02.10.2024

In recognition of his outstanding academic contributions, Professor M?llers has been appointed Honorary Professor of Central South ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, on September 21, 2024. This appointment deepens the cooperation in the field of law between Central South ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· and the Research Center of Innovation and Legal Studies between China and Europe (RICE) of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg.
In addition to Professor M?llers, Professor Liming Wang also received the title of honorary professor. Professor Wang is a leading scholar in Chinese civil law, is considered a first-class professor at Renmin ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Beijing and enjoys a high reputation both nationally and internationally. He is regarded as the father of today's Chinese Civil Code. Both appointments took place as part of the international conference ¡°Comparison of the Chinese and German Civil Codes: Tradition and Development¡±.
Central South ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· is an elite university. It is ranked 93rd in the world and the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at Central South ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· is ranked 25th.

02.10.2024

On September 21, 2024, the international conference ¡°Comparison of Chinese and German Civil Codes: Tradition and Development¡± was held in Changsha, Hunan, organized by the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Central South ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· and co-hosted by the Research Center for Chinese Law (RICE) of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·. The event brought together renowned civil law scholars from China, Germany and the Netherlands to discuss the tradition and innovation of the civil codes of China and Germany. (...)

25.09.2024

The proven textbook ¡°Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten¡± by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has been revised again for the 11th new edition. The 11th edition also accompanies prospective lawyers from the beginning of their studies through to their exams and perhaps even their doctorate. The work follows the typical structure of the course chronologically and provides assistance and tips to help you pass the first state examination in law. (...)

21.08.2024

Recourse to the stock market price of a company is generally a suitable method for estimating the company value when compensating an outside shareholder pursuant to section 305 AktG or the compensation payment pursuant to section 304 para. 2 sentence 1 AktG. Professor M?llers and Christian Kolbe comment on this decision of the BGH of January 31, 2024 (case no. II ZB 5/22): The decision is generally to be welcomed, but it is worth taking a second look. This is because it remains unclear when exactly recourse to the stock market price is ruled out and which reference period is relevant when calculating the average price. The BGH should further develop its case law and clearly establish a rule/exception relationship between the stock market value method and fundamental valuation.

21.08.2024

The Zeitschrift f¨¹r Wirtschaftsrecht (ZIP) recently published the EWiR short commentary by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and Dr. Maximilian Merwald on the topic ¡°No liability of the founding shareholder in addition to special statutory prospectus liability due to capital participation in the general partner of the fund company¡± on the BGH decision of 5.3.2024 - XI ZB 17/22. Dr. Merwald is a trainee lawyer and former research assistant at the chair of Professor M?llers.

21.08.2024

Dr. Lisa Wolf, a legal trainee at the Munich Higher Regional Court and former research assistant at the chair of Professor M?llers, completed a research stay at Stanford Law School in 2022. The article published in the journal ¡°Recht der Familienunternehmen¡± (RFamU) is based on the results of her dissertation ¡°Mehrstimmrechtsaktien - Ein Vergleich des US-amerikanischen mit dem deutschen Recht unter Ber¨¹cksichtigung ?konomischer und empirischer Gesichtspunkte sowie des EU Listing Act und des ZuFinG¡±, which was published by Nomos Verlag.

23.07.2024

On July 9, 2024, Prof. Dr. Quan Fang (·½Èª), Dean of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the Macau ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Science and Technology, and Dr. Yiting Guo (¹ùâùÍ¢), Assistant Professor, visited the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg.
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15.07.2024

Data is the oil of the 21st century. But despite its global relevance, data protection in the EU, the US and the People's Republic of China, as the world's major economic centers, is regulated very differently. The present study describes the individual legal and cultural backgrounds of the various economic blocs in order to explain the differences in data protection. Based on this, it is necessary to examine whether and to what extent an approximation can be expected through legal transfers.
The Zeitschrift f¨¹r Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) provides quarterly information in the field of comparative law with a focus on international economic law.

10.06.2024

On June 7, 2019, Professor M?llers, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Money and Currency Foundation, chaired the fourth foundation conference ¡°25 Years of the Euro - Perspectives for a Monetary and Financial Policy in an Unstable World¡±. The following were among those present at the Economic Dialogue:
Dr. Florian Tonbar, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance
Dr. Joachim Nagel, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Otmar Issing, former Chief Economist of the ECB and Honorary President of the Center for Financial Studies
Prof. Dr. Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB
Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick, IfW Kiel
- Prof. Monika Gehrig-Merz, Ph.D., ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Vienna
- Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Erlangen-Nuremberg, German Council of Economic Experts
- Prof. Dr. Peter M. Huber, retired judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, LMU Munich
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Gros, Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·; Milan
- Dr. Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director of Bruegel AISBL, Bruxelles
The high-level event took place at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Berlin and addressed the history, present and future of the euro as well as the fiscal and economic policy challenges. The conference was recorded and is available on the website of the Money and Currency Foundation in three videos.

13.05.2024

The first Chinese translation of the work ¡°Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten¡± was published by Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Press in 2018 and achieved a sales success of over 15,000 copies. Given that there are over 600 law schools in China, interest in academic research and working methods in this field is obviously high.
The Chinese edition of the 10th edition was published as a commemorative edition to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of the German edition and translated by Prof. Dr. Liuhua Shen (Distinguished Professor of the Law School of Jiangsu ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·) and Dr. Qiangwei Ma (lecturer at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the Shanghai ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Finance and Economics).
Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Press has published a detailed report on the publication of the Chinese edition of the book. Further information can be found at the following link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ojkFSJuR6UgU0E75r59juQ.

15.04.2024

From April 24 to 26, 2024, the conference ¡°The New Layenspiegel by Ulrich Tengler¡± will take place at the Schwabenakademie Irsee. The interdisciplinary conference is organized by Professors Dr. Christoph Becker (Law), Dr. Klaus Wolf (PhilHist) and Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers (Law) and will be incorporated into a book project that will appear in the series of the Augsburg ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·, published by Nomos. The project is sponsored by the Kurt and Felicitas Viermetz Foundation, the Dr. Eugen Liedl Foundation, the Society of Friends of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg, the District of Swabia, the Historical Association for Swabia, the Swabian Academy of Irsee, the City of N?rdlingen and the Bayerische Einigung e.V. Bayerische Volksstiftung. (...)

12.04.2024

On 22 March 2024, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture on the topic ¡°Language models like ChatGPT and legal methodology¡± at the colloquium ¡°Methodology and Digitization¡± at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Potsdam, which was organized by Prof. Dr. Susanne H?hnchen. Exciting presentations and interesting discussions were held during this colloquium, which was already the third on methodology and dealt with disruptive changes that challenge the law. For example, dogmatics has to deal with new problems in detail and find solutions. But the meta-level of the rules of legal application also raises the question: what influence does digitalization have on legal methodology? And vice versa: how does methodology react to technical development, what contribution can it make? The results of the colloquium will be published in a conference volume by Mohr Verlag.

14.02.2024

The article "Best?tigungsvermerk des Wirtschaftspr¨¹fers und KapMuG - Zur Konkretisierung des Begriffs der ?ffentlichen Kapitalmarktinformation" (Auditors report and the German Capital Markets Model Case Act) published in the Zeitschrift f¨¹r Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR 5/2022) was translated into Chinese and has since been published in the Journal of Hangzhou Normal ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· (Social Sciences Edition): º¼ÖÝʦ·¶´óѧѧ±¨(Éç»á¿Æѧ°æ), 2023 (5), pp. 110-127 .

06.02.2024

In Volume 19 of the Capital Markets Law Journal (CMLJ) Professor M?llers' article "Auditors report and the German Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG) - legal consequences for EY in the Wirecard scandal" deals with the accounting fraud and ensuing insolvency of Wirecard which have had an enormous impact. Claims from aggrieved investors are now before the courts. As the listed company is insolvent, many claims have instead been lodged against its auditors, EY. Within this framework, the cases should be joined together where possible. Several Regional Courts have rejected the material scope of application of the Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG), but the Third Chamber of the Regional Court of Munich I (LG) has opened proceedings under the Act. This requires the auditors report on the company's annual financial statements to qualify as ¡°public capital market information¡± pursuant to Section 1(2) of the Act. Because the issue has not yet been discussed, arguments created by legal reasoning must be used to clarify whether claims for damages against the auditors report can be made the establishment objective of proceedings under the Act.

18.12.2023

On Friday, November 17, the graduates of the 2022/2023 class of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) received their Master of Laws (LL.M.) as part of the 20th graduation ceremony.
At the same time, the long-standing MIPLC board member, Professor Dr. h.c. Robert F. Brauneis, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. (...)

06.12.2023

On December 4, 2023, the first European-Chinese Forum for Young Lawyers took place at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. The conference "New Developments in EU, German and Chinese Law" took place at the same time. The event, which was organized by the Research Center of Innovation and Legal Studies between China and Europe (RICE), the editorial office of the journal "Jurisprudence" of the Chinese ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law and the Sino-German Cultural Foundation, attracted over fifty academics from the fields of civil law, civil procedure law, commercial law, criminal law and criminal procedure law, comparative law and international law from China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain and the Netherlands. (...)

