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Tel: 215.898.4935
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: fkubler@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Comparative Law
- Corporate Law and Community
- European Union Law
- Finance
- Mass Media Law
- Regulation of Transnational Financial Markets
Bio
Friedrich Kübler is a major force on corporations, banking and mass media.
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Friedrich Kübler is a major force on corporations, banking and mass media. He has written or co-written more than 20 books and other independent publications and has published more than 100 articles in contract and property law; corporations, banking and securities regulation; and mass media and legal theory, many of them comparing American with European legal structures. His textbook on German corporate law has seen six editions and was recently translated into Spanish. Last year he published a textbook on German Mass Media Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served on the boards of the Deutscher Juristentag (the German institution corresponding to the American Law Institute) and the German Association of Comparative Law. He was a Commissioner of the German Interstate Commission for the Regulation of Media Concentration and served on the board of the Hessian Public Service Broadcasting Entity. He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and of the Frankfurt Academy of Sciences.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Professor of Law (1985- ); Visiting Professor (1983, 1975)
Board - (German) Association of Comparative Law (1973-91)
Frankfurt Academy of Sciences (1999- )
University of Frankfurt/Main - Professor Emeritus (1998); Dean of the Law School (1988-89); Founder and Co-Director, Institute for Domestic and Foreign Mass Media Law (1981-2006); Director, Institute for Banking Law (1978-98); Professor of Law (1976-98)
Advisory Board, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt (1999- )
German member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (1998- )
Representative Publications
MEDIEN, MENSCHENRECHTE UND DEMOKRATIE (forthcoming 2008).
GESELLSCHAFTSRECHT (Grosses Lehrbuch, 6. neubearb. und erw. Auflage. C.F. Müller Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006) (with HANS-DIETER ASSMANN).
The Shifting Paradigm of European Company Law, 56 COL. J. EUR. L. 219 (2005).
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Die politische Ökonomie der Insolvenz, 168 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DAS GESAMTE HANDELSRECHT UND WIRTSCHAFTRECHT 216 (2004).
The Rules of Capital Under Pressures of the Securities Markets, in CAPITAL MARKETS AND COMPANY LAW 95 (Klaus J. Hopt & Eddy Wymeersch, eds., 2003).
Leitungssstrukturen der Aktiengesellschaft und die Umsetzung des SE-Statuts, 167 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DAS GESAMTE HANDELSRECHT UND WIRTSCHAFTSRECHT 222 (2003).
The Organization of Global Financial Markets, 158 J. INSTIT. & THEORETICAL ECON. 5 (2002) (paper presented to the 19th International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics - Organizing and Designing Markets; comments by Jan Pieter Krahnen and Paul G. Mahoney).
Accounting Systems in Transition: How Should Financial Stability Be Defined? in Deutsche Bundesbank (ed.), Reden anlässlich der ersten Konferenz der Stiftung Geld und Währung "An institutional framework for monetary stability" in Frankfurt am Main, am 5./6. Dezember 2002 - unter der Schirmherrschaft des Präsidenten der Deutschen Bundesbank und des Bundesfinanzministers.
The Impact of Equity Markets on Business Organization: Some Comparative Observations Regarding Differences in the Evolution of Corporate Structures, 2 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 669 (2001).
Medienkonzentration und Angebotsvielfalt zwischen Kartell- und Rundfunkrecht (general report on antitrust and ownership rules in mass media, presented to the German Association of Comparative Law in September 2001).
DERECHO DE SOCIEDADES, 5 a edicion revisada y amplisada, 772 pages. (Spanish translation of his textbook and analysis of German corporate law, published by the Fundacion Cultural de Notariadio in the prestigious series "Clasicos Contemporaneos") (2001).
How Much Freedom for Racist Speech?: Transnational Aspects of a Conflict of Human Rights; HOFSTRA L. REV., Volume 27, No. 2, 1998.
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Board of Hessian Public Broadcasting Organization (1998-2005)
Advisory Board, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt.
Frankfurt Academy of Sciences (1999 -).
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