Chair for Civil Law, Antitrust Law, Insurance Law, Corporate Law, Regulation Law



Professor Dr. Torsten Koerber was born in 1965 in Hanover/Germany. He studied law, economics and history at the German universities of Goettingen and Munich, as well as at the National University of Singapore and at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where he received his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in 1993.



After teaching at the Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg and completing a legal internship at the Berlin Court of Appeals ("Kammergericht") he published a dissertation on "The Competitor's Standing to Sue in German, US and EEC Merger Law" in 1996. In the same year he became assistant professor ("Wissenschaftlicher Assistent") at the University of Goettingen where he worked with his academic advisor Professor Immenga and wrote a second book ("Habilitation") on "Basic Freedoms (of the EEC Treaty) and Civil Law" that was published 2004.



Professor Koerber taught as a guest professor at the Technical University Dresden in 2004. In the same year he was appointed tenured associate professor at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. In 2005 he was appointed tenured full professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Since October 2009 Professor Koerber has been teaching as full tenured professor at the Georg-August-University Goettingen.



Professor Koerber's research focuses on German, EEC and international civil and trade law, especially antitrust, new economy, media and energy law, and corporations. His publications include articles on the influence of American antitrust law on European competition law (2001), on due diligence, mergers and acquisitions (2002), on liability for credit card fraud in e-commerce (2004), on intellectual property and antitrust law (2004) and on the Microsoft antitrust case (several papers 2004-2007); Commentary on the EC Merger Regulation 139/2004 (in Immenga/Mestmaecker, 5th ed 2012/13); Technological Neutrality in the EC Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications (2008); Bürgers/Körber, Commentary on the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG, 2nd ed. 2011); Commentary on Merchant Law (in Oetker, Trade Law, 2nd ed. 2011); several papers on telecommunications law, media law and energy law (2009).