"Brigitte Haar has shaped the House of Finance since its founding in 2008 as a highly respected lawyer with a large international network. She has embodied our interdisciplinary claim as probably no second person in the house and has driven it with great personal commitment. Her too early death is a great loss for the House of Finance, for Goethe University and for the research field Law and Finance in Germany."
Wolfgang König, Executive Director of the House of Finance
"We are mourning the loss of a great scholar and close colleague who has paved the way for a true interdisciplinary collaboration between lawyers and economists in the House of Finance. From the beginning, she was involved in the conception and construction of the LOEWE Center SAFE and the DFG Center for Advanced Studies Foundations of Law and Finance. For many years she has represented the legal interests in the Scientific Board of SAFE. We will honor her memory."
Jan Pieter Krahnen, Director LOEWE-Center SAFE
"The Ph.D. program Law and Economics of Money and Finance (LEMF), which Brigitte Haar built up and which I was happy to lead together with her, symbolizes her fearlessness to break new ground and to persistently pursue the connected goals with great dedication. It has always been both a great pleasure and an intellectual enrichment to work with her."
Uwe Walz, Director LOEWE Center SAFE & LEMF
Brigitte Haar joined Goethe University Frankfurt in 2004 as a Professor of Private Law, German, European, and International Business Law, Law and Finance, and Comparative Law. She had studied in Passau and Geneva and, afterwards, completed an LL.M. degree at the University of Chicago Law School as a Fulbright scholar. In 1995, she earned her doctorate under Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, in 2004 she was habilitated by Klaus Hopt. Stations in her academic career included the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Yale Law School, Martin Luther University Halle, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Columbia Law School.
Since the founding of the House of Finance at Goethe University, Brigitte Haar has represented the “Corporate and Financial Law” group of researchers in the boards of the House. In 2009, she set up and led the Graduate School / Ph.D. Program "Law and Economics of Money and Finance" (LEMF) together with Uwe Walz. Since the establishment of the LOEWE Center SAFE in 2013, she has brought in her research as a Principal Investigator and represented the Department of Law in the Center’s Scientific Board. From 2015 to 2018 she was Goethe University’s Vice President for Internationalization.
Brigitte Haar was co-editor of the European Business Organization Law Review, a member of the Selection Committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, a member of the Walter-Eucken-Institut and a member of the Board of Directors and the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority.
On 27 March 2019, Brigitte Haar died at the age of 54 years.
