Dr Michael Schillig
Contact details
Email: michael.schillig@kcl.ac.uk
Room: SW3.15
Biography
Michael joined King’s College London in 2007, and is now a Senior Lecturer in International Commercial and Financial Law, following three years as the DAAD Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Sheffield. Michael read law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, obtained his LL.M. from King’s College London and his Dr.iur. from Humboldt University Berlin. He has taught at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University of Passau and the University of Helsinki.
Research
Michael’s research interests lie broadly in the areas of transnational, European and comparative private and commercial law with particular emphasis on contract, company and corporate insolvency law. Michael is currently working on a book – Comparative Company Law – Text, Cases and Materials (with Carsten Gerner-Beuerle) for Oxford University Press.
Publications
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M. Schillig, European Contract Law Making and Development: Lessons from Directive 93/13’s Price Term Exemption, in J Devenney and M Kenny (eds) The Transformation of European Private Law (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2013).
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M. Schillig and C. Harvey, Conclusion of Contract, in S Vogenauer and G Dannemann (eds), The DCFR and the CESL: Interactions with English and German Law (Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2013).
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M. Schillig and R. Parsons, Balance Sheet Insolvency – Controversy in Different Jurisdictions, Parts 1 – 3, (2012) Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (forthcoming).
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M. Schillig, European Consumer Contract Law and National Courts, in João Grandino Rodas (ed) Direito Econômico e Social ( São Paulo, Brasil: Editora Revista dos Tribunais, 2012), 309-321.
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M. Schillig, The Acquired Rights Directive, in C Gerner-Beuerle and S Fleet (eds.) Gore-Brown on EU Company Law (London, Jordans Publishing, 2012).
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M. Schillig, Directive 93/13 and the Price Term Exemption: A Comparative Analysis in Light of the Market for Lemons Rationale, (2011) 60 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 933-963.
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M. Schillig, Core Company Law: The First and Second Directives, in C Gerner-Beuerle and S Fleet (eds.) Gore-Brown on EU Company Law (London, Jordans Publishing, 2011).
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M. Schillig, European Company Statute, in C Gerner-Beuerle and S Fleet (eds.) Gore-Brown on EU Company Law (London, Jordans Publishing, 2011).
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M. Schillig, England and Wales, in Peter Kindler & Josef Nachmann (eds.), Handbuch Insolvenzrecht in Europa (Handbook Insolvency Law in Europe) (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2010) 142 pp.
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M. Schillig, United Kingdom, in Karl Riesenhuber (ed.), Europäische Methodenlehre (European Legal Reasoning) (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2nd edn. forthcoming 2010)
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M. Schillig, The Transition from Corporate Governance to Bankruptcy Governance - Convergence of German and US Law?, (2010) European Company and Financial Law Review pp. 116-157
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C. Gerner-Beuerle and M. Schillig, The Mysteries of Freedom of Establishment after Cartesio, (2010) 58 International and Comparative Law Quarterly pp. 303-323
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M. Schillig, Konkretisierungskompetenz und Konkretsierungsmethoden im Europäischen Privatrecht, Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2009
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M. Schillig, 'The Contribution of Law and Economics as a Method of Legal Reasoning in European Private Law', forthcoming in (2009) 17 European Review of Private Law
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M. Schillig, "Deepening Insolvency” – Liability for Wrongful Trading in the United States?, forthcoming in (2009) 30 Company Lawyer
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M. Schillig, ‘The Interpretation of European Private Law in the Light of Market Freedoms and EU Fundamental Rights’, (2008) 15 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 281 – 317
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M. Schillig, ‘Inequality of bargaining power versus market for lemons: legal paradigm change and the Court of Justice’s jurisprudence on Directive 93/13 on unfair contract terms’, (2008) 33 European Law Review 336 – 358
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M. Schillig, ‘Existenzvernichtungshaftung und englische Limited’, (2007) 106 Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtwissenschaft, 299 – 334, 484 – 489
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M. Schillig, ‘Die ausschließliche internationale Zuständigkeit für gesellschaftliche Streitigkeiten vor dem Hintergrund der Niederlassungsfreiheit’, (2005) Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrenrechts, 208 – 219
Teaching
Undergraduate
European Law
German Public Law
German Civil Law
Graduate
European & Comparative Company Law
Transnational & Comparative Commercial & Financial Law
Transnational & Comparative Law of Corporate Insolvency & Reorganisation