Jens Christian Dammann
- The Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law
- Professor
Jens Dammann's primary research areas include empirical legal studies, corporate law, contract law, European Union law, and comparative law. Although he concentrates primarily on U.S. law, Professor Dammann has also published extensively on European Union and German law. His work is routinely cited by the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), Germany's highest court in civil matters. He has authored two books and numerous articles in leading law reviews. Professor Dammann has taught at institutions such as the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, Bucerius Law School, Fundação Getulio Vargas, and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. In July 2024, he was a Global Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
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Various Contributions
Jens Dammann's primary research areas include empirical legal studies, corporate law, contract law, European Union law, and comparative law.
Although Professor Dammann concentrates primarily on U.S. law, he has also published extensively on European Union and German law. His work is routinely cited by the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), Germany's highest court in civil matters.
Professor Dammann has authored two books and numerous articles in leading law reviews. He has taught at institutions such as the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, Bucerius Law School, Fundação Getulio Vargas, and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. In July 2024, he was a Global Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Professor Dammann is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and currently chairs the ECGI's Research Member Committee (Appointments Committee).
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year-2025
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Article
Codetermination's Moment of Truth: Overseas Workers
Jens Dammann, Codetermination's Moment of Truth: Overseas Workers, Brigham Young University Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
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Book Chapter
Various Contributions
Jens Christian Dammann, Various Contributions, in: Thomas Pfeiffer, AGB-Recht [The Law of Boilerplate Contracts] (8th ed. 2025).
year-2024
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Article
Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation
Jens Christian Dammann, Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation, Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance 265-321 (2024)
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Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation
Jens Christian Dammann. “Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation” at Berkeley Law (November 15, 2024). -
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Codetermination's Moment of Truth: Overseas Workers
Jens Christian Dammann. “Codetermination's Moment of Truth: Overseas Workers” at Oxford Unversity (November 6, 2024). -
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Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation
Jens Christian Dammann. “Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation” at German Law & Economics Association, Annual Meeting (July 18, 2024). -
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Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation
Jens Christian Dammann. “Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: An Empirical Investigation” at National Business Law Scholars' Conference, The University of California, Davis School of Law (June 25, 2024). -
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Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: Am Empirical Investigation
Jens Christian Dammann. “Publicly Traded Public Benefit Corporations: Am Empirical Investigation” at Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association (ALEA), University of Michigan (May 18, 2024). -
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CEOs’ Endorsements of Stakeholder Values: Cheap Talk or Meaningful Signal? An Empirical Analysis
Jens Dammann & Daniel Lawrence, CEOs’ Endorsements of Stakeholder Values: Cheap Talk or Meaningful Signal? An Empirical Analysis, 49 Journal of Corporation Law 577-652 (2024).
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Book
Contract Law: Cases and Materials
year-2022
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Corporate Law and the Democratic State
Jens Dammann & Horst Eidenmueller, Corporate Law and the Democratic State, 2022 Illinois Law Review 963-1020 (2022)
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Fee-Shifting Bylaws: An Empirical Analysis
Jens Dammann, Fee-Shifting Bylaws: An Empirical Analysis, 65 J. Law & Econ. 1-37 (2022)
year-2021
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Book Chapter
Coercing Shareholders
Jens Dammann, Coercing Shareholders, in Feschrift fuer Werner F. Ebke (Oliver Fehrenbacher et al. eds., forthcoming 2021)
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Electronic Word of Mouth and Consumer Protection: A Legal and Economic Analysis
Jens Dammann, Electronic Word of Mouth and Consumer Protection: A Legal and Economic Analysis, 94S. Cal. L. Rev.423-70(2021)
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Codetermination: A Poor Fit for U.S. Corporations
Jens Dammann & Horst Eidenmüller, Codetermination: A Poor Fit for U.S. Corporations, Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 870-941 (2021).
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Symposium: State Competition for Corporate Headquarters and Corporate Law: An Empirical Analysis
Jens Dammann, Symposium, State Competition for Corporate Headquarters and Corporate Law: An Empirical Analysis, 80 Md. L. Rev. 214-282 (2021)
year-2020
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Contractual Symmetry: A Doctrinal and Economic Analysis
Jens Christian Dammann. “Contractual Symmetry: A Doctrinal and Economic Analysis.” In 97 Denver Law Review, Page 449 (October 21, 2020). View online. -
Book Chapter
Haftungserweiterungen und Risikoueberwaelzungen [Liability and Risk Allocation]
Jens Dammann, Haftungserweiterung und Risikoueberwaelzung [Liability and Risk Allocation], in AGB-Recht [The Law on Boilerplate Contracts] 1612-1619 (Manfred Wolf et al. eds., 7th ed. 2020)
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Book Chapter
Section 308 BGB [Section 308 of the German Civil Code]
Jens Dammann, Section 308 BGB [Section 308 of the German Civil Code], in AGB-Recht [The Law on Boilerplate Contracts] 368-564 (Manfred Wolf et al. eds., 7th ed. 2020)
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Book Chapter
Vorleistungspflicht [The Obligation to Perform in Advance]
Jens Dammann, Vorleistungspflicht [The Obligation to Perform in Advance], in AGB-Recht [The Law on Boilerplate Contracts] 2267-2278 (Manfred Wolf et al. eds., 7th ed. 2020)