Associate Professor Thomas Coendet of KoGuan Law School Awarded Adjunct Professor Qualification at Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas Coendet, Director of the International Cooperation Department at the China Institute for China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies (CISLS) and Associate Professor at KoGuan Law School, has recently been awarded the title and teaching qualification of adjunct professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. This qualification enables him to teach courses in civil law, commercial and corporate law, legal theory, and comparative law. In his professor qualification thesis submitted at the end of 2024, he examined the role of courts in the governance of modern financial markets. The reviewing experts highly praised the work, stating it "reaches top academic standards" (comment by Professor Tobias Tröger, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Economic Law at Goethe University Frankfurt), and described it as "an exemplary comparative study" and "an outstanding academic manuscript" (comment by Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt).
Associate Professor Thomas Coendet holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Oxford and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He joined KoGuan Law School at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2016 and has been a research fellow at the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2018. In 2023, he was appointed as the Director of International Affairs. He has previously worked as an editor for the Asian Journal of Law and Society. His current research focuses on the role of courts in economic development and the impact of emerging technologies on judicial mechanisms. He has published significant academic works in authoritative comparative law publications such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, and the Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law.
Despite having the qualification to teach at a prestigious German university, Thomas Coendet remains committed to continuing his teaching and research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is dedicated to integrating civil and commercial financial law with perspectives from legal theory, sociology of law, and comparative law. He is willing to leverage his rich experiences from visiting research at institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Oxford, and Harvard University to contribute to enhancing the international academic influence of KoGuan Law School and the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies.