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Professor Martin Gelter

Associate Professor of Law
Fordham University Law School
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 Martin Gelter, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School
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Biography    
Martin Gelter is Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.

He holds doctoral degrees in law from the University of Vienna and Harvard Law School and in business administration from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was previously an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law and Business Law at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, an Olin Fellow and Considine Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna.

Martin Gelter has published in various European and American journals, has taught in Austria, Italy, the United States, and Albania, and has presented papers at workshops and conferences in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.

His research focuses on (comparative) corporate goverance, legal issues of accounting and auditing, corporate bankruptcy, and economic analysis of private law.

Research Interests
Corporate governance
Corporate law
Law and accounting
Law and economics

ECGI Working Papers (Click title for more details)
The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy ECGI Law Working Paper 191/2012 June 2012 Winner of the 2013 Allen & Overy Law Prize (Best paper in the Law Working Paper series)
Why do Shareholder Derivative Suits Remain Rare in Continental Europe? ECGI Law Working Paper 190/2012 June 2012
Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Shareholder-Stakeholder Debates in a Comparative Light ECGI Law Working Paper 165/2010 September 2010
Tilting the Balance Between Capital and Labor? The Effects of Regulatory Arbitrage in European Corporate Law on Employees ECGI Law Working Paper 157/2010 May 2010
Corporate Governance, Corporate and Employment Law, and the Costs of Expropriation ECGI Law Working Paper 128/2009 July 2009
Comparative Analysis on Legal Regulation of the Liability of Members of the Management organs of Companies ECGI Law Working Paper 103/2008 February 2008
The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: Toward a Holdup Theory Of Stakeholders in Comparative Corporate Governance ECGI Law Working Paper 096/2008 February 2008
Constraining Dominant Shareholders' Self-Dealing: The Legal Framework in France, Germany, and Italy ECGI Law Working Paper 088/2007 October 2007
How the Old World Encountered the New One: Regulatory Competition and Cooperation in European Corporate and Bankruptcy Law ECGI Law Working Paper 063/2006 February 2006
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