Martin Petrin
Lecturer
Dr iur (St. Gallen); LLM (Columbia); SJD (UCLA)
Email: martin.petrin@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2364
Martin Petrin’s teaching and research interests focus on company, business, commercial, and tort law, often from a comparative perspective. He holds doctoral degrees from both the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and an LL.M. from Columbia University. Martin has practised law with a leading international business law firm and is admitted to the Bar in New York and Switzerland.
Research Interests
Company Law, Tort and Agency Law, Comparative Law, International Business Law
Selected Publications
- Assumption of Responsibility in Corporate Groups: Chandler v Cape plc (Modern Law Review, forthcoming 2013)
- Circumscribing the 'Prosecutor’s Ticket to Tag the Elite' – A Critique of the Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine, 84 Temple Law Review 283 (2012)
- Assessing Delaware’s Oversight Jurisprudence: A Policy and Theory Perspective, 5 Virginia Law & Business Review 433 (2011)
- The Curious Case of Directors’ and Officers’ Liability for Supervision and Management: Exploring the Intersection of Corporate and Tort Law, 59 American University Law Review 1661 (2010)
- GmbH-Recht: Revidiertes Recht der Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (The Law of Limited Liability Companies) (Bern: Stämpfli, 2008) (co-author)
- Fortentwicklung der Geschäftsherrenhaftung in der Schweiz (The Further Development of Vicarious Liability in Switzerland) (Zurich: Schulthess, 2004)
