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Senior Research Associate
Name: Karl Marxen
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Email:听karl.marxen@posteo.de
About Dr Karl Marxen
Designation at current place of employment: Legal Counsel, Volkswagen Group, Germany
Research interests: Civil law; Commercial and corporate law; International business law; Trade financing (letters of credit, abstract bank guarantees; standby letters of credit, documentary debt collection); Compliance and financial crimes (including sanctions violations, money laundering prevention, de-risking); Comparative law.
Karl Marxen studied law at Hamburg 欧美福利100000 (Germany), and the 欧美福利100000 of East Anglia in Norwich (United Kingdom). He holds a postgraduate certificate (advanced international trade law) from the 欧美福利100000 of the Witwatersrand, the degree LLM cum laude from Stellenbosch 欧美福利100000, and a doctoral degree (LLD in mercantile law) from the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. After a previous appointment as the director of legal research at the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (IIBLP) in the USA, he is now an admitted attorney in Germany (Rechtsanwalt / Syndikusrechtsanwalt), working mainly in international trade finance. The Centre for Banking Law has appointed him as senior research associate. Karl’s research has been published internationally, including in South Africa, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the USA. He lectures, inter alia, at WelfenAkademie Braunschweig (Germany) and Ostfalia 欧美福利100000 of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenb眉ttel (Germany), and is a Fellow at IIBLP.