06.12.2023
The scope of application of the special statutory prospectus liability generally excludes liability under civil law prospectus liability in the narrower and broader sense. Nevertheless, according to a so-called "reorientation" of the II. and XI. Civil Senate, liability arising from a pre-contractual breach of duty (c.i.c.) in addition to the special statutory prospectus liability under Section 13 VerkProspG, Sections 44 et seq. B?rsG old version, if the founding shareholder creates an additional basis of trust by either taking over the distribution of the participations to investors himself or otherwise bearing responsibility for the distribution assumed by another party. However, as the XI Civil Senate has now ruled, these considerations do not apply to the special statutory prospectus liability pursuant to Sections 20, 21 VermAnlG, Sections 9, 10, 14 WpPG (previous version: Sections 21 et seq. WpPG), Section 127 InVG old version, Section 306 KAGB; i.e. the responsibility for distribution cannot be used to establish liability under c.i.c.. However, liability on other grounds due to pre-contractual breach of duty, for example due to incorrect verbal assurances, remains possible.

Professor M?llers and Annika H?utle comment on this decision of the BGH of 11.7.2023 (Ref. XI ZB 20/21) in their judgment note: Even if the current differentiation is convincing, there is still potential for optimization. The dual jurisdiction of the XI. and II. Civil Senate is unfortunate; it has led to the previously divergent views with regard to the relationship between civil law and special law prospectus liability. In addition, the concept of distribution responsibility, which is still relevant for Section 13 VerkProspG, Section 44 B?rsG old version, remains ambiguous. This must be further specified.

27.10.2023

The conference proceedings "Securing Prosperity through Voluntary Longer Employment - Legal and Economic Issues of the Retirement of ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Professors", edited by Lars P. Feld and Thomas M. J. M?llers, have been published by Mohr Siebeck. (...)

19.10.2023

After the corona pandemic, the fourth Augsburg-Johannesburg Conference on "On the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Legal Perspectives from Germany and South Africa" took place in South Africa from October 8-13, 2023, this time in appropriate conference rooms in Kruger National Park. The ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg was represented by a ten-strong delegation. The ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg was also represented in large numbers. The participation of Vice-Chancellor Professor Letlhowka Mpedi underlines the importance of the cooperation for the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg. The fourth conference proceedings will be published at the beginning of 2024. The continuation of this cooperation is planned with the fifth (May 2025 in Augsburg) and sixth (October 2027 in South Africa) Augsburg-Johannesburg Conference. Thematically, the conferences will focus on the topics of "Artificial Intelligence" and "Climate" and will be discussed in comparative law tandems.

17.10.2023

A total of seven professors and research assistants from the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg and the Ludwig Maximilian ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Munich took part in academic events in China in September in order to intensify legal exchange and cooperation between Germany and China. (...)

27.06.2023

In the summer semester 2023, Professor M?llers led the lecture series "Global Law Perspective", which was held online especially for students of renowned Chinese law schools. A total of six lectures were held. (...)

30. Mai 2023

On May 15 and 16, the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg hosted a conference entitled "Securing prosperity through voluntary long-term employment" under the direction of Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars P. Feld (Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg) held the conference "Securing prosperity through voluntary long-term employment". (...)

15.05.2023

On May 10, the symposium "Status and Perspectives of Research on Legal Methodology in China and Germany" was held at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg to celebrate the fifth German and first Chinese edition of Prof. Dr. M?llers' "Juristische Methodenlehre". The aim of the symposium was to promote exchange and cooperation between Chinese and German academics in the field of legal methodology and to facilitate in-depth discussion and exchange on this topic.

03.05.2023

J¨¹rgen Basedow died in Hamburg on April 6, 2023 at the age of 73. From 1987 to 1995, he was full professor of civil law, comparative law, international private law, procedural law and commercial law at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg's ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· as the predecessor of Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers. (...)

Together with Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Feld (ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Freiburg), Professor M?llers will organize an interdisciplinary conference on "Securing Prosperity through Voluntary Longer Employment". The conference will take place on May 15-16, 2023 at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg (Lecture Hall 2001). Online participation is also possible. On the following page you will find more information and the possibility to register. (...)

18.04.2023

On April 17, 2023, the second "Forum of Deans of Legal Education in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau" was held, hosted by the Macau ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Science and Technology (MUST) Law School. Twenty deans from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions, and German law schools gathered at the university to discuss innovations and reforms in legal education. Professor M?llers participated in the conference online and gave a presentation on "The Present and Future of Legal Education in Germany" as Dean for International Exchange.

30.03.2023

The book "Juristische Methodenlehre" by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has fortunately already seen four editions since 2017 and was quickly out of print in each case. It has received numerous reviews in Germany and abroad after only a short time and is cited by case law and legal literature. An English-language version appeared in 2020 and a Chinese-language edition followed with the 4th edition in 2021. It is now used at many universities to prepare for the First State Examination and in trainee lawyers for the Second State Examination. (...)

28.02.2023

On February 28, 2023, Professor M?llers gave an online lecture at Zhongnan ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Economics and Law in Wuhan as part of the lecture series "Global Law Perspective - Forum on New Developments in Law from a Global Perspective". The title of the lecture was: "European Law: Current Challenges and the War in Ukraine". The subject of the lecture was the basics of European law, as well as current challenges facing the European Union in the wake of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The lecture was followed by five co-presenters, who took up the lecture and deepened individual aspects. The co-presenters were: Prof. Dr. Han Zhai, Dr. Peng Yayuan, Dr. Guodong Yang, Dr. Ruyi Du and Jan L?ngle. The lecture was taken as an opportunity for a lively discussion by the participants.

22.03.2023

From March 10 to 21, 2023, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers was invited by Professor Dr. Fr¨¦d¨¦rique Ferrand to be a visiting professor at the Universit¨¦ Jean Moulin Lyon III. Professor Ferrand has been a lecturer at the Augsburg Summer Program for many years. Professor M?llers gave the lecture "Introduction to German Civil Law (BGB)" for French third-year students. The event was aimed in particular at students participating in an exchange program with a German university in the following winter semester. He also gave the English lecture "The Wirecard accounting scandal in Germany" on March 16 at the Auditorium Malraux - Manufacture des tabacs.

28.02.2023

On February 28, 2023, Professor M?llers delivered an online Key Note Speech "E-Commerce and the Weaknesses of the Sale of Goods Directive 2019/771" at the First Chinese European E-Commerce Law Forum (µÚÒ»½ìÖÐÅ·¿ç¾³µçÉÌ·¨¸ß¶ËÂÛ̳) in Beijing. The program, which lasted several hours, covered various modules. Module 1 discussed the introduction to the legal framework for e-commerce between China and Europe and Professor M?llers provided insight into full harmonization and European legislative technique as well as open interpretation issues and a final assessment.

22.02.2023

We congratulate Professor Dr Liuhua Shen on her appointment as Jinshan Distinguished Professor at Jiangsu ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in China. After completing her doctorate at Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in China, Professor Dr. Liuhua Shen worked as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers from 2014 to 2022. During this time, she completed her L.L.M., worked at the research institute RICE (Research Center of Innovation and Legal Studies between China and Europe) founded by Professor M?llers and taught Chinese law. She remained at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· as a lecturer in Chinese law and continues to be responsible for academic exchange with China at RICE. We wish Professor Dr Liuhua Shen good luck and success in her new position!

27.01.2023

To celebrate the Chinese New Year on 24 January, Professor M?llers invited six doctoral students and visiting scholars supervised by the RICE Research Unit in Augsburg and Munich to a joint lunch. Due to the very great success of the Chinese edition of Juristische Methodenlehre, which has sold more than 10,000 copies in China in the six months since its publication, the plan arose to offer a seminar on "Juristische Methodik" this year. During the discussion session, Professor M?llers introduced the process and characteristics of legal methodology and gave the young scholars useful advice on how to write a good thesis.

(Photo: 1st row from left: Dr Gan Tan, lecturer at Southwest ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law; Dr Zhiwei Tang, Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School; Professor Dr Thomas M?llers; Jiajun Ma, Nanjing ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School;
2nd row from left: Dr Liuhua Shen, RICE Uni Augsburg; Huanji Li, Tsinghua ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School; Jiangjun Zheng, Southwest ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law; Jizhong Wang, East China ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law).

12.01.2023

The Chinese edition of the book "Legal Methods" has attracted much attention and an enthusiastic response from readers after its publication in China at the end of July 2022. The Chinese news of 31 December 2022 reported that the book won two prizes at the China Law Book Awards.

First, the book was ranked No. 1 by Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Press as the best-designed law book among hundreds of law books in 2022 because of its design.

Secondly, the Dewey Law Commune, a public WeChat platform with great renown in China's legal community, selected the ten most influential books on the rule of law in China for that year. Legal Methods was also chosen.

The respective coverage in Chinese can be found on the following page.

