Horst Eidenmüller (born 23 October 1963) is the Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St.
He is a graduate of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and of Cambridge (LLM 1989).
Prior to joining Oxford, Eidenmüller held professorships at the universities of Münster (1999-2003) and Munich (2003-2015).
He was visiting professor at Cambridge (2007), Oxford (2009-2014), Harvard (2011), Tulane (2011), NYU (2013 and 2015), and Stanford (2015), as well as fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (2008-2009).
Eidenmüller's research focuses on commercial contracts, company law, insolvency law, and alternative dispute resolution.