According to Wikipedia, Theodor Baums is a German legal scholar. He is professor emeritus of business law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and former advisor to the German federal government. Career Theodor Baums studied law and Catholic theology at the University of Bonn and completed his legal studies in 1974 with his first state examination followed by the second in 1977. Until 1985 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law at the University of Bonn where he wrote his dissertation in 1980 and his postdoctoral thesis in 1985. He worked as visiting professor at U.C. Berkeley from 1990 to 1991, at the University of Vienna in 1992, at Stanford University in 1995, and at Columbia University in New York in 1999. From 2000 until 2006 he was the director of the Institute for Banking Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and has founded the Institute for Law and Finance where he now serves as a director. He has published more than 150 books and articles on corporations, civil and antitrust law.
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Published Works
Bericht der Regierungskommission Corporate Governance : Unternehmensführung, Unternehmenskontrolle, Modernisierung des Aktienrechts (2001) (62)
Corporate Governance : Optimierung der Unternehmensführung und der Unternehmenskontrolle im deutschen und amerikanischen Aktienrecht (1996) (12)
Corporate Governance-Grundsätze ('Code of Best Practice') für börsennotierte Gesellschaften (2000) (11)