22.12.2022

An anniversary publication has been published in honour of Professor Charl Francois Hugo on the occasion of his 65th birthday in July 2022 and his well-deserved retirement. The "Festschrift" is available online on the website of the Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regstydskrif (PER) / Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), which publishes it as a special edition for Charl Hugo. Professor M?llers' contribution deals with comparative law, which promises to increase knowledge. Looking at other legal systems enables a more differentiated understanding of the rules of one's own country. While comparative law traditionally starts from a concrete problem, this contribution will examine why legal views often differ greatly from country to country. The following article compares three major economic powers: the United States, the People's Republic of China and the Federal Republic of Germany. It looks at the differences between a liberal and a social market economy and the role of the constitution in society. Finally, the question of when different concepts of justice can converge is explored.

06.12.2022

On 6 December 2022, Professor M?llers held his lecture "Newest Developments in Capital Market law - The Wirecard Scandal Facts and the Reaction by the Law Maker and the Courts" as part of the Global Law Perspective lecture series at the Chinese Zhongnan ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Economics and Law (People's Republic of China) in Wuhan via Zoom. The number of participants alone, approx. 700 academic staff, students of the university and renowned Chinese professors, shows the positive response to the event.
Professor M?llers discussed current developments in capital market law, especially with a focus on the Wirecard scandal.
Maximilian Merwald, research assistant at Professor M?llers' chair, appeared as commentator at the event. (...)

28.11.2022

On Friday, November 18, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) Class of 2021/2022 received their Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree at one of the largest MIPLC graduation ceremonies ever. The MIPLC and cooperative partners (ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg, Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition, Technical ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Munich (TUM), and The George Washington ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School) honored and celebrated their achievements. The ceremony was held at TUM School of Engineering and Design with close to 200 guests.
On the Augsburg side, the MIPCL was also represented by Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg; Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition; and Prof. Dr. Michael Kort, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg.

On the following picture picture you can see the Graduates of Class of 2021/2022 joined by some of MIPLC Board Members: Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg; Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition; Prof. Robert Brauneis, The George Washington ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School; Prof. Dr. Michael Kort, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg; Prof. Timo Minssen, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Copenhagen; and Prof. Dr. Anna Tischner, Jagiellonian ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·.

After the initial event "How Lawyers Think" on November 9, 2022, the Forum's Global Law Perspective lecture series on new developments in law from a global perspective will feature a series of further lectures by highly regarded professors on current topics in civil, commercial, criminal and capital markets law in the winter semester of 2022/23 and summer semester of 2023. The lectures will last two hours each, with the main speaker speaking for 1-1.5 hours and two commentators, one Chinese and one German, following with 10-15 minutes each. All lectures are also addressed to Chinese students, research assistants as well as professors and are organized in cooperation with reputable Chinese universities. (...)

14.11.2022

On November 9, 2022, Professor M?llers presented his lecture "How Lawyers are Thinking" as part of the Global Law Perspective lecture series at China's Zhongnan ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Economics and Law (People's Republic of China) in Wuhan on Zoom. The number of participants of approximately 700 scientific staff, students of the university as well as renowned Chinese professors alone shows the positive resonance of the event.
In terms of content, Professor M?llers addressed the essential contents of his monograph "Juristische Methodenlehre" (Legal Methodology) as well as "Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" (Legal Techniques and Scientific Work).
Tobias Manhardt, research assistant at the chair of Professor M?llers acted as commentator of the event.
As part of the lecture series, the same lecture will take place next at the Ning Bo ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law school (People's Republic of China) on November 16, 2022 on Zoom (...)

After the Corona crisis had subsided, the lecture series in Palermo could be resumed. Professor Dr. M?llers held two lectures. The first one "Legal Methods and the Harmonization of Private Law in Europe" presented the primacy of European law and compared the German legal situation with the Italian one. Specifically, the PSPP ruling and the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court were critically assessed. The Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Palermo has a multi-year doctoral program and, within this framework, an elite postdoctoral program. Postdoc candidates Giancarlo Geraci and Giuseppe Rocch¨¨ commented on the lecture. A second lecture on October 7, 2022, was on the scope and limits of interpretation or further development of the law in conformity with directives. In this presentation, Prof. Dr. M?llers compared the German and Austrian situation. Co-presentations followed by Laura Cacopardi, Carla Failla, Paolo Iervolino and Ruggero Siciliano.

30.08.2022

The Chinese edition of the book "Legal Methodology" officially went on sale in Beijing at the end of July 2022, attracting great attention and response from Chinese lawyers.
On August 25 at 1:00 p.m., the most well-known legal reading platform in China, "Jotai Book & Sound," invited ten leading Chinese law professors and scholars to a book reading of Professor M?llers' work. The event took place online and was open to a wide audience, especially lawyers. It received 106,700 views on the Chinese web and lasted just about four hours. (...)

24.08.2022

While "sustainability" is gaining more and more contours, the positions of states and companies as issuers of financial products and of the demanding investor have so far been insufficiently regulated. Thus, the problem of misleading the investor (greenwashing) remains largely unsolved. But in capital markets law, the principle of rational investor decision-making and the instruments of a summary and justification are well known. Professor M?llers' paper "European Green Deal: Greenwashing and the Forgotten Good Corporate Citzizen as an Investor" which has been published in the renowned Columbia Journal of European Law (CJEL) uses numerous examples to show how they can be used to avoid greenwashing and the disadvantages of information overload.

24.08.2022

In early May 2019, corpus linguists and legal professionals discussed corpus methodology, which is promising to democratize legal language, in the rooms of the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg under the leadership of Prof. Tonio Walter (ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Regensburg). The recently published conference proceedings present empirical studies on concrete examples of application in separate topic blocks on the individual areas of law, which are then critically commented on by relevant legal professionals and classified in terms of their relevance for legal practice. In his contribution, Professor M?llers looks at the topic of computerized speech empiricism primarily from a methodological perspective, presenting few theses but raising all the more questions.

26.07.2022

The Chinese edition of the book "Juristische Methodenlehre" was officially published in China by Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Press on July 20, 2022.
The work has already had four editions since 2017. It is cited by legal literature and jurisprudence. It has been translated into English under the title "How to work with legal arguments, 2020". It complements the book "Juristische Arbeitstechnik" (·¨ÂÉÑÐÏ°·½·¨--×÷Òµ¡¢¿¼ÊÔºÍÂÛÎÄд×÷), which was published in China in 2019 and has now sold more than 15,000 units. The book describes the main argumentation figures and develops a modern legal methodology.
The publication in China is accompanied by a large advertising campaign. (...)

31.05.2022

In the current issue of BKR, Professor M?llers discusses, in the context of the falsification of the balance sheet and the accompanying insolvency of Wirecard, how the auditor's report on a company's annual financial statements can be qualified as public capital market information pursuant to Section 1 (2) KapMuG. Because the issue has not yet been discussed, the legal methodology must be used to clarify whether claims for damages based on the auditor's opinion can be made the declaratory target of KapMuG proceedings.

30.05.2022

If an entrepreneurial company within the meaning of ¡ì 5a GmbHG does not - as provided for by law - indicate its legal form and the limitation of liability in the company name, its representative appearing in legal transactions is liable for the incorrect legal appearance thereby created pursuant to ¡ì 311 (2) and (3), ¡ì 179 BGB analogously.
Professor M?llers and Tobias Manhardt comment on this ruling of the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) of 13 January 2022 (Case No. III ZR 210/20) in their comments on the ruling: Methodologically, the analogy to ¡ì 179 BGB made by the BGH is not convincing.

06.05.2022

On 1.1.2021, the new Civil Code of the People¡¯s Republic of China, adopted on 28.05.2020, came into force. This is a major step on the way towards a unified civil code, which goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. (...)

12.04.2022

On 12 April 2022, doctoral students Mr Guobang Wu and Ms Yi Li, LL.M. from the Chinese ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law (CUPL) visited RICE. The discussions with Professor M?llers focused on basic theories and methods of law in Germany. Furthermore, the organisation of a symposium in the context of the publication of the monograph "Juristische Methodenlehre" in Chinese in Beijing in June 2022 was discussed. Mr Wu is currently doing his doctorate at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Vienna, while Ms Li is a visiting researcher at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of M¨¹nster.

05.04.2022

In March and April 2022, Professor M?llers spent time in the USA on a research visit. He held a lecture on "The Green Deal and Sustainable Finance" at George Washington ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Law School and at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he also focused on the current topic "War in Europe: Ukraine and Russia - political, economic, and legal consequences".

25.03.2022

At the conference "The ECB and Its Watchers" central bankers, financial market participants and academics discuss current issues of monetary policy and financial stability. The impact of the Ukraine war as well as the significance of climate change and the green transformation on monetary policy were at the forefront of this year's conference on March 17th in Frankfurt. (¡­)

24 March 2022

The article by Professor M?llers "Green Deal: Greenwashing, Information Overload und der vergessene Good Corporate Citizen as Investor", which appeared in ZHR 6/2021, has since been translated into Greek and appeared in the current issue 4/2021 of the Greek journal ¦¥¦Ô¦Ñ¦Ø¦Ð¦Á?¦Ê? ¦Ä?¦Ê¦Á¦É¦Ï (European Law).

11.03.2022

On 11 March, Professor M?llers gave an online lecture to the School of Law and Security Studies at Babcock ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Nigeria. The topic was the Ukraine conflict from a political, economic and legal perspective as well as the basics of legal methodology. The audience consisted of professors, students and practitioners with connections to the School of Law and Security Studies at Babcock ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·. Following the lectures, there was an opportunity for discussion and a lively exchange developed.

Over 100 doctoral theses have been supervised at Professor M?llers' chair to date. Active contact is maintained with former doctoral students. For example, a doctoral student seminar is held every two years, which offers former and current doctoral students the opportunity for scientific exchange. On the first weekend in March 2022, they met for the 12th time in Fischbachau. In addition to the lectures by current and former doctoral students, there was also plenty of fun.

04.02.2022

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Isabella Brosig-Hoschka on her appointment to the Faculty of Business Administration at Kempten ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Applied Sciences for the summer semester of 2022. Prof. Dr. Isabella Brosig-Hoschka worked as a research assistant at the chair of Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers between the winter semesters of 2014/15 and 2017/18 and completed her doctorate on a capital market law topic during this time. Afterwards, she remained associated with the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· as a lecturer in banking and capital market law. We wish Prof. Dr. Isabella Brosig-Hoschka much joy and success in her new task!

18.01.2022

At the beginning of January, the 3rd, revised and expanded edition of the Cologne Commentary on the Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (K?lner Kommentar zum Wp?G) was published by Carl Heymanns Verlag.
Professor M?llers' annotations can be found under:
¡ì 12 (Liability for Offer Documentation), pp. 755-829,
¡ì 13 (Offer Finance; Liability of Financial Service Providers), pp. 830-889,
¡ì 23 (Publicity Duties after Publication of Offer), pp. 1317-1377.

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17.01.2022

The Festschrift is published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Augsburg Law Faculty, which began its studies in October 1971. In 25 essays, Augsburg law scholars address current developments and fundamental questions of law as well as aspects of the faculty's history.
The contribution by Professor M?llers, "Der Bilanzskandal von Wirecard und das Versagen der Finanzbranche" (The Wirecard accounting scandal and the failure of the financial sector), aims to demonstrate in a first step why there is a failure of the entire financial sector if not a single one of the players intervenes, although all market participants are aware of the allegations of incorrect balance sheets. The causes lie in behavioural finance, but also in the inadequate state of German and European capital market law.

15.12.2021

After the EU has been in the process of harnessing the financial markets to the issue of sustainability for several years, the regulatory framework is now emerging at the first and second levels of the Lamfalussy process. While "sustainability" is gaining more and more contours, the positions of states and companies as issuers of financial products and of the demanding investor have so far been insufficiently regulated. Thus, the problem of misleading the investor (greenwashing) remains largely unsolved. In Capital Market Law, on the other hand, the principle of rational investor decision-making and the instruments of "summary and justification" are well known. Professor M?llers' contribution shows how greenwashing and the disadvantages of information overload can be avoided with the help of numerous examples.

06.12.2021

The article "The Wirecard Accounting Scandal in Germany, and How the Financial Industry Failed to Spot It" has been published in the current issue 3/2021 of the "The International Lawyer".
The first insolvency of a company listed on the German DAX index has had an enormous impact. In his article Professor M?llers aims to demonstrate why there has been a failure of the entire financial industry if not a single one of the players intervene, even though all market participants are aware of the allegations of inaccurate accounting. The causes lie in behavioural finance, but also the inadequate state of German and European capital markets law.

03.11.2021

The article "Offene Fragen zum Kaufrecht des chinesischen Zivilgesetzbuches - Ein Vergleich mit dem deutschen und europ?ischen Recht" ("Open Questions on the Law of Sale of Goods under the Chinese Civil Code - A Comparison with German and European Law") has been published in the current issue 3/2021 of the "Zeitschrift f¨¹r Chinesisches Recht".
In his article, Professor M?llers examines Chinese law comparatively with German and European law.
In particular, he deals with highly interesting issues of the law of sales, such as the concept of defect, the duty to examine the object of sale and warranty claims in case of defectiveness, as well as the relationship to the Consumer Protection Law, regulations on the control of general terms and conditions and the obligation to contract. The article concludes with an evaluation of the regulatory technique and a presentation of the concept of humanity of the ZGB.

25.10.2021

When companies and board members actively share issuer-related information in social media, some capital market law pitfalls need to be considered. The article "Tweeting Board Members and the Pitfalls of Capital Markets Law" ("Twitternde Vorstandsmitglieder und die Fallstricke des Kapitalmarktrechts") by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and his research assistant, Dr. Pirmin Jonas Schauer, LL.M., was published in the NZG of October 13, 2021. The article discusses, for example, the impermissible publication of insider information, the prohibition of market manipulation, as well as internal measures and sanction options of BaFin.

15.09.2021

The podcast by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and his chair team reports in short sequences on interesting legal issues, judgments and classifies questions of legal-political current affairs.

The latest two-part sequence deals with the topic of "short sellers". Part 1 first discusses the basics and explains the most important concepts of short selling. Part 2 deals with the German legal situation around short selling attacks and compares it with the American system. Furthermore, suggestions are made on how protection against such short selling attacks can be improved both on a German and European level.

Listen in - we appreciate your interest!

01.09.2021

"Juristische Methodenlehre" by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has fortunately already seen three editions since 2017 and was quickly out of print in each case. It has received numerous reviews in Germany and abroad after only a short time and is cited by case law and legal literature. An English-language version appeared in 2020 and a Chinese-language edition will follow with the 4th edition in 2021. Fortunately, it is now used at many universities to prepare for the First Staatsexamen and in trainee lawyers for the Second Staatsexamen. (...)

21.07.2021

Issue 6 of the Journal of Banking and Capital Markets Law (BKR) contains another contribution from the Chair's team, following the contributions by Professor M?llers and Lisa Wolf as well as Maximilian Merwald and Pirmin Schauer (all issue 5). Tobias Manhardt, together with Igor Ivanov (Hamburg State Ministry of Finance), examines the legal classification of negative interest resulting from interest escalation clauses in banks' lending business. In interpreting the clause, the authors focus on its economic background and its economic significance for the parties. Central aspects are the combination of the link to the reference interest rate and the spread, as well as the contractual risk distribution and pricing.

30.06.2021

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of CELOS, the members presented current workshop discussions at the EU Talk on June 24, 2021. The event was created in cooperation between the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg and the City of Augsburg.

29.06.2021

Professor Barbara Grunewald has worked intensively on civil law and corporate law over the past decades. On the occasion of her 70th birthday, a Festschrift has been dedicated to her. The Festschrift contribution by Professor M?llers deals with the new Sale of Goods Directive 2019/771, showing the various weaknesses of the European legislation.

24.06.2021

The Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg has awarded Dr. Zhihao Du the position of Visiting Scholar at the Research Institute for Chinese Law (RICE). Mr. Du received his doctorate in G?ttingen and is currently an assistant professor at Hunan ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in China. He has contributed significantly to the translation of Professor M?llers' "Juristische Arbeitstechnik" and "Juristische Methodenlehre".

04.06.2021

Anl?sslich der 30-Jahres-Feier pr?sentieren die Mitglieder des CELOS am 24. Juni 2021 verschiedene Werkstattgespr?che zu aktuellen Fragen des europ?ischen Rechts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europab¨¹ro der Stadt Augsburg. (...)

31.05.2021

Der Blick ins aktuelle Heft der Zeitschrift f¨¹r Bank und Kapitalmarktrecht ¨C BKR lohnt: Hier finden sich gleich zwei Beitr?ge aus dem Lehrstuhlteam. Professor M?llers und Lisa Wolf besprechen die Causa Telekom, die mit dem im Februar 2021 ver?ffentlichten BGH Urteil nun schon seit ¨¹ber 15 Jahren ungel?st ist. Die Autoren f¨¹hren daran ankn¨¹pfend generelle ?berlegungen zur Reformierung des KapMuG an.
Maximilian Merwald und Dr. Pirmin Schauer beleuchten die brisanten Vorkommnisse an den B?rsen rund um die US-amerikanische Einzelhandelskette GameStop. Die Autoren besch?ftigen sich dabei konkret mit der Frage, inwieweit Marktakteure in die Gefahr einer Verletzung des unionsrechtlichen Marktmanipulationstatbestandes gekommen sind.

11.05.2021

Am 7. Mai nahm Herr Professor M?llers an einem Online-Event der Ruhr Universit?t Bochum teil, das von Herrn Professor Dr. Peter A. Windel im Rahmen der geplanten Tagung "The Chinese Civil Code" organisiert wurde. W?hrend des Online Events gab Herr Professor Hao Li von der Beihang ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Peking eine Einf¨¹hrung in das Gesetzbuch und berichtete ausf¨¹hrlich und detailliert ¨¹ber die neuesten Entwicklungen.

