Erik Werlauff

Erik Werlauff was awarded the degree of dr jur. (Doctor of Laws) by Aarhus University, Denmark, for his thesis on protection of creditors and minority shareholders in public and private limited companies.

After graduating in law, Prof. Werlauff was employed in the Danish Ministry of Justice, and he worked for some years as a practising lawyer specializing in commercial law and civil proceedings.

Since 1989, he has held a Chair of Commercial Law at Aalborg University, where his research and teaching interests are in company law, stock exchange law, finance law, procedural law, corporate tax law, and civil rights (the European Convention on Human Rights, or simply: EHRC).

Prof. Werlauff has published a large number of professional articles and books, focusing particularly on the relationship of Danish law to European precepts, including EU law and the EHRC.

Prof. Werlauff is a member of the boards of a number of trusts, and he regularly presides as a judge in Danish and international arbitration cases. He is a member of the Danish Civil Justice Council (Retsplejerådet, a permanent advisory organ which prepares amendments to Danish procedural law for comprehensive reforms to Danish civil proceedings), and he was, for the maximum allowed period of four years, also a member of the Danish Appeals Permission Board (Procesbevillingsnævnet, which possesses the competence to decide which cases are so fundamental that they must be brought before the Danish Supreme Court as court of third instance).