Hopt
Klaus J. Hopt
German scholar of comparative company law, corporate governance, and capital markets
Official Source Note
The University of Hamburg identifies Hopt as Professor emeritus and records his longstanding affiliation with the Max Planck Institute. His research and publications span company law, capital-market law, banking law, comparative corporate governance, and European legal development.
Hopt is included because comparative governance requires attention to the legal and institutional differences among boards, ownership structures, banks, intermediaries, and investor-protection regimes rather than assuming a single corporate model.
Relevance to the Archive
Hopt adds the doctrinal and institutional depth needed to compare one-tier and two-tier boards, stakeholder participation, corporate groups, and the role of financial intermediaries across European systems.
Representative Contributions
- The German Two-Tier Board: Experience, Theories, Reforms (with Patrick C. Leyens, 2004)
- Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and International Regulation (2011)