Die von Professor M?llers und Professor Li organisierte Tagung zum Chinesischen Zivilgesetzbuch musste bereits drei Mal wegen der Corona-Pandemie verschoben werden und wird im April 2022 in China stattfinden.

10.05.2021

Am Donnerstag, den 6. Mai hielt Herr Professor Dr. M?llers einen Vortrag vor 120 Teilnehmern der Nanjing ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in China ¨¹ber das Thema "Wie Juristen Probleme l?sen". (...)

15.04.2021

The proven textbook "Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" (Legal Technique and Scientific Work) by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has been completely revised for the 10th anniversary edition. The 10th edition thus also accompanies the prospective lawyer from the beginning of his studies to the examination and perhaps also to the doctorate. Special challenges apply in times of the Corona pandemic. (...)

03.03.2021

This is the latest podcast by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and his team. The podcast reports in short sequences on interesting legal issues, judgements and classifies questions of current legal-political affairs.

In the first two episodes, Professor Thomas M.J. M?llers deals with the Wirecard scandal and shows perspectives on how to avoid further stock market scandals.

Listen in - we appreciate your interest!

15.02.2021

In cooperation with the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg, the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· organised a conference in summer 2019 entitled "Legal Certainty and Fundamental Rights". The lectures were compiled into a conference volume, which has now been published as Volume 89 of the Augsburger Rechtsstudien (...).

20.01.2021

The article ¡°Capital Market Law ¨C What China can learn from Europe¡± has been published in ¡°China Studies Issue 8, in Shanghai People's Publishing House¡±. Professor M?llers discusses current developments and problems of European legal harmonization in capital market law based on MiFID II, MiFIR and PRIIP Regulation.The article shows how China can promote the creation of a "level playing field" on the capital market and learn from the European problems.

15.01.2021

The article ?The Weaknesses of the Sale of Goods Directive ¨C Dealing with Legislative Deficits¡± has been published in the online magazine ?Jus Civile¡± (Italy). Using the example of the Sale of Goods Directive (EU) 2019/771, the article combines the law of sales with a series of questions on European methodology. It examines the European legislative technique with full harmonization as a regulatory objective and clarifies open questions of interpretation on the basis of legal principles. Finally, ecological and economic proposals are made, which are to be demanded de lege ferenda.

14.01.2021

The article published in "European Review of Contract Law" (ERCL) reveals how legal scholars and the case-law have gradually shown in recent decades a greater willingness to shift from a narrow, traditional boundary of permissible development of the law to a modern line of case-law regarding the boundary of directive-compliant, permissible development of the law.

20.10.2020

The book ?Juristische Methodenlehre¡° (Legal Methods) by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers is now available in its third edition. It addresses students, post-graduate students, but also practitioners. The book would like to put all those who apply the law in the position to develop argumentative solutions for unclarified legal questions. Ultimately, the goal is to convince the other party of the value of the legal argumentation - also and especially in the case of a dispute.(...)

27.07.20

Already in its fourth edition this year, the commentary "Company and Corporate Law" has been published in the handbook "European Law" for German legal practice (ed. by Reiner Schulze, Andr¨¦ Janssen and Stefan Kadelbach). (...).

07.07.2020

In July 2020 a new article by Prof. M?llers was published in the European Journal of Economic Law (EuZW): The PSPP ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court and the European Legal Union (...).

20.03.2020

These days Germany's listed companies have a high risk to become victims of short selling attacks by misleading financial analyses. Companies and supervision have so far had little to counter that. The article deals with deficits in the area of standardisation and enforcement of law and approaches solutions. It has been published in "The International Lawyer", a triannual publication of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law in cooperation with SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas.

13.01.2020

The overlapping European Union (EU) regimes of competition law and State aid law both provide mechanisms allowing private plaintiffs to claim compensation for losses or damages. It is thus of significant practical value to provide, as this book does, analysis and guidance on achieving enforcement of such claims, written by renowned authorities in the two fields (...).

18.12.2019

Legal decisions are accepted if they are well-reasoned. This work provides lawyers with more than 100 legal interpretation figures that are used by lawyers worldwide to justify their legal decisions. German law is exemplary for the technique of Legal Interpretation and Legal Construction, which is applied in Europe and all over the world. The new publication puts lawyers in a position, to develop -step by step - a solution for a hitherto unsolved legal problem in such a way that it convinces the opposing party of the content his/her solution (¡­).

02.12.2019

The commemorative publication "Central Banks, Monetary Union and a Stable Financial System" acknowledges Prof. Dr. Dr. Helmut Siekmann's interdisciplinary research on the stability of monetary, currency and financial order. In a ceremony, the editors presented the newly published anthology to the IMFS Distinguished Professor. Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Geld und W?hrung (Money and Currency Foundation), gave a keynote lecture on possible solutions to overcome the "Regulation Overload" in European capital market law.

18.11.2019

Mr. Zhiaho Du (¶ÅÖ¾ºÆ)and Dr. Liuhua Shen have translated the German work "Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" (Legal Work Techniques and Scientific Work), which has already been published in its 9th edition, into Chinese. The Chinese book was sold out in a very short time with 5,000 copies, so that a reprint became necessary after only a few months.
Mr. Du, who recently received his doctorate in G?ttingen, also translates Professor M?llers' "Juristische Methodenlehre".

10.10.2019

At the invitation of Prof. Enrico Camilleri, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers visited the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Palermo on 8 and 9 October 2019 and gave two lectures in English on "Legal Methods - A Comparison of the German and Italian Approach" and "The Legal Consequences of the Volkswagen Scandal - Better Enforcement of Private and Public Law".The university is one of the largest in Italy with about 50,000 students and 2,000 academic staff. Prof. Camilleri also participated this year as a lecturer in the Augsburg Summer Program.

04.10.2019

Professor Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture on "Enforcement of Consumer Protection and Capital Markets Law - Current Developments in Germany and Europe" at the German-Turkish Symposium on 4 October 2019 at the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Istanbul.
In addition to professors from the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg, speakers from the host university also reported on current developments in Turkish tort law. After the lectures there was a lively discussion. In the conference room were about 120 participants, mainly consisting of students, assistants, lecturers, professors and lawyers from Istanbul (...).

26.09.2019

Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers went on a research trip to China from 12-23 September 2019, during which he gave lectures and guest lectures at several Chinese universities. At the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, he held a guest professorship and gave a series of lectures on "Introduction into German Civil and Business Law" to give Chinese students an insight into German civil law. He gave lectures at the Jiliang and Zhe Jiang ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Hangzhou. There was also a press conference at the Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Beijing. (...).

13.08.2019

The work "Juristische Methodenlehre" by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has been published in its second edition. It is aimed at students, doctoral candidates and practitioners and aims to enable legal practitioners to develop argumentative solutions to unclarified legal questions. The ultimate goal is to convince the other party of the content of the legal argumentation - also and especially in the case of a dispute.
Despite the short time since the first edition, the new edition is not intended to be a simple reprint, because legal methodology thrives on dialogue and the examination of conflicting ideas (...).

25.07.2019

Professor Kerstin Steiner was received by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. She is Senior Associate at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Melbourne in the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) and Partner in the Asian Law Centre (ALC). She is also on the Advisory Board of the Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO). She has held a variety of international positions, including at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Malaya and the Centre for Socio-legal Studies at Oxford ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· (...).

30.06.2019

In the second quarter of 2019 the article "Comment raisonnent et travaillent les juristes" was published in the French journal "La revue internationale de droit compar¨¦" (RIDC). In this article Professor M?llers discusses the necessity of a modern legal methodology and critically questions whether the fundamentals of jurisprudence receive enough attention in our educational system.

27. 06. 2019

From June the 6th to the 9th, 2019, the third joint conference between the law faculties of the universities of Augsburg and Johannesburg (South Africa) took place on the Fraueninsel in Chiemsee. Fifteen participants from Johannesburg and ten from Augsburg travelled to the conference to discuss current issues from all areas of law around the topic of Legal Certainty and Fundamental Rights, to exchange different perspectives and, in the spirit of cross-fertilisation of the legal systems, to find solutions and suggestions for improving both legal systems (...).

18.06.2019

The 9th edition of Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers' book "Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" ("Legal Work Techniques and Scientific Work") was published on June 1, 2019, in Chinese in Beijing. The publisher is the renowned "Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· Press".
The Chinese version of this book was translated jointly by Dr. Liuhua Shen (academic assistant to Professor M?llers), Dr. Qiangwei Ma from Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· and Dr. Du Zhihao from G?ttingen ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·. The edition so far is 5000 copies.

ISBN 978-7-3012-30286-6

27.05.2019

At the international conference "Enforcing Consumer and Capital Market Law in Europe", which took place on 23rd and 24th May 2019 at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg, numerous experts discussed how the diesel emissions scandal will be legally processed in various countries.
It was shown that in the USA, Australia and Brazil public law sanctions and compensation of the buyers are already being enforced much more successfully than in most European countries (...).

