Stephan Madaus, Ph.D.

Prof. Stephan Madaus has been a professor of law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle, Germany, since April 2014 and served as head of its law school from 2016-18. He teaches property law (including secured transactions), insolvency and civil procedure law, and contract and tort law. Prof. Madaus is currently co-chairing the Academic Committee of the International Insolvency Institute and is a founding member of the Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL). His research interests are in dealing with debt burdens and consequently focus on insolvency and restructuring law, with a special focus on the comparative analysis of relevant regulatory approaches in jurisdictions worldwide, as well as on the “soft law” of international organizations. Together with Prof. Bob Wessels (Leiden University), he headed the European Law Institute’s Project on Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law from 2013-17. He was a member of the research team that evaluated the 2012 insolvency law reform (ESUG) for the German Ministry of Justice in 2017-18. As a member of an international research team, he helped to develop the “Modular Approach for MSME Insolvencies” (OUP 2018).