Harald Baum

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Harald Baum is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Japan Law Department at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. His current positions further include that of Professor at the University of Hamburg as well as Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels. Baum is also Vice-president of the German-Japanese Association of Jurists. The focus of his research lies on business law, corporate governance and capital markets in the EU, Japan and the US. He has published and edited numerous books and articles on these subjects. Furthermore, he is the executive founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Law.