30. April 2019

In April 2019 Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers visited the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Initially he gave two lectures at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·: "Short Sell Attacks and Illegal Financial Reports" and "The Volkswagen Diesel Scandal - Legal enforcement worldwide". A third lecture took him to the Faculty of Economics: "Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law after the Directive 2014/104/EU". On the last day of his stay Prof. M?llers also met Prof. Dr. Philip Sutherland and Prof. Dr. Karin Calitz.

15.03.2019

In the first quarter of 2019, the article "How lawyers think and work - on the necessity of a modern methodology for legal education" was published in the Zeitschrift f¨¹r die gesamte Privatrechtswissenschaft (ZfPW). In this article, Professor M?llers discusses the necessity of modern legal methodology and critically questions whether the fundamentals of jurisprudence receive enough attention in our educational system.

28.02.2019

In January and February 2019, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers went to Australia for a research stay. At La Trobe ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Melbourne Prof. Dr. M?llers gave two lectures. On the one hand he dealt with the topic "Digitalization - Market Abuse by Short Sell Attacks and Illegal Research Reports". On the other hand he gave a lecture on "Legal Reasoning: How Lawyers are Thinking: Working with Principles". At the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Sydney, Prof. Dr. M?llers gave a lecture on "The Volkswagen emission scandal - German, European and US-American implications" as part of the Law & Business Downtown Seminars.

15.02.2019

In cooperation with the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg, the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· organised a conference in summer 2017 entitled "Legality and Limitation of Powers - Values, Principles and Regulations in Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Public Law". The lectures were compiled into a conference volume, which has now been published as Volume 88 of the Augsburger Rechtsstudien (...).

25.11.2018

On 22 and 23 November 2018, the first INspiRE conference on "Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law: Current Challenges and the Way Forward", organised by Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Wollenschl?ger and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wurmnest, took place in Augsburg (...).

20.11.2018

The panel discussion on 13 November 2018, organised inter alia by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence INspiRE, attracted over 100 interested citizens (...)

15.07.2018

From July 5 to 7, 2018, the 18th Academy Conference of the Bavarian Academy of America (BAA) took place at the Amerikahaus in Munich. It was entitled "The State of Human Rights - Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries" (...) .

26.07.2018

The conference volume "The General Rules of Chinese Civil Law", edited by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and Professor Dr. Hao Li, contains the results of the conference of the Research Center for Innovation between China and Europe (RICE) held on July 19, 2017 at the Law Faculty in Augsburg.

26.07.2018

On July 26, 2018, a delegation of the supra-regional Chinese TV station Jiajia Cartoon Channel, Guangzhou TV and Radio Station (500 million viewers) visited Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers (Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg) to shoot for the series "Little Diplomat".

10.07.2018

On 5 July 2018, Prof. Blake D. Morant gave a lecture at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg on the riots in Charlottesville that had taken place in August 2017 (...).

05.07.2018

At the invitation of the Research Centre for Chinese Law (RICE) under the direction of Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, Professor Su Jiang visited the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 for an academic exchange and to strengthen the cooperation with Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·.

03.07.2018

Publication of the essay by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers in the NZG 2018, Issue 17, p. 649:
In Germany, listed companies are increasingly being attacked by short sellers using misleading financial analyses. So far, companies and supervisory authorities have had little to counter this. This article shows the deficits in the area of norm concretisation and enforcement of the law and develops possible solutions.

28.05.2018

On 28 May 2018, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers took part in a conference organised by the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Vienna
and the Supreme Court (OGH) on the topic of "Judicial legal training and its limits". The venue was the banqueting hall of the Supreme Court at the Palace of Justice in Vienna (...).

18.05.2018

On Thursday, 17 May 2018, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a live interview in the Rundschau at 6.30 pm on Bavarian Television. He spoke about the EU's action against the Federal Republic of Germany in the context of an infringement procedure concerning the type-approval of vehicles and the exceeding of limit values for air pollution.

15.05.2018

On Monday, 7 May 2018 at 6 pm Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture to the Juristische Gesellschaft Augsburg e.V. with the title "How lawyers think and work - consequences for the role of legal methods in legal education". In particular, he spoke about the necessity of modern legal methodology and critically questioned whether the basics of jurisprudence receive enough attention in our educational system.

25.04.2018

On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 21.45 pm, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers can be seen in the ARD programme Plusminus. He will answer questions about the emissions scandal. In particular, he will report on the differences between the German and US-American approaches to dealing with the scandal. Professor M?llers also talks about possible civil law claims by the customers concerned.

16.04.2018

Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers talks in an interview with Spiegel Online, published on Sunday, 15 April 2018, about the EU Commission's proposal to introduce class actions for consumers. A comparison is made between the model of the model declaratory judgement procedure and US law.

09.04.2018

The work Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten von Professor M?llers has now been published in its 9th edition. It accompanies the prospective lawyer from the beginning of his studies to the final examination and also during his doctorate (...).

19.03.2018

On Monday, 19 March 2018, the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung published an interview with Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers on page 7 entitled "Why German VW buyers are worse off". The topics discussed in particular are class actions and punitive damages, explaining the differences between the US and German legal systems.

15.03.2018

Professor Dr. M?llers gave a lecture entitled "Digitalization - Market Abuse by Short sell attacks and illegal research reports" to a specialist audience in Turin. (...)

06.03.2018

On Friday, February 23, 2018, the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg received a visit from Professor Blake D. Morant, Dean of the George Washington ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· School of Law, his wife, Paulette Morant, and Ms Joshi Shehernaz, Director for Graduate & International Programs. The visit from Washington was received by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, Professor Dr. Matthias Rossi, Professor Dr. Thilo Rensmann, as well as by Daniela Pfau and Christoph Salger (...).

10.02.2018

On February 5, 2018, Prof. Dr. Qiang Wang gave a lecture titled: "The Tort Law of the PR China with special consideration of the liability of animal owners compared to German law". Prof. Dr. Wang teaches at the China ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science (CUPL, Beijing) and was a guest lecturer at the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg (...).

05.02.2018

On behalf of the Science Council, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers is participating as an expert in the evaluation of three institutes. (...)

16.01.2018

Together with the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg, the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· organised a conference in summer 2016 entitled "Transnational impacts on law: Perspectives from South Africa and Germany". The lectures have since been compiled into a conference volume, which has now been published as Volume 86 of the Augsburger Rechtsstudien (...).

15.01.2018

Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers was unanimously confirmed in office as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Money and Currency Foundation as of 1 January 2018 for a further four years.

27.11.2017

Two representatives each from the law faculties of Regensburg, Passau, Erlangen and Augsburg competed against each other in the Bavaria-wide main round of the Linklaters 2017 speech competition in Regensburg. Mr Richard Gehrke and Ms Kristina Cyglakow, student assistant to Professor Thomas M.J. M?llers, very successfully represented the law faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg (...).

25.10.2017

To intensify the cooperation with the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers travelled to Chicago on 18 October 2017 and took part in the "Fin (Legal) Tech" conference parallel to visiting the college (...).

16.10.2017

The new work "Juristische Methodenlehre" by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has been published. It is aimed at students, doctoral candidates and all legal scholars. The aim of the work is both simple and challenging at the same time: it aims to enable lawyers to develop the solution to previously unsolved legal problems step by step in such a way that they can convince the other side - even in the event of a dispute - of the content of the legal argumentation (...).

11.10.2017

The second joint conference of the law faculties of the universities of Johannesburg and Augsburg took place on 10 October 2017 (...)

26.09.2017

As part of the IMFS Distinguished Lecture, Professor M?llers gave a laudatory speech for Jens Weidmann, the current President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, in Frankfurt am Main on 14 September (...).

25.07.2017

CLASS ACTIONS - CURSE OR BLESSING FOR CONSUMER PROTECTION?
The emissions scandal is spreading further and further: If diesel vehicles are not retrofitted by the end of 2017, even the EU Commission is now threatening driving bans. What does this ultimately mean for the rights of consumers (...)?

24.07.2017

The first meeting of the new Research Center of Innovation and Legal Studies between China and Europe (RICE) took place on July 20, 2017. The occasion was the current reform of Chinese civil law (...).

16.06.2017

As in the previous year, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers visited the Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Palermo at the invitation of Prof. Avv. Enrico Camilleri and gave two lectures on methodological work with legal principles and the constitution.
. The ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Palermo is one of the largest universities in Italy with around 50,000 students and 2,000 academic staff. Prof. Camilleri has been a lecturer at the Augsburg Summer Program for many years.The lectures were held by Prof. Dr. M?llers within the context of the doctoral programme and titled "How to Work with the Constitution - the Perspective of a Private Lawyer" and "Hard Law - How to Work with Principles in Civil Law". Both lectures were met with broad interest among Italian students and academics.

14.02.2017

As part of the IMFS Distinguished Lecture, Professor M?llers gave a laudatory speech for Valdis Dombrovskis, the current Vice-President of the European Commission, on 13 February in Frankfurt am Main (...).

