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Thomas M. J. Möllers (born January 25, 1962 in Mainz) is a German legal scholar, focusing on capital market law.

Academic life
Möllers studied law in Mainz and Dijon. He conducted research for his doctorate under Walther Hadding and his habilitation under Wolfgang Fikentscher as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and at the European University Institute in Florence. After his habilitation on the subject of "Legal protection in environmental and liability law" at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Möllers became a professor of civil law, commercial law, European law, international private law, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg in 1996.

He has held visiting and research professorships at the Universities of Sydney, Pittsburgh, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pepperdine, Hobart, Washington, D.C., Beijing, Lyon, and Lanzhou.

Work
Over 150 of Möllers' publications are on capital market law. Within these he has discussed topics such as the investigated economic scandals involving Volkswagen and Wirecard. More recently, Möllers has been working on sustainability in capital market law and the interactions between psychology, environmental and capital market law.

In 2001 Möllers’ Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Legal Working Technique and Academic Work) was first published, which developed standards for the academic work of a lawyer. When the plagiarism of former German Defense Minister zu Guttenberg was uncovered, these standards were being used as a guideline. Möllers also focuses his research on legal methodology. His findings are compiled in his Juristische Methodenlehre (Legal Methods), which has been translated to English in 2020 and Chinese in 2022.

At the University of Augsburg Möllers is responsible for the Augsburg Summer Program and an academic exchange program with six US-American universities (George Washington University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pepperdine University, Santa Clara University, Chicago-Kent College of Law, University of Pittsburgh) and Peking University in Beijing. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), a cooperation between the University of Augsburg, the Technical University of Munich, George Washington University and the Max Planck Society.

Honors & functions

 * Appointment as permanent visiting professor at the Lanzhou University of Political Science and Law (LUPL) in Lanzhou.
 * Appointment as permanent visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing.
 * 2016-2020: Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of Augsburg "European Integration - Rule of Law and Enforcement (INspiRE)".
 * Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Money and Currency Foundation since July 1, 2015, and a permanent member of the Board of Trustees since 2009.
 * 2010: Awarded the Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission.
 * 2005: Awarded a Jean Monnet Chair for European Corporate, Capital Markets and Competition Law by the EU Commission.
 * Functioned for many years as an of counsel to several law firms.

Selection of publications

 * Juristische Methodenlehre. 5th ed. C.H. Beck, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-406-80273-7. English translation of the 2nd ed. : Hart Publishing, Oxford u.a. 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-74397-9. Chinese translation of the 4th ed.: Peking University Press, Peking 2022, ISBN 978-7-301-33042-5.
 * Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. 10th ed. C.H. Beck, München 2021, ISBN 978-3-8006-5693-6. Chinese translation of the 9th ed.: Peking University Press, ISBN 978-7-301-30286-6.
 * Enforcing Consumer and Capital Market Law in Europe. The Diesel Emissions Scandal, Intersentia, Cambridge 2020, ISBN 978-1-78068-964-7, (eds. with Beate Gsell).
 * Kölner Kommentar zum WpHG. 2nd ed. Carl Heymanns, 2014, ISBN 978-3-452-27587-5. (eds. with Heribert Hirte).
 * Editor of these publication series:
 * Augsburger Rechtsstudien
 * Augsburg Center for Global Economic Law and Regulation (ACELR)
 * Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC)