Biography
Horst Eidenmüller joined the Faculty of Law as a Visiting Professor in 2009 and took up a Chair for Commercial Law and a Professorial Fellowship at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, in 2015.
Eidenmüller was born in Munich, Germany. He obtained an LLM at Cambridge University (1989) and a PhD from Munich University (1994) after working for McKinsey & Co. in the 1990s. After his Habilitation in 1998, he was a law professor at the University of Münster from 1999 until 2003. From 2003 to 2014, he held the Chair for Private Law, German, European and International Company Law at Munich University. This position was designated as a research professorship under the excellence scheme of the German Research Foundation from 2007 to 2011.
Eidenmüller’s main research areas are contract law, company and bankruptcy law, and alternative dispute resolution. He is known for his economic and empirical analysis of important problems in these fields.
Eidenmüller has held visiting positions at major other universities such as Cambridge (2007), Harvard (2011), NYU (2013 and 2015), Stanford (2014) and Columbia (2018). From 2008 to 2009, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Eidenmüller is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (since 2009) and a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2008). As member of expert committees, he has advised the European Commission and the Federal Republic of Germany on issues of company and insolvency law reform. He has also acted as arbitrator in more than 40 commercial disputes (DIS, ICC, UNCITRAL, Ad Hoc) and as mediator in more than 60 commercial disputes since 1995.
In Oxford he lectures on Corporate Insolvency Law, on Comparative Corporate Law, and on Commercial Dispute Resolution (Commercial Negotiation and Mediation, International Commercial Arbitration).
Publications
Chapter (47)
Journal Article (137)
Book (11)
Edited Book (11)
Internet Publication (6)
Report (1)
Other (3)
Case Note (5)
Review (5)
Research programmes
- Business Law Hub
- Commercial Law Centre
- Law and Finance
- Research Collection: BREXIT
- Research Collection: Law and Technology
Research projects
Research Interests
Commercial Contracts and Contract Design, European and Comparative Company and Bankruptcy Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Options taught
Comparative Corporate Law, Corporate Insolvency Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Commercial Negotiation and MediationNews articles for Horst Eidenmüller

Professor Horst Eidenmueller elected Senior Research Fellow of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation

Horst Eidenmueller joins European Court of Auditors’ Expert Panel

COVID-19 Research Response Fund grant for project on COVID-19, public policy and commercial law

Horst Eidenmueller contributes to WEF project “Reimagining Regulation for the age of AI”.

Horst Eidenmueller invited to participate in World Economic Forum project

Horst Eidenmueller advising European Law Institute

Horst Eidenmueller proposes that the Brexit negotiations should be mediated
Blog posts by Horst Eidenmüller

Mediating the Vaccine Dispute
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Bail-ins and Bail-outs Are Better than Bankruptcy: A Comparative Assessment of Public Policy Responses to COVID-19 Distress
By Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Oren Sussman
Commercial Law Centre
Bail-ins and Bail-outs Are Better than Bankruptcy: A Comparative Assessment of Public Policy Responses to COVID-19 Distress
By Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Oren Sussman
Oxford Business Law Blog
What is an Arbitration? Artificial Intelligence and the Vanishing Human Arbitrator
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Faidon Varesis
Oxford Business Law Blog
COVID-19 and Beyond: The Case for Creditor Cooperation Duties in Corporate Workouts
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College
Oxford Business Law Blog
COVID-19: A Global Moratorium for Corporate Bonds?
By Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law
Commercial Law Centre
The Race to Fight COVID-19: On the Desirability of Regulatory Competition
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
COVID-19: A Global Moratorium for Corporate Bonds?
By Kristin van Zwieten, Harris Manchester College | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
The Poisoned Brexit Extension Request
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
How Shall We Regulate Autonomous Machines?
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Centros@20 Series: The Rise and Fall of Regulatory Competition in Corporate Insolvency Law in the European Union
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Introducing the Centros@20 Series
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
Video: Setting Up Dates with Death? The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in a Comparative Perspective
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Machine Performance and Human Failure
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Collateral Damage: Brexit’s Negative Effects on Regulatory Competition and Legal Innovation in Private Law
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Down by Algorithms? Siphoning Rents, Exploiting Biases and Shaping Preferences – The Dark Side of Personalized Transactions
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Gerhard Wagner
Oxford Business Law Blog
Introducing a Special Series on Law and Autonomous Systems
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Nikita Aggarwal, Brasenose College
Oxford Business Law Blog
Brexit Negotiations Series: ‘How To Negotiate A Successful Brexit’
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog
2016-2017 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Most Read Opinion Pieces
By John Armour, Faculty of Law | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Ariel Ezrachi, Pembroke College | Cheng Lim | Bruno Meyerhof Salama | Calum Sargeant | TJ Saw | Maurice Stucke, Institute of European and Comparative Law
Oxford Business Law Blog
The Rise of Robots and the Law of Humans
By Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College
Oxford Business Law Blog