15.11.2016

In November 2016 Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers travelled to China for one week. Where he visited the China ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing and the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Science Gansu in Lanzhou (...).

29.06.2016

Since 1997, Prof. M?llers has supervised doctoral students in his main research areas of German and European civil law, European corporate, capital market and competition law, comparative law and legal methodology. On 29 June 2016, Prof. M?llers' 100th and 101st doctoral students successfully completed their doctoral studies.

25.06.2016

On 23 June 2016, the first joint conference of the law faculties of the Universities of Augsburg and Johannesburg took place. The event was titled "Transnational Impacts on Law: Perspectives from South Africa and Germany" and examined the international influence on the national legal systems of Germany and South Africa (...).

20.06.2016

Due to personnel changes at the top of the Stiftung Geld und W?hrung, the Bundesbank and the Stiftung Geld und W?hrung organised a joint symposium in Frankfurt on 15 June 2016. Gerhard Ziebarth succeeds Willy Friedmann as Chairman of the Foundation's Board. Thomas M?llers follows Remsperger as Chairman of the Foundation Board (...).

15.06.2016

After three publications in Chinese journals, Prof. M?llers' first monograph has been published in Chinese (...).

04.06.2016

This year, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers again gave an interview for the annual special issue on capital market law of GoingPublic magazine. He commented on current problems and developments in capital market law. The interview is printed on pages 10 - 12 (...).

20.05.2016

At the invitation of Prof. Avv. Enrico Camilleri , Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers stayed at the Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Palermo from 11 to 17 May 2016. The ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Palermo is one of the largest universities in Italy with around 50,000 students and 2,000 academic staff. Prof. Camilleri has been a lecturer at the Augsburg Summer Program for many years.
In Palermo, Prof. Dr. M?llers gave two english lectures on "Experimental Legislation in European Capital Market Law" and "Chances and Risks of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)".

09.05.2016

In May 2016, a new article by Prof. M?llers appeared in the Zeitschrift f¨¹r Europ?isches Privatrecht (ZEuP): Europ?ische Gesetzgebungslehre 2.0: Die dynamische Rechtsharmonisierung im Kapitalmarktrecht am Beispiel von MiFID II und PRIIP. The article can be found on pages 325 - 357 (...).

30.04.2016

On April 26, 2016, the launch event of the research centre RICE (Research Center of Innovation and Legal Studies between China and Europe) took place in the facilities of the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. (...)

30.04.2016

Three legal Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence worldwide will be funded by the European Union this year - decision in favour of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg (...).

14.12.205

The fourth conference in cooperation with the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Ljubljana focused on international investment protection. The participants from academic and practical backgrounds dealt intensively with this highly relevant issue (...).

30.11.2015

In November 2015 Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers travelled to China for one week. Where he held four lectures at various renowned universities (...).

16.11.2015

In an interview with the Dutch national daily newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, Professor Thomas M.J. M?llers commented on the consequences of the VW emissions scandal. Among other things, he warns of fines of existential proportions if VW does not consistently clear up the matter.

02.11.2015

The event on 28 October 2015 at the Swabian Chamber of Industry and Commerce marked the start of the "TTIP Roadshow in Swabia" series of events. The aim of the roadshow is to inform the Swabian economy about TTIP and to present opportunities and challenges (...).

26.10.2015

The former Porsche managers Wendelin Wiedeking (CEO) and Holger H?rter (CFO) have to answer to the Regional Court of Stuttgart in criminal proceedings for market manipulation (...).

25.10.2015

The 9th Krakow-Augsburg Symposium took place on 23 and 24 October at the Jagiellonian ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Krakow. This year the general theme was "Norm Creation". Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers spoke on the topic of "Norm Creation and Norm Enforcement in European Antitrust, Corporate and Capital Markets Law".

19.10.2015

Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers commented on the consequences of the VW emissions scandal in an interview with the Finnish TV channel MTV3. The interview was broadcasted on MTV3's news magazine on 14 October 2015.

28.09.2015

In an interview with Wirtschaftswoche, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave his assessment of the possible consequences of the diesel emissions fraud. He warns that the VW Group is threatened with claims for damages from its own customers amounting to billions of dollars, as there is the figure of punitive damages in the US legal system. If the perpetrator acts maliciously or fraudulently, 20 or even 50 times the actual damages are possible (...).

17.09.2015

On 14 September 2015, the specialist conference of the Gesellschaft f¨¹r Immobilienwirtschaftliche Forschung e. V. (gif) took place in Frankfurt on the topic of "KABG 2.0, what's still to come!" At the event, renowned experts from science and practice spoke about the topic. More than 100 participants came to the BVI lecture rooms in Frankfurt am Main for the occasion (...).

13.08.2015

On 23 April 2015, the Bundestag passed the Small Investor Protection Act. This was triggered by the insolvency of the energy company Prokon. The Article Law therefore contains, in particular, new regulations for the grey capital market and amends existing provisions of the WpHG. The aim of the new regulations is, in keeping with the name, to further improve investor protection (...).

20.07.2015

In July 2015 an article by Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers titled "The takeover battle Volkswagen/Porsche: the Pi?ch-Porsche clan-family clan acquires a majority holding in Volkswagen" was published in the Capital Markets Law Journal (10 CMLJ 410 - 430) (...).

25.06.2015

Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers has been a member of the "Money and Currency" Foundation Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 1 June 2006, where he initially represented the Federal Constitutional Court Judge Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio. He has been a permanent member of the Foundation Council since 1 January 2009. At the last meeting, Prof. Dr. M?llers was unanimously elected Chairman of the Foundation Council. He will take office on 1 July 2015. (...)

29.05.2015

On May 29, 2015, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and Dr. Stefan Lorenzmeier were guests at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg to negotiate an amendment to the cooperation agreement (...).

29.05.2015

On May 28, 2015, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture on "Developments in the implementation of the European MiFiD II Directive" at the Annual Banking Law Update 2015 (ABLU) in Johannesburg. The ABLU is an established South African event on corporate and capital markets law, which has been held since 1978. It is organised by the Centre for Banking Law at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Johannesburg.

09.05.2015

Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers gave an interview on his current research in capital market law for the GoingPublic Magazine Special Capital Market Law 2015. In particular, he spoke about the BGH's telecom ruling, problems with law enforcement in Germany, the German investor model and possible consequences of case law in capital market law.

08.05.2015

Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers was the guest of a top-class panel discussion on the topic "TTIP Chance or Risk?" The event was organised by the Europa-Union Augsburg and took place in the Augsburg City Hall (...).

14.04.2015

In a judgement of 7 April 2015 (Case No. 24 U 82/14), the Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Frankfurt am Main prohibited a rating agency from issuing a poor rating (scoring) about a company located in the Rhine-Main region. For a Legal Tribune Online news article on this judgement, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers provided an assessment of the decision.

26.03.2015

In March 2015, another publication by Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers, together with academic assistant Elisabeth Steinberger, was published. The article "Die BGH-Entscheidung zum Telekom-Prozess und das europ?ische Anlegerleitbild" is printed in the Neue Zeitschrift f¨¹r Gesellschaftsrecht (NZG) 2015 on pages 329 - 335. In addition to a critical appraisal of the decision, the article deals with the underlying investor concept.

12.03.2015

At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Fr¨¦d¨¦rique Ferrand, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers was a visiting professor at the Universit¨¦ Jean Moulin Lyon III from 3 to 12 March 2015. Prof. Dr. Ferrand has been a lecturer at the Augsburg Summer Program for many years. Prof. Dr. M?llers gave the lecture "Introduction to German Civil Law (BGB)" for French third-year students. The event was aimed in particular at students taking part in an exchange programme with a German university in the following winter semester. He also gave a lecture entitled "The German Constitutional Court's Role in the EU: Driving Force or Illegitimate Lawmaker?"

02.03.2015

"Migration is reality - integration is our task" was the motto of the 6th Rotary Day on 27 and 28 February at the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. The most prominent guest was Claudia Roth, Vice President of the Bundestag, who spoke about multiculturalism as a model for the future (...).

02.03.2015

In February 2015, the Italian online journal Jus Civile (www.juscivile.it) published an english article by Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers and academic assistant Katharina Redcay. The article under the title "The German Constitutional Court: European Lawmaker or Motor of the Union?" can be found on pages 72 - 101.

12.01.2015

The third edition of the Handbook of European Law, edited by Reiner Schulze/Manfred Zuleeg/Stefan Kadelbach, was published in January 2015 (Nomos Verlag ISBN 978-3-8487-1219-9). Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers is the author of ¡ì 18 "Corporate and Business Law, Small and ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ·ium-sized Enterprises", pp. 819 - 888. The article is the subject of the Special Part of the Handbook and deals in particular with the influence of European law on corporate law.

19.10.2014

In October 2014, another publication by Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers and research assistant Charis Niedorf was published. The article entitled "Regulation and Liability of Credit Rating Agencies - A More Efficient European Law?" was published in 11 ECFR 333 (2014). It deals with the liability of credit rating agencies and addresses the new European Regulation (EU) No 462/2013 on credit rating agencies.

