Professor Dr Carsten Herresthal, born in Frankfurt am Main, married with four children, studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. After passing the First State Examination in Law in 1998, he undertook postgraduate studies at Duke University School of Law (USA) with funding from the DAAD. He subsequently qualified as a lawyer in the State of New York (attorney-at-law, N.Y.). During his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Private Law and Civil Procedure at Ludwig Maximilian University under Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Claus-Wilhelm Canaris.
Following his assessor’s examination (2001), Professor Herresthal completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Claus-Wilhelm Canaris on the topic ‘The development of the law within the framework of European law – methods, competences and limits, illustrated by the example of private law’ (C.H. Beck, 2006). The thesis was awarded the Faculty Prize. Between 2006 and 2010, Professor Herresthal completed his habilitation under the supervision of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Claus-Wilhelm Canaris. On 22 July 2010, he completed his habilitation on the topic ‘Market and Contract in an Integrated State’ and was granted the venia legendi to teach civil law, commercial and company law, Employment Law, European Law and Legal Theory by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During the summer term of 2010, Professor Herresthal served as a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Civil Law, European Private Law and Company Law at the University of Regensburg. On 28 July 2010, Professor Herresthal was appointed to this chair. On 1 December 2010, he was appointed Professor (W3) at the University of Regensburg.
Since 2000, Professor Herresthal had been a tutor on the Civil Law tutorial course, part of the university’s examination preparation programme at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Professor Herresthal has headed the Civil Law tutorial course since 2003. In 2007, the Faculty of Law and the Law Students’ Union nominated Professor Herresthal for the ars legendi Prize for excellence in university teaching, awarded by the German Rectors’ Conference. In 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016, he was voted ‘Professor of the Year’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg.
Professor Herresthal has been a liaison lecturer for the German National Academic Foundation since 2013. He is a member of the Banking Law Association, the Academic Association for Corporate and Company Law, the German-American Lawyers’ Association and the German Lawyers’ Congress.
He acts as a reviewer for, amongst others, the DFG (German Research Foundation), the German National Academic Foundation, the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science, and the Austrian Science Fund.
Professor Herresthal is responsible for the modules ‘Compliance in Capital Markets Law’ and ‘CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility’ on the LLM Compliance Master’s programme at the University of Regensburg; he is also a member of the examination board for this Master’s programme.