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Markus Roth conducts research on German, European and international corporate law. One focus is German and European stock corporation law and, internationally, corporate governance. Markus Roth is a member of European Company Law Experts and co-publisher of the comprehensive commentary volume on the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz), where he comments on the liability of management boards and the law governing supervisory boards. In the Baumbach/Hopt brief commentary volume, he also comments on partnership law, including the company form GmbH & Co KG. He has published a large number of articles in this field, and his English-language publications in particular are available free of charge on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Marks Roth also deals with (corporate) codetermination.

A large number of the doctoral dissertations and dissertation projects he supervises are based on German and European labor law, most of which go beyond the purely legal perspective into the interdisciplinary, often with an eye to comparative law. Alexander Stöhr’s habilitation dissertation on small companies also has a focus on labor law.

Markus Roth has developed the law of private pension plans with an overview of occupational pension law and individual retirement provisions. He is coauthor of a research report on an international comparison of old-age pension systems and has contributed to the concept of the German pension. Markus Roth is co-editor of a monograph on the law of the elderly.

In banking law, Markus Roth deals with the legal concept of the general banking contract and comments on consumer lending law in the commentary volume on banking law. He also conducts research on the monetary policy of the German Bundesbank and the European Central Bank and has published on this topic.