23.09.2014

In the fourth quarter of 2014, another publication by Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers on scientific work appeared. The article "Qualit?t und Zeitmanagement einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit" (Quality and Time Management of a Scientific Paper) deals compactly with various working techniques that are suitable for both the student and the doctoral candidate.

15.09.2014

In the fourth quarter of 2014, another publication by Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers on "Private Enforcement of Competition Law" appeared in the anthology "Economic Competition Regime: Raising Issues and Lessons from Germany - Contributions to Vietnamese-German Symposia", edited by Henning Rosenau and Nghia Tang Van. The anthology was published in the Augsburg ACELR series.

01.09.2014

In the fourth quarter of 2014, the second edition of "European Private Law - A Handbook Vol. II" by the editors Mauro Bussani and Frank Werro was published. Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers edited the section on European Unfair Competition Law. The article can be found on pages 285 - 322.

23.07.2014

The ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg has continued its expansion strategy of internationalisation and has entered into a new cooperation in research and teaching with the Peking ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· in Beijing (...).

23.07.2014

The VW/Porsche takeover battle continues to occupy the European courts. Now an overview of the VW/Porsche issue by Prof. M?llers has appeared in the current research supplement of the Augsburger Allgemeine. Prof. M?llers has been dealing with the VW/Porsche takeover battle for some time. For example, Wirtschaftswoche reported on the case after an interview with Prof. M?llers and also B5 aktuell (see current news of 10.2.2014). A detailed essay by Prof. M?llers on this topic recently appeared in the NZG (NZG 2014, 361-368). He also gave a number of lectures in Germany and abroad dealing with this issue.

28.03.2014

On 18 March 2014, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers was interviewed by S¨¹dwestrundfunk Baden-W¨¹rttemberg (SWR 1) on the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG, Urt. v. 18.3.2014, Az. 2 BvR 1390/12). On 18 March 2014, the Federal Constitutional Court rejected six constitutional complaints on the European Stability Mechanism and the Fiscal Compact. Additionally, one Organstreit case was also unsuccessful. Alongside Andreas Vo?kuhle (among others), M?llers was asked about his assessment of the ruling.

10.02.2014

Prof. M?llers was interviewed last week for an article in Wirtschaftswoche about the VW/Porsche takeover battle. The article by Martin Seiwert and Franz W. Rother appeared today in Wirtschaftswoche with the title "Porsche fights against its greedy past". The topic is very up-to-date, especially considering the background of 24 new lawsuits by hedge funds against Porsche Automobil Holding S.E for damages amounting to €1.4 billion, and raises fascinating questions. In addition to Wirtschaftswoche, B5 aktuell also reports on the case with reference to Prof. M?llers.

Furthermore, Prof. M?llers gave a lecture on the topic at the Corporate Breakfast at the law firm Luther in Munich last Friday.

28.01.2014

The 2nd edition of the Cologne Commentary on the WpHG was published by Carl Heymanns Verlag at the end of December. The editors are Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte, LL.M. (Berkeley), ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Hamburg and Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers, ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg (...).

31.12.2013

In the 2013/2014 academic year, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers raised third-party funding for the following three projects, among others: In addition to the long-standing DAAD funding for four exchange cooperations with American universities amounting to approximately €57,000, he was able to raise €15,000 from the Bundesbank, €7,500 from the Kurt and Felicitas Viermetz Foundation and €9,000 as part of a Jean Monnet project to support a database on WIrtschaftsrecht (www.caplaw.eu). Fortunately, the Bundesbank also promised funding for the next three years.

25.11.2013

In June of this year, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers organised a conference at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg on the topic of "Das neue Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch". The corresponding conference proceedings have now been published by Verlag C.H.Beck: Thomas M.J. M?llers/Andreas Kloyer (eds.), Das neue Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch, Munich 2013 (ISBN 978-3-406-65618-7).

30.09.2013

On 23 September, Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture entitled "The German Constitutional Court: European Lawmaker or Engine of the Union?" at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Palermo in Italy.

20.09.2013

As part of a research trip to the People's Republic of China, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers held several lectures with the following titles between September 12 and 16, 2013: "Newest Developments in European Commercial Law - Company Law - The Volkswagen Case", East China ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Political Sciences and Law und ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Xi'an; "The German Constitutional Court: European Lawmaker or Engine of the Union?", Law Institute of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; "Class Action in Business Law -The German Background", Law Institute of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

09.08.2013

The German Investment Code (KAGB) entered into force on 22 July 2013 and was the topic of a conference initiated by Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers on 14 and 15 June 2013. The KAGB implements the European requirements of the AIFM Directive from 2011 in a timely manner and newly regulates investment law; the previously applicable InvG was repealed

29.04.2013

On 4 and 5 May 2012, Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers and Prof. Dr Franz-Christoph Zeitler organised a conference on "Europe as a Legal Community - Monetary Union and Debt Crisis" at the Law Faculty of the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· of Augsburg. The accompanying conference proceedings have now been published by Mohr Siebeck Verlag: Thomas M.J. M?llers/Franz-Christoph Zeitler (eds.), Europa als Rechtsgemeinschaft - W?hrungsunion und Schuldenkrise, T¨¹bingen 2013, (ISBN 978-3-16-152174-4).

18.02.2013

On 11 February, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a lecture titled "Regulation and Liability of Rating Agencies - More Efficient Law at European Level? - Regulation and Liability of Rating Agencies - A More Efficient European Law?" in the context of a guest professorship at the Universit¨¦ Jean Moulin III in France.

05.12.2012

On 3 December 2012, Prof. Thomas M.J. M?llers was interviewed by Bavarian Television for a television programme. The report dealt with the admissibility under European law of Romanian employment contracts for Romanian workers who, however, work in Germany for a German company. The employment contracts only provided for remuneration at the level of the Romanian minimum wage.

25.11.2012

On 23 November 2012, Professor Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers gave a presentation on the planned Capital Investment Code and the recently introduced Investment Act to a large audience of industry experts at The Charles Hotel in Munich. The Capital Investment Code will come into force on 22 July 2013 and replace the previous Investment Act. In addition to UCITS funds, closed-end funds are also covered by the scope of application. With the Act, the Federal Republic of Germany is transposing the European AIFM Directive on Alternative Investments into national law..

30.10.2012

As part of the 8th Krakow-Augsburg Symposium on the "Role of Law in the Economic Crisis", Prof. Dr Thomas M.J. M?llers gave the lecture "The Financial Crisis and the Federal Constitutional Court as European Legislator". The Krakow-Augsburg Symposia take place every two years in Krakow and Augsburg. They are dedicated to current issues and are now firmly established at both law faculties.

07.08.2012

At this year's conference, Professor Thomas M.J. M?llers will have the great honour of being admitted as a member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), based in London. (...)

25.07.2012

The EU Commission is planning to make rating agencies liable to investors. A draft regulation by the Commission is currently being discussed in the EU Parliament. Prof. M?llers and Christine Wecker, who works as a research assistant at Prof. M?llers' chair, have written an article on this, which was published today in Legal Tribune Online.

03.07.2012

At the beginning of June, Prof. M?llers was interviewed by the international financial news agency Bloomberg about the lawsuits pending against Porsche Automobil Holding S.E. at the Regional Court of Braunschweig. The resulting article was published last Tuesday, 26 June 2012. On the following Wednesday, the Regional Court of Braunschweig ruled and shared Prof. M?llers' opinion on the interpretation of the WpHG and on ¡ì 826 BGB.

02.07.2012

As every year, the Bankrechtstag 2012 took place in Frankfurt a.M. on the last Friday in June. Within this framework, current topics from the legal areas of banking and capital market law are examined more closely and discussed intensively. Professor M?llers gave a lecture on the topic of "The presumption of correct conduct - on the concretisation of hypothetical causality - a never-ending story".

08.05.2012

In its sixth edition, Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers' work once again accompanies law students from the beginning of their studies by providing assistance for effective learning, the exam and the term paper. In the new edition, special attention has been paid to legal research. Sorted according to subject areas, the work offers a very successful overview of how to find German and international laws, court decisions and legal literature (...).

06.05.2012

Against the background of the current sovereign debt crisis of the European Union, Prof. Dr. Thomas M.J. M?llers and the former Vice-President of the Bundesbank Prof. Dr. Franz-Christoph Zeitler hosted a conference on "Europe as a Legal Community - Monetary Union and Debt Crisis" at the ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê_ΰµÂ¹ú¼Ê1946$ÓéÀÖappÓÎÏ· on 4 and 5 May 2012. In addition to the basics and research into the causes, the conference dealt with possible solutions and new dangers of the monetary union (...).

04.08.2020

This book critically analyses the various approaches of public and private law enforcement and their effectiveness across several jurisdictions on the example of one topical and global collective damage event with far reaching consequences for both, consumers and investors: the Dieselgate. (...)