Corporate Purpose, CSR, and ESG

Jens-Hinrich Binder has been Professor of Private Law, Corporate, Banking and Securities Law at Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen since 2013. He is also Visiting Professor at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, was a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and is a member of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute. He has written extensively in the areas of corporate and financial law, and has advised numerous German and European institutions in these fields. He is co-editor and serves on the editorial board of two leading German banking law journals.

Thilo Kuntz is Professor (chair) in Private law, Commercial and Corporate law, and Managing Director of the Institute of Corporate Law at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany. He has held visiting positions at Notre Dame Law School and UCLA School of Law. His research focuses on fiduciary law, corporate law, and legal theory. Kuntz has edited and co-edited several books on Transnational Fiduciary Law, ESG, and, with OUP, Methodology in Private Law Theory (2024), and has written extensively in the areas of corporate law and governance and in capital markets regulation, in German and in English.

Klaus J. Hopt is Professor and Director (emeritus) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Dr.h.c.mult. (Brussels, Louvain, Paris, Athens, Tiflis), National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has held visiting professorships at University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Kyodai, Todai. He has written extensively in the areas of corporate law and governance and was advisor to the European Commission, international banks and the German legislators and Federal Constitutional Court.