Career
Prof. Dr. habil. Matthias Amort was appointed Professor of Commercial Law at FOM University of Applied Sciences in September 2021 and has since been teaching full-time in Düsseldorf and Essen. Prof. Dr. habil. Matthias Amort studied law at the University of Augsburg. Upon completing his postgraduate research assistantship at the Chair of Civil Law, German and International Commercial and Business Law within the Department of Economics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Ingolstadt School of Management, Prof. Dr Claus Luttermann), he was awarded his doctorate (thesis topic: ‘Property and the Capital Market: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Property Certificates’).
He was subsequently appointed Academic Councillor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Erfurt. There, he taught, amongst other subjects, civil law, commercial and company law, and business law. In addition to numerous publications and lectures, he conducted research into German and European consumer law as one of the key areas of commercial law and was awarded a Christoph-Martin-Wieland Scholarship from the University of Erfurt (full scholarship) for this work.
In 2021, Prof. Dr. habil. Matthias Amort completed his habilitation in the subjects of civil law, commercial and company law, European private law and business law, and was appointed as a Privatdozent (topic of the habilitation thesis: ‘On the Structure of Consumer Law: Achieving a Classification in Line with the Constitution through European Consumer Protection’, supervisors: Prof. Dr Carl-Heinz Witt, Prof. Dr Hermann-Josef Blanke).
Publications
- Amort, M., Skauradszun, D. (2021): Early Crisis Detection and Management, Corporate Powers and the Question of Liability for Delaying Restructuring, in: *Der Betrieb*, Vol. 2021, pp. 1317–1327
- Amort, M. (2018): No liability of a rating agency towards investors, in: *Neue Juristische Wochenschrift*, Vol. 2018, pp. 1615–1619
- Amort, M. (2017): Further remarks on compensation for loss of value following revocation, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, Vol. 2017, pp. 857–859
- Amort, M. (2017): On the European Patent Court’s jurisdiction to hear cases: a gap in legal protection and its closure, in: Europarecht, Vol. 2017, pp. 56–80
- Amort, M. (2017): Consumer Contract Law as the Driving Force behind European Private Law Scholarship, in: Behme et al. (eds.), Perspectives on European Private Law Scholarship, pp. 97–132, Nomos
- Amort, M. (2016): Comprehensive price disclosure for online flight bookings – Booking System II, Vol. 2016, pp. 1015–1018
- Amort, M. (2016): ‘Effet utile’ and procedural autonomy: an alternative model, in: Effer-Uhe et al. (eds.), Judicial Development of the Law and Codified Case Law, pp. 323–334, Boorberg
- Amort, M. (2015): No liability for performance on the part of the commission agent in the event of a ‘mistrade’ under section 384(3) of the German Commercial Code (HGB), in: Decisions on Commercial and Banking Law, 2015, pp. 564–568
- Amort, M. (2015): Review of Gehrlein/Ekkenga/Simon, GmbHG, Commentary, 2nd ed., Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, 2015, in: Wertpapiermitteilungen, Vol. 2015, pp. 1496–1496
- Amort, M. (2015): Telekom trial – mammoth proceedings provisionally concluded, in: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, Vol. 2015, pp. 1276–1279
- Amort, M. (2013): Federal Court of Justice allows action against foreign rating agency for the first time, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Gesellschaftsrecht, Vol. 2013, pp. 859–861
- Amort, M. (2013): Liability and Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies – Approaches to Crisis Prevention, in: Europarecht, Vol. 2013, pp. 272–284
- Amort, M. (2013): Individual valuation in the light of European accounting law – a plea for an interpretation that promotes European law, in: Wertpapiermitteilungen, Vol. 2013, pp. 1250–1257
- Amort, M. (2011): Property and the Capital Market: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Property Certificates
- Amort, M. (2009): Accounting Issues Relating to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), in: Zeitschrift für Immobilienrecht, Vol. 2009, pp. 767–779
- Amort, M. (2009): Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): Alternatives and Taxation, in: German Tax Law, Vol. 2009, pp. 1772–1778
- Amort, M. (2008): Surplus versus Retained Profits: The REIT Act and Company Law Must Be Harmonised, in: REITup, Vol. 2008, pp. 34–35
- Amort, M. (2008): The distribution obligation of the REIT public limited company in the context of corporate finance, in: Journal of Property Law, Vol. 2008, pp. 175–179
- Amort, M. (2008): General Partnership, in: Corsten/Gössinger (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Business Administration, 5th ed., pp. 570–572
