on banking law. From 2006 to 2011 he held the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Corporate Law at the University of Hamburg, and since 2011 he has held the Chair of German, European and International Private and Commercial Law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Prof. Freitag's research focuses on banking and capital markets law, corporate and reorganization law, and conflict of laws.