Professor of Law

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Telephone: 646-312-8752
Email: mgelter@law.fordham.edu
Office: Room 8-125

Faculty Assistant: Joseph Nolfo
Email: nolfo@law.fordham.edu

Research and Teaching Areas

Comparative; Business; Economics and Law

Bio

An expert in comparative corporate law and governance, Professor Martin Gelter joined Fordham Law School in 2009. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Law and Business Law at the WU Vienna University of Economics. He also has been a Terence M. Considine Fellow in Law and Economics and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna. His scholarship has been published in distinguished journals including Harvard International Law Journal, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Journal of Corporation Law.
Previous experience includes:

• Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University College of Law
• Visiting Professor, Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas
• Assistant Professor, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Civil Law and Business Law
• Terence M. Considine Fellow and John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Department of Law “Antonio Cicù” and Department of Economics, University of Bologna

Professional Affiliations

• European Corporate Governance Institute (nominated as research associate in 2006)
• American Law and Economics Association
• European Association for Law and Economics

Selected Publications (see CV for full list)

• COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law Series, edited with Afra Afsharipour; Edward Elgar 2021).
• COVID-19 and Comparative Corporate Governance (with Julia M. Puaschunder), 46 J. CORP. L. 557-627 (2021) [working paper download].
• Addressing the Auditor Independence Puzzle: Regulatory Models and Proposal for Reform (with Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez), 53 Vand. J. Transnt’l L. 787-827 (2020).
• Centros and Defensive Regulatory Competition: Some Thoughts and a Glimpse at the Data, 20 EUR. BUS. ORG. L. REV. 467-492 (2019) [working paper download].
• Opportunity Makes a Thief: Corporate Opportunities as Legal Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law [with Geneviève Helleringer], 15 BERKELEY BUS. L.J. 92-183 (2018).
• GLOBAL SECURITIES LITIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT (edited with Pierre-Henri Conac, Cambridge University Press 2018).
• Lift not the Painted Veil! To Whom are Directors’ Duties Really Owed? (with Geneviève Helleringer), 2015 U. ILL. L. REV. 1069-1118 .
• Whose Trojan Horse? The Dynamics of Resistance against IFRS (with Zehra G. Kavame), 36 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 89-190 (2014).
• Citations to Foreign Courts - Illegitimate and Superfluous, or Unavoidable? Evidence from Europe, 62 AM. J. COMP. L. 35-85 (2014) (with Mathias M. Siems) [working paper download].
• The Pension System and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy, 43 SETON HALL L. REV. 909-970 (2013).
• The Dark Side of Shareholder Influence: The Connection between Managerial Autonomy and Stakeholder Orientation in Comparative Corporate Governance, 50 HARV. INT’L L. J. 129-194 (2009).
• The Transatlantic Divergence in Legal Thought: American Law and Economics vs. German Doctrinalism, 31 HASTINGS INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 295-360 (2008) (with K. Grechenig).
• The Subordination of Shareholder Loans in Bankruptcy, 26 INT’L REV. L. & ECON. 478-502 (2006) [working paper download].

Education

• Columbia University, M.A., 2018

• Harvard Law School, SJD, 2009, LLM, 2003 (waived for SJD fellowship)

• WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Dr. rer.soc.oec., 2003, Mag.rer.soc.oec., 1998

• University of Vienna, Dr. iur., 2001, Mag. iur., 1998