Jens Christian Dammann
- Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law
Faculty Profile: Jens Christian Dammann
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Featured Work
Electronic Word of Mouth and Consumer Protection: A Legal and Economic Analysis
94 S. Cal. L. Rev. 423-70 (2021)
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Professor Dammann's main fields of research are corporate law and European Union law; his other areas of interest include contracts and comparative law. He has published two books as well as articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.
While Professor Dammann's main focus is on U.S. law, he has authored various publications on European Union law and German law. His work on German consumer protection law has been cited in numerous decisions by the German Bundesgerichtshof, the highest German court in civil law matters.
Professor Dammann has taught or is scheduled to teach at various other universities including the University of Chicago Law School, the Cornell Law School, the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research in Frankfurt am Main, and the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Before joining the University of Texas, Professor Dammann worked at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich. His degrees include: first state exam (J.D. equivalent) with highest honors, Frankfurt am Main; second state exam, with high honors, Schleswig-Holstein; Dr. jur. (Ph.D. equivalent) with highest honors, Frankfurt am Main; habilitation (post-doctoral degree), Frankfurt am Main; LL.M., Yale; J.S.D., Yale; M.A. (economics), UT Austin; Ph.D. (economics), UT Austin. He is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ecgi).
Courses for Fall 2023
Professional Activities
2019
July 12, 2019
Presenter: Deference to Delaware Corporate Law Precedents and Shareholder Wealth: An Empirical Analysis.
German Law and Economics Association Annual Conference
February 11, 2019
Presenter
Duke Law School
January 16, 2019
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University of Oxford
2018
September 11, 2018
Presenter
Boston College Law School
February 20, 2018
Presenter
Boston University School of Law
Presentation
February 2, 2018
Presenter
University of Texas, Department of Ecconomics, Applied Micro Lunch Seminar
Delaware’s Shadow
2017
December 21, 2017
Presenter
ETH Zurich
December 19, 2017
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University of Zurich
Presentation: Business Courts and Firm Performance
November 29, 2017
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Boston University School of Law
November 16, 2017
Presenter
2017 Annual Meeting of the Southern Finance Association
October 21, 2017
Presenter
Goethe University Frankfurt
July 6, 2017
Presenter
Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Business Courts and Firm Performance
June 22, 2017
Presenter
First Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Asia, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Business Courts and Firm Performance
June 2, 2017
Presenter
Annual Conference, Canadian Economics Association, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Business Courts and Firm Performance
May 26, 2017
Presenter
University of Oxford
Related Party Transactions and Intragroup Transactions
May 13, 2017
Presenter
American Law & Economics Association, Yale University
Business Courts and Firm Performance
March 13, 2017
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Israeli Law & Economics Association, Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law
Business Courts and Firm Performance