Prof. Dr. Carsten Jungmann

Professor of Law & Program Director at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg.
Nationality: Germany
Course: Corporate Governance

Prof. Dr. Carsten JUNGMANN is Professor of Civil Law, Corporate Reorganization and Banking Law at Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), where he also serves as Program Director of the Diploma in Business Law Program offered in cooperation with WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

He is also a practicing lawyer and a business mediator: formerly as a managing partner in the Munich office of a German law firm, and today as Vice President Corporate Law, Governance & Structure of the BIRKENSTOCK Group (Linz am Rhein, Germany). Within the group, he also serves as chairman of the supervisory board.

Prof. Jungmann studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bonn; in Bonn, he worked at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law and completed his doctoral degree.

During his legal clerkship, he worked with the international law firm Hogan Lovells and with HSH Nordbank, clerked for Judge Buechel of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg before passing the Second State Examination in Law. He also holds a Master of Laws from Yale Law School (USA) and a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Leicester (UK), and he spent a year as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics (UK).

Having taught as a lecturer in law at the University of Surrey (UK) and at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), he today teaches corporate law and corporate governance in, inter alia, the Bucerius Master of Law and Business program and in the Summer School on European Business Law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). He is also the Academic Director of the Bucerius Compliance Officer Program.

Prof. Jungmann has published numerous books, book chapters and journal articles on corporate law and corporate governance, corporate finance, insolvency and banking law.

Further information, including a full list of publications and teaching engagements, is available at www.carstenjungmann.de and www.law-school.de/profil/carsten-jungmann.