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Prof. Dr. André Prüm


André Prüm

Doyen de la Faculté de Droit, d'Économie et de Finance
Professeur en droit


University of Luxembourg

Faculté de Droit, d'Economie et de Finance
162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg


Office : Campus Limpertsberg, BRC 1.04
Telephone : (+352) 46 66 44 6300
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André Prüm is Professor of Financial and Business Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg.

He is a qualified French law professor (“professeur agrégé des facultés de droit”) since 1995 and has joined the University of Luxembourg in 2005 after having held positions at the Universities of Paris XI and Nancy 2, in France. He is visiting professor at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas where he teaches European aspects of banking and financial law.

His research areas focus on banking and financial law, business law, European contract law and law of the new technologies. He is the author of several books and publishes regularly on those topics in European legal journals.
André Prüm created the Laboratory of Economic Law of Luxembourg in 1996 and contributed to the preparation of Luxembourgish legislation including the fields of company law, fiduciary contracts and trusts, securitization, competition, and electronic commerce.

In October 2005, André Prüm was elected by his peers Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, a post he was appointed to on November 1, 2005 for a five year term. In June 2010 he was re-elected to serve a second term.

His teaching and research activities build on practical experience in counseling and arbitration.

Qualifications

Professor agrégé des facultés de droit de France
Habilitation à diriger les recherches, University of Paris XI
PhD Law, University of Montpellier I, France
Llm Private Law, University of Montpellier I, France
Qualified French and Luxembourg lawyer

Research interests

Banking and financial law, company law, corporate governance

last modified:07 Mar 2012