Jürgen Basedow

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Jürgen Basedow is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. He pursued his postgraduate masters degree (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School, before spending seven years as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. As Professor of Private, Corporate and International Law, Basedow taught at some of the most renowned European and international institutions, including the University of Oxford, New York University, and The Hague Academy of International Law. With his background in the diverse fields of law (private, corporate, international, European), Basedow seeks to pursue a comparative method to studying legal systems. Given the context of a more and more globalized world, Basedow applies a combination of different analytic lenses in his research.