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Marco Becht (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Spring 2008)
Prof. Becht is a Professor of Finance and Economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Spring 2008. Prof. Becht gave a lecture on "Capital Markets and Corporate Restructuring: Law and Economics of Private Equity and Hedge Funds". For further information please click here.
Gary Born (Fall 2007; Spring 2009, 2010, 2011)
Gary Born is the chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Hale LLP (London) and is one of the leading practioners of international arbitration. Mr Born gave a lecture on "International Commercial Arbitration". For further information please click here.
John J. Donohue III (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Fall 2007)
Prof. Donohue is the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Fall 2007. Prof. Donohue gave a lecture on "Empirical Legal Studies". For further information please click here.
Andrew T. Guzman (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Fall 2009)
Prof. Guzman is Professor of Law and Director of the Advanced Law degree Programs at Berkeley Law School, University of California, Berkeley. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Fall 2009. Prof. Guzman gave a lecture on "International Law and Economics". For further information please click here.
Christian Kirchner (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Fall 2010)
Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. Christian Kirchner LLM (Harvard) from the Humbold University of Berlin took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Fall 2010. Prof. Kirchner gave one lecture on "Corporate Governance and Comparative Corporate Law: A New Institutional Economics Approach" and another on "Comparative Competition Law: A New Institutional Economics Approach". For further information please click here.
Geoffrey P. Miller (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Spring 2009)
Prof. Miller is the Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Banks at New York University Law School. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Spring 2009. Prof. Miller gave a lecture on "Law and Economics of International Banking Regulation". For further information please click here.
A. Mitchell Polinsky (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Spring 2011)
Prof. Polinsky is the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics at Stanford Law School. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Spring 2011. Prof. Polinsky gave a lecture on "Economic Analysis of Law: Market Failures and Their Corrections Trough Contracts, Regulations, Litigation and Enforcement". For further information please click here.
Alan Schwartz (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Spring 2007)
Prof. Schwartz is a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Spring 2007. Prof. Schwartz gave a lecture on "Contract Theory and Commercial Law". For further information please click here.
Erich Schanze (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Fall 2008)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erich Schanze L.L.M. from the University of Marburg took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Fall 2008. Prof. Schanze gave a lecture on "Structuring International Business Transactions - Law and Economics". For further information please click here.
Thomas Ulen (Max Schmidheiny Foundation Guestprofessor, Spring 2010)
Prof. Ulen holds a Swanlund Chair, one of the highest endowed titles at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne, and is the director of the College’s Program in Law and Economics. He took up the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Risk of the University of St.Gallen in Spring 2010. Prof. Ulen gave a lecture on "Behavioral Law and Economics". For further information please click here.

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