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Tel: 215.898.4935
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: fkubler@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- European Union Law
- Comparative Law
- Corporate Law and Community
- 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-authored more than 20 books or other independent publications and has published far more than 100 articles in the fields of contract and property law; corporations, banking and securities regulation; mass media and legal theory; many of them comparing American with European legal structures and developments. His textbook on German corporate law has - so far - seen 5 editions and has recently been translated into Spanish. 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 ALI) and the German Association of Comparative Law. For five years he has been a Commissioner of the German Interstate Commission which has to control media concentration; he continues to serve 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. Kübler continues to teach and to publish in Germany as well as the United States.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Professor of Law (1985-); Visiting Professor 1983, 1975
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-); Director, Institute for Banking Law (1978-98); Professor of Law (1976)
German member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (1998)
Board - (German) Association of Comparative Law (1973-91)
Representative Publications
